A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1828, as part of the 1828 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the former U.S. senator from Tennessee Andrew Jackson and the incumbent vice president John C. Calhoun defeated National Republican ticket of the incumbent president John Quincy Adams and the U.S. secretary of the treasury Richard Rush. Jackson defeated Adams in the national election with 178 electoral votes.
General election Summary Indiana chose five electors in a statewide general election. Nineteenth-century presidential elections used a form of block voting that allowed voters to modify the electoral list nominated by a political party before submitting their ballots. Because voters elected each member of the Electoral College individually, electors nominated by the same party often received differing numbers of votes as a consequence of voter rolloff, split-ticket voting, or electoral fusion. This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.
Results + 1828 United States presidential election in Indiana Party Candidate Votes Democratic Benjamin V. Beckes 22,140 Democratic Ratliff Boon 22,122 Democratic Jesse B. Durham 22,114 Democratic Ross Smiley 22,099 Democratic William Lowe 22,033 National Republican Isaac Montgomery 16,978 National Republican Joseph Bartholomew 16,973 National Republican Amaziah Morgan 16,956 National Republican Joseph Orr 16,934 National Republican John Watts 16,915 Independent Democrat Jacob Lowe 63 Independent Democrat David Robb 35 Independent National Republican Joseph Watts 16 Independent Democrat Israel T. Canby 2
Results by county The following table compares the votes for the leading Democratic and National Republican electors in each county. It therefore differs slightly from the summary stated above, which compares the votes for the leading electors statewide.
+ 1832 United States presidential election in Indiana by county County Andrew JacksonDemocratic John Quincy AdamsNational Republican Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Allen 64 74 -10 138 Bartholomew 445 235 210 680 Clark 953 615 338 1,568 Clay 83 25 58 108 Crawford 230 206 24 436 Daviess 291 210 81 501 Dearborn 1,066 986 86 2,056 Decatur 346 292 54 638 Delaware 91 63 28 154 Dubois 180 49 131 229 Fayette 650 516 134 1,166 Floyd 590 374 216 964 Fountain 468 224 244 692 Franklin 693 656 37 1,349 Gibson 380 239 141 619 Greene 320 161 159 481 Hamilton 55 156 -101 211 Hancock 65 67 -2 132 Harrison 705 457 248 1,162 Hendricks 204 164 40 368 Henry 284 328 -44 612 Jackson 405 182 223 587 Jefferson 627 709 -82 1,336 Jennings 204 290 -86 494 Johnson 298 199 99 397 Knox 420 405 15 825 Lawrence 823 213 610 1,036 Madison 58 72 -14 130 Marion 379 582 -203 961 Martin 191 68 123 259 Monroe 570 223 343 793 Montgomery 359 243 116 602 Morgan 235 232 3 467 Orange 631 285 346 916 Owen 187 201 -14 388 Parke 480 339 141 819 Perry 134 180 -46 314 Pike 149 140 9 289 Posey 646 278 368 924 Putnam 632 309 323 941 Randolph 123 250 127 373 Ripley 307 325 -18 632 Rush 649 345 304 994 Scott 283 147 136 430 Shelby 458 310 148 768 Spencer 173 80 93 253 Sullivan 432 168 264 600 Switzerland 439 335 104 774 Tippecanoe 210 184 26 394 Union 547 518 29 1,065 Vanderburgh 108 134 -26 242 Vermillion 282 287 -5 569 Vigo 186 544 -358 730 Warren 63 77 -14 140 Warrick 318 73 245 391 Washington 1,083 612 471 1,695 Wayne 888 1,343 -455 2,231 TOTAL 22,140 16,979 5,161 39,119
See also United States presidential elections in Indiana
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