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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1832 United States presidential election
| country = United States
| flag_year = 1822
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1828 United States presidential election
| previous_year = 1828
| next_election = 1836 United States presidential election
| next_year = 1836
| votes_for_election = 288 members of the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]]{{efn|Electors were elected to all 288 [[United States Electoral College#Apportionment|apportioned]] positions; however, two electors from Maryland pledged to the Clay/Sergeant ticket [[Faithless elector|abstained]] from casting a vote for president or vice president, bringing the total number of electoral votes cast to 286.}}
| needed_votes = 145 electoral
| turnout = 57.0%<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.electproject.org/national-1789-present|title=National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present|work=United States Election Project|publisher=[[CQ Press]]}}</ref> {{decrease}} 0.3 [[percentage point|pp]]
| election_date = November 2 – December 5, 1832
| image1 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Andrew jackson head (cropped 4x5).jpg|bSize = 180|cWidth = 150|cHeight = 200|oTop = 0|oLeft = 20}}
| nominee1 = '''[[Andrew Jackson]]'''
| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)
| home_state1 = [[Tennessee]]
| running_mate1 = '''[[Martin Van Buren]]'''{{efn|In Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia, the Democratic vice presidential candidate listed on the ballot was [[Philip P. Barbour]]. However, all the Democratic electors from those states cast their electoral votes for Van Buren. In Georgia, both a Jackson/Buren and a Jackson/Barbour appeared on the ballot, with the Jackson/Buren ticket winning. 30 Pennsylvania electors voted for [[William Wilkins (U.S. Senator)|William Wilkins]] for vice president.}}
| electoral_vote1 = '''219'''
| states_carried1 = '''16'''
| popular_vote1 = '''701,780'''
| percentage1 = '''54.2%'''
| image2 = {{CSS image crop|Image =Henry Clay (copy after Edward Dalton Marchant) (cropped).jpg|bSize = 180|cWidth = 150|cHeight = 200|oTop = 0|oLeft = 10}}
| nominee2 = [[Henry Clay]]
| party2 = National Republican Party
| home_state2 = [[Kentucky]]
| running_mate2 = [[John Sergeant (politician)|John Sergeant]]
| electoral_vote2 = 49
| states_carried2 = 6
| popular_vote2 = 484,205
| percentage2 = 37.4%
| image4 = {{CSS image crop|Image =John Floyd (cropped).jpg|bSize = 150|cWidth = 150|cHeight = 200|oTop = 0|oLeft = 0}}
| nominee4 = [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|John Floyd]]
| party4 = Nullifier Party
| home_state4 = [[Virginia]]
| running_mate4 = [[Henry Lee (economist)|Henry Lee]]
| electoral_vote4 = 11
| states_carried4 = 1
| popular_vote4 = ''N/A''{{efn|Floyd did not appear on the ballot in any state that chose its electors via a popular vote. His electoral votes were awarded by the South Carolina state legislature.}}
| percentage4 = ''N/A''
| image5 = {{CSS image crop|Image =William Wirt by Henry Inman (frameless) (cropped).jpg|bSize = 180|cWidth = 150|cHeight = 200|oTop = 0|oLeft = 15}}
| nominee5 = [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]]
| party5 = Anti-Masonic Party
| home_state5 = [[Maryland]]
| running_mate5 = [[Amos Ellmaker]]
| electoral_vote5 = 7
| states_carried5 = 1
| popular_vote5 = 100,715
| percentage5 = 7.8%
| map_size = 350px
| map = {{1832 United States presidential election imagemap}}
| map_caption = Presidential election results map. <span style="color:blue;">Blue</span> denotes states won by Jackson and Van Buren or Wilkins, <span style="color:#F5E6B1;">Astra</span> denotes those won by Clay/Sergeant, <span style="color:#81C2BD;">Teal</span> denotes those won by Floyd/Lee, and <span style="color:#DAC23B;">Gold</span> denotes those won by Wirt/Ellmaker. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. Two votes were not given in Maryland.
| title = President
| before_election = [[Andrew Jackson]]
| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| after_election = [[Andrew Jackson]]
| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)
}}
[[United States presidential election|Presidential elections]] were held in the [[United States]] from November 2 to December 5, 1832. Incumbent [[President of the United States|president]] [[Andrew Jackson]], candidate of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], defeated [[Henry Clay]], candidate of the [[National Republican Party]].

The election saw the first use of the [[United States presidential nominating convention|presidential nominating conventions]], and the Democrats, National Republicans, and the [[Anti-Masonic Party]] all used conventions to select their candidates. Jackson won renomination with no opposition, and the [[1832 Democratic National Convention]] replaced [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[John C. Calhoun]] with [[Martin Van Buren]]. The National Republican Convention nominated a ticket led by Clay, a [[Kentucky|Kentuckian]] who had served as [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] under President [[John Quincy Adams]]. The Anti-Masonic Party, one of the first major U.S. [[Third party (United States)|third parties]], nominated former Attorney General [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]].

Jackson faced heavy criticism for his actions in the [[Bank War]], but remained popular among the general public. He won a majority of the popular vote and 219 of the 288 [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]], carrying most states outside [[New England]]. Clay won 37.4% of the popular vote and 49 electoral votes, while Wirt won 7.8% of the popular vote and carried the state of [[Vermont]]. [[Governor of Virginia|Virginia Governor]] [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|John Floyd]], who had not actively campaigned, won [[South Carolina]]'s electoral votes. After the election, members of the National Republican Party and the Anti-Masonic Party formed the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]], which became the Democrats' primary opponent over the next two decades.

==Nominations==
With the demise of the [[congressional nominating caucus]] in the election of [[1824 United States presidential election|1824]], the political system was left without an institutional method on the national level for determining presidential nominations. For this reason, the candidates of 1832 were chosen by [[United States presidential nominating convention|national conventions]]. The first national convention was held by the [[Anti-Masonic Party]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], in September 1831. The [[National Republican Party]] and the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] soon imitated them, also holding conventions in Baltimore, which would remain a favored venue for national political conventions for decades.<ref>Chase, James S. ''Emergence of the Presidential Nominating Convention, 1789-1832'' (1973).</ref>

===Democratic Party ===
{{Main|1832 Democratic National Convention}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|-
| style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|'''1832 Democratic Party ticket'''
|-
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| [[Andrew Jackson|{{color|white|Andrew Jackson}}]]
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| [[Martin Van Buren|{{color|white|Martin Van Buren}}]]
|-
| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:#C8EBFF; width:200px;"|'''''for President'''''
| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:#C8EBFF; width:200px;"|'''''for Vice President'''''
|-
| [[File:Andrew jackson head.jpg|center|200x200px]]
| [[File:Francis Alexander - Martin Van Buren - Google Art Project.jpg|center|200x200px]]
|-
| [[List of presidents of the United States|7th]]<br/>[[President of the United States]]<br/><small>(1829–1837)</small>
| 13th
[[United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom|U.S. Minister to Great Britain]]<br /><small>(1831–1832)</small>
|-
|}

President Jackson and Vice President Calhoun had a strained relationship for a number of reasons, most notably a difference in opinion about the [[Nullification Crisis]] and the involvement of Calhoun's wife [[Floride Calhoun|Floride]] in the [[Petticoat affair|Eaton affair]]. As a result, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren and Secretary of War [[John H. Eaton]] resigned from office in April 1831, and Jackson requested the resignation of all other cabinet officers except one. Van Buren instigated the procedure as a means of removing Calhoun supporters from the Cabinet. Calhoun further aggravated Jackson in the summer of 1831 when he issued his "Fort Hill Letter," in which he outlined the constitutional basis for a state's ability to [[Nullification (U.S. Constitution)|nullify]] an act of Congress. The final blow to the Jackson-Calhoun relationship came when Jackson nominated Van Buren to serve as Minister to Great Britain and the vote in the Senate ended in a tie, which Calhoun broke by voting against confirmation on January 25, 1832.<ref>Robert V. Remini, ''Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom 1822-1832'' (1981), pp 237–47.</ref>

In January it was not clear who the Democrats' candidates would be in the election later that year. Jackson had already been nominated by several state legislatures, following the pattern in 1824 and 1828, but he worried that the various state parties would not unite on a vice-presidential nominee. As a result, the Democratic Party followed the pattern of the opposition and called a national convention.<ref>H. W. Brands, ''Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times'' (2005) pp 468–475.</ref>

{| align=left cellspacing=10
|
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+ Convention vote

|-
! colspan=2 | President
! colspan=2 | Vice President

|-
| align=left | [[Andrew Jackson]]
| 283
| align=left | [[Martin Van Buren]]
| 208

|-
| colspan=2 | &nbsp;
| align=left | [[Philip P. Barbour]]
| 49

|-
| colspan=2 | &nbsp;
| align=left | [[Richard Mentor Johnson|Richard M. Johnson]]
| 26

|}
|}
The [[1832 Democratic National Convention]], the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]'s first, was held in the Athenaeum in Baltimore (the same venue as the two opposition parties) from May 21 to May 23, 1832. Several decisions were made at the convention. On the first day, a committee was appointed to provide a list of delegates from each state. This committee, later called the Credentials Committee, reported that all states were represented. Delegates were present from the District of Columbia, and on the first contested roll call vote in convention history, the convention voted 126–153 to deprive the District of Columbia of its voting rights in the convention. The Rules Committee gave a brief report that established several other customs. Each state was allotted as many votes as it had presidential electors; several states were overrepresented and many were underrepresented. Second, balloting was taken by states and not by individual delegates. Third, two-thirds of the delegates would have to support a candidate for nomination, a measure intended to reduce sectional strife. The fourth rule, which banned nomination speeches, was the only one the party quickly abandoned.

No roll call vote was taken to nominate Jackson for a second term. Instead, the convention passed a resolution stating that "we most cordially concur in the repeated nominations which he has received in various parts of the union." Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice president on the first ballot, receiving 208 votes to 49 for [[Philip P. Barbour]] and 26 for [[Richard Mentor Johnson]]. Afterward, the convention approved an address to the nation and adjourned.

==== Barbour Democrats ====
The Barbour Democratic National Convention was held in June 1832 in [[Staunton, Virginia]]. Jackson was nominated for president and [[Philip P. Barbour]] for vice president. Barbour withdrew, but the ticket appeared on the ballot in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia.<ref>William S. Belko, ''Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court'' (University of Alabama Press, 2016).</ref>

===National Republican Party ===
{{Main|1831 National Republican National Convention}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|-
| style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|<big>'''1832 National Republican ticket'''</big>
|-
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#F0DC82; width:200px;"| [[Henry Clay|{{color|black|Henry Clay}}]]
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#F0DC82; width:200px;"| [[John Sergeant (politician)|{{color|black|John Sergeant}}]]
|- style="color:#000000; font-size:100%; background:#F0DC82;"
| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:lightyellow; width:200px;"|'''''for President'''''
| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:lightyellow; width:200px;"|'''''for Vice President'''''
|-
| [[File:Henry Clay (copy after Edward Dalton Marchant).jpg|center|200x200px]]
| [[File:Thomas Sully - John Sergeant - NPG.84.179 - National Portrait Gallery.jpg|center|200x200px]]
|-
| [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]<br />from [[Kentucky]]<br /><small>(1806–1807, 1810–1811, & 1831–1842)</small>
| [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]]<br/>for [[Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district|Pennsylvania's 2nd]]<br/><small>(1827–1829)</small>
|-
|}

Soon after the Anti-Masonic Party held its national convention, supporters of Henry Clay called a national convention of the National Republican Party. 18 of the 24 states sent delegations to the convention, which convened on December 12, 1831.<ref name="deskins1">{{cite book|last1=Deskins|first1=Donald Richard|last2=Walton|first2=Hanes|last3=Puckett|first3=Sherman|title=Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data|date=2010|publisher=University of Michigan Press|pages=97–98}}</ref> The convention was attended by 168 delegates from eighteen states although one-fourth of the delegates were late due to winter weather.<ref name="nomination" />

On the convention's fourth day, the roll call ballot for president took place. The chairman of the convention called the name of each delegate, who gave his vote orally. Clay received 155 votes, with delegate Frederick H. Shuman of North Carolina abstaining because he believed that Clay could not win and should wait until 1836. As additional delegates arrived, they were allowed to cast their votes for Clay, and by the end of the convention he had 167 votes to one abstention. A similar procedure was used for the vice-presidential ballot. Former Congressman [[John Sergeant (politician)|John Sergeant]] of Pennsylvania was nominated with 64 votes to six abstentions. A prominent [[Philadelphia]] attorney with connections to the [[Second Bank of the United States]] and a reputation as an opponent of [[slavery in the United States|slavery]], Sergeant gave the ticket geographical balance.<ref name="shaynes1">{{cite book|last1=Haynes|first1=Stan M.|title=The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832–1872|date=2012|publisher=McFarland|pages=30–31}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+ Convention vote<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hinshaw |first=Seth |title=Ohio Elects the President: Our State's Role in Presidential Elections 1804-1996 |publisher=Book Masters, Inc |year=2000 |location=Mansfield |pages=20}}</ref>

|-
! colspan=2 | President
! colspan=2 | Vice President

|-
| align=left | [[Henry Clay]]
| 167
| align=left | [[John Sergeant (politician)|John Sergeant]]
| 162

|-
| Abstaining
| 1
| Abstaining
| 6
|}

===Anti-Masonic Party ===

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|-
| style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|<big>'''1832 Anti-Masonic Party ticket'''</big>
|-
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#FF7F50; width:200px;"| [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|{{color|black|William Wirt}}]]
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#FF7F50; width:200px;"| [[Amos Ellmaker|{{color|black|Amos Ellmaker}}]]
|- style="color:#000000; font-size:100%; background:#F0DC82;"
| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:#FFDAB9; width:200px;"|'''''for President'''''
| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:#FFDAB9; width:200px;"|'''''for Vice President'''''
|-
| [[File:William Wirt by Henry Inman (frameless) (cropped).jpg|center|200x200px]]
| [[File:Amos Ellmaker.jpg|center|200x200px]]
|-
| 9th<br/>[[United States Attorney General|U.S. Attorney General]]<br /><small>(1817–1829)</small>
| 12th<br/>[[List of Pennsylvania Attorneys General|Attorney General of Pennsylvania]]<br /><small>(1816–1819, 1828–1829)</small>
|-
|}

[[File:King Andrew the First (political cartoon of President Andrew Jackson).jpg|thumb|right|"[[King Andrew the First]]", an Anti-Jacksonian poster shows Andrew Jackson as a monarch trampling the Constitution, the federal judiciary, and the Bank of the United States]]

The first national nominating convention for a presidential candidate in American history was held by the Anti-Masonic Party in Baltimore, Maryland from September 26–28, 1831. The convention was attended by 116 delegates from thirteen states with Maryland being the furthest state in the South represented. The leaders of the party attempted to give the presidential nomination to Clay and Supreme Court Justice [[John McLean]], but both declined.<ref name="nomination">{{cite book |date=1979 |title=National Party Conventions, 1831-1976 |publisher=[[Congressional Quarterly]]}}</ref>

Several prominent politicians were considered for the presidential nomination. [[Richard Rush]] would have been the nominee, but pointedly refused. As a result of this action, along with his softness toward Jackson, former President [[John Quincy Adams]] never forgave him. Adams was willing to run as the Anti-Masonic candidate, but the party leaders did not want to risk running someone so unpopular.<ref name="books.google">{{cite book| author = James Schouler| author-link=James Schouler | title = History of the United States of America Under the Constitution: 1831-1847. 1889| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hJRBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA77| access-date = December 24, 2010| year = 1889| publisher = W.H. & O.H. Morrison }}</ref>

The delegates met behind closed doors for several days before the convention officially opened, making some initial decisions. Several unofficial presidential ballots and one official ballot were taken, in which William Wirt defeated Rush and [[John McLean]] for the nomination. Ironically, Wirt was a Mason and even defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Anti-Masonic Party|volume=2|page=127}}</ref> Wirt hoped for an endorsement from the National Republicans. When the National Republican Party nominated Henry Clay, Wirt's position became awkward. He did not withdraw, even though he had no chance of being elected.<ref name="books.google" />

The convention was organized on September 26 and heard reports of its committees on the 27th. The 28th was spent on the official roll call for president and vice president. During the balloting, each delegate's name was called, after which that delegate placed a written ballot in a special box. Wirt was nominated for president with 108 votes to one for Rush and two abstentions. [[Amos Ellmaker]] was nominated for vice president with 108 votes to one for [[John C. Spencer]] (chairman of the convention) and two abstentions.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+ Convention vote<ref>{{cite web | title=Niles' Weekly Register | volume=4 | publisher=Franklin Press | place=Baltimore | date=n.d. | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GFI8AAAAIAAJ&q=william+wirt+%2B+anti+masonic&pg=PA109 }}</ref>

|-
! colspan=2 | President
! colspan=2 | Vice President

|-
| align=left | [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]]
| 108
| align=left | [[Amos Ellmaker]]
| 108

|-
| align=left | [[Richard Rush]]
| 1
| align=left | [[John C. Spencer]]
| 1

|-
| Abstaining
| 2
| Abstaining
| 1
|}

===Nullifier Party===
While the [[South Carolina]] state legislature remained nominally under Democratic control, it refused to support Jackson's reelection due to the ongoing [[Nullification Crisis]], and instead opted to back a ticket proposed by the [[Nullifier Party]] led by [[John C. Calhoun]]. The Nullifiers were made up of former members of the [[Democratic-Republican Party]] who had largely supported Jackson at the previous election, but were much stauncher proponents of [[states' rights]], which ultimately led them to repudiate Jackson during his first term. Calhoun himself declined to head the ticket, instead nominating [[Governor of Virginia]] [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|John Floyd]], who also opposed Jackson's stance on states' rights. Merchant and economist [[Henry Lee (economist)|Henry Lee]] was nominated as Floyd's running mate.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosenberg |first=Chaim M. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/699506934 |title=The life and times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775-1817 |date=2011 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-7391-4685-9 |location=Lanham, Md. |pages=290 |oclc=699506934}}</ref>

Ultimately, Floyd's candidacy amounted to little more than a protest against Jackson, as his ticket did not run in any state outside of South Carolina. He nonetheless received all the state's electoral votes.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|title=FLOYD, John|work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000221| access-date=January 12, 2019 }}</ref>

==General election==
[[File:PresidentialCounty1832Colorbrewer.png|right|thumb|285px|Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Jackson/Van Buren (Democratic), shades of orange are for Clay (National Republican), shades of red are for Wirt (Anti-Masonic), and shades of green are for Jackson/Barbour (Democratic).]]

===Campaign===
Jackson rode into office in 1828 on the strength of a coalition that included southern opponents of the [[Tariff of 1828]], western advocates of [[internal improvements]], many former [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republicans]], and some former [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalists]]. Henry Clay predicted this unwieldy marriage of disparate and in many cases hostile interests would soon collapse under the pressures of office.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holt |first1=Michael F. |title=The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=0195055446 |page=10 |url=https://archive.org/details/risefallofameric0000holt_a7l7}}</ref> Clay determined to split the Jacksonian party on the issue of the [[American System (economic plan)|American System]] by engineering a [[Bank War|confrontation]] over the [[Second Bank of the United States]]. He persuaded the president of the bank, [[Nicholas Biddle]], to request recharter a full four years early in order to coincide with the presidential election. As expected, Jackson vetoed the recharter bill and issued a stinging veto message criticizing the bank's interference in national politics. Clay predicted the president's hostility to the nationalist economic program would prove unpopular with voters, particularly in Pennsylvania where the bank was headquartered, and hand the Anti-Jacksonians victory at the polls.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Daniel Walker |title=What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780195078947 |pages=373–386 |url=https://archive.org/details/whathathgodwroug0000howe_j9v1/page/372/mode/2up?view=theater}}</ref>

Simultaneously, Jackson faced defections from the southern wing of his party over the [[Nullification Crisis]]. These southerners objected strongly to the tariff and argued for the right of the states to nullify unfriendly federal laws, a position Jackson refused to endorse. Clay hoped to bring the disgruntled ex-Jacksonians into the fold, but his tactic of promoting the American System as the major issue of the campaign was ill-designed for this purpose. While some Southerners did favor the bank, they were unwilling to break publicly with Jackson on this issue, and Vice President Calhoun was overtly hostile to the American System by 1832. In South Carolina, the faction loyal to Calhoun nominated a slate of independent electors who voted for Governor [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|John Floyd]] of Virginia. Elsewhere, dissident Southern Jacksonians protested the nomination of [[Martin Van Buren]] by supporting [[Philip P. Barbour]] for vice president but were unwilling to break with Jackson himself. As the Barbour movement suggests, Jackson's personal popularity worked against the growth of opposition politics in the South despite the growing dissatisfaction with the national administration.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holt |first1=Michael F. |title=The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=0195055446 |pages=11–12 |url=https://archive.org/details/risefallofameric0000holt_a7l7}}</ref>

Meanwhile, Jackson's northern opponents were hurt by the divided state of the opposition. The failure of Anti-Jacksonians to unite behind a single candidate for president alarmed leaders like [[William Henry Seward]] and [[Thurlow Weed]], who worked feverishly to avoid a disastrous split in the opposition vote. In [[1832 United States presidential election in New York|New York]], [[1832 United States presidential election in Ohio|Ohio]], and [[1832 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], Anti-Masons and National Republicans organized [[Electoral fusion|fusion tickets]] with electors pledged to support whichever candidate stood the best chance of defeating Jackson in the electoral college. Jackson carried all three states, however, along with their combined 93 electoral votes. His margin in Pennsylvania was much reduced from [[1828 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|1828]], but still wider than the Democratic majority in the [[1832 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election|gubernatorial election held in October]], due largely to the drop in support for the Anti-Masons. The Anti-Jacksonian "Union ticket" foreshadowed the merger of both parties with disaffected Southern Jacksonians in 1834 to form the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]], which would constitute the major opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats for the remainder of the [[Second Party System]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Daniel J. |title=Antimasonry and Partisanship in Greater New England, 1826-1836 |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |date=Summer 1995 |volume=15 |issue=2 |page=226|doi=10.2307/3123908 |jstor=3123908 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaughn |first1=William Preston |title=The Antimasonic Party in the United States, 1826-1843 |date=1983 |publisher=University of Kentucky Press |location=Lexington |isbn=9780813114743 |pages=89–98 |url=https://archive.org/details/antimasonicparty0000vaug/page/88/mode/2up}}</ref>

While Clay hoped to alienate the different wings of the Democratic Party from each other by promoting the bank as an issue, his strategy backfired, as Jackson's veto message compellingly portrayed him as the defender of the common people against the furious assault of the financial interests. Events of the previous decade had not endeared the bank to working people, and they identified with Jackson's portrait of the "Monster Bank" as corrupt, self-interested, and destructive to democratic egalitarianism. Meanwhile, Clay's high-handed treatment of the Anti-Masons discouraged unity among Anti-Jacksonians, and the unpopularity of the National Republicans frustrated efforts to unite all opponents of the administration under a single roof.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Daniel Walker |title=What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=9780195078947 |pages=380–386 |url=https://archive.org/details/whathathgodwroug0000howe_j9v1/page/372/mode/2up?view=theater}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Holt |first1=Michael F. |title=The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=0195055446 |page=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/risefallofameric0000holt_a7l7}}</ref>

===Results===
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20.6% of the voting age population and 56.7% of eligible voters participated in the election.{{sfn|Abramson|Aldrich|Rohde|1995|p=99}} Jackson won the election in an electoral college landslide.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/presidentialcam01gammgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/presidentialcam01gammgoog/page/n34 30]|quote=1832 jackson landslide.|title=The Presidential Campaign of 1832|first=Samuel Rhea|last=Gammon|date=October 22, 1922|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Jackson received 219 electoral votes, defeating Clay (49), Floyd (11), and Wirt (7) by a large margin.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1821_1837.html|title=U. S. Electoral College|website=www.archives.gov|date=May 20, 2019 }}</ref>

Jackson's popularity with the American public and the vitality of the political movement with which he was associated is confirmed by the fact that no president was again able to secure a majority of the popular vote in two consecutive elections until [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in [[1872 United States presidential election|1872]]. Only two other presidents from the Democratic party were ever able to replicate this feat: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (for the first time in [[1936 United States presidential election|1936]]) and [[Barack Obama]] (in [[2012 United States presidential election|2012]]). Furthermore, no president succeeded in securing re-election again until [[Abraham Lincoln]] in [[1864 United States presidential election|1864]], and no Democrat would secure a second consecutive term until [[Woodrow Wilson]] in 1916.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Vorenberg|first=Michael|date=2001|title="The Deformed Child": Slavery and the Election of 1864|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A78860780/AONE?u=lond95336&sid=AONE&xid=0b8a40f3|journal=Civil War History|volume=47|issue=3 |pages=240–257|doi=10.1353/cwh.2001.0047 |s2cid=143799163 |via=Gale Academic OneFile}}</ref>

As of 2024, Jackson was the second of eight presidential nominees to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections, the others being Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump. Of these, Jackson, Cleveland, and Roosevelt, also won the popular vote in at least three elections.

Jackson was the second of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections, the other four are [[James Madison]] in [[1812 United States presidential election|1812]], [[Grover Cleveland]] in [[1892 United States presidential election|1892]], Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and Barack Obama in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Share of electoral and popular votes by US president 1789-2020|url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034688/share-electoral-popular-votes-each-president-since-1789/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Statista|language=en}}</ref>

Following the election and Clay's defeat, an Anti-Jackson coalition would be formed out of National Republicans, Anti-Masons, disaffected Jacksonians, and small remnants of the [[Federalist Party]] whose last political activity was with them a decade before. In the short term, it formed the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] in a coalition against President Jackson and his reforms.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Holt|first=Michael F.|title=The rise and fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|isbn=0195055446|location=New York|pages=17, 137}}</ref>

[[File: United States Electoral College 1832.svg]]

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<sup>(a)</sup> ''The popular vote figures exclude [[South Carolina]] where the Electors were chosen by the state legislature rather than by popular vote.''<br/>
<sup>(b)</sup> ''66,706 Pennsylvanians voted for the Union slate, which represented both Clay and Wirt. These voters have been assigned to Wirt and not Clay.''<br/>
<sup>(c)</sup> ''All of John Floyd's electoral votes came from South Carolina where the Electors were chosen by the state legislatures rather than by popular vote.''<br/>
<sup>(d)</sup> ''Two electors from Maryland for Clay failed to cast votes.''

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====Results by state====
The 1832 presidential election results are displayed in the maps below.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Edwin |title=The Politician's Manual |date=1834 |publisher=J. Van Norden |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DKNBAAAAYAAJ |access-date=9 February 2021}}</ref>
<gallery perrow="3" widths="500px" heights="317px">
1832 Electoral Map.png|Results by state
1832 United States presidential election results map by county.svg|Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
</gallery>
{|class="wikitable"
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
|States/districts won by [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson]]/[[Martin Van Buren|Van Buren]]
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
|States/districts won by [[Henry Clay|Clay]]/[[John Sergeant (politician)|Sergeant]]
|-{{Party shading/Anti-Masonic}}
|States/districts won by [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|Wirt]]/[[Amos Ellmaker|Ellmaker]]
|--{{Party shading/Nullifier}}
|States/districts won by [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|Floyd]]/[[Henry Lee (economist)|Lee]]
|}<div style="overflow:auto">
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! colspan=2 |
! align=center colspan=3 | Andrew Jackson<br/>Democratic
! align=center colspan=3 | Henry Clay<br/>National Republican
! align=center colspan=3 | William Wirt<br/>Anti-Masonic
! align=center colspan=3 | John Floyd<br/>Nullifier
! colspan="2" |Margin
! align=center colspan=2 | State Total
|-
! align=center | State
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" | electoral<br/>votes
! align=center | #
! align=center | %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" | electoral<br/>votes
! align=center | #
! align=center | %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" | electoral<br/>votes
! align=center | #
! align=center | %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" | electoral<br/>votes
! align=center | #
! align=center | %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" | electoral<br/>votes
! align=center | #
! align=center | %
! align=center | #
!
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Alabama|Alabama]]
! 7
| <span style="display:none">00013618</span>14,286
| 99.97
| 7
| <span style="display:none">00048669</span>5
| 0.03
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|14,281
|99.94
| 14,291
! AL
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Connecticut|Connecticut]]
! 8
| 11,269
| 34.32
| -
| 18,155
| 55.29
| 8
| 3,409
| 10.38
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -6,886
| -20.97
| 32,833
! CT
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Delaware|Delaware]]
! 3
| 4,110
| 49.01
| -
| 4,276
| 50.99
| 3
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -166
| -1.98
| 8,386
! DE
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Georgia|Georgia]]
! 11
| 20,750
| 100
| 11
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|20,750
|100.00
| 20,750
! GA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Illinois|Illinois]]
! 5
| 14,609
| 68.01
| 5
| 6,745
| 31.40
| -
| 97
| 0.45
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|7,864
|36.61
| 21,481
! IL
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Indiana|Indiana]]
! 9
| 31,551
| 67.10
| 9
| 15,472
| 32.90
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|16,079
|34.20
| 47,023
! IN
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Kentucky|Kentucky]]
! 15
| 36,292
| 45.51
| -
| 43,449
| 54.49
| 15
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -36,249
| -8.98
| 79,741
! KY
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Louisiana|Louisiana]]
! 5
| 3,908
| 61.67
| 5
| 2,429
| 38.33
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|1,479
|23.34
| 6,337
! LA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Maine|Maine]]
! 10
| 33,978
| 54.67
| 10
| 27,331
| 43.97
| -
| 844
| 1.36
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|6,647
|10.70
| 62,153
! ME
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland-1]]{{efn|''Clay won 4 Electors in District 1, but 2  were too ill to vote.}}
! 4
| 5,097
| 37.60
| -
| 8,458
| 62.40
| 2
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -3,361
| -24.79
| 13,555
! MD1
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland-2]]
! 2
| 5,025
| 54.19
| 2
| 4,248
| 45.81
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|777
|8.38
|9,273
! MD2
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland-3]]{{efn|707 votes in Maryland District 3 were for a Jackson-Barbour Ticket.}}
! 1
| 2,900
| 100
| 1
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|2900
|100
|2900
! MD3
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland-4]]
! 3
| 6,129
| 41.70
| -
| 6,454
| 51.29
| 3
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -325
| -2.58
| 12,583
! MD4
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]
! 14
| 13,933
| 20.61
| -
| 31,963
| 47.27
| 14
| 14,692
| 21.73
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -10,737
| -25.54
| 67,619
! MA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Mississippi|Mississippi]]
! 4
| 5,750
| 100
| 4
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|5,750
|100.00
| 5,750
! MS
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Missouri|Missouri]]
! 4
| 5,192
| 100
| 4
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|5,192
|100.00
| 5,192
! MO
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]
! 7
| 24,855
| 56.67
| 7
| 18,938
| 43.24
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|5,917
|13.43
| 43,793
! NH
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in New Jersey|New Jersey]]
! 8
| 23,826
| 49.89
| 8
| 23,466
| 49.13
| -
| 468
| 0.98
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|360
|0.76
| 47,760
! NJ
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in New York|New York]]
! 42
| 168,497
| 52.10
| 42
| 154,896
| 47.90
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|13,601
|4.20
| 323,393
! NY
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in North Carolina|North Carolina]]
! 15
| 25,261
| 84.77
| 15
| 4,538
| 15.23
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|20,723
|69.54
| 29,799
! NC
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Ohio|Ohio]]
! 21
| 81,246
| 51.33
| 21
| 76,539
| 48.35
| -
| 509
| 0.32
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|4,707
|2.98
| 158,294
! OH
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]
! 30
| 91,949
| 57.96
| 30
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 66,689
| 42.04
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|25,260
|15.92
| 158,638
! PA
|-{{Party shading/National Republican}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]
! 4
| 2,126
| 43.07
| -
| 2,810
| 56.93
| 4
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -684
| -13.86
| 4,936
! RI
|-{{Party shading/Nullifier}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in South Carolina|South Carolina]]
! 11
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no popular vote''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no popular vote''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no popular vote''
| colspan=2 align=center | ''no popular vote''
| 11
| -
| -
| -
! SC
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Tennessee|Tennessee]]
! 15
| 28,078
| 95.42
| 15
| 1,347
| 4.58
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|26,731
|90.84
| 29,425
! TN
|-{{Party shading/Anti-Masonic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Vermont|Vermont]]
! 7
| 7,870
| 24.50
| -
| 11,152
| 34.71
| -
| 13,106
| 40.79
| 7
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| -5,236
| -6.08
| 32,128
! VT
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1832 United States presidential election in Virginia|Virginia]]
! 23
| 34,243
| 74.96
| 23
| 11,436
| 25.03
| -
| 3
| 0.01
| -
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|22,807
|49.92
| 45,682
! VA
|-
! TOTALS:
! 288
! 702,735
! 54.74
! 219
! 474,107
! 36.93
! 49
! 99,817
! 7.78
! 7
! -
! -
! 11
! 228,628
! 17.81
! 1,276,659
! US
|-
! TO WIN:
! 145
! colspan="17" |
|}</div>

=====States that flipped from National Republican to Democratic=====
*[[Maine]]
*[[New Hampshire]]
*[[New Jersey]]

=====States that flipped from Democratic to National Republican=====
*[[Kentucky]]

=====States that flipped from National Republican to Anti-Masonic=====
*[[Vermont]]

=====States that flipped from Democratic to Nullifier=====
*[[South Carolina]]

====Close states====

States where the margin of victory was under 1%:
#'''<span style="color:blue;">New Jersey 0.76% (360 votes)</span>'''

States where the margin of victory was under 5%:
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862";>Delaware 1.98% (166 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862">Maryland's 4th District 2.58% (325 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Ohio 2.98% (4,707 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">New York 4.20% (13,601 votes)</span>'''

States where the margin of victory was under 10%:
#'''<span style="color:gold;>Vermont 6.08% (5,236 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue">Maryland's 2nd District 8.38% (777 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862";>Kentucky 8.98% (36,249 votes)</span>'''

Tipping point states:
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Maine 10.70% (6,647 votes)</span>''' (tipping point state for a Jackson victory)
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Pennsylvania 15.90% (25,260 votes)</span>''' (tipping point state for a Clay victory)

===Electoral College selection===
{{start electoral college selection}}
{{electoral college selection row|method=State is divided into electoral districts, with one or more Electors chosen per district by the voters of that district|states=[[Maryland]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/documents/Presidential%20Elections%201796%20to%202016_final.pdf#page=44 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://elections.maryland.gov/elections/documents/Presidential%20Elections%201796%20to%202016_final.pdf#page=44 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=A History of Maryland's Electoral College Meetings 1789-2016|publisher=Maryland State Board of Elections|format=PDF|access-date=16 October 2020}}</ref>}}
{{electoral college selection row|method=Each Elector appointed by state legislature|states=[[South Carolina]]}}
{{electoral college selection row|method=Each Elector chosen by voters statewide|states=''(all other States)''}}
{{end electoral college selection}}

==See also==
* [[Second inauguration of Andrew Jackson]]
* [[History of the United States (1789–1849)]]
* [[1832–33 United States House of Representatives elections|1832–1833 United States House of Representatives elections]]
* [[1832–33 United States Senate elections|1832–1833 United States Senate elections]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|last1=Abramson |first1=Paul |last2=Aldrich |first2=John |last3=Rohde |first3=David |title=Change and Continuity in the 1992 Elections |publisher=[[CQ Press]] |date=1995 |isbn=0871878399}}
* Belko, William S. "Toward the Second American Party System: Southern Jacksonians, the Election of 1832, and the Rise of the Democratic Party." ''Ohio Valley History'' 14.1 (2014): 28–50. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/571708/summary online]
* Cheathem, Mark R. ''[https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/coming-democracy The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson]'' (2018)
* Cole, Donald B. "The Presidential Election of 1832 in New Hampshire." ''Historical New Hampshire'' 21#1 (1966) pp: 32–50.
* Eriksson, Erik McKinley. "Official Newspaper Organs and Jackson's Re-election, 1832." ''Tennessee Historical Magazine'' 9.1 (1925): 37-58 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42638001 online].
* Folsom, Burton W. "Party Formation and Development in Jacksonian America: The Old South." ''Journal of American Studies'' 7#3 (1973): 217–229.
* {{Cite book|last=Gammon |first=Samuel Rhea |url=https://archive.org/download/prescampaign00gammrich/prescampaign00gammrich.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://archive.org/download/prescampaign00gammrich/prescampaign00gammrich.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=The Presidential Campaign of 1832 |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press |year=1922}}
* Holt, Michael F. ''The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War'' (Oxford University Press, 1999)
* [[Robert V. Remini|Remini, Robert V.]] ''Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union'' (1993)
* Remini, Robert V. ''Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom 1822-1832'' (1981), detailed biography
* Remini, Robert V. "Election of 1832." in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ed. ''History of American Presidential Elections'' (1968) vol 1 pp 494–516, Detailed coverage plus primary source
*[[John William Ward (professor)|Ward, John William]].(1955) ''Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age''. New York: Oxford University Press.

===Primary sources===
* [https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1832.html Presidential Election of 1832: A Resource Guide] from the Library of Congress
* {{cite book| author = National Republican Party (U.S.). Massachusetts| title = Journal Of The National Republican Convention, Which Assembled In The City Of Baltimore, Dec. 12, 1831, For The Nominations Of Candidates To Fill The Offices Of President And Vice President| url = https://archive.org/details/journalproceedi00massgoog| page = [https://archive.org/details/journalproceedi00massgoog/page/n4 1]| year = 1831| location = Washington }}
* {{cite book| author = Democratic National Convention| title = Summary Of The Proceedings Of A Convention Of Republican Delegates, From The Several States In The Union, For The Purpose of Nominating A Candidate For The Office Of Vice-President Of The United States; Held At Baltimore, In The State Of Maryland, May, 1832| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I5kBuLcCAqAC| year = 1832| publisher = Packard and Van Benthuysen| location = Albany }} Note: the account of the convention in ''Niles' Weekly Register'' has more information than the printed proceedings.
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=CYFJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA74 The proceedings of the United States Anti-Masonic Convention: held at Philadelphia, September 11, 1830.]''

===Websites===
:* {{Cite web |url=http://www.americanpresident.org/history/andrewjackson/biography/CampaignsElections.common.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030626030104/http://www.americanpresident.org/history/andrewjackson/biography/CampaignsElections.common.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 26, 2003 |title=Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) |work=AmericanPresident.org |access-date=March 18, 2005 }}
:* {{Cite web|title=A Historical Analysis of the Electoral College |work=The Green Papers |url=http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Hx/ElectoralCollege.html |access-date=March 20, 2005}}
:** source for "Electoral college selection"
:* {{Cite web |url=http://wilkes-fs1.wilkes.edu/~hcox/pres/PaPres1832.html |title=Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1832 |work=The [[Wilkes University Election Statistics Project]]: Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682–2006 |access-date=March 19, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050515101350/http://wilkes-fs1.wilkes.edu/~hcox/pres/PaPres1832.html |archive-date=May 15, 2005 |df=mdy-all }}

==External links==
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* [http://www.countingthevotes.com/1832/ Election of 1832 in Counting the Votes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012043703/http://www.countingthevotes.com/1832/ |date=October 12, 2019 }}

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