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The1852 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forPresident andVice President.
Massachusetts voted for theWhig Party candidate,Winfield Scott, over theDemocratic candidate,Franklin Pierce. Scott won the state by a narrow margin of 6.38%.
Massachusetts was one of the four states to vote for Scott. The other three wereKentucky,Tennessee andVermont.Free Soil Party candidateJohn P. Hale won 22.05% of the vote in the state, making Massachusetts his strongest state.[2]
Daniel Webster died 9 days before the election of acerebral hemorrhage on October 24, 1852. This caused many Union andNative American state parties to remove him and his running mateCharles Jones Jenkins from their slates of electors and was replaced byJacob Broom andReynell Coates. The Webster-Jenkins Union ticket, however, remained on the ballot in both Massachusetts andGeorgia. As of 2020, this election marks only the first of three times (after 1972 and 1980) that Massachusetts has not voted for the same candidate as neighboring Rhode Island.
| 1852 United States presidential election in Massachusetts[3] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Whig | Winfield Scott | 52,683 | 41.45% | 13 | |
| Democratic | Franklin Pierce | 44,569 | 35.07% | 0 | |
| Free Soil | John P. Hale | 28,023 | 22.05% | 0 | |
| Union | Daniel Webster | 1,670 | 1.31% | 0 | |
| Native American | Jacob Broom | 158 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Totals | 127,103 | 100% | 13 | ||
State results of the1852 U.S. presidential election | ||
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