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1832 United States presidential election

The 1832 United States presidential election was the 12th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 2 to Wednesday, December 5, 1832. Incumbent president Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, defeated Henry Clay, candidate of the National Republican Party.

1832 United States presidential election

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288 members of the Electoral College[a]
145 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout57%[1] 0.3 pp
 
Nominee Andrew Jackson Henry Clay
Party Democratic National Republican
Home state Tennessee Kentucky
Running mate Martin Van Buren[b] John Sergeant
Electoral vote 219 49
States carried 16 6
Popular vote 701,780 484,205
Percentage 54.2% 37.4%

 
Nominee John Floyd William Wirt
Party Nullifier Anti-Masonic
Home state Virginia Maryland
Running mate Henry Lee Amos Ellmaker
Electoral vote 11 7
States carried 1 1
Popular vote N/A[c] 100,715
Percentage N/A 7.8%

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Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Jackson and Van Buren or Wilkins, light yellow denotes those won by Clay/Sergeant, teal denotes those won by Floyd/Lee, and orange-yellow denotes those won by Wirt/Ellmaker. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. Two votes were not given in Maryland.

President before election

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

Elected President

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

The election saw the first use of the presidential nominating conventions, and the Democrats, National Republicans, and the Anti-Masonic Party all used conventions to select their candidates. Jackson won re-nomination with no opposition, and the 1832 Democratic National Convention replaced Vice President John C. Calhoun with Martin Van Buren. The National Republican Convention nominated a ticket led by Clay, a Kentuckian who had served as Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams. The Anti-Masonic Party, one of the first major U.S. third parties, nominated former Attorney General William Wirt.

Jackson faced heavy criticism for his actions in the Bank War, but remained popular among the general public. He won a majority of the popular vote and 219 of the 286 electoral votes, carrying most states outside New England. Clay won 37.4% of the popular vote and 49 electoral votes, while Wirt won 7.8% of the popular vote and carried the state of Vermont. Virginia Governor John Floyd, who had not actively campaigned, won South Carolina's electoral votes. After the election, members of the National Republican Party and the Anti-Masonic Party formed the Whig Party, which became the Democrats' primary opponent over the next two decades.

Nominations edit

With the demise of the Congressional nominating caucus in the election of 1824, the political system was left without an institutional method on the national level for determining presidential nominations. For this reason, the candidates of 1832 were chosen by national conventions. The first national convention was held by the Anti-Masonic Party in Baltimore, Maryland, in September 1831. The National Republican Party and the Democratic Party soon imitated them, also holding conventions in Baltimore, which would remain a favored venue for national political conventions for decades.[2]

Democratic Party edit

1832 Democratic Party ticket
Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren
for President for Vice President
 
 
7th
President of the United States
(1829–1837)
13th

U.S. Minister to Great Britain
(1831–1832)

President Jackson and Vice President Calhoun had a strained relationship for a number of reasons, most notably a difference in opinion about the Nullification Crisis and the involvement of Calhoun's wife Floride in the Eaton affair. As a result, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren and Secretary of War John H. Eaton resigned from office in April 1831, and Jackson requested the resignation of all other cabinet officers except one. Van Buren instigated the procedure as a means of removing Calhoun supporters from the Cabinet. Calhoun further aggravated Jackson in the summer of 1831 when he issued his "Fort Hill Letter," in which he outlined the constitutional basis for a state's ability to nullify an act of Congress. The final blow to the Jackson-Calhoun relationship came when Jackson nominated Van Buren to serve as Minister to Great Britain and the vote in the Senate ended in a tie, which Calhoun broke by voting against confirmation on January 25, 1832.[3]

In January it was not clear who the Democrats' candidates would be in the election later that year. Jackson had already been nominated by several state legislatures, following the pattern in 1824 and 1828, but he worried that the various state parties would not unite on a vice-presidential nominee. As a result, the Democratic Party followed the pattern of the opposition and called a national convention.[4]

Convention vote
President Vice President
Andrew Jackson 283 Martin Van Buren 208
  Philip P. Barbour 49
  Richard M. Johnson 26

The 1832 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic Party's first, was held in the Athenaeum in Baltimore (the same venue as the two opposition parties) from May 21 to May 23, 1832. Several decisions were made at the convention. On the first day, a committee was appointed to provide a list of delegates from each state. This committee, later called the Credentials Committee, reported that all states were represented. Delegates were present from the District of Columbia, and on the first contested roll call vote in convention history, the convention voted 126–153 to deprive the District of Columbia of its voting rights in the convention. The Rules Committee gave a brief report that established several other customs. Each state was allotted as many votes as it had presidential electors; several states were overrepresented and many were underrepresented. Second, balloting was taken by states and not by individual delegates. Third, two-thirds of the delegates would have to support a candidate for nomination, a measure intended to reduce sectional strife. The fourth rule, which banned nomination speeches, was the only one the party quickly abandoned.

No roll call vote was taken to nominate Jackson for a second term. Instead, the convention passed a resolution stating that "we most cordially concur in the repeated nominations which he has received in various parts of the union." Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice president on the first ballot, receiving 208 votes to 49 for Philip P. Barbour and 26 for Richard Mentor Johnson. Afterward, the convention approved an address to the nation and adjourned.

Barbour Democrats edit

The Barbour Democratic National Convention was held in June 1832 in Staunton, Virginia. Jackson was nominated for president and Philip P. Barbour for vice president. Barbour withdrew, but the ticket appeared on the ballot in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia.[5]

National Republican Party edit

1832 National Republican ticket
Henry Clay John Sergeant
for President for Vice President
 
 
U.S. Senator
from Kentucky
(1806–1807, 1810–1811, & 1831–1842)
U.S. Representative
for Pennsylvania's 2nd
(1827–1829)

Soon after the Anti-Masonic Party held its national convention, supporters of Henry Clay called a national convention of the National Republican Party. 18 of the 24 states sent delegations to the convention, which convened on December 12, 1831.[6] The convention was attended by 168 delegates from eighteen states although one-fourth of the delegates were late due to winter weather.[7]

On the convention's fourth day, the roll call ballot for president took place. The chairman of the convention called the name of each delegate, who gave his vote orally. Clay received 155 votes, with delegate Frederick H. Shuman of North Carolina abstaining because he believed that Clay could not win and should wait until 1836. As additional delegates arrived, they were allowed to cast their votes for Clay, and by the end of the convention he had 167 votes to one abstention. A similar procedure was used for the vice-presidential ballot. Former Congressman John Sergeant of Pennsylvania was nominated with 64 votes to six abstentions. A prominent Philadelphia attorney with connections to the Second Bank of the United States and a reputation as an opponent of slavery, Sergeant gave the ticket geographical balance.[8]

Convention vote[9]
President Vice President
Henry Clay 167 John Sergeant 162
Abstaining 1 Abstaining 6

Anti-Masonic Party edit

1832 Anti-Masonic Party ticket
William Wirt Amos Ellmaker
for President for Vice President
 
 
9th
U.S. Attorney General
(1817–1829)
12th
Attorney General of Pennsylvania
(1816–1819)
 
"King Andrew the First", an Anti-Jacksonian poster shows Andrew Jackson as a monarch trampling the Constitution, the federal judiciary, and the Bank of the United States

The first national nominating convention for a presidential candidate in American history was held by the Anti-Masonic Party in Baltimore, Maryland from September 26–28, 1831. The convention was attended by 116 delegates from thirteen states with Maryland being the furthest state in the South represented. The leaders of the party attempted to give the presidential nomination to Clay and Supreme Court Justice John McLean, but both declined.[7]

Several prominent politicians were considered for the presidential nomination. Richard Rush would have been the nominee, but pointedly refused. As a result of this action, along with his softness toward Jackson, former President John Quincy Adams never forgave him. Adams was willing to run as the Anti-Masonic candidate, but the party leaders did not want to risk running someone so unpopular.[10]

The delegates met behind closed doors for several days before the convention officially opened, making some initial decisions. Several unofficial presidential ballots and one official ballot were taken, in which William Wirt defeated Rush and John McLean for the nomination. Ironically, Wirt was a Mason and even defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him.[11] Wirt hoped for an endorsement from the National Republicans. When the National Republican Party nominated Henry Clay, Wirt's position became awkward. He did not withdraw, even though he had no chance of being elected.[10]

The convention was organized on September 26 and heard reports of its committees on the 27th. The 28th was spent on the official roll call for president and vice president. During the balloting, each delegate's name was called, after which that delegate placed a written ballot in a special box. Wirt was nominated for president with 108 votes to one for Rush and two abstentions. Amos Ellmaker was nominated for vice president with 108 votes to one for John C. Spencer (chairman of the convention) and two abstentions.[citation needed]

Convention vote[12]
President Vice President
William Wirt 108 Amos Ellmaker 108
Richard Rush 1 John C. Spencer 1
Abstaining 2 Abstaining 1

Nullifier Party edit

While the South Carolina state legislature remained nominally under Democratic control, it refused to support Jackson's reelection due to the ongoing Nullification Crisis, and instead opted to back a ticket proposed by the Nullifier Party led by John C. Calhoun. The Nullifiers were made up of former members of the Democratic-Republican Party who had largely supported Jackson at the previous election, but were much stauncher proponents of states' rights, which ultimately led them to repudiate Jackson during his first term. Calhoun himself declined to head the ticket, instead nominating Governor of Virginia John Floyd, who also opposed Jackson's stance on states' rights. Merchant and economist Henry Lee was nominated as Floyd's running mate.[13]

Ultimately, Floyd's candidacy amounted to little more than a protest against Jackson, as his ticket did not run in any state outside of South Carolina. He nonetheless received all the state's electoral votes.[14]

General election edit

 
Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Jackson/Van Buren (Democratic), shades of orange are for Clay (National Republican), shades of red are for Wirt (Anti-Masonic), and shades of green are for Jackson/Barbour (Democratic).

Campaign edit

Jackson rode into office in 1828 on the strength of a coalition that included southern opponents of the Tariff of 1828, western advocates of internal improvements, many former Democratic-Republicans, and some former Federalists. Henry Clay predicted this unwieldy marriage of disparate and in many cases hostile interests would soon collapse under the pressures of office.[15] Clay determined to split the Jacksonian party on the issue of the American System by engineering a confrontation over the Second Bank of the United States. He persuaded the president of the Bank, Nicholas Biddle, to request recharter a full four years early in order to coincide with the presidential election. As expected, Jackson vetoed the recharter bill and issued a stinging veto message criticizing the Bank's interference in national politics. Clay predicted the president's hostility to the nationalist economic program would prove unpopular with voters, particularly in Pennsylvania where the Bank was headquartered, and hand the Anti-Jacksonians victory at the polls.[16]

Simultaneously, Jackson faced defections from the southern wing of his party over the Nullification Crisis. These southerners objected strongly to the tariff and argued for the right of the states to nullify unfriendly federal laws, a position Jackson refused to endorse. Clay hoped to bring the disgruntled ex-Jacksonians into the fold, but his tactic of promoting the American System as the major issue of the campaign was ill-designed for this purpose. While some Southerners did favor the Bank, they were unwilling to break publicly with Jackson on this issue, and Vice President Calhoun was overtly hostile to the American System by 1832. In South Carolina, the faction loyal to Calhoun nominated a slate of independent electors who voted for Governor John Floyd of Virginia. Elsewhere, dissident Southern Jacksonians protested the nomination of Martin Van Buren by supporting Philip P. Barbour for vice president but were unwilling to break with Jackson himself. As the Barbour movement suggests, Jackson's personal popularity worked against the growth of opposition politics in the South despite the growing dissatisfaction with the national administration.[17]

Meanwhile, Jackson's northern opponents were hurt by the divided state of the opposition. The failure of Anti-Jacksonians to unite behind a single candidate for president alarmed leaders like William Henry Seward and Thurlow Weed, who worked feverishly to avoid a disastrous split in the opposition vote. In New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Anti-Masons and National Republicans organized fusion tickets with electors pledged to support whichever candidate stood the best chance of defeating Jackson in the electoral college. Jackson carried all three states, however, along with their combined 93 electoral votes. His margin in Pennsylvania was much reduced from 1828, but still wider than the Democratic majority in the gubernatorial election held in October, due largely to the drop in support for the Anti-Masons. The Anti-Jacksonian "Union ticket" foreshadowed the merger of both parties with disaffected Southern Jacksonians in 1834 to form the Whig Party, which would constitute the major opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats for the remainder of the Second Party System.[18][19]

While Clay hoped to alienate the different wings of the Democratic Party from each other by promoting the Bank as an issue, his strategy backfired, as Jackson's veto message compellingly portrayed him as the defender of the common people against the furious assault of the financial interests. Events of the previous decade had not endeared the Bank to working people, and they identified with Jackson's portrait of the "Monster Bank" as corrupt, self-interested, and destructive to democratic egalitarianism. Meanwhile, Clay's high-handed treatment of the Anti-Masons discouraged unity among Anti-Jacksonians, and the unpopularity of the National Republicans frustrated efforts to unite all opponents of the administration under a single roof.[20][21]

Results edit

Jackson won the election in an electoral college landslide.[22] Jackson received 219 electoral votes, defeating Clay (49), Floyd (11), and Wirt (7) by a large margin.[23]

Jackson's popularity with the American public and the vitality of the political movement with which he was associated is confirmed by the fact that no president was again able to secure a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections until Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.[citation needed] To date, only two other presidents from the Democratic party were ever able to replicate this feat: Franklin D. Roosevelt (for the first time in 1936) and Barack Obama (in 2012). Furthermore, no president succeeded in securing re-election again until Abraham Lincoln in 1864.[24]

As of 2023, Jackson was the second of seven presidential nominees to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections, the others being Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon. Of these, Jackson, Cleveland, and Roosevelt also won the popular vote in at least three elections.

Jackson was the second of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections, the other four are James Madison in 1812, Grover Cleveland in 1892, Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and Barack Obama in 2012.[25]

Following the election and Clay's defeat, an Anti-Jackson coalition would be formed out of National Republicans, Anti-Masons, disaffected Jacksonians, and small remnants of the Federalist Party whose last political activity was with them a decade before. In the short term, it formed the Whig Party in a coalition against President Jackson and his reforms.[26]

 

Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote(a)[27] Electoral
vote(d)[23]
Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote(d)[23]
Andrew Jackson (incumbent) Democratic Tennessee 701,780 54.23% 219 Martin Van Buren New York 189
William Wilkins Pennsylvania 30
Henry Clay National Republican Kentucky 484,205(b) 37.42% 49 John Sergeant Pennsylvania 49
John Floyd Nullifier Virginia (c) 11 Henry Lee Massachusetts 11
William Wirt Anti-Masonic Maryland 100,715(b) 7.78% 7 Amos Ellmaker Pennsylvania 7
Other 7,273 0.57% Other
Total 1,293,973 100% 286 286
Needed to win 145 145

(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.
(d) Two electors from Maryland for Clay failed to cast votes.

Popular vote
Jackson
54.23%
Clay
37.42%
Wirt
7.78%
Others
0.57%
Electoral vote
Jackson
76.57%
Clay
17.13%
Floyd
3.85%
Wirt
2.45%

Results by state edit

The 1832 presidential election results are displayed in the maps below.[23][28]

States/districts won by Jackson/Van Buren
States/districts won by Clay/Sergeant
States/districts won by Wirt/Ellmaker
States/districts won by Floyd/Lee
Andrew Jackson
Democratic
Henry Clay
National Republican
William Wirt
Anti-Masonic
John Floyd
Nullifier
Margin State Total
State electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % electoral
votes
# % #
Alabama 7 0001361814,286 99.97 7 000486695 0.03 - no ballots no ballots 14,281 99.94 14,291 AL
Connecticut 8 11,269 34.32 - 18,155 55.29 8 3,409 10.38 - no ballots -6,886 -20.97 32,833 CT
Delaware 3 4,110 49.01 - 4,276 50.99 3 no ballots no ballots -166 -1.98 8,386 DE
Georgia 11 20,750 100 11 no ballots no ballots no ballots 20,750 100.00 20,750 GA
Illinois 5 14,609 68.01 5 6,745 31.40 - 97 0.45 - no ballots 7,864 36.61 21,481 IL
Indiana 9 31,551 67.10 9 15,472 32.90 - no ballots no ballots 16,079 34.20 47,023 IN
Kentucky 15 36,292 45.51 - 43,449 54.49 15 no ballots no ballots -36,249 -8.98 79,741 KY
Louisiana 5 3,908 61.67 5 2,429 38.33 - no ballots no ballots 1,479 23.34 6,337 LA
Maine 10 33,978 54.67 10 27,331 43.97 - 844 1.36 - no ballots 6,647 10.70 62,153 ME
Maryland-1[d] 4 5,097 37.60 - 8,458 62.40 2 no ballots no ballots -3,361 -24.79 13,555 MD1
Maryland-2 2 5,025 54.19 2 4,248 45.81 - no ballots no ballots 777 8.38 9,273 MD2
Maryland-3[e] 1 2,900 100 1 no ballots no ballots no ballots 2900 100 2900 MD3
Maryland-4 3 6,129 41.70 - 6,454 51.29 3 no ballots no ballots -325 -2.58 12,583 MD4
Massachusetts 14 13,933 20.61 - 31,963 47.27 14 14,692 21.73 - no ballots -10,737 -25.54 67,619 MA
Mississippi 4 5,750 100 4 no ballots no ballots no ballots 5,750 100.00 5,750 MS
Missouri 4 5,192 100 4 no ballots no ballots no ballots 5,192 100.00 5,192 MO
New Hampshire 7 24,855 56.67 7 18,938 43.24 - no ballots no ballots 5,917 13.43 43,793 NH
New Jersey 8 23,826 49.89 8 23,466 49.13 - 468 0.98 - no ballots 360 0.76 47,760 NJ
New York 42 168,497 52.10 42 154,896 47.90 - no ballots no ballots 13,601 4.20 323,393 NY
North Carolina 15 25,261 84.77 15 4,538 15.23 - no ballots no ballots 20,723 69.54 29,799 NC
Ohio 21 81,246 51.33 21 76,539 48.35 - 509 0.32 - no ballots 4,707 2.98 158,294 OH
Pennsylvania 30 91,949 57.96 30 no ballots 66,689 42.04 - no ballots 25,260 15.92 158,638 PA
Rhode Island 4 2,126 43.07 - 2,810 56.93 4 no ballots no ballots -684 -13.86 4,936 RI
South Carolina 11 no popular vote no popular vote no popular vote no popular vote 11 - - - SC
Tennessee 15 28,078 95.42 15 1,347 4.58 - no ballots no ballots 26,731 90.84 29,425 TN
Vermont 7 7,870 24.50 - 11,152 34.71 - 13,106 40.79 7 no ballots -5,236 -6.08 32,128 VT
Virginia 23 34,243 74.96 23 11,436 25.03 - 3 0.01 - no ballots 22,807 49.92 45,682 VA
TOTALS: 288 702,735 54.74 219 474,107 36.93 49 99,817 7.78 7 - - 11 228,628 17.81 1,276,659 US
TO WIN: 145

Close states edit

States where the margin of victory was under 1%:

  1. New Jersey 0.76% (360 votes)

States where the margin of victory was under 5%:

  1. Delaware 1.98% (166 votes)
  2. Maryland's 4th District 2.58% (325 votes)
  3. Ohio 2.98% (4,707 votes)
  4. New York 4.20% (13,601 votes)

States where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. Vermont 6.08% (5,236 votes)
  2. Maryland's 2nd District 8.38% (777 votes)
  3. Kentucky 8.98% (36,249 votes)

Tipping point states:

  1. Maine 10.70% (6,647 votes) (tipping point state for a Jackson victory)
  2. Pennsylvania 15.90% (25,260 votes) (tipping point state for a Clay victory)

Electoral College selection edit

Method of choosing electors State(s)
State is divided into electoral districts, with one or more Electors chosen per district by the voters of that district Maryland[29]
Each Elector appointed by state legislature South Carolina
Each Elector chosen by voters statewide (all other States)

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Electors were elected to all 288 apportioned positions; however, two electors from Maryland pledged to the Clay/Sergeant ticket abstained from casting a vote for president or vice president, bringing the total number of electoral votes cast to 286.
  2. ^ In Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, the Democratic vice presidential candidate listed on the ballot was Philip P. Barbour. However, all the Democratic electors from those states cast their electoral votes for Van Buren. 30 Pennsylvania electors voted for William Wilkins for vice president.
  3. ^ Floyd did not appear on the ballot in any state that chose its electors via a popular vote. His electoral votes were awarded by the South Carolina state legislature.
  4. ^ Clay won 4 Electors in District 1, but 2 were too ill to vote.
  5. ^ 707 votes in Maryland District 3 were for a Jackson-Barbour Ticket.

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  • Democratic National Convention (1832). Summary Of The Proceedings Of A Convention Of Republican Delegates, From The Several States In The Union, For The Purpose of Nominating A Candidate For The Office Of Vice-President Of The United States; Held At Baltimore, In The State Of Maryland, May, 1832. Albany: Packard and Van Benthuysen. Note: the account of the convention in Niles' Weekly Register has more information than the printed proceedings.
  • The proceedings of the United States Anti-Masonic Convention: held at Philadelphia, September 11, 1830.

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    • source for "Electoral college selection"
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1832, united, states, presidential, election, 12th, quadrennial, presidential, election, held, from, friday, november, wednesday, december, 1832, incumbent, president, andrew, jackson, candidate, democratic, party, defeated, henry, clay, candidate, national, r. The 1832 United States presidential election was the 12th quadrennial presidential election held from Friday November 2 to Wednesday December 5 1832 Incumbent president Andrew Jackson candidate of the Democratic Party defeated Henry Clay candidate of the National Republican Party 1832 United States presidential election 1828 November 2 December 5 1832 1836 288 members of the Electoral College a 145 electoral votes needed to winTurnout57 1 0 3 pp Nominee Andrew Jackson Henry ClayParty Democratic National RepublicanHome state Tennessee KentuckyRunning mate Martin Van Buren b John SergeantElectoral vote 219 49States carried 16 6Popular vote 701 780 484 205Percentage 54 2 37 4 Nominee John Floyd William WirtParty Nullifier Anti MasonicHome state Virginia MarylandRunning mate Henry Lee Amos EllmakerElectoral vote 11 7States carried 1 1Popular vote N A c 100 715Percentage N A 7 8 Presidential election results map Blue denotes states won by Jackson and Van Buren or Wilkins light yellow denotes those won by Clay Sergeant teal denotes those won by Floyd Lee and orange yellow denotes those won by Wirt Ellmaker Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state Two votes were not given in Maryland President before electionAndrew JacksonDemocratic Elected President Andrew JacksonDemocraticThe election saw the first use of the presidential nominating conventions and the Democrats National Republicans and the Anti Masonic Party all used conventions to select their candidates Jackson won re nomination with no opposition and the 1832 Democratic National Convention replaced Vice President John C Calhoun with Martin Van Buren The National Republican Convention nominated a ticket led by Clay a Kentuckian who had served as Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams The Anti Masonic Party one of the first major U S third parties nominated former Attorney General William Wirt Jackson faced heavy criticism for his actions in the Bank War but remained popular among the general public He won a majority of the popular vote and 219 of the 286 electoral votes carrying most states outside New England Clay won 37 4 of the popular vote and 49 electoral votes while Wirt won 7 8 of the popular vote and carried the state of Vermont Virginia Governor John Floyd who had not actively campaigned won South Carolina s electoral votes After the election members of the National Republican Party and the Anti Masonic Party formed the Whig Party which became the Democrats primary opponent over the next two decades Contents 1 Nominations 1 1 Democratic Party 1 1 1 Barbour Democrats 1 2 National Republican Party 1 3 Anti Masonic Party 1 4 Nullifier Party 2 General election 2 1 Campaign 2 2 Results 2 2 1 Results by state 2 2 2 Close states 3 Electoral College selection 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Bibliography 7 1 Primary sources 7 2 Websites 8 External linksNominations editWith the demise of the Congressional nominating caucus in the election of 1824 the political system was left without an institutional method on the national level for determining presidential nominations For this reason the candidates of 1832 were chosen by national conventions The first national convention was held by the Anti Masonic Party in Baltimore Maryland in September 1831 The National Republican Party and the Democratic Party soon imitated them also holding conventions in Baltimore which would remain a favored venue for national political conventions for decades 2 Democratic Party edit Main article 1832 Democratic National Convention 1832 Democratic Party ticketAndrew Jackson Martin Van Burenfor President for Vice President nbsp nbsp 7thPresident of the United States 1829 1837 13th U S Minister to Great Britain 1831 1832 President Jackson and Vice President Calhoun had a strained relationship for a number of reasons most notably a difference in opinion about the Nullification Crisis and the involvement of Calhoun s wife Floride in the Eaton affair As a result Secretary of State Martin Van Buren and Secretary of War John H Eaton resigned from office in April 1831 and Jackson requested the resignation of all other cabinet officers except one Van Buren instigated the procedure as a means of removing Calhoun supporters from the Cabinet Calhoun further aggravated Jackson in the summer of 1831 when he issued his Fort Hill Letter in which he outlined the constitutional basis for a state s ability to nullify an act of Congress The final blow to the Jackson Calhoun relationship came when Jackson nominated Van Buren to serve as Minister to Great Britain and the vote in the Senate ended in a tie which Calhoun broke by voting against confirmation on January 25 1832 3 In January it was not clear who the Democrats candidates would be in the election later that year Jackson had already been nominated by several state legislatures following the pattern in 1824 and 1828 but he worried that the various state parties would not unite on a vice presidential nominee As a result the Democratic Party followed the pattern of the opposition and called a national convention 4 Convention vote President Vice PresidentAndrew Jackson 283 Martin Van Buren 208 Philip P Barbour 49 Richard M Johnson 26The 1832 Democratic National Convention the Democratic Party s first was held in the Athenaeum in Baltimore the same venue as the two opposition parties from May 21 to May 23 1832 Several decisions were made at the convention On the first day a committee was appointed to provide a list of delegates from each state This committee later called the Credentials Committee reported that all states were represented Delegates were present from the District of Columbia and on the first contested roll call vote in convention history the convention voted 126 153 to deprive the District of Columbia of its voting rights in the convention The Rules Committee gave a brief report that established several other customs Each state was allotted as many votes as it had presidential electors several states were overrepresented and many were underrepresented Second balloting was taken by states and not by individual delegates Third two thirds of the delegates would have to support a candidate for nomination a measure intended to reduce sectional strife The fourth rule which banned nomination speeches was the only one the party quickly abandoned No roll call vote was taken to nominate Jackson for a second term Instead the convention passed a resolution stating that we most cordially concur in the repeated nominations which he has received in various parts of the union Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice president on the first ballot receiving 208 votes to 49 for Philip P Barbour and 26 for Richard Mentor Johnson Afterward the convention approved an address to the nation and adjourned Barbour Democrats edit The Barbour Democratic National Convention was held in June 1832 in Staunton Virginia Jackson was nominated for president and Philip P Barbour for vice president Barbour withdrew but the ticket appeared on the ballot in Alabama Georgia Mississippi North Carolina and Virginia 5 National Republican Party edit Main article 1831 National Republican National Convention 1832 National Republican ticketHenry Clay John Sergeantfor President for Vice President nbsp nbsp U S Senatorfrom Kentucky 1806 1807 1810 1811 amp 1831 1842 U S Representativefor Pennsylvania s 2nd 1827 1829 Soon after the Anti Masonic Party held its national convention supporters of Henry Clay called a national convention of the National Republican Party 18 of the 24 states sent delegations to the convention which convened on December 12 1831 6 The convention was attended by 168 delegates from eighteen states although one fourth of the delegates were late due to winter weather 7 On the convention s fourth day the roll call ballot for president took place The chairman of the convention called the name of each delegate who gave his vote orally Clay received 155 votes with delegate Frederick H Shuman of North Carolina abstaining because he believed that Clay could not win and should wait until 1836 As additional delegates arrived they were allowed to cast their votes for Clay and by the end of the convention he had 167 votes to one abstention A similar procedure was used for the vice presidential ballot Former Congressman John Sergeant of Pennsylvania was nominated with 64 votes to six abstentions A prominent Philadelphia attorney with connections to the Second Bank of the United States and a reputation as an opponent of slavery Sergeant gave the ticket geographical balance 8 Convention vote 9 President Vice PresidentHenry Clay 167 John Sergeant 162Abstaining 1 Abstaining 6Anti Masonic Party edit 1832 Anti Masonic Party ticketWilliam Wirt Amos Ellmakerfor President for Vice President nbsp nbsp 9thU S Attorney General 1817 1829 12thAttorney General of Pennsylvania 1816 1819 nbsp King Andrew the First an Anti Jacksonian poster shows Andrew Jackson as a monarch trampling the Constitution the federal judiciary and the Bank of the United StatesThe first national nominating convention for a presidential candidate in American history was held by the Anti Masonic Party in Baltimore Maryland from September 26 28 1831 The convention was attended by 116 delegates from thirteen states with Maryland being the furthest state in the South represented The leaders of the party attempted to give the presidential nomination to Clay and Supreme Court Justice John McLean but both declined 7 Several prominent politicians were considered for the presidential nomination Richard Rush would have been the nominee but pointedly refused As a result of this action along with his softness toward Jackson former President John Quincy Adams never forgave him Adams was willing to run as the Anti Masonic candidate but the party leaders did not want to risk running someone so unpopular 10 The delegates met behind closed doors for several days before the convention officially opened making some initial decisions Several unofficial presidential ballots and one official ballot were taken in which William Wirt defeated Rush and John McLean for the nomination Ironically Wirt was a Mason and even defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him 11 Wirt hoped for an endorsement from the National Republicans When the National Republican Party nominated Henry Clay Wirt s position became awkward He did not withdraw even though he had no chance of being elected 10 The convention was organized on September 26 and heard reports of its committees on the 27th The 28th was spent on the official roll call for president and vice president During the balloting each delegate s name was called after which that delegate placed a written ballot in a special box Wirt was nominated for president with 108 votes to one for Rush and two abstentions Amos Ellmaker was nominated for vice president with 108 votes to one for John C Spencer chairman of the convention and two abstentions citation needed Convention vote 12 President Vice PresidentWilliam Wirt 108 Amos Ellmaker 108Richard Rush 1 John C Spencer 1Abstaining 2 Abstaining 1Nullifier Party edit While the South Carolina state legislature remained nominally under Democratic control it refused to support Jackson s reelection due to the ongoing Nullification Crisis and instead opted to back a ticket proposed by the Nullifier Party led by John C Calhoun The Nullifiers were made up of former members of the Democratic Republican Party who had largely supported Jackson at the previous election but were much stauncher proponents of states rights which ultimately led them to repudiate Jackson during his first term Calhoun himself declined to head the ticket instead nominating Governor of Virginia John Floyd who also opposed Jackson s stance on states rights Merchant and economist Henry Lee was nominated as Floyd s running mate 13 Ultimately Floyd s candidacy amounted to little more than a protest against Jackson as his ticket did not run in any state outside of South Carolina He nonetheless received all the state s electoral votes 14 General election edit nbsp Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county Shades of blue are for Jackson Van Buren Democratic shades of orange are for Clay National Republican shades of red are for Wirt Anti Masonic and shades of green are for Jackson Barbour Democratic Campaign edit Jackson rode into office in 1828 on the strength of a coalition that included southern opponents of the Tariff of 1828 western advocates of internal improvements many former Democratic Republicans and some former Federalists Henry Clay predicted this unwieldy marriage of disparate and in many cases hostile interests would soon collapse under the pressures of office 15 Clay determined to split the Jacksonian party on the issue of the American System by engineering a confrontation over the Second Bank of the United States He persuaded the president of the Bank Nicholas Biddle to request recharter a full four years early in order to coincide with the presidential election As expected Jackson vetoed the recharter bill and issued a stinging veto message criticizing the Bank s interference in national politics Clay predicted the president s hostility to the nationalist economic program would prove unpopular with voters particularly in Pennsylvania where the Bank was headquartered and hand the Anti Jacksonians victory at the polls 16 Simultaneously Jackson faced defections from the southern wing of his party over the Nullification Crisis These southerners objected strongly to the tariff and argued for the right of the states to nullify unfriendly federal laws a position Jackson refused to endorse Clay hoped to bring the disgruntled ex Jacksonians into the fold but his tactic of promoting the American System as the major issue of the campaign was ill designed for this purpose While some Southerners did favor the Bank they were unwilling to break publicly with Jackson on this issue and Vice President Calhoun was overtly hostile to the American System by 1832 In South Carolina the faction loyal to Calhoun nominated a slate of independent electors who voted for Governor John Floyd of Virginia Elsewhere dissident Southern Jacksonians protested the nomination of Martin Van Buren by supporting Philip P Barbour for vice president but were unwilling to break with Jackson himself As the Barbour movement suggests Jackson s personal popularity worked against the growth of opposition politics in the South despite the growing dissatisfaction with the national administration 17 Meanwhile Jackson s northern opponents were hurt by the divided state of the opposition The failure of Anti Jacksonians to unite behind a single candidate for president alarmed leaders like William Henry Seward and Thurlow Weed who worked feverishly to avoid a disastrous split in the opposition vote In New York Ohio and Pennsylvania Anti Masons and National Republicans organized fusion tickets with electors pledged to support whichever candidate stood the best chance of defeating Jackson in the electoral college Jackson carried all three states however along with their combined 93 electoral votes His margin in Pennsylvania was much reduced from 1828 but still wider than the Democratic majority in the gubernatorial election held in October due largely to the drop in support for the Anti Masons The Anti Jacksonian Union ticket foreshadowed the merger of both parties with disaffected Southern Jacksonians in 1834 to form the Whig Party which would constitute the major opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats for the remainder of the Second Party System 18 19 While Clay hoped to alienate the different wings of the Democratic Party from each other by promoting the Bank as an issue his strategy backfired as Jackson s veto message compellingly portrayed him as the defender of the common people against the furious assault of the financial interests Events of the previous decade had not endeared the Bank to working people and they identified with Jackson s portrait of the Monster Bank as corrupt self interested and destructive to democratic egalitarianism Meanwhile Clay s high handed treatment of the Anti Masons discouraged unity among Anti Jacksonians and the unpopularity of the National Republicans frustrated efforts to unite all opponents of the administration under a single roof 20 21 Results edit nbsp Hunters of Kentucky source source track Jackson supporters used this Battle of New Orleans anthem as their campaign song Problems playing this file See media help Jackson won the election in an electoral college landslide 22 Jackson received 219 electoral votes defeating Clay 49 Floyd 11 and Wirt 7 by a large margin 23 Jackson s popularity with the American public and the vitality of the political movement with which he was associated is confirmed by the fact that no president was again able to secure a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections until Ulysses S Grant in 1872 citation needed To date only two other presidents from the Democratic party were ever able to replicate this feat Franklin D Roosevelt for the first time in 1936 and Barack Obama in 2012 Furthermore no president succeeded in securing re election again until Abraham Lincoln in 1864 24 As of 2023 Jackson was the second of seven presidential nominees to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections the others being Thomas Jefferson Henry Clay Grover Cleveland William Jennings Bryan Franklin D Roosevelt and Richard Nixon Of these Jackson Cleveland and Roosevelt also won the popular vote in at least three elections Jackson was the second of only five presidents to win re election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections the other four are James Madison in 1812 Grover Cleveland in 1892 Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and Barack Obama in 2012 25 Following the election and Clay s defeat an Anti Jackson coalition would be formed out of National Republicans Anti Masons disaffected Jacksonians and small remnants of the Federalist Party whose last political activity was with them a decade before In the short term it formed the Whig Party in a coalition against President Jackson and his reforms 26 nbsp Electoral results Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote a 27 Electoralvote d 23 Running mateCount Percentage Vice presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote d 23 Andrew Jackson incumbent Democratic Tennessee 701 780 54 23 219 Martin Van Buren New York 189William Wilkins Pennsylvania 30Henry Clay National Republican Kentucky 484 205 b 37 42 49 John Sergeant Pennsylvania 49John Floyd Nullifier Virginia c 11 Henry Lee Massachusetts 11William Wirt Anti Masonic Maryland 100 715 b 7 78 7 Amos Ellmaker Pennsylvania 7Other 7 273 0 57 Other Total 1 293 973 100 286 286Needed to win 145 145 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 d Two electors from Maryland for Clay failed to cast votes Popular voteJackson 54 23 Clay 37 42 Wirt 7 78 Others 0 57 Electoral voteJackson 76 57 Clay 17 13 Floyd 3 85 Wirt 2 45 Results by state edit The 1832 presidential election results are displayed in the maps below 23 28 nbsp Results by state nbsp Results by county shaded according to winning candidate s percentage of the voteStates districts won by Jackson Van BurenStates districts won by Clay SergeantStates districts won by Wirt EllmakerStates districts won by Floyd LeeAndrew JacksonDemocratic Henry ClayNational Republican William WirtAnti Masonic John FloydNullifier Margin State TotalState electoralvotes electoralvotes electoralvotes electoralvotes electoralvotes Alabama 7 00013618 14 286 99 97 7 00048669 5 0 03 no ballots no ballots 14 281 99 94 14 291 ALConnecticut 8 11 269 34 32 18 155 55 29 8 3 409 10 38 no ballots 6 886 20 97 32 833 CTDelaware 3 4 110 49 01 4 276 50 99 3 no ballots no ballots 166 1 98 8 386 DEGeorgia 11 20 750 100 11 no ballots no ballots no ballots 20 750 100 00 20 750 GAIllinois 5 14 609 68 01 5 6 745 31 40 97 0 45 no ballots 7 864 36 61 21 481 ILIndiana 9 31 551 67 10 9 15 472 32 90 no ballots no ballots 16 079 34 20 47 023 INKentucky 15 36 292 45 51 43 449 54 49 15 no ballots no ballots 36 249 8 98 79 741 KYLouisiana 5 3 908 61 67 5 2 429 38 33 no ballots no ballots 1 479 23 34 6 337 LAMaine 10 33 978 54 67 10 27 331 43 97 844 1 36 no ballots 6 647 10 70 62 153 MEMaryland 1 d 4 5 097 37 60 8 458 62 40 2 no ballots no ballots 3 361 24 79 13 555 MD1Maryland 2 2 5 025 54 19 2 4 248 45 81 no ballots no ballots 777 8 38 9 273 MD2Maryland 3 e 1 2 900 100 1 no ballots no ballots no ballots 2900 100 2900 MD3Maryland 4 3 6 129 41 70 6 454 51 29 3 no ballots no ballots 325 2 58 12 583 MD4Massachusetts 14 13 933 20 61 31 963 47 27 14 14 692 21 73 no ballots 10 737 25 54 67 619 MAMississippi 4 5 750 100 4 no ballots no ballots no ballots 5 750 100 00 5 750 MSMissouri 4 5 192 100 4 no ballots no ballots no ballots 5 192 100 00 5 192 MONew Hampshire 7 24 855 56 67 7 18 938 43 24 no ballots no ballots 5 917 13 43 43 793 NHNew Jersey 8 23 826 49 89 8 23 466 49 13 468 0 98 no ballots 360 0 76 47 760 NJNew York 42 168 497 52 10 42 154 896 47 90 no ballots no ballots 13 601 4 20 323 393 NYNorth Carolina 15 25 261 84 77 15 4 538 15 23 no ballots no ballots 20 723 69 54 29 799 NCOhio 21 81 246 51 33 21 76 539 48 35 509 0 32 no ballots 4 707 2 98 158 294 OHPennsylvania 30 91 949 57 96 30 no ballots 66 689 42 04 no ballots 25 260 15 92 158 638 PARhode Island 4 2 126 43 07 2 810 56 93 4 no ballots no ballots 684 13 86 4 936 RISouth Carolina 11 no popular vote no popular vote no popular vote no popular vote 11 SCTennessee 15 28 078 95 42 15 1 347 4 58 no ballots no ballots 26 731 90 84 29 425 TNVermont 7 7 870 24 50 11 152 34 71 13 106 40 79 7 no ballots 5 236 6 08 32 128 VTVirginia 23 34 243 74 96 23 11 436 25 03 3 0 01 no ballots 22 807 49 92 45 682 VATOTALS 288 702 735 54 74 219 474 107 36 93 49 99 817 7 78 7 11 228 628 17 81 1 276 659 USTO WIN 145 Close states edit States where the margin of victory was under 1 New Jersey 0 76 360 votes States where the margin of victory was under 5 Delaware 1 98 166 votes Maryland s 4th District 2 58 325 votes Ohio 2 98 4 707 votes New York 4 20 13 601 votes States where the margin of victory was under 10 Vermont 6 08 5 236 votes Maryland s 2nd District 8 38 777 votes Kentucky 8 98 36 249 votes Tipping point states Maine 10 70 6 647 votes tipping point state for a Jackson victory Pennsylvania 15 90 25 260 votes tipping point state for a Clay victory Electoral College selection editMethod of choosing electors State s State is divided into electoral districts with one or more Electors chosen per district by the voters of that district Maryland 29 Each Elector appointed by state legislature South CarolinaEach Elector chosen by voters statewide all other States See also editSecond inauguration of Andrew Jackson History of the United States 1789 1849 1832 1833 United States House of Representatives elections 1832 1833 United States Senate electionsNotes edit Electors were elected to all 288 apportioned positions however two electors from Maryland pledged to the Clay Sergeant ticket abstained from casting a vote for president or vice president bringing the total number of electoral votes cast to 286 In Alabama Georgia Mississippi North Carolina and Virginia the Democratic vice presidential candidate listed on the ballot was Philip P Barbour However all the Democratic electors from those states cast their electoral votes for Van Buren 30 Pennsylvania electors voted for William Wilkins for vice president Floyd did not appear on the ballot in any state that chose its electors via a popular vote His electoral votes were awarded by the South Carolina state legislature Clay won 4 Electors in District 1 but 2 were too ill to vote 707 votes in Maryland District 3 were for a Jackson Barbour Ticket References edit National General Election VEP Turnout Rates 1789 Present United States Election Project CQ Press Chase James S Emergence of the Presidential Nominating Convention 1789 1832 1973 Robert V Remini Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom 1822 1832 1981 pp 237 47 H W Brands Andrew Jackson His Life and Times 2005 pp 468 475 William S Belko Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America An Old Republican in King Andrew s Court University of Alabama Press 2016 Deskins Donald Richard Walton Hanes Puckett Sherman 2010 Presidential Elections 1789 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Archived PDF from the original on October 9 2022 Retrieved October 16 2020 Bibliography editBelko William S Toward the Second American Party System Southern Jacksonians the Election of 1832 and the Rise of the Democratic Party Ohio Valley History 14 1 2014 28 50 online Cheathem Mark R The Coming of Democracy Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson 2018 Cole Donald B The Presidential Election of 1832 in New Hampshire Historical New Hampshire 21 1 1966 pp 32 50 Eriksson Erik McKinley Official Newspaper Organs and Jackson s Re election 1832 Tennessee Historical Magazine 9 1 1925 37 58 online Folsom Burton W Party Formation and Development in Jacksonian America The Old South Journal of American Studies 7 3 1973 217 229 Gammon Samuel Rhea 1922 The Presidential Campaign of 1832 PDF Johns Hopkins Press Archived PDF from the original on October 9 2022 Holt Michael F The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War Oxford University Press 1999 Remini Robert V Henry Clay Statesman for the Union 1993 Remini Robert V Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom 1822 1832 1981 detailed biography Remini Robert V Election of 1832 in Arthur M Schlesinger Jr ed History of American Presidential Elections 1968 vol 1 pp 494 516 Detailed coverage plus primary source Ward John William 1955 Andrew Jackson Symbol for an Age New York Oxford University Press Primary sources edit Presidential Election of 1832 A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress National Republican Party U S Massachusetts 1831 Journal Of The National Republican Convention Which Assembled In The City Of Baltimore Dec 12 1831 For The Nominations Of Candidates To Fill The Offices Of President And Vice President Washington p 1 Democratic National Convention 1832 Summary Of The Proceedings Of A Convention Of Republican Delegates From The Several States In The Union For The Purpose of Nominating A Candidate For The Office Of Vice President Of The United States Held At Baltimore In The State Of Maryland May 1832 Albany Packard and Van Benthuysen Note the account of the convention in Niles Weekly Register has more information than the printed proceedings The proceedings of the United States Anti Masonic Convention held at Philadelphia September 11 1830 Websites edit Andrew Jackson 1829 1837 AmericanPresident org Archived from the original on June 26 2003 Retrieved March 18 2005 A Historical Analysis of the Electoral College The Green Papers Retrieved March 20 2005 source for Electoral college selection Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1832 The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project Pennsylvania Election Statistics 1682 2006 Archived from the original on May 15 2005 Retrieved March 19 2005 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States presidential election 1832 Election of 1832 in Counting the Votes Archived October 12 2019 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php 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