1852 Indiana gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1852 Indiana gubernatorial election Indiana File:Flag of the United States (1851–1858).svg Presidential no 1849 Indiana gubernatorial election 1849 1856 Indiana gubernatorial election 1856 October 12, 1852 x150px Joseph A. Wright Democratic Party (United States) 92,576 54.61% x120px Nicholas McCarty Whig Party (United States) 73,641 43.44% File:1852 Indiana gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 250px County results Wright: #A5B0FF 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% McCarty: #FEE391 40–50% #FED463 50–60% #FE9929 60–70% Governor Joseph A. Wright Democratic Party (United States) Joseph A. Wright Democratic Party (United States) The 1852 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on October 12, 1852. October 6, 1852 The Election https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015672/1852-10-06/ed-1/seq-2/ The Evansville daily journal Evansville, Ind. 2 12 August 2023 This was the first election held in October, and the first election for a four-year term, since a new state constitution came into effect in 1851. Incumbent Democratic Governor Joseph A. Wright defeated Whig nominee Nicholas McCarty and Free Soil nominee Andrew L. Robinson with 54.61% of the vote. General election Candidates Nicholas McCarty, Whig, retired businessmanBeeler Dale December 1915 The Election of 1852 in Indiana https://www.jstor.org/stable/27785701 Indiana Magazine of History 11 4 301–323 27785701 12 August 2023 Andrew L. Robinson, Free Soil, former Speaker of the Indiana House of RepresentativesBigham Darrel E. 2006 On Jordan's banks: emancipation and its aftermath in the Ohio https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232564072.pdf Lexington, Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky 44 0-8131-2366-6 Joseph A. Wright, Democratic, incumbent Governor Results 1852 Indiana gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=202365 IN Governor, 1852 Our Campaigns 12 August 2023Dubin Michael J. United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County 63 McFarland 2003 978-0-7864-1439-0 Jefferson, North Carolina Pitchell Robert J. 1960 Indiana Votes: Election Returns for Governor, 1852-1956, and Senator, 1914-1958 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084484495 Bloomington Bureau of Government Research, Indiana University 6–7 Beeler Dale March 1916 The Election of 1852 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27785718 Indiana Magazine of History 12 1 34–52 27785718 12 August 2023Gugin Linda C. St. Clair James E. 2006 The Governors of Indiana https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780871951960/ Indianapolis, Indiana Indiana Historical Society Press 119 0-87195-196-7 1853 Journal of the Indiana State Senate during the Thirty-Seventh Session of the General Assembly, commencing January 6, 1853 https://books.google.com/books?id=A2R6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52 Indianapolis J.P. Chapman, State Printer 52 Some sources give the result as Wright 92,959, McCarty 73,647, Robinson 3,304.Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 50 1-56802-396-0 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 86–87 0-930466-17-9Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I 174 Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 0-379-00665-0 Holt Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party https://archive.org/details/risefallofameric0000holt_a7l7/ New York, New York Oxford University Press, Inc. 752, 1126 0-19-505544-6 The result given is taken from the Indiana State Senate Journal. Democratic Party (United States) Joseph A. Wright 92,576 54.61% Whig Party (United States) Nicholas McCarty 73,641 43.44% Free Soil Party Andrew L. Robinson 3,303 1.95% Scattering 2 0.00% 18,935 11.17% 169,522 Democratic Party (United States) Notes References 1852 Indiana Gubernatorial Category:October 1852