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Van Buren was the third incumbent vice president to win election as president, an event which would not happen again until 1988, when George H. W. Bush was elected president. He is also the most recent Democrat to be elected to succeed a two-term Democratic president, and the only sitting Democratic vice president to win the presidency. [ 2 ]
1836 presidential election results. Blue denotes states won by Van Buren, Yellow 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. Senate elections; Overall control ...
The 1836 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place between November 3 and December 7, 1836, as part of the 1836 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President .
Source (popular vote): A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 [12] (a) Only 6 of the 10 states casting electoral votes chose electors by any form of the popular vote. (b) Less than 1.8% of the population voted: the 1790 census would count a total population of 3.0 million with a free population of 2.4 million and 600,000 ...
1836 New York gubernatorial election; 1836 and 1837 United States House of Representatives elections; 1836 and 1837 United States Senate elections;
White won Georgia by a margin of 3.6%. White also won Tennessee, giving him 26 electoral votes, the third highest total behind Van Buren's 170, and Harrison's 73. [2] This was the only election in which a Democrat won the presidency without carrying Georgia until 1964, nearly 130 years later.
Since 1836, only one sitting vice president, George H.W. Bush in 1988, has been elected to the White House. Among those who tried and failed were Richard Nixon in 1960, Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and ...
Harrison won Vermont by a margin of 19.86%. This would be the final time a Democratic candidate would carry Essex County until Franklin D. Roosevelt won it 104 years later in 1940 . 1836 would stand as the strongest performance for a Democratic candidate in Vermont until 96 years later in 1932 , when Franklin D. Roosevelt performed slightly ...