A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 2, 1840 as part of the 1840 United States presidential election. The Whig ticket of the former major general William Henry Harrison and the former U.S. senator from Virginia John Tyler defeated the incumbent Democratic president Martin Van Buren. Harrison defeated Van Buren in the national election with 234 electoral votes.
General election Summary Indiana chose nine 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. This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.
Results + 1840 United States presidential election in Indiana Party Candidate Votes Whig James H. Cravens 63,237 Whig John W. Payne 63,237 Whig Caleb B. Smith 63,237 Whig Richard W. Thompson 63,235 Whig Joseph L. White 63,235 Whig William Herod 63,227 Whig Joseph G. Marshall 63,225 Whig Samuel C. Sample 63,217 Whig McCarty Jonathan 63,216 Democratic William Hendricks 51,691 Democratic Robert Dale Owen 51,690 Democratic Thomas J. Henley 51,688 Democratic Andrew Kennedy 51,688 Democratic John L. Robinson 51,687 Democratic William J. Peaslet 51,676 Democratic John M. Lenon 51,642 Democratic Henry Secrest 51,494 Democratic Tilghman Howard 51,339 Democratic George W. Ewing (withdrawn) 351 Democratic George Boon (withdrawn) 196 Unpledged J. M. Simmons 51 Liberty Lesmon Basye 30 Liberty James Clayton 30 Liberty Cyrus Hamilton 30 Liberty Thomas Hicklin 30 Liberty Thomas Johns 30 Liberty Thomas Maxwell 30 Liberty William Smith 30 Liberty Samuel Stephenson 30 Liberty Daniel Worth 30
See also United States presidential elections in Indiana
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