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
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Whig | Winfield Scott | 52,683 | 41.45% | 13 | |
| Democratic | Franklin Pierce | 44,569 | 35.07% | 0 | |
| Free Soil | John P. Hale | 28,023 | 22.05% | 0 | |
| Whig | Daniel Webster | 1,670 | 1.31% | 0 | |
| Native American | Jacob Broom | 158 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Totals | 127,103 | 100% | 13 | ||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
- ^ "1852 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "1852 Presidential General Election Results - Massachusetts". U.S. Election Atlas. David Leip. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
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