A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 8, 1864, as part of the 1864 United States presidential election. The National Union ticket of the incumbent president Abraham Lincoln and the governor of Tennessee Andrew Johnson defeated the Democratic ticket of the former commanding general of the United States Army George B. McClellan and the U.S. representative from Ohio's 1st congressional district George H. Pendleton. Lincoln defeated McClellan in the national election with 212 electoral votes.
General election Summary Indiana chose 13 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 reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892.
See also United States presidential elections in Indiana
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