1828 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 3, 1828
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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1828, as part of the 1828 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the former U.S. senator from Tennessee Andrew Jackson and the incumbent vice president John C. Calhoun defeated National Republican ticket of the incumbent president John Quincy Adams and the U.S. secretary of the treasury Richard Rush.[1] Jackson defeated Adams in the national election with 178 electoral votes.[2]
General election
Summary
Indiana chose five electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. 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.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun |
22,140 | 56.60 | 9.66 | |
| National Republican | John Quincy Adams Richard Rush |
16,978 | 43.40 | 23.90 | |
| Total votes | 39,118 | 100.00 | |||
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Benjamin V. Beckes | 22,140 | |
| Democratic | Ratliff Boon | 22,122 | |
| Democratic | Jesse B. Durham | 22,114 | |
| Democratic | Ross Smiley | 22,099 | |
| Democratic | William Lowe | 22,033 | |
| National Republican | Isaac Montgomery | 16,978 | |
| National Republican | Joseph Bartholomew | 16,973 | |
| National Republican | Amaziah Morgan | 16,956 | |
| National Republican | Joseph Orr | 16,934 | |
| National Republican | John Watts | 16,915 | |
Total
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≈39,118
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See also
References
- ^ a b c Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 10–13.
- ^ "1828 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
- ^ Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.
Bibiliography
- "1828 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
- Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.). "Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
- Ratcliffe, Donald J. (Spring 2014). "Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824". Journal of the Early Republic. 34 (1): 45–77. JSTOR 24486931.
- Riker, Dorothy; Thornbrough, Gayle, eds. (1960). Indiana Election Returns, 1816–1851. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau.