Presidential Elections: 1824 - 1868

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1824 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
John Q. Adams	John Calhoun	Democratic-Republican	30.9%	32.2%1
Andrew Jackson	John Calhoun	Democratic-Republican	41.4%	37.9%1
William Crawford	Nathaniel Macon	Democratic-Republican	11.2%	15.7%1
Henry Clay	Nathon Sanford	Democratic-Republican	13.0%	14.2%1

1828 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Andrew Jackson	John Calhoun	Democrat	56.0%	68.2%
John Q. Adams	Richard Rush	National Republican	43.6%	31.8%

1832 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Andrew Jackson	Martin Van Buren William Wilkins1	Democrat	54.2%	76.0%
Henry Clay	John Sergeant	National Republican	37.4%	17.0%
John Floyd	Henry Lee	Independent Democrat	0.0%	3.8%
William Wirt	Amos Ellmaker	Anti-Masonic	7.8%	2.4%

1836 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Martin Van Buren	Richard Johnson2 William Smith2	Democrat	50.8%	57.8%
William Harrison	Francis Granger John Tyler3	Whig	36.6%	24.8%
Hugh White	John Tyler	Whig	9.7%	8.8%
Daniel Webster	Francis Granger	Whig	2.7%	4.8%
Willie Mangum	John Tyler	Whig	0.0%	3.7%

1840 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
William Harrison	John Tyler	Whig	52.9%	79.6%
Martin Van Buren	Richard Johnson4 Littleton Tazewell4 James Polk4	Democrat	46.8%	20.4%
James Birney	Thomas Earle	Liberty	0.3%	0.0%

1844 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
James Polk	George Dallas	Democrat	49.5%	61.8%
Henry Clay	Theodore Frelinghuysen	Whig	48.1%	38.2%
James Birney	Thomas Morris	Liberty	2.3%	0.0%

1848 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Zachary Taylor	Millard Fillmore	Whig	47.3%	56.2%
Lewis Cass	William Butler	Democrat	42.5%	43.8%
Martin Van Buren	Charles Adams	Free Soil	10.1%	0.0%

1852 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Franklin Pierce	William King	Democrat	50.8%	85.8%
Winfield Scott	William Graham	Whig	43.9%	14.2%
John Hale	George Julian	Free Soil	4.9%	0.0%

1856 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
James Buchanan	John Breckenridge	Democrat	45.3%	58.8%
John Fremont	William Dayton	Republican	33.1%	38.5%
Millard Fillmore	Andrew Donelson	American	21.5%	2.7%

1860 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Abraham Lincoln	Hannibal Hamlin	Republican	39.8%	59.4%
John Breckenridge	Joseph Lane	Southern Democrat	18.1%	23.8%
John Bell	Edward Everett	Constitutional Union	12.6%	12.9%
Stephen Douglas	Herschel Johnson	Democrat	29.5%	4.0%

1864 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Abraham Lincoln	Andrew Johnson	Republican	55.0%	90.6%
George McClellan	George Pendleton	Democrat	45.0%	9.0%

1868 Election

	VP	Party	Pop. Vote	Elect. Vote
Ulysses Grant	Schuyler Colfax	Republican	52.7%	72.8%
Horatio Seymour	Francis Blair Jr.	Democrat	47.3%	27.2%

¹ Of the 219 electoral votes for Andrew Jackson, 189 voted for Martin Van Buren as his running mate, and 30 voted for William Wilkins.
² Electoral votes for Martin Van Buren were split between two running mates: Richard Johnson (49.9%) and William Smith (7.9%). Since neither VP had a majority of electoral votes, the Senate took a vote to determine VP, which Richard Johnson won.
³ Of the 73 electoral votes for William Harrison, 63 voted for Francis Granger as his running mate, and 10 voted for John Tyler.
⁴ Electoral votes for Martin Van Buren were split between three vice presidential candidates.

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