1836 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1836 Presidential election year Democratic Party (US)Andrew Jackson (D) 25th Democratic hold Martin Van Buren (D) 170 William Henry Harrison (W) 73 Hugh Lawson White (W) 26 Others 25 Democratic +14.2%Van Buren won by a popular vote margin of 14.2 percent over Harrison. He won by a popular vote margin of 1.7 percent over the combined popular vote total of all the Whig candidates. 1836 presidential election results. Blue denotes states won by Van Buren, Buff denotes states won by Harrison, purple denotes states won by White, coral pink denotes states won by Webster, and bluegrass green denotes states won by Mangum. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. Democratic hold 17 of 52 seatsNot counting special elections. Democratic +3Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. Democratic hold All 242 voting members Whig +25 Elections for the 25th United States Congress, were held in 1836 and 1837. The election saw the emergence of the Whig Party, which succeeded the National Republican Party in the Second Party System as the primary opposition to the Democratic Party. The Whigs chose their name in symbolic defiance to the leader of the Democratic Party, "King" Andrew Jackson, and supported a national bank and the American System. Despite the emergence of the Whigs as a durable political party, Democrats retained the presidency and a majority in both houses of Congress. In the presidential election, the Whigs ran multiple candidates designed to deny the Democratic candidate a majority of the electoral vote, and carried a scattering of states in the South, the West, and the Northeast. However, the Democratic Vice President Martin Van Buren still took a majority of the popular and electoral vote, defeating the Whig candidates William Henry Harrison of Ohio, Hugh Lawson White of Tennessee, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and Willie Person Mangum of North Carolina.1836 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1836 The American Presidency Project 25 June 2014 Virginia's electors refused to vote for Richard Mentor Johnson, Van Buren's running mate, leaving Johnson short of a majority of electoral votes for vice president. The Senate elected Johnson in a contingent election, the only time the Senate has ever chosen the vice president. Van Buren was the last sitting vice president to win election as president until George H. W. Bush's election in 1988; this is also the most recent election in which a Democrat was elected to the U.S. presidency in succession to another Democrat, who had served two terms as U.S. president.Last Time Consecutive Democratic Presidents Were Elected In the House, Whigs won moderate gains, but Democrats retained a solid majority in the chamber.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 In the Senate, Democrats gained many seats, boosting their majority.Party Division in the Senate, 1789–Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 See also 1836 United States presidential election 1836–37 United States House of Representatives elections 1836–37 United States Senate elections References 1836