1852 United States presidential election in Maine

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1852 United States presidential election in Maine
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  1848 November 2, 1852 1856  
  Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce (cropped).jpg Winfield Scott by Fredricks, 1862 (cropped).jpg JP-Hale crop.jpg
Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott John P. Hale
Party Democratic Whig Free Soil
Home state New Hampshire New Jersey New Hampshire
Running mate William R. King William A. Graham George W. Julian
Electoral vote800
Popular vote41,60932,5438,030
Percentage50.63%39.60%9.77%

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County Results

President before election

Millard Fillmore
Whig

Elected President

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

The 1852 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

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Maine voted for the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, over the Whig Party candidate, Winfield Scott. Pierce won the state by a margin of 11.03%.

Pierce would be the last Democratic candidate to win Maine's electoral votes until Woodrow Wilson won a narrow plurality in Maine in 1912 and the last one until Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to win a majority of the popular vote. This would be the last occasion until 1880 that a Democrat carried any county in the state, the last until 1964 that a Democratic presidential candidate won Franklin County, Oxford County, Penobscot County or Piscataquis County, and the last until 1912 that a Democrat carried Cumberland County, Hancock County, Washington County or York County. [1]

Results

1852 United States presidential election in Maine [2]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire William Rufus DeVane King of Alabama 41,60950.63%8100.00%
Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey William Alexander Graham of North Carolina 32,54339.60%00.00%
Free Soil John Parker Hale of New Hampshire George Washington Julian of Indiana 8,0309.77%00.00%
Total82,182100.00%8100.00%

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References

  1. Menendez, Albert J. (2005). The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 218–219. ISBN   0786422173.
  2. "1852 Presidential General Election Results - Maine". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved March 17, 2015.