1852 Presidential Election

1852 VAP uses the Census national resident population age 21 and over: 11,582,000, published in Table 1 of Nonvoting Americans (P23-102, April 1980). Voting age was 21 in every state. This population includes women, enslaved adults and other people barred from voting. “Did Not Vote” is a population comparison residual, not a count of eligible people who chose not to vote. South Carolina’s legislature selected its electors without a presidential popular vote. The APP popular-vote series covers 30 states. “Other” combines John P. Hale and all remaining presidential candidates. DC could not vote for president until 1964. Alaska was Russian territory; Hawaii was an independent kingdom. Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada and other western jurisdictions had not yet become states. Present-day West Virginia was part of Virginia, so its residents are represented in Virginia’s results rather than separately. Population is rounded to thousands. A state VAP comparison map is unavailable here because 1852 state population estimates have not been verified.