1832 Presidential Election

1832 VAP uses the Census national resident population age 21 and over: 5,914,000, 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 eleven Floyd electors without a presidential popular vote. The APP popular-vote series covers 23 states. Jackson, Clay, Wirt and Floyd retain separate candidate colors. Floyd has no recorded popular votes. The 7,273 votes beyond the three named popular-vote candidates are shown in neutral gray. Shared and fusion elector tickets are allocated differently across historical sources; this chart retains the APP state-table series. DC could not vote for president until 1964. Alaska was Russian territory; Hawaii was an independent kingdom; Texas was part of Mexico. Arkansas, Michigan, Florida and other western jurisdictions had not yet become states. Present-day West Virginia was part of Virginia. Population is rounded to thousands. A state VAP comparison map is unavailable here because 1832 state population estimates have not been verified.