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How about a table border = 1, instead of 5? I think the thinner border is less imposing/distracting. Perhaps you could add that to your HTML script, Rob? maveric149
President: | Martin Van Buren [D] | ||
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Main Opponent: | William Henry Harrison [W] | ||
Electoral Vote: | Winner: 170 | Main Opponent: 73 | Total/Majority: 294/148 |
Popular Vote: | Winner: 762,678 | Main Opponent: 735,651 | |
Votes for Others: | Hugh L. White (26), Daniel Webster (14), William P. Mangum (11). | ||
Vice President: | Richard M. Johnson (147) | ||
V.P. Opponents: | Francis Granger (77), John Tyler (47), William Smith (23) | ||
Notes: | The election for Vice President was decided in the Senate, with Johnson receiving 33 votes and Granger receiving 17 votes. | ||
Party key: [D] = Democrat [D-LR] = Democrat-Liberal Republican [D-P] = Democrat-Populist [D-R] = Democrat-Republican [F] = Federalist [N-R] = National-Republican [P] = Progressive [R] = Republican [W] = Whig | |||
Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register |
See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1836
Change this page to match the format of the other election pages, that format is superior! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.228.220.93 ( talk) 14:39, 24 September 2004 (UTC)
According to 26 Senate Journal 230 that the Senate vote was 33 – 16, not 33 – 17; some Senator failed to cast a ballot. I will make this change to the text momentarily. — DLJessup 07:47, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
LB-Versender just made a change in John Tyler's party alignment, changing him from a Democrat to a Whig. That particular datum has been in this article since October 17, 2004. I was skeptical of a change to such a long-standing datum, especially since LB-Versender used the Wikipedia article on John Tyler as his citation for the change, and that article said nothing about John Tyler's party alignment in 1836. (I also knew that Tyler was a former Democrat who was a lukewarm Whig and who would get drummed out of the party in 1841. It was entirely plausible that Tyler would be a Democrat in 1836 and a Whig in 1840.)
After doing some research, I believe that LB-Versender's change was correct, however. First of all, looking at the “Breakdown by ticket” section, every time a state's electors voted for Tyler, they voted for a Whig for President. (The breakdown by ticket data is backed up by the National Archive's state-by-state breakdown of electoral votes.) By this point in United States history, split-party tickets were an anomaly. Additionally, on page 36 of Michael F. Holt's The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party ( ISBN 0195055446), it is mentioned that Tyler was forced to resign his Senate seat when the Democrats retook the Virginia legislature and on page 60, Tyler is referred to as one of the Whig party's founders.
— DLJessup ( talk) 14:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
We need to fix this. The fourth candidate is listed as getting the most electoral votes, along with the actual winner. J'onn J'onzz ( talk) 22:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm using Mozilla - and it may be just me - but on my screen, the unusual size of the infobox featuring the candidates results in a very narrow lead section that doesn't look too spectacular. Would it be possible to go with a new infobox design that opts for height while sacrificing width, instead of the other way around (which is, as I say, rather atypical for Wikipedia and "A4" size pages in general). However, I'm not a layout "aficionado" by any means, so do what thou wilt :P. Peace :) Psychonavigation ( talk) 02:16, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm confused about something here. According to the article on Michigan, Michigan was admitted on January 26, 1837. This would've been after the election, so how did Michigan cast electoral votes if it would've been a territory at the time? XinaNicole ( talk) 05:33, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
It is implied in this article that the House of Representatives would have chosen a Whig candidate if Van Buren didn't win a majority of electoral votes. Elsewhere on the www, I have seen it explicitly stated that the HoR was controlled by the Whigs. However, it was actually controlled by the Jacksons/Democratic party ( http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/index.aspx). It seems almost certain they would have chosen Van Buren, anyway. Well, it does to me at least, but I'm not an expert. -- ElApuesto ( talk) 17:19, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
On a different, but related, note: The article does open claiming that the multi-candidate Whig party nominees were some clever strategy. But further on, the article points out that the Whigs could not all agree on one ticket due to the increasing rifts in politics re slavery. Not being able to agree is not a strategy in the normal sense of that word! I think john k's comment, above, points to this as well. I'm just pointing out the failure of logic within a single article.
Is there a reason Webster and Magnum are not in the infobox? Both received electoral votes and, according to the article, were legitimate candidates. Webster received 3% of the popular vote, which was more than Strom Thurmond in 1948. I am assuming the fact that the electors for Magnum were selected by the SC state legislature is the reason he is not included, but that is dubious reasoning at best. Is there any reason they should not be listed? Nathaniel Greene ( talk) 23:47, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Cartograph displays Mangum as an Independent, while the text and tables display him as Whig. Which is it? For comparison, I did a google search, and got mainly that Mangum was Whig. Henryxmartin ( talk) 09:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
Please can someone, fortunate enough to know how to, correct the spelling of "Mangum" where it is written beside the graphic of the USA with variously colored states? Harfarhs ( talk) 22:54, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
looks like 49 senators voted out 52 senate seats any idea what happened to the other 3 ?
Might be worth mentioning that this was the first presidential election in which Arkansas and Michigan voted. SecretName101 ( talk) 09:27, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
I know the Democrats retained control of the House (in terms of seat count), but did they control a majority of the delegations? With the scattered House election schedule, I'm not sure if they would have had control of enough delegations to pack Van Buren through. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.174.126.206 ( talk) 06:02, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
We should change the lead images to photographs. This was an election that had very minimal use of photography, but enough so that photographs for all the major candidates (Except for Hugh L. White, but for him, I just used a B&W engraving.) can be obtained. Here are my proposals. Thoughts? The Image Editor ( talk) 22:45, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
In the past (and the current state by state results) it displays Mangum as having received 0 popular votes as he only ran in South Carolina, which lacked the popular vote; a recent edit put Mangum as receiving 0.2% of the popular vote; does anyone have a source on this? PeacockShah ( talk) 02:18, 21 March 2021 (UTC)