A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 4, 1844 as part of the 1844 United States presidential election.[3] The Democratic ticket of the former governor of Tennessee James K. Polk and the former U.S. minister to Russia George M. Dallas defeated the Whig ticket of the former U.S. senator from Kentucky Henry Clay and the chancellor of New York University Theodore Frelinghuysen.[4] Polk defeated Clay in the national election with 170 electoral votes.[5]
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November 4, 1844
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General election
editSummary
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Indiana chose 12 electors in a statewide general election. Nineteenth-century presidential elections used a form of block voting that allowed voters to modify the electoral list nominated by a political party before submitting their ballots. Because voters elected each member of the Electoral College individually, electors nominated by the same party often received differing numbers of votes as a consequence of voter rolloff, split-ticket voting, or electoral fusion.[6] 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 | % | ±% | |
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| Democratic | James K. Polk George M. Dallas[a] |
70,183 | 50.07 | 5.11 | |
| Whig | Henry Clay Theodore Frelinghuysen |
67,866 | 48.42 |  6.59 | |
| Liberty | James G. Birney Thomas Earle |
2,107 | 1.50 | 1.47 | |
| Total votes | 140,156 | 100.00 | |||
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | John M. Johnston | 70,183 | |
| Democratic | Paris C. Dunning | 70,182 | |
| Democratic | Samuel E. Perkins | 70,182 | |
| Democratic | James G. Read | 70,182 | |
| Democratic | William W. Wick | 70,181 | |
| Democratic | Graham N. Fitch | 70,179 | |
| Democratic | Elijah Newland | 70,179 | |
| Democratic | Austin M. Puett | 70,179 | |
| Democratic | William A. Bowles | 70,178 | |
| Democratic | Charles W. Cathcart | 70,172 | |
| Democratic | Henry W. Ellsworth | 70,170 | |
| Democratic | John Gilbert | 70,151 | |
| Whig | John A. Brackenridge | 67,866 | |
| Whig | Henry S. Lane | 67,864 | |
| Whig | John A. Matson | 67,865 | |
| Whig | Samuel W. Parker | 67,865 | |
| Whig | Richard W. Thompson | 67,864 | |
| Whig | George Grundy Dunn | 67,863 | |
| Whig | Albert L. Holmes | 67,863 | |
| Whig | Hugh O'Neal | 67,863 | |
| Whig | Joseph G. Marshall | 67,861 | |
| Whig | Horace P. Biddle | 67,860 | |
| Whig | James Collins Jr. | 67,854 | |
| Whig | Lewis G. Thompson | 67,749 | |
| Liberty | Ziba Casterline | 2,107 | |
| Liberty | Matthew R. Hull | 2,107 | |
| Liberty | Benjamin S. Noble | 2,106 | |
| Liberty | Stephen Stevens | 2,106 | |
| Liberty | Eli J. Sumner | 2,106 | |
| Liberty | Roger Ide | 2,102 | |
| Liberty | Daniel Worth | 2,100 | |
| Liberty | Elizur Deming | 2,096 | |
| Liberty | Stephen S. Harding | 2,096 | |
| Liberty | William Benbow | 2,089 | |
| Liberty | John K. Lovejoy | 1,780 | |
| Liberty | John J. Deming | 1,078 | |
| Liberty | E. Davis | 731 | |
| Unpledged | William Paul | 8 | |
| Unpledged | Thomas Gail | 6 | |
| Unpledged | Lucian P. Ferry | 5 | |
| Unpledged | Tilghman Howard | 2 | |
| Unpledged | Thomas Beckford | 1 | |
| Unpledged | William Berford | 1 | |
| Unpledged | John Boggs | 1 | |
| Unpledged | Lewis Falley | 1 | |
| Unpledged | William Hughes | 1 | |
Total |
≈140,156 | ||
See also
editNotes
edit- 1 2 Replacing Silas Wright.[2]
References
edit- ↑ Madison 1986, p. 330.
- ↑ Wilentz 2005, p. 570.
- ↑ Presidential Elections, 1844. [Boston]. 1844.
- 1 2 3 Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 38–52.
- ↑ "1844 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
- ↑ Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.
Bibliography
edit- "1844 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
- Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.). "Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
- Madison, James H. (1986). The Indiana Way: A State History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Presidential Elections, 1844. [Boston]. 1844.
- 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.
- Wilentz, Sean (2005). The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. New York: W. W. Norton and Company.
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