1852 United States presidential election in Indiana

1852 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott Party Democratic Whig Home state New Hampshire New Jersey Running mate William R. King William A. Graham Electoral vote 13 0 Popular vote 94,890 80,901 Percentage 51.9% 44.3%

County Results Pierce   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Scott   40–50%   50–60%

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]

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]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Franklin Pierce William R. King	94,890	51.93	3.11
	Whig	Winfield Scott William A. Graham	80,901	44.28	1.59
	Free Soil	John P. Hale George W. Julian	6,928	3.79	1.51
Total votes			182,719	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

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

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.

Bibliography

• "1852 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN   978-0-7864-6422-7.
• Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.). "Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
• Menendez, Albert J. (2005). The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company.
• Ratcliffe, Donald J. (Spring 2014). "Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824". Journal of the Early Republic. 34 (1): 45–77. JSTOR   24486931.