1848 United States presidential election in Texas

none June 2025 September 2023 1848 United States presidential election 1848 United States presidential election in Texas Texas presidential no November 7, 1848 1852 United States presidential election in Texas 1852 x200px Lewis Cass circa 1855.jpg Lewis Cass Democratic Party (United States) Michigan William O. Butler 4 10,668 70.29% Zachary Taylor cropped.jpg Zachary Taylor Whig Party (United States) Louisiana Millard Fillmore 0 4,509 29.71% President James K. Polk Democratic Party (United States) Zachary Taylor Whig Party (United States) File:1848 United States presidential election in Texas results map by county.svg 300px County results Cass #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Taylor #fed463 50–60% The 1848 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 7, 1848, as part of the 1848 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent the state in the Electoral College, which chose the president and vice president. Texas had become the 28th state on December 29, 1845, and would be officially annexed by the United States on February 19, 1846, making this the first presidential election in which the state participated. The area which was Texas was much larger than it is today, but from a purely geographical perspective it was only a minority of this vast territory, specifically the southern and eastern regions of the new state that was settled, organized into counties and thus actually participated in the election. This was the last U.S. presidential election prior to the Compromise of 1850, a part of which included Texas ceding the extremity of its northwestern claims to the federal government and establishing its modern borders. However, it would not be until the 1920s that the entirety of the land within even Texas' post-1850 borders was organized into counties, which was (and technically still is) a legal prerequisite for voting to take place in Texas. The settled regions of the state were mostly used as rural farming land, making the Democratic pro-slavery voters more likely to vote for Lewis Cass and as a result, Texas overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee Lewis Cass, who received 70.3% of the vote. Texas was Cass's strongest state by far, indeed the solitary state where he received over 56% of the popular vote. Whig candidate Zachary Taylor, who ultimately won the national electoral vote and was thus elected president, was the only other candidate to receive any votes. As was the case with most slave states, former President Martin Van Buren's Free Soil Party ticket did not distribute ballots in Texas. Results 1848 United States presidential election in Texashttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=48&year=1848&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1848 Presidential General Election Results – Texas David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Lewis Cass 10,668 70.29% 4 Whig Zachary Taylor 4,509 29.71% 0 Total 15,177 100.0% 4 See also United States presidential elections in Texas References 1842 Texas Category:1848 Texas elections