1848 United States presidential election in Indiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1848 United States presidential election in Indiana United States 1848 presidential no 1844 United States presidential election in Indiana 1844 1852 United States presidential election in Indiana 1852 November 7, 1848 78.5%Madison 1986 330 6.2 pp 160x160px File:Lewis Cass (3x4 cropped).jpg Lewis Cass Democratic Party (United States) Michigan William O. Butler 12 74,692 48.82% File:Zachary Taylor restored and cropped (cropped).jpg Zachary Taylor Whig Party (United States) Louisiana Millard Fillmore 0 70,165 45.87% Martin Van Buren daguerreotype by Mathew Brady circa 1849 - edit 1 (cropped).jpg Martin Van Buren Free Soil Party New York Charles Francis Adams Sr. 0 8,100 5.30% 1848 United States presidential election in Indiana results map by county.svg 300px County results Cass #B9D7FF 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Taylor #FEE391 40–50% #FED463 50–60% #FE9929 60–70% President James K. Polk Democratic Party (United States) Zachary Taylor Whig Party (United States) A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 7, 1848, as part of the 1848 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the senior U.S. senator from Michigan Lewis Cass and the former U.S. representative from Kentucky's 3rd congressional district William O. Butler defeated the Whig ticket of major general Zachary Taylor and the New York state comptroller Millard Fillmore. The Free Soil ticket of the former president Martin Van Buren and the Massachusetts senator Charles Francis Adams Sr. finished a distant third.Riker Thornbrough 1960 53–67 Taylor defeated Cass in the national election with 163 electoral votes.1848 Electoral College Results https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1848 National Archives October 7, 2025 General election Summary thumb|right|250px|Result for the Free Soil Party electors in each Indiana county 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.Lampi n.d. Ratcliffe 2014 57 This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.Riker and Thornbrough count 18 votes for independent electoral lists in addition to the Democratic, Whig, and Free Soil tickets.Riker Thornbrough 1960 67 1848 United States presidential election in IndianaRiker Thornbrough 1960 53–67 Democratic Party (United States) Lewis CassWilliam O. Butler 74,692 48.82 1.25 Whig Party (United States) Zachary TaylorMillard Fillmore 70,175 45.87 2.55 Free Soil Party Martin Van BurenCharles Francis Adams Sr. 8,102 5.30 5.30 18 0.01 0.01 152,987 100.00 Results + 1848 United States presidential election in IndianaRiker Thornbrough 1960 53–67 Party Candidate Votes Democratic Nathaniel Albertson 74,692 Democratic Cyrus L. Dunham 74,692 Democratic Graham N. Fitch 74,691 Democratic Daniel Mace 74,691 Democratic William McCarty 74,691 Democratic James Ritchey 74,691 Democratic Andrew J. Harlan 74,686 Democratic George W. Carr 74,685 Democratic Charles H. Test 74,685 Democratic E. M. Chamberlain 74,680 Democratic Robert Dale Owen 74,675 Democratic James M. Hanna 73,912 Whig Thomas D. Walpole 70,175 Whig Milton Gregg 70,165 Whig David P. Holloway 70,165 Whig John S. Davis 70,164 Whig Edward W. McGaughey 70,163 Whig Lovell Rousseau 70,163 Whig James F. Suit 70,162 Whig Daniel D. Pratt 70,157 Whig David Kilgore 70,151 Whig Joseph G. Marshall 70,149 Whig Godlove S. Orth 70,145 Whig James E. Blythe 70,135 Free Soil John R. CravensIncluding alternate spellings.Riker Thornbrough 1960 67n7 8,102 Free Soil Milton Short 8,100 Free Soil Ovid Butler 8,099 Free Soil George W. Julian 8,099 Free Soil Albert G. Coffin 8,098 Free Soil Samuel A. Huff 8,098 Free Soil Joseph L. Jernegan 8,097 Free Soil Nathaniel Little 8,092 Free Soil Henry Leavitt Ellsworth 8,090 Free Soil John H. Bradley 8,088 Free Soil Daniel Worth 7,195 Independent Democrat Henry Secrest 771 Independent Free Soil Lewis Beecher 449 Independent Free Soil Joseph Morrow 419 Independent Whig John Pitcher 76 Unpledged A. Bassett 14 Unpledged E. Beach 14 Unpledged E. Beardsley 14 Unpledged H. H. Beardsley 14 Unpledged M. A. Brodrick 14 Unpledged N. F. Brodrick 14 Unpledged D. W. Gray 14 Unpledged J. Frush 14 Unpledged Joseph H. Leeper 14 Unpledged W. H. Marvin 14 Unpledged J. Primley 14 Unpledged William Proctor 14 Unpledged Samuel A. Taffee 6 Unpledged A. C. Cooper 4 Unpledged Samuel Ball 3 Unpledged Stephen S. Harding 3 Unpledged Jesse Lynch Holman 3 Unpledged Roger Ide 3 Unpledged Squire H. Knapp 3 Unpledged John M. Patrick 3 Unpledged Isaiah W. Robinson 3 Unpledged Thomas Smith 3 Unpledged George Walker 3 Unpledged Jonas Walker 3 Unpledged Richard Workman 3 Unpledged James L. Yater 3 Unpledged George B. Arnold 1 Unpledged Jonathan Blanchard 1 Unpledged John Bufferm 1 Unpledged Samuel H. Davis 1 Unpledged Henry B. Evans 1 Unpledged Thomas Hogue 1 Unpledged A. Hose 1 Unpledged William B. Ogdon 1 Unpledged Benjamin Dwight Sheldon 1 Unpledged Levi F. Torrey 1 Total ≈152,987 See also United States presidential elections in Indiana Notes References Bibliography 1848 Electoral College Results https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1848 National Archives October 7, 2025 Lampi Philip J. Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/?f%5Boffice_id_ssim%5D%5B%5D=ON056 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society n.d. October 5, 2025 Madison James H. The Indiana Way: A State History 1986 Indiana University Press Bloomington https://archive.org/details/indianawaystate00madi Ratcliffe Donald J. Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824 Journal of the Early Republic Spring 2014 34 1 45–77 24486931 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486931 Riker Dorothy Thornbrough Gayle Indiana Election Returns, 1816–1851 1960 Indiana Historical Bureau Indianapolis https://archive.org/details/indianaelectionr0000unse Indiana 1848 Category:1848 Indiana elections Category:Long stubs with short prose