1852 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1852 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of the United States (1851-1858).svg
  1848 November 2, 1852 1856  
  Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce (cropped).jpg Winfield Scott by Fredricks, 1862 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott
Party Democratic Whig
Home state New Hampshire New Jersey
Running mate William R. King William A. Graham
Electoral vote130
Popular vote94,89080,901
Percentage51.9%44.3%

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County Results

President before election

Millard Fillmore
Whig

Elected President

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the former U.S. senator from New Hampshire Franklin Pierce and the senior U.S. senator from Alabama William R. King defeated the Whig ticket of the major general Winfield Scott and the U.S. secretary of the navy William A. Graham. The Free Soil ticket of the senior U.S. senator from New Hampshire John P. Hale and the former U.S. representative from Indiana's 4th congressional district George W. Julian finished a distant third. [1] Pierce defeated Scott in the national election with 254 electoral votes. [2]

Contents

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 13 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the Electoral College rather than for president. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. [3] This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.

1852 United States presidential election in Indiana [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Franklin Pierce
William R. King
94,890 51.93 Increase2.svg 3.11
Whig Winfield Scott
William A. Graham
80,90144.28Decrease2.svg 1.59
Free Soil John P. Hale
George W. Julian
6,9283.79Decrease2.svg 1.51
Total votes182,719 100.00

Statistics

This was the last time Porter County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until Bill Clinton won a plurality in 1996. [5]

See also

Notes

  1. Dubin 2002, pp. 115–16.
  2. "1852 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
  3. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.
  4. Dubin 2002, p. 15–16.
  5. Menendez 2005, p. 117.

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