U.S. presidential election, 1832

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Presidential electoral votes by state.

Despite opposition from the universally respected Henry Clay of Kentucky, the U.S. presidential election of 1832 served as little more than a coronation for President Andrew Jackson. A split within the National Republicans resulted in the nomination of two presidential candidates (Clay and John Floyd of Virginia), and three different Vice Presidential candidates. Had the party been unified, however, it would not have impacted the election because Jackson won 219 of the 286 electoral votes cast, easily defeating Clay, Floyd, and Anti-Masonic Party candidate William Wirt.

This was also the first national election for "The Magician," Vice President-elect Martin Van Buren of New York, who was put on the Democratic ticket to succeed John Caldwell Calhoun and four years later would succeed Jackson. Van Buren faced opposition for the Vice Presidency within his own party however, and as a result 30 electors cast ballots for Pennsylvania's William Wilkins, in hopes of throwing the Vice Presidential election into the Senate.

1 General election
- 1.1 Results
2 Electoral college selection
3 See also
4 References

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General election

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Results

Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Popular Vote^(a)		Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	Running Mate's Electoral Vote
Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Count	Percentage	Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	Running Mate's Electoral Vote
Andrew Jackson	Democratic	Tennessee	701,780	54.2%	219	Martin Van Buren	New York	189
Andrew Jackson	Democratic	Tennessee	701,780	54.2%	219	William Wilkins	Pennsylvania	30
Henry Clay	National Republican	Kentucky	^(b)484,205	37.4%	49	John Sergeant	Pennsylvania	49
John Floyd	National Republican	Virginia	—^(c)	—	11	Henry Lee	Massachusetts	11
William Wirt	Anti-Masonic	Virginia	^(c)100,715	7.8%	7	Amos Ellmaker	Pennsylvania	7
Other			7,273	0.6%	0	Other		0
Total			1,293,973	100.0%	286	Total		286
Needed to win					144	Needed to win		144

Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1832 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (July 27, 2005).

Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (July 31, 2005).

^(a) The popular vote figures exclude South Carolina where the Electors were chosen by the state legislature rather than by popular vote.
^(b) 66,706 Pennsylvanians voted for the Union slate, which represented both Clay and Wirt. These voters have been assigned to Wirt and not Clay.
^(c) All of John Floyd's electoral votes came from South Carolina where the Electors were chosen by the state legislatures rather than by popular vote.

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Electoral college selection

Method of choosing Electors	State(s)
state is divided into electoral districts, with one Elector chosen per district by the voters of that district	Maryland
each Elector appointed by state legislature	South Carolina
each Elector chosen by voters statewide	(all other states)