UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF 1840 ==================================================================== In South Carolina the legislature cast the state's votes. POPULAR VOTE AND ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE BY STATE ==================================================================== William H Martin Harrison van Buren (Whig, OH) (Democrat, NY) -------------------------------------------------------------------- State vote % ECV vote % ECV -------------------------------------------------------------------- ALABAMA 28,515 45.6 - 33,996 54.4 7 ARKANSAS 5,160 43.6 - 6,679 56.4 3 CONNECTICUT 31,598 55.6 8 25,281 44.5 - DELAWARE 5,967 55.0 3 4,872 44.9 - GEORGIA 40,339 55.8 11 31,983 44.2 - ILLINOIS 45,574 48.9 - 47,441 50.9 5 INDIANA 65,280 55.5 9 51,696 44.0 - KENTUCKY 58,488 64.2 15 32,616 35.8 - LOUISIANA 11,296 59.7 5 7,616 40.3 - MAINE 46,612 50.2 10 46,190 49.8 - MARYLAND 33,528 53.8 10 28,752 46.2 - MASSACHUSETTS 72,852 57.4 14 52,355 41.3 - MICHIGAN 22,933 52.1 3 21,096 47.9 - MISSISSIPPI 19,515 53.4 4 17,010 46.6 - MISSOURI 22,954 43.4 - 29,969 56.6 4 NEW HAMPSHIRE 26,310 43.9 - 32,774 54.7 7 NEW JERSEY 33,351 51.7 8 31,034 48.2 - NEW YORK 226,001 51.2 42 212,733 48.2 - NTH CAROLINA 46,567 57.7 15 34,168 42.3 - OHIO 148,043 54.3 21 123,944 45.4 - PENNSYLVANIA 144,023 50.1 30 143,672 49.9 - RHODE ISLAND 5,213 60.4 4 3,263 37.8 - STH CAROLINA * - * 11 TENNESSEE 60,194 55.7 15 47,951 44.3 - VERMONT 32,440 63.9 7 18,006 35.5 - VIRGINIA 42,637 49.4 - 43,757 50.7 23 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,275,390 52.9 234 1,128,854 46.8 60 --------------------------------------------------------------------