The 1844 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place between November 1 and December 4, 1844, as part of the 1844 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
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 County results
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Despite being Polk's home state and the state he once served as the governor of, Tennessee voted for the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, over Democratic candidate James K. Polk. Clay won Tennessee by a very narrow margin of 123 votes (0.10%). James K. Polk is one of 4 presidents to lose his residential state in a successful presidential bid. The others are Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Donald Trump in 2016.
This election marked the third time consecutively that Polk had lost a statewide election in Tennessee. The previous two were in the 1841 and 1843 gubernatorial elections.[1][2]
Conventions
editBoth James K. Polk and Henry Clay won their respective party conventions.
Results
edit| 1844 United States presidential election in Tennessee[3] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Whig | Henry Clay of Kentucky | Theodore Frelinghuysen of New York | 60,040 | 50.05% | 13 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | James K. Polk of Tennessee | George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania | 59,917 | 49.95% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 119,957 | 100.00% | 13 | 100.00% | ||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Leonard, p. 32
- ^ Bergeron, pp. 18–19
- ^ "1844 Presidential General Election Results - Tennessee". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.