1832 United States presidential election in Vermont

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Nominee William Wirt Henry Clay Andrew Jackson Party Anti-Masonic National Republican Democratic Home state Maryland Kentucky Tennessee Running mate Amos Ellmaker John Sergeant Martin Van Buren Electoral vote 7 0 0 Popular vote 13,106 11,152 7,870 Percentage 40.79% 34.71% 24.50%

County Results Wirt   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%   70–80% Clay   40–50%   50–60% Jackson   40–50%

President before election Andrew Jackson Democratic Elected President Andrew Jackson Democratic

The1832 United States presidential election in Vermont took place between November 2 and December 5, 1832, as part of the1832 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forPresident andVice President.

Vermont voted for theAnti-Masonic Party candidate,William Wirt, over theNational Republican candidate,Henry Clay, and theDemocratic Party candidate,Andrew Jackson. Vermont was the only state in the country that Wirt carried in 1832, by a margin of 6.08%. As of 2017, Wirt's performance remains the best-ever by a third-party presidential candidate in any Northeastern state,^[1] constitutes the solitary occasion a third-party candidate has carried any New England state,^[a] and the only time a person from Maryland^[b] has ever won anelectoral vote for the presidency from pledged electors. (Spiro Agnew of Maryland would in1968 and1972 win the electoral vote for the vice presidency.)^[2]

While Vermont was the only state that voted for Wirt, it would only prove to be his second strongest in terms of popular vote percentage, the first beingPennsylvania with 42.04 percentage points. In Pennsylvania, no ticket for Henry Clay was run, allowing Wirt to consolidate the Anti-Jackson vote.^[3]

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