1852 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

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1852 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Flag of Massachusetts.svg
  1848 November 2, 1852 1856  
Turnout57.8% [1] Decrease2.svg 6.8 pp
  Winfield Scott by Fredricks, 1862 (cropped).jpg Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce (cropped).jpg JP-Hale crop.jpg
Nominee Winfield Scott Franklin Pierce John P. Hale
Party Whig Democratic Free Soil
Home state New Jersey New Hampshire New Hampshire
Running mate William A. Graham William R. King George W. Julian
Electoral vote1300
Popular vote52,68344,56928,023
Percentage41.45%35.07%22.05%

Massachusetts Presidential Election Results 1852.svg
County Results

President before election

Millard Fillmore
Whig

Elected President

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

The 1852 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

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Massachusetts voted for the Whig Party candidate, Winfield Scott, over the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce. Scott won the state by a narrow margin of 6.38%.

Massachusetts was one of the four states to vote for Scott. The other three were Kentucky, Tennessee and Vermont. Free Soil Party candidate John P. Hale won 22.05% of the vote in the state, making Massachusetts his strongest state. [2]

Daniel Webster died 9 days before the election of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 24, 1852. This caused many Union and Native American state parties to remove him and his running mate Charles Jones Jenkins from their slates of electors and was replaced by Jacob Broom and Reynell Coates. The Webster-Jenkins Union ticket, however, remained on the ballot in both Massachusetts and Georgia. As of 2020, this election marks only the first of three times (after 1972 and 1980) that Massachusetts has not voted for the same candidate as neighboring Rhode Island.

Results

1852 United States presidential election in Massachusetts [3]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Whig Winfield Scott 52,68341.45%13
Democratic Franklin Pierce 44,56935.07%0
Free Soil John P. Hale 28,02322.05%0
Whig Daniel Webster 1,6701.31%0
Native American Jacob Broom 1580.12%0
Totals127,103100%13

See also

References

  1. Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
  2. "1852 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. "1852 Presidential General Election Results - Massachusetts". U.S. Election Atlas. David Leip. Retrieved March 17, 2017.