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Apresidential election was held inPennsylvania on November 2, 1852, as part of the1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forPresident andVice President.
Pennsylvania voted for theDemocratic candidate,Franklin Pierce, over theWhig candidate,Winfield Scott. Pierce won the state by a margin of 5.02%.
Bradford,McKean,Potter andTioga counties have only voted Democratic once since this election, in1964.
| 1852 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Franklin Pierce | 198,562 | 51.20% | 27 | |
| Whig | Winfield Scott | 179,104 | 46.18% | 0 | |
| Free Soil | John P. Hale | 8,495 | 2.19% | 0 | |
| Native American | Jacob Broom | 1,678 | 0.43% | 0 | |
| Totals | 387,839 | 100.0% | 27 | ||
| County | Franklin Pierce Democratic | Winfield Scott Whig | John P. Hale Free Soil | Various candidates[2] Other parties | Margin[3] | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 2,018 | 42.54% | 2,725 | 57.44% | 31 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | -707 | -14.90% | 4,744 |
| Allegheny | 7,226 | 41.07% | 9,165 | 52.09% | 966 | 5.49% | 239 | 1.36% | -1,939 | -11.02% | 17,596 |
| Armstrong | 2,430 | 51.99% | 2,093 | 44.78% | 142 | 3.04% | 9 | 0.19% | 337 | 7.21% | 4,674 |
| Beaver | 1,943 | 46.04% | 1,805 | 42.77% | 361 | 8.55% | 111 | 2.63% | 138 | 3.27% | 4,220 |
| Bedford | 2,319 | 50.50% | 2,273 | 49.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 46 | 1.00% | 4,592 |
| Berks | 9,503 | 65.91% | 4,913 | 34.08% | 2 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,590 | 31.84% | 14,418 |
| Blair | 1,931 | 42.66% | 2,590 | 57.22% | 5 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | -659 | -14.56% | 4,526 |
| Bradford | 3,930 | 50.79% | 3,526 | 45.57% | 281 | 3.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 404 | 5.22% | 7,737 |
| Bucks | 5,766 | 53.52% | 4,928 | 45.74% | 58 | 0.54% | 22 | 0.20% | 838 | 7.78% | 10,774 |
| Butler | 2,533 | 45.79% | 2,833 | 51.21% | 165 | 2.98% | 1 | 0.02% | -300 | -5.42% | 5,532 |
| Cambria | 2,035 | 57.96% | 1,461 | 41.61% | 15 | 0.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 574 | 16.35% | 3,511 |
| Carbon | 1,311 | 63.64% | 749 | 36.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 562 | 27.28% | 2,060 |
| Centre | 2,993 | 60.97% | 1,916 | 39.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,077 | 21.94% | 4,909 |
| Chester | 5,520 | 47.76% | 5,700 | 49.32% | 338 | 2.92% | 0 | 0.00% | -180 | -1.56% | 11,558 |
| Clarion | 2,642 | 67.95% | 1,218 | 31.33% | 28 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,424 | 36.63% | 3,888 |
| Clearfield | 1,733 | 62.93% | 997 | 36.20% | 24 | 0.87% | 0 | 0.00% | 736 | 26.72% | 2,754 |
| Clinton | 1,318 | 56.91% | 996 | 43.00% | 2 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 322 | 13.90% | 2,316 |
| Columbia | 2,102 | 64.34% | 1,165 | 35.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 937 | 28.68% | 3,267 |
| Crawford | 3,427 | 48.21% | 2,775 | 39.04% | 906 | 12.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 652 | 9.17% | 7,108 |
| Cumberland | 3,188 | 52.56% | 2,878 | 47.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 310 | 5.11% | 6,066 |
| Dauphin | 2,675 | 41.92% | 3,673 | 57.56% | 29 | 0.45% | 4 | 0.06% | -998 | -15.64% | 6,381 |
| Delaware | 1,737 | 44.34% | 2,073 | 52.92% | 107 | 2.73% | 0 | 0.00% | -336 | -8.58% | 3,917 |
| Elk | 423 | 70.62% | 163 | 27.21% | 13 | 2.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 260 | 43.41% | 599 |
| Erie | 2,738 | 37.18% | 4,015 | 54.52% | 611 | 8.30% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,277 | -17.34% | 7,364 |
| Fayette | 3,867 | 55.47% | 3,032 | 43.49% | 72 | 1.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 835 | 11.98% | 6,971 |
| Franklin | 3,358 | 46.03% | 3,904 | 53.51% | 3 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | -546 | -7.48% | 7,265 |
| Fulton | 831 | 53.24% | 729 | 46.70% | 1 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 102 | 6.54% | 1,561 |
| Greene | 2,602 | 62.10% | 1,559 | 37.21% | 29 | 0.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,043 | 24.89% | 4,190 |
| Huntingdon | 2,041 | 44.82% | 2,511 | 55.13% | 2 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | -470 | -10.32% | 4,554 |
| Indiana | 1,827 | 40.66% | 2,387 | 53.13% | 279 | 6.21% | 0 | 0.00% | -560 | -12.46% | 4,493 |
| Jefferson | 1,484 | 56.62% | 1,115 | 42.54% | 22 | 0.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 369 | 14.08% | 2,621 |
| Juniata | 1,368 | 56.30% | 1,062 | 43.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 306 | 12.60% | 2,430 |
| Lancaster | 6,578 | 36.00% | 11,637 | 63.69% | 53 | 0.29% | 3 | 0.02% | -5,059 | -27.69% | 18,271 |
| Lawrence | 1,064 | 29.87% | 1,984 | 55.70% | 514 | 14.43% | 0 | 0.00% | -920 | -25.83% | 3,562 |
| Lebanon | 2,118 | 40.54% | 3,105 | 59.44% | 1 | 0.02% | 0 | 0.00% | -987 | -18.90% | 5,224 |
| Lehigh | 3,493 | 53.84% | 2,993 | 46.13% | 2 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 500 | 7.71% | 6,488 |
| Luzerne | 5,340 | 61.53% | 3,339 | 38.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,001 | 23.06% | 8,679 |
| Lycoming | 2,790 | 57.16% | 2,085 | 42.72% | 5 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.02% | 705 | 14.44% | 4,881 |
| McKean | 597 | 55.28% | 405 | 37.50% | 78 | 7.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 192 | 17.78% | 1,080 |
| Mercer | 2,693 | 47.48% | 2,210 | 38.97% | 768 | 13.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 483 | 8.51% | 5,671 |
| Mifflin | 1,620 | 53.78% | 1,392 | 46.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 228 | 7.56% | 3,012 |
| Monroe | 2,098 | 83.39% | 418 | 16.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,680 | 66.78% | 2,516 |
| Montgomery | 5,767 | 53.79% | 4,791 | 44.68% | 160 | 1.49% | 4 | 0.04% | 976 | 9.11% | 10,722 |
| Montour | 1,455 | 62.69% | 866 | 37.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 589 | 25.38% | 2,321 |
| Northampton | 4,403 | 59.65% | 2,978 | 40.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,425 | 19.30% | 7,381 |
| Northumberland | 2,451 | 60.22% | 1,619 | 39.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 832 | 20.45% | 4,070 |
| Perry | 2,159 | 60.44% | 1,413 | 39.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 746 | 20.88% | 3,572 |
| Philadelphia | 26,022 | 49.69% | 24,573 | 46.92% | 626 | 1.20% | 1,148 | 2.19% | 1,449 | 2.77% | 52,369 |
| Pike | 834 | 80.50% | 202 | 19.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 632 | 61.00% | 1,036 |
| Potter | 661 | 52.92% | 263 | 21.06% | 325 | 26.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 336[a] | 26.90% | 1,249 |
| Schuylkill | 4,758 | 52.87% | 4,128 | 45.87% | 10 | 0.11% | 104 | 1.16% | 630 | 7.00% | 9,000 |
| Somerset | 1,203 | 28.72% | 2,986 | 71.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,783 | -42.56% | 4,189 |
| Sullivan | 426 | 64.35% | 177 | 26.74% | 59 | 8.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 249 | 37.61% | 662 |
| Susquehanna | 3,046 | 57.52% | 2,035 | 38.43% | 215 | 4.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,011 | 19.09% | 5,296 |
| Tioga | 2,614 | 61.40% | 1,564 | 36.74% | 79 | 1.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,050 | 24.66% | 4,257 |
| Union | 1,994 | 39.29% | 3,081 | 60.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,087 | -21.42% | 5,075 |
| Venango | 1,899 | 58.09% | 1,164 | 35.61% | 204 | 6.24% | 2 | 0.06% | 735 | 22.48% | 3,269 |
| Warren | 1,629 | 58.79% | 1,082 | 39.05% | 60 | 2.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 547 | 19.74% | 2,771 |
| Washington | 4,063 | 49.17% | 3,810 | 46.11% | 370 | 4.48% | 20 | 0.24% | 253 | 3.06% | 8,263 |
| Wayne | 2,362 | 65.34% | 1,232 | 34.08% | 21 | 0.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,130 | 31.26% | 3,615 |
| Westmoreland | 5,509 | 62.37% | 3,203 | 36.27% | 120 | 1.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,306 | 26.10% | 8,832 |
| Wyoming | 1,258 | 60.36% | 807 | 38.72% | 19 | 0.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 451 | 21.64% | 2,084 |
| York | 5,585 | 54.24% | 4,700 | 45.65% | 11 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 885 | 8.59% | 10,296 |
| Totals | 198,562 | 51.20% | 179,104 | 46.18% | 8,495 | 2.19% | 1,678 | 0.43% | 19,458 | 5.02% | 387,839 |
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