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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1836 United States presidential election
| country = United States
| flag_year = 1836
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1832 United States presidential election
| previous_year = 1832
| next_election = 1840 United States presidential election
| next_year = 1840
| votes_for_election = 294 members of the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]]
| needed_votes = 148 electoral
| turnout = 56.5%<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}} 0.5 [[percentage point|pp]]
| election_date = {{ubl|November 4 – December 6, 1836<ref>{{ubl|{{cite news |title=Presidential Elections |url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=WM18361112.1.3 |work=Weekly Messenger |date=November 12, 1836}}|{{cite news |title=An Act Entitled an Act to Provide for the Election of President and Vice President of the United States |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062070/1836-11-04/ed-1/seq-4 |work=Arkansas Advocate |date=November 4, 1836}}|{{cite news |title=Election Notice |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016620/1836-10-26/ed-1/seq-3 |work=Constantine Republican |date=October 26, 1836}}|{{cite news |title=Presidential Vote of S. Carolina |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084121/1836-12-13/ed-1/seq-2 |work=Cheraw Gazette |date=December 13, 1836}}}}</ref>}}
| image1 = File:Martin Van Buren circa 1837 crop.jpg
| image_size = 150x150px 
| nominee1 = '''[[Martin Van Buren]]'''
| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)
| alliance1 = 
| home_state1 = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| running_mate1 = '''[[Richard Mentor Johnson]]'''
| electoral_vote1 = '''170'''
| states_carried1 = '''15'''
| popular_vote1 = '''764,176'''
| percentage1 = '''50.8%'''
| image2 = File:William Henry Harrison by James Reid Lambdin, 1835 crop.jpg
| nominee2 = [[William Henry Harrison]]
| party2 = Whig Party (United States)
| alliance2 = [[Anti-Masonic Party|Anti-Masonic]]
| home_state2 = [[Ohio]]
| running_mate2 = [[Francis Granger]]
| electoral_vote2 = 73
| states_carried2 = 7
| popular_vote2 = 550,816
| percentage2 = 36.6%
| image3 = File:Unsuccessful 1836 2.jpg
| nominee3 = [[Hugh Lawson White]]
| party3 = Whig Party (United States)
| alliance3 = 
| colour3 = 800080
| home_state3 = [[Tennessee]]
| running_mate3 = [[John Tyler]]
| electoral_vote3 = 26
| states_carried3 = 2
| popular_vote3 = 146,109
| percentage3 = 9.7%
| image4 = File:Black Dan (cropped).jpg
| nominee4 = [[Daniel Webster]]
| party4 = Whig Party (United States)
| alliance4 = 
| colour4 = F88379
| home_state4 = [[Massachusetts]]
| running_mate4 = [[Francis Granger]]
| electoral_vote4 = 14
| states_carried4 = 1
| popular_vote4 = 41,201
| percentage4 = 2.7%
| image5 = [[File:Willie p magnum crop.jpg|x150px]]
| nominee5 = [[Willie P. Mangum]]
| party5 = Whig Party (United States)
| alliance5 = Nullifier Party
| colour5 = 006D61
| home_state5 = [[North Carolina]]
| running_mate5 = [[John Tyler]]
| electoral_vote5 = 11
| states_carried5 = 1
| popular_vote5 = ''N/A''{{efn|Mangum 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.}}
| percentage5 = ''N/A''
| map_size = 350px
| map = {{1836 United States presidential election imagemap}}
| map_caption = Presidential election results map. <span style="color:blue;">Blue</span> denotes states won by Van Buren/Johnson, <span style="color:#e3af2a;">Yellow</span>  denotes those won by Harrison/Granger, <span style="color:#981e51;">Maroon</span> denotes those won by White/Tyler, <span style="color:#E14370;">Pink</span> denotes those won by Webster/Granger, and <span style="color:#006D61;">Teal</span> denotes those won by Mangum/Tyler. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
| title = President
| before_election = [[Andrew Jackson]]
| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| after_election = [[Martin Van Buren]]
| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| module = {{Infobox election
   | child = yes
   | election_name = 1837 contingent U.S. vice presidential election
   | type = presidential
   | ongoing = no
   | election_date = February 8, 1837 
   | votes_for_election = 52 [[United States Senate|United States senators]]
   | needed_votes = 27
   | vote_type = Senate
   | image1 = [[File:Richard Mentor Johnson A29919 (cropped 3x4).jpg|x150px]]
   | candidate1 = '''[[Richard Mentor Johnson]]'''
   | party1 = Democratic Party (United States)
   | popular_vote1 = '''33'''
   | percentage1 = '''63.46%'''
   | image2 = [[File:Francis Granger (cropped 3x4).jpg|x150px]]
   | candidate2 = [[Francis Granger]]
   | party2 = Whig Party (United States)
   | popular_vote2 = 16
   | percentage2 = 30.77%
   | map_size = 350px
   | map_image = File:1837 US Contingent VP Election.svg
   | map_caption = Senate by state. <span style="color:#698dc5;">Blue</span> denotes states that voted for Johnson, <span style="color:#f0c862;">Yellow</span> denotes those that voted for Granger, <span style="color:#5fd35fff;">Green</span> denotes those that did not vote. State with multiple colors had Senators that voted differently from each other.
   }}
}}
[[United States presidential election|Presidential elections]] were held in the [[United States]] from November 3 to December 7, 1836. Incumbent [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Martin Van Buren]], candidate of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], defeated four candidates fielded by the nascent [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]].

The [[1835 Democratic National Convention]] chose a ticket of Van Buren (President [[Andrew Jackson]]'s handpicked successor) and U.S. Representative [[Richard Mentor Johnson]] of Kentucky. The Whig Party, which had only recently emerged and was primarily united by opposition to Jackson, was not yet sufficiently organized to agree on a single candidate. Hoping to compel a [[contingent election]] in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] by denying the Democrats an electoral majority, the Whigs ran multiple candidates. Most Northern and border state Whigs supported the ticket led by former Senator [[William Henry Harrison]] of Ohio, while most Southern Whigs supported the ticket led by Senator [[Hugh Lawson White]] of Tennessee. Two other Whigs, [[Daniel Webster]] and [[Willie P. Mangum|Willie Person Mangum]], carried Massachusetts and South Carolina respectively on single-state tickets.

Despite facing multiple candidates, Van Buren won a majority of the electoral vote, and he won a majority of the popular vote in both the North and the South. Nonetheless, the Whig strategy came very close to success, as Van Buren won the decisive state of Pennsylvania by just over two points. As Virginia's electors voted for Van Buren but refused to vote for Johnson, Johnson fell one vote short of an electoral majority, compelling a contingent election for vice president. In that contingent election, the [[United States Senate]] elected Johnson over Harrison's running mate, [[Francis Granger]]. 

Van Buren was the third incumbent vice president elected president, which would not happen again until [[1988 United States presidential election|1988]], when [[George H. W. Bush]] was elected president. He is also the most recent Democrat elected to succeed an outgoing Democratic president, and the only sitting Democratic vice president to win the presidency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/two-consecutive-democratic-presidents-3368109|first=Tom|last=Murse|date=December 16, 2020|title=Last Time Consecutive Democratic Presidents Were Elected |work=ThoughtCo.|quote=You'd have to go back even further in history to find the most recent instance of a Democrat being elected to succeed a two-term president from the same party. The last time that happened was in 1836 when voters elected Martin Van Buren to follow Andrew Jackson. }}</ref> This also marks the last time that the sitting vice president was elected president after only serving for one term. Harrison finished second in both the popular and electoral vote, and his strong performance helped him win the Whig nomination in the [[1840 United States presidential election|1840 presidential election]]. The election of 1836 was crucial in developing the [[Second Party System]] and a stable two-party system more generally. By the end of the election, nearly every independent faction had been absorbed by either the Democrats or the Whigs.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cole|first=Donald B.|author-link=Donald B. Cole|title=Martin Van Buren and the American Political System|page=279|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqz_AwAAQBAJ&q=faction&pg=PA279|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|year=1984|isbn=0-691-04715-4|access-date=March 23, 2017}}</ref>

==Nominations==

===Democratic Party nomination===
{{Main|1835 Democratic National Convention}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
|-
| style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|'''1836 Democratic Party ticket'''
|-
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| [[Martin Van Buren|{{color|white|Martin Van Buren}}]]
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| [[Richard Mentor Johnson|{{color|white|Richard Mentor Johnson}}]]
|-
| 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:Martin Van Buren MET ap93.19.2.jpg|center|200x200px]]
| [[File:Richard Mentor Johnson A29919.jpg|center|200x200px]]
|-
| 8th<br />[[Vice President of the United States]]<br /><small>(1833–1837)</small>
| [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]]<br />from [[Kentucky]]<br /><small>(1807–1819, 1829–1837)</small>
|-
|}
[[File:Andrew jackson head.jpg|thumb|207x207px|[[Andrew Jackson]], the incumbent president in 1836, whose second term expired on March 4, 1837]]
The [[1835 Democratic National Convention]] was held in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], from May 20 to 22, 1835. The early date of the convention was selected by President [[Andrew Jackson]] to prevent the formation of opposition to [[Martin Van Buren]]. Twenty-two states and two territories were represented at the convention with [[Alabama]], [[Illinois]], and [[South Carolina]] being unrepresented. The delegate amount per state varied from Maryland having 188 delegates to cast its ten votes while Tennessee's fifteen votes were cast by one delegate.<ref name="nomination">{{cite book |date=1979 |title=National Party Conventions, 1831-1976 |publisher=[[Congressional Quarterly]]}}</ref>

The convention saw the first credentials dispute in American history with two rival delegations from Pennsylvania claiming the state's votes. The issue was solved by seating both delegations and having them share the state's votes. An attempt to remove the two-thirds requirement for the selection of a candidate was passed by a vote of 231 to 210, but was later restored through a voice vote.<ref name="nomination" />

Some Southerners opposed Johnson's nomination, due to his open relationship with an enslaved woman, whom he had regarded as his [[Common-law marriage in the United States|common-law wife]]. At the convention, Van Buren was nominated unanimously with all 265 delegates in favor, but the Virginia delegates supported Senator [[William Cabell Rives]] against Johnson. However, Rives got little support and Johnson was nominated with one more vote than the two-thirds requirement.<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=106–107}}</ref><ref name="nomination" />

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+ Convention vote
|-
! Presidential vote
!
! Vice presidential vote
!
|-
| align=left | [[Martin Van Buren]]
| 265
| align=left | [[Richard Mentor Johnson]]
| 178
|-
|
|
| align=left | [[William C. Rives]]
| 87
|}

===Whig Party nomination===

{| align=left cellspacing=10

|- {{party shading/Whig}}
! colspan=2 | Whig presidential candidates

|-
| [[File:William Henry Harrison by James Reid Lambdin, 1835 crop.jpg|75px]]
| [[William Henry Harrison]]<br />Former [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Colombia|United States Minister to Gran Colombia]]

|-
| [[File:Black Dan (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| [[Daniel Webster]]<br />[[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Massachusetts]]

|-
| [[File:HLWhite.jpg|75px]]
| [[Hugh Lawson White]]<br />[[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Tennessee]]

|-
| [[File:Willie p magnum crop.jpg|75px]]
| [[Willie P. Mangum|Willie Person Mangum]]<br />[[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[North Carolina]]

|- {{party shading/Whig}}
! colspan=2 | Whig vice-presidential candidates

|-
| [[File:Francis Granger (cropped 3x4).jpg|75px]]
| [[Francis Granger]]<br />[[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[New York's 26th congressional district|New York]]

|-
| [[File:John Tyler (cropped 3x4).png|75px]]
| [[John Tyler]]<br />[[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Virginia]]

|}

The Whig Party emerged during the [[1834 United States elections|1834 mid-term elections]] as the chief opposition to the Democratic Party. The party was formed from members of the [[National Republican Party]], the [[Anti-Masonic Party]], disaffected [[Jacksonian democracy|Jacksonians]], and small remnants of the [[Federalist Party]] (people whose last political activity was with them a decade before). Some Southerners who were angered by Jackson's opposition to [[states' rights]], including Sen. [[John C. Calhoun]] and the [[Nullification Crisis|Nullifiers]], also temporarily joined the Whig coalition.<ref name="deskins1"/>

Unlike the Democrats, the Whigs did not hold a national convention. Instead, state legislatures and state conventions nominated candidates, being the reason why so many candidates from the Whig party ran in the general election. Southern Nullifiers placed Tennessee Senator [[Hugh Lawson White]] into contention for the presidency in 1834 soon after his break with Jackson. White was a moderate on the [[states' rights]] issue, which made him acceptable in the South, but not in the North. The state legislatures of Alabama and Tennessee officially nominated White. The South Carolina state legislature nominated Senator [[Willie P. Mangum|Willie Person Mangum]] of North Carolina. By early 1835, Massachusetts Senator [[Daniel Webster]] was building support among Northern Whigs. Both Webster and White used Senate debates to establish their positions on the issues of the day, as newspapers carried the text of their speeches nationwide. The Pennsylvania legislature nominated popular former general [[William Henry Harrison]], who had led American forces at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]]. The Whigs hoped that Harrison's reputation as a military hero could win voter support. Harrison soon displaced Webster as the preferred candidate of Northern Whigs. State legislatures, particularly in larger states, also nominated various vice presidential candidates.<ref name="deskins1"/>

Despite multiple candidates, there was only one Whig ticket in each state. The Whigs ended up with two main tickets: William Henry Harrison for president and [[Francis Granger]] for vice president in the North and Kentucky, and Hugh Lawson White for president and [[John Tyler]] for vice president in the middle and lower South. In Massachusetts, the ticket was Daniel Webster for president and Granger for vice president. In South Carolina, the ticket was Mangum for president and Tyler for vice president. In Maryland, it was Harrison and Tyler. Of the four Whig presidential candidates, only Harrison was on the ballot in enough states for it to be mathematically possible for him to win a majority in the Electoral College, and even then, it would have required him to win Van Buren's home state of New York.<ref name="deskins1"/>

===Anti-Masonic Party nomination===

After the negative views of [[Freemasonry]] among a large segment of the public began to wane in the mid-1830s, the [[Anti-Masonic Party]] began to disintegrate. Some of its members began moving to the Whig Party, which had a broader issue base than the Anti-Masons. The Whigs were also regarded as a better alternative to the Democrats.

A state convention for the Anti-Masonic Party was held in [[Harrisburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], from December 14 to 17, 1835, to choose presidential electors for the 1836 election. The convention unanimously nominated William Henry Harrison for president and Francis Granger for vice president. The Vermont state Anti-Masonic convention followed suit on February 24, 1836. Anti-Masonic leaders were unable to obtain assurance from Harrison that he was not a Mason, so they called a national convention. The second national Anti-Masonic nominating convention was held in [[Philadelphia]] on May 4, 1836. The meeting was divisive, but a majority of the delegates officially stated that the party was not sponsoring a national ticket for the presidential election of 1836 and proposed a meeting in 1837 to discuss the future of the party.

===Nullifier Party nomination===
The [[Nullifier Party]] had also begun to decline sharply since the previous election, after it became clear that the doctrine of [[Nullification (U.S. Constitution)|nullification]] lacked sufficient support outside of the party's political base of [[South Carolina]] to ever make the Nullifiers more than a fringe party nationwide. Many party members began to drift towards the Democratic Party, but there was no question of the party endorsing Van Buren's bid for the presidency, as he and Calhoun were sworn enemies. Seeing little point in running their own ticket, Calhoun pushed the party into backing the White/Tyler ticket, as White had previously sided against Jackson during the [[Nullification Crisis]].

{{Clear}}

==General election==

===Campaign===
[[File:PresidentialCounty1836Colorbrewer.png|right|thumb|400px|Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Van Buren (Democratic), shades of orange are for Harrison (Whig), shades of green are for White (Whig), and shades of red are for Webster (Whig).]]

In the aftermath of the [[Nat Turner's Rebellion]] and other events, slavery emerged as an increasingly prominent political issue. Calhoun attacked Van Buren, saying that he could not be trusted to protect Southern interests and accusing the sitting Vice President of affiliating with abolitionists.<ref name="deskins1"/> Van Buren defeated Harrison by a margin of 51.4% to 48.6% in the North, and he defeated White by a similar margin of 50.7% to 49.3% in the South.

===Disputes===

A dispute similar to that of Indiana in [[1816 United States presidential election|1817]] and Missouri in [[1820 United States presidential election|1821]] arose during the counting of the electoral votes. Michigan only became a state on January 26, 1837, and had cast its electoral votes for president before that date. Anticipating a challenge to the results, Congress resolved on February 4, 1837, that during the counting four days later the final tally would be read twice, once with Michigan and once without Michigan. The counting proceeded in accordance with the resolution. The dispute had no bearing on the final result: either way, Van Buren was elected, and either way no candidate had a majority for vice-president.<ref>{{cite book |author=United States Congress |others=24th Congress, 2nd Session, February 4 |title=Senate Journal |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(sj02647)) |access-date=August 20, 2006 |year=1837 |pages=203–204 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404001932/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem%2Fhlaw%3A%40field%28DOCID+%40lit%28sj02647%29%29 |archive-date=April 4, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

==Results==
22.4% of the voting age population and 56.5% of eligible voters participated in the election.{{sfn|Abramson|Aldrich|Rohde|1995|p=99}}

The Whigs' strategy narrowly failed to prevent Van Buren's victory in the Electoral College, though he earned a somewhat lower share of the popular vote and fewer electoral votes than Andrew Jackson had in either of the previous two elections. The key state in this election was ultimately Pennsylvania, which Van Buren won from Harrison with a narrow majority of just 4,222 votes or 2.4%. Had Harrison won the state, Van Buren would have been left eight votes short of an Electoral College majority {{endash}} despite receiving a majority (50.48%) in the popular vote {{endash}} and the Whig goal to force the election into the House of Representatives (per the [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution]]) would have succeeded.  Thus, the 11.8% difference between the margin in the [[tipping-point state]] of Pennsylvania and the margin in the national popular vote is the largest gap in American history. Van Buren won Arkansas, Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Rhode Island by only 2,569 votes total; had the leading Whig won each of those states, Van Buren would have been short of the necessary 148 electoral votes. 

In a contingent election, the House would have been required to choose between Van Buren, Harrison, and White as the three candidates with the most electoral votes. Jacksonians controlled enough state delegations (14 out of 26) and enough Senate seats (31 out of 52) to win both the presidency and the vice presidency in a contingent election.

This was the last election in which the Democrats won Connecticut, Rhode Island, and North Carolina until 1852. This was also the only election where South Carolina voted for the Whigs, and the last time it voted against the Democrats until 1868. It was also the last time that a Democrat was elected to the U.S. presidency succeeding a Democrat who had served two terms as U.S. president.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Murse |first1=Tom |title=Last Time Consecutive Democratic Presidents Were Elected |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/two-consecutive-democratic-presidents-3368109 |website=ThoughtCo. |access-date=6 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603041426/https://www.thoughtco.com/two-consecutive-democratic-presidents-3368109 |archive-date=3 June 2021 |language=English |date=16 December 2020}}</ref>

[[File:Electoral College 1836.svg]]

{{start U.S. presidential election box|pv_footnote=<sup>(a)</sup>|ev_footnote=}}
{{U.S. presidential election box row|name='''[[Martin Van Buren]]'''|party=[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]|state=[[New York (state)|New York]]|pv=764,176|pv_pct=50.83%|ev=170}}
{{U.S. presidential election box row|name=[[William Henry Harrison]]|party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]|state=[[Ohio]]|pv=550,816|pv_pct=36.63%|ev=73}}
{{U.S. presidential election box row|name=[[Hugh Lawson White]]|party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]|state=[[Tennessee]]|pv=146,107|pv_pct=9.72%|ev=26}}
{{U.S. presidential election box row|name=[[Daniel Webster]]|party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]|state=[[Massachusetts]]|pv=41,201|pv_pct=2.74%|ev=14}}
{{U.S. presidential election box row|name=[[Willie P. Mangum|Willie Person Mangum]]|party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]|state=[[North Carolina]]|pv=—<sup>(b)</sup>|pv_pct=—|ev=11}}
{{U.S. presidential election box other|footnote=|pv=1,234|pv_pct=0.08%}}
{{end U.S. presidential election box|pv=1,503,534|ev=294|to_win=148}}

'''Source (Popular Vote):''' {{Leip PV source| year=1836| as of=July 27, 2005}}
'''Source (Electoral Vote):''' {{National Archives EV source| year=1836| as of=July 31, 2005}}

<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> ''Mangum received his electoral votes from South Carolina where the electors were chosen by the state legislatures rather than by popular vote.''

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{{bar percent|Harrison|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|36.63}}
{{bar percent|White|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|9.72}}
{{bar percent|Webster|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|2.74}}
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{{bar percent|Harrison|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|24.83}}
{{bar percent|White|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|8.84}}
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{{bar percent|Mangum|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|3.74}}
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{{bar percent|'''Johnson'''|{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}|50.00}}
{{bar percent|Granger|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|26.19}}
{{bar percent|Tyler|{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}|15.99}}
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{{start U.S. vice presidential election box|ev_footnote=}}
{{U.S. vice presidential election box row|name=[[Richard Mentor Johnson]]|party=[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]|state=[[Kentucky]]|ev=147}}
{{U.S. vice presidential election box row|name=[[Francis Granger]]|party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]|state=[[New York (state)|New York]]|ev=77}}
{{U.S. vice presidential election box row|name=[[John Tyler]]|party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]]|state=[[Virginia]]|ev=47}}
{{U.S. vice presidential election box row|name=[[William Smith (South Carolina senator)|William Smith]]|party=[[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]|state=[[South Carolina]]|ev=23}}
{{end U.S. vice presidential election box|ev=294|to_win=148}}

'''Source:''' {{National Archives EV source| year=1836| as of=July 31, 2005}}

===Geography of results===

====Cartographic gallery====
<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">
1836 US Presidential election by county.svg|Map of presidential election results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
DemocraticPresidentialCounty1836Colorbrewer.png|Map of Democratic presidential election results by county
HarrisonWhigPresidentialCounty1836Colorbrewer.png|Map of Harrison Whig presidential election results by county
WhiteWhigPresidentialCounty1836Colorbrewer.png|Map of White Whig presidential election results by county
WebsterWhigPresidentialCounty1836Colorbrewer.png|Map of Webster Whig presidential election results by county
</gallery>

==Results by state==
Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, ''Presidential ballots, 1836-1892'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.
{|class="wikitable"
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
|States/districts won by [[Martin Van Buren|Van Buren]]/[[Richard M. Johnson|Johnson]]
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
|States/districts won by a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig candidate]]
|}<div style="overflow:auto">
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! colspan="2" |
! colspan="3" align="center" | Martin Van Buren<br />Democratic
! colspan="3" align="center" | William H. Harrison<br />Whig
! colspan="3" |Hugh L. White<br />Whig
! colspan="3" |Daniel Webster<br />Whig
!Willie Person Mangum<br />Whig
! colspan="2" |Margin
! colspan="2" |Total
|-
! align=center | State
! style="font-size:60%" | electoral<br />votes
! style="font-size:60%" | Votes cast
! align=center | %
! style="font-size:60%" | electoral<br />votes
! style="font-size:60%" | Votes cast
! align=center | %
! style="font-size:60%" | electoral<br />votes
! style="font-size:60%" | Votes cast
! align=center | %
! style="font-size:60%" | electoral<br />votes
! style="font-size:60%" | Votes cast
! align=center | %
! style="font-size:60%" | electoral<br />votes
! style="font-size:60%" | electoral<br />votes
!#
!%
!#
!
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Alabama|Alabama]]
!7
| 20,638
| 55.34
| 7
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 16,658
| 44.66
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|3,980
|10.68
|37,296
!AL
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Arkansas|Arkansas]]
!3
| 2,380
| 64.08
| 3
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 1,334
| 35.92
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|1,046
|28.16
|3,714
!AR
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Connecticut|Connecticut]]
!8
| 19,294
| 50.65
| 8
| 18,799
| 49.35
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|495
|1.30
|38,093
!CT
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Delaware|Delaware]]
!3
| 4,154
| 46.70
| 0
| 4,736
| 53.24
| 3
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -582
| -6.54
|8,895
!DE
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Georgia|Georgia]]
!11
| 22,778
| 48.20
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 24,481
| 51.80
| 11
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -1,703
| -3.60
|47,259
!GA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Illinois|Illinois]]
!5
| 18,369
| 54.69
| 5
| 15,220
| 45.31
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|3,149
|9.38
|33,589
!IL
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Indiana|Indiana]]
!9
| 32,478
| 44.03
| 0
| 41,281
| 55.97
| 9
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -8,803
| -11.94
|73,759
!IN
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Kentucky|Kentucky]]
!15
| 33,229
| 47.41
| 0
| 36,861
| 52.59
| 15
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -3,632
| -5.18
|70,090
!KY
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Louisiana|Louisiana]]
!5
| 3,842
| 51.74
| 5
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 3,583
| 48.26
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|259
|3.48
|7,425
!LA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Maine|Maine]]
!10
| 22,825
| 58.92
| 10
| 14,803
| 38.21
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|8,022
|20.71
|38,740
!ME
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland]]
!10
| 22,267
| 46.27
| 0
| 25,852
| 53.73
| 10
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -3,585
| -7.46
|48,119
!MD
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]
!14
| 33,486
| 44.81
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 41,201
| 55.13
| 14
|''no ballots''
| -7,715
| -10.32
|74,687
!MA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Michigan|Michigan]]
!3
| 7,122
| 56.22
| 3
| 5,545
| 43.78
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|1,577
|12.44
|12,667
!MI
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Mississippi|Mississippi]]
!4
| 10,297
| 51.28
| 4
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 9,782
| 48.72
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|515
|2.56
|20,079
!MS
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Missouri|Missouri]]
!4
| 10,995
| 59.98
| 4
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 7,337
| 40.02
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|3,658
|19.96
|18,332
!MO
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]
!7
| 18,697
| 75.01
| 7
| 6,228
| 24.99
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|12,469
|50.02
|24,925
!NH
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in New Jersey|New Jersey]]
!8
| 25,592
| 49.47
| 0
| 26,137
| 50.53
| 8
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -545
| -1.06
|51,729
!NJ
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in New York|New York]]
!42
| 166,795
| 54.63
| 42
| 138,548
| 45.37
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|28,247
|9.26
|305,343
!NY
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in North Carolina|North Carolina]]
!15
| 26,631
| 53.10
| 15
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 23,521
| 46.90
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|3,110
|6.20
|50,153
!NC
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Ohio|Ohio]]
!21
| 96,238
| 47.56
| 0
| 104,958
| 51.87
| 21
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -8,720
| -4.31
|202,333
!OH
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]
!30
| 91,457
| 51.18
| 30
| 87,235
| 48.82
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|4,222
|2.36
|178,692
!PA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]
!4
| 2,964
| 52.24
| 4
| 2,710
| 47.76
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|254
|4.48
|5,674
!RI
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 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=3 align=center | ''no popular vote''
| 11
| -
| -
|0
!SC
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Tennessee|Tennessee]]
!15
| 26,170
| 42.08
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 36,027
| 57.92
| 15
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -9,857
| -15.84
|62,197
!TN
|-{{Party shading/Whig}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Vermont|Vermont]]
!7
| 14,037
| 40.07
| 0
| 20,994
| 59.93
| 7
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
| -6,957
| -19.86
|35,031
!VT
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
! style"text-align:left" | [[1836 United States presidential election in Virginia|Virginia]]
!23
| 30,556
| 56.64
| 23
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
| 23,384
| 43.35
| 0
| colspan=3 align=center | ''no ballots''
|''no ballots''
|7,172
|13.29
|53,945
!VA
|-
! TOTALS:
!294
! 763,291
! 50.79
! 170
! 549,907
! 36.59
! 73
! 146,107
! 9.72
! 26
! 41,201
! 2.74
! 14
! 11
!213,384
!14.20
!1,502,811
!US
|-
! TO WIN:
!148
! colspan="13" |
!
!
!
!
|}</div>

===States that flipped from National Republican to Whig===
* [[Delaware]]
* [[Kentucky]]
* [[Maryland]]
* [[Massachusetts]]

===States that flipped from National Republican to Democratic===
* [[Connecticut]]
* [[Rhode Island]]

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

===States that flipped from Democratic to Whig===
* [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
* [[Indiana]]
* [[New Jersey]]
* [[Ohio]]
* [[Tennessee]]

===States that flipped from Nullifer to Whig===
* [[South Carolina]]

===Close states===
States where the margin of victory was under 5%:
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862;">New Jersey 1.06% (545 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Connecticut 1.3% (495 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Pennsylvania 2.36% (4,222 votes)</span>''' (tipping point state for a Van Buren victory)
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Mississippi 2.56% (515 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Louisiana 3.48% (259 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862;">Georgia 3.6% (1,703 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862;">Ohio 4.31% (8,720 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Rhode Island 4.48% (254 votes)</span>'''

States where the margin of victory was under 10%:
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862;">Kentucky 5.18% (3,632 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">North Carolina 6.2% (3,110 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862;">Delaware 6.54% (582 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:#F0C862;">Maryland 7.46% (3,585 votes)</span>'''
#'''<span style="color:blue;">New York 9.26% (28,247 votes)</span>''' (tipping point state for a Harrison victory)
#'''<span style="color:blue;">Illinois 9.38% (3,149 votes)</span>'''

===Breakdown by ticket===

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"

|- valign=bottom
! Candidate
! Total
! {{Party shading/Democratic}} | Martin Van Buren<br />Democratic
! {{Party shading/Whig}} | William H. Harrison<br />Whig
! {{Party shading/Whig}} | Hugh L. White<br />Whig
! {{Party shading/Whig}} | Daniel Webster<br />Whig
! {{Party shading/Whig}} | Willie P. Mangum<br />Whig

|-
! Electoral Votes for President
! 294
! 170
! 73
! 26
! 14
! 11

|-
! For Vice President, Richard Mentor Johnson
| 147
| 147
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;

|-
! For Vice President, Francis Granger
| 77
| &nbsp;
| 63
| &nbsp;
| 14
| &nbsp;

|-
! For Vice President, John Tyler
| 47
| &nbsp;
| 10
| 26
| &nbsp;
| 11

|-
! For Vice President, William Smith
| 23
| 23
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
|}

===1837 contingent election for vice president===
Virginia's 23 electors, who were all pledged to Van Buren and his running mate Richard Mentor Johnson, became [[faithless elector]]s due to dissension related to Johnson's interracial relationship with a slave<ref>Burke, ''Window To The Past''</ref> and refused to vote for Johnson, instead casting their vice-presidential votes for former South Carolina senator [[William Smith (South Carolina senator)|William Smith]].

This left Johnson one electoral vote short of an Electoral College majority. Since no vice presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, for the only time in American history, the Senate decided the vice presidential race in a [[contingent election]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Norton |first1=Mary Beth |title=A People and a Nation: A History of the United States |date=2015 |publisher=Wadsworth Publishing |pages=344 |edition=10th |access-date=}}</ref>

On February 8, 1837, Johnson was elected on the first ballot by a vote of 33 to 16; the vote proceeded largely along party lines, albeit with three Whigs voting for Johnson, one Democrat voting for Granger, and three abstentions (Hugh L. White declined to vote out of respect for his own running-mate, John Tyler, while the two Nullifier Party senators refused to back either candidate).<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Senate_Elects_A_Vice_President.htm| title=The Senate Elects a Vice President| publisher=Office of the Secretary of the Senate| location=Washington, D.C.| access-date=August 11, 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ style="background-color:#f2f2f2; margin-bottom:-1px; border:1px solid #aaa; padding: .2em .4em" | 1837 [[Contingent election|Contingent]] United States vice presidential election
|-
! colspan=5 style="font-size:92%" | February 8, 1837
|-
! colspan=2 |Party
! Candidate
! Votes
! %
|-
| style="width: 0.25em; background:#3333ff" |
| style="width: 11em" | '''[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]'''
| style="width: 17em" | '''[[Richard Mentor Johnson|Richard M. Johnson]]'''
| style="width: 3.75em; text-align:right" | '''33'''
| style="width: 4em; text-align:right" | {{Percentage |33|52|pad=2}}
|-
| style="background:#f0c862" |
| [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]
| [[Francis Granger]]
| style="text-align:right" | 16
| style="text-align:right" | {{Percentage |16|52|pad=2}}
|-
| style="background:#f5f5f5" |
| {{spaces|3}}—
| ''Not voting''
| style="text-align:right" | 3
| style="text-align:right" | {{Percentage |3|52|pad=2}}
|-
! colspan=3 style="text-align:right" | Total membership
| style="text-align:right; background:#f5f5f5" | '''52'''
| style="text-align:right; background:#f5f5f5" | '''100'''
|-
! colspan=3 style="text-align:right" | Votes necessary
| style="text-align:right; background:#f5f5f5" | '''27'''
| style="text-align:right; background:#f5f5f5" | '''>50'''
|-
| colspan=5 style="background:#f5f5f5" |
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto;"
|-
! colspan=3 | Members voting for:
|- style="height:7px"
| style="background:#3333ff" |
| style="background:#f0c862" |
|-
! Johnson
! Granger
|-
|-style="vertical-align:top;"
| style="width: 19em" |
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Thomas Hart Benton (politician)|Thomas H. Benton]] of [[List of United States senators from Missouri|Missouri]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Black (U.S. senator)|John Black]] of [[List of United States senators from Mississippi|Mississippi]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Bedford Brown]] of [[List of United States senators from North Carolina|North Carolina]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[James Buchanan]] of [[List of United States senators from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Alfred Cuthbert]] of [[List of United States senators from Georgia|Georgia]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Judah Dana]] of [[List of United States senators from Maine|Maine]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[William Lee D. Ewing]] of [[List of United States senators from Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[William S. Fulton]] of [[List of United States senators from Arkansas|Arkansas]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Felix Grundy]] of [[List of United States senators from Tennessee|Tennessee]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[William Hendricks]] of [[List of United States senators from Indiana|Indiana]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Henry Hubbard]] of [[List of United States senators from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[William R. King]] of [[List of United States senators from Alabama|Alabama]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Pendleton King|John P. King]] of [[List of United States senators from Georgia|Georgia]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Lewis F. Linn]] of [[List of United States senators from Missouri|Missouri]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Lucius Lyon]] of [[List of United States senators from Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Samuel McKean]] of [[List of United States senators from Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Gabriel Moore]] of [[List of United States senators from Alabama|Alabama]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Thomas Morris (Ohio politician)|Thomas Morris]] of [[List of United States senators from Ohio|Ohio]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Alexandre Mouton]] of [[List of United States senators from Louisiana|Louisiana]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Robert C. Nicholas]] of [[List of United States senators from Louisiana|Louisiana]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Milton Niles|John M. Niles]] of [[List of United States senators from Connecticut|Connecticut]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Norvell]] of [[List of United States senators from Michigan|Michigan]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Page (New Hampshire politician)|John Page]] of [[List of United States senators from New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Richard E. Parker]] of [[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[William Cabell Rives|William C. Rives]] of [[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John McCracken Robinson|John M. Robinson]] of [[List of United States senators from Illinois|Illinois]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Ruggles]] of [[List of United States senators from Maine|Maine]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Ambrose Hundley Sevier|Ambrose H. Sevier]] of [[List of United States senators from Arkansas|Arkansas]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Robert Strange (American politician)|Robert Strange]] of [[List of United States senators from North Carolina|North Carolina]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Nathaniel P. Tallmadge]] of [[List of United States senators from New York|New York]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Tipton]] of [[List of United States senators from Indiana|Indiana]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Robert J. Walker]] of [[List of United States senators from Mississippi|Mississippi]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Silas Wright]] of [[List of United States senators from New York|New York]]
| style="width: 19em" |
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Richard H. Bayard]] of [[List of United States senators from Delaware|Delaware]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Henry Clay]] of [[List of United States senators from Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Thomas Clayton]] of [[List of United States senators from Delaware|Delaware]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John J. Crittenden]] of [[List of United States senators from Kentucky|Kentucky]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John Davis (Massachusetts governor)|John Davis]] of [[List of United States senators from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Thomas Ewing]] of [[List of United States senators from Ohio|Ohio]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Joseph Kent]] of [[List of United States senators from Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Nehemiah R. Knight]] of [[List of United States senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Samuel Prentiss]] of [[List of United States senators from Vermont|Vermont]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Asher Robbins]] of [[List of United States senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Samuel L. Southard]] of [[List of United States senators from New Jersey|New Jersey]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John S. Spence|John Selby Spence]] of [[List of United States senators from Maryland|Maryland]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Benjamin Swift]] of [[List of United States senators from Vermont|Vermont]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Gideon Tomlinson]] of [[List of United States senators from Connecticut|Connecticut]]<br />
{{colorbull|#3333ff|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Garret D. Wall]] of [[List of United States senators from New Jersey|New Jersey]]<br />
{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Daniel Webster]] of [[List of United States senators from Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]
|-
! colspan=2 | Members not voting:<br />
{{nobold|{{colorbull|#0ebfb0|3=Nullifier Party|size=90}}&nbsp;[[John C. Calhoun]] of [[List of United States senators from South Carolina|South Carolina]]<br />{{colorbull|#0ebfb0|3=Nullifier Party|size=90}}&nbsp;[[William C. Preston]] of [[List of United States senators from South Carolina|South Carolina]]<br />{{colorbull|#f0c862|size=90}}&nbsp;[[Hugh Lawson White|Hugh L. White]] of [[List of United States senators from Tennessee|Tennessee]]}}
|}
{{center|1='''Sources:''' <ref>{{Cite web| title=''Cong. Globe'', 24th Cong., 2nd Sess. 166(1837)| work=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875| url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=003/llcg003.db&recNum=181| publisher=[[Library of Congress]]| location=Washington, D.C.| access-date=August 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=24th Congress Senate Vote 334 (1837)| url=https://voteview.com/rollcall/RS0240334| website=voteview.com| publisher=UCLA Department of Political Science and Social Science Computing| location=Los Angeles, California| access-date=August 8, 2019}}</ref>}}
|}

===Electoral college selection===
{{start electoral college selection}}
{{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==

* [[Inauguration of Martin Van Buren]]
* [[History of the United States (1789–1849)]]
* [[1836–37 United States House of Representatives elections]]
* [[1836–37 United States Senate elections]]

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Works cited==
* {{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}}

==Further reading==
{{Further|Martin Van Buren#Further reading|Bibliography of Martin Van Buren}}
* Brown, Thomas. "The miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an issue in the national election campaign of 1835-1836." ''Civil War History'' 39.1 (1993): 5–30. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/420904/summary online]
* Cheathem, Mark. R. ''[https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/coming-democracy The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson]'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
* Ershkowitz, Herbert B. "The Election of 1836." in ''American Presidential Campaigns and Elections'' (Routledge, 2020) pp. 270–288.
* Hoffmann, William S. "The Election of 1836 in North Carolina." ''North Carolina Historical Review'' 32.1 (1955): 31–51. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23516722 online]
* McCormick, Richard P. "Was There a" Whig Strategy" in 1836?." ''Journal of the Early Republic'' 4.1 (1984): 47–70. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3122854 online]
* Shade, William G.  "'The Most Delicate and Exciting Topics': Martin Van Buren, Slavery, and the Election of 1836." ''Journal of the Early Republic'' 18.3 (1998): 459–484 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3124674 online].
* Silbey, Joel H. "Election of 1836," in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and Fred L. Israel, eds. ''History of American Presidential Elections'' (4 vols., 1971), I, 577–64, history plus primary sources
* Towers, Frank. "The Rise of the Whig Party." in ''A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson'' (2013): 328–347.

==External links==
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* {{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}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1836.html Presidential Election of 1836: A Resource Guide] from the Library of Congress
* [http://www.countingthevotes.com/1836/ Election of 1836 in Counting the Votes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041829/http://www.countingthevotes.com/1836/ |date=March 4, 2016 }}

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