Talk:United States presidential election, 1836
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[edit] Election results table
How about a table border = 1, instead of 5? I think the thinner border is less imposing/distracting. Perhaps you could add that to your HTML script, Rob? maveric149
- sure, I'll get that in the next batch of changes -- user:RobLa
| President: | Martin Van Buren [D] | ||
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| Main Opponent: | William Henry Harrison [W] | ||
| Electoral Vote: | Winner: 170 | Main Opponent: 73 | Total/Majority: 294/148 |
| Popular Vote: | Winner: 762,678 | Main Opponent: 735,651 | |
| Votes for Others: | Hugh L. White (26), Daniel Webster (14), William P. Mangum (11). | ||
| Vice President: | Richard M. Johnson (147) | ||
| V.P. Opponents: | Francis Granger (77), John Tyler (47), William Smith (23) | ||
| Notes: | The election for Vice President was decided in the Senate, with Johnson receiving 33 votes and Granger receiving 17 votes. | ||
| Party key: [D] = Democrat [D-LR] = Democrat-Liberal Republican [D-P] = Democrat-Populist [D-R] = Democrat-Republican [F] = Federalist [N-R] = National-Republican [P] = Progressive [R] = Republican [W] = Whig |
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| Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register | |||
See also: President of the United States, U.S. presidential election, 1836
[edit] Change it!
Change this page to match the format of the other election pages, that format is superior! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.228.220.93 (talk • contribs) 14:39, 24 September 2004 (UTC).
[edit] Senate vote
According to 26 Senate Journal 230 that the Senate vote was 33 – 16, not 33 – 17; some Senator failed to cast a ballot. I will make this change to the text momentarily. — DLJessup 07:47, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Tyler's party in 1836
LB-Versender just made a change in John Tyler's party alignment, changing him from a Democrat to a Whig. That particular datum has been in this article since October 17, 2004. I was skeptical of a change to such a long-standing datum, especially since LB-Versender used the Wikipedia article on John Tyler as his citation for the change, and that article said nothing about John Tyler's party alignment in 1836. (I also knew that Tyler was a former Democrat who was a lukewarm Whig and who would get drummed out of the party in 1841. It was entirely plausible that Tyler would be a Democrat in 1836 and a Whig in 1840.)
After doing some research, I believe that LB-Versender's change was correct, however. First of all, looking at the “Breakdown by ticket” section, every time a state's electors voted for Tyler, they voted for a Whig for President. (The breakdown by ticket data is backed up by the National Archive's state-by-state breakdown of electoral votes.) By this point in United States history, split-party tickets were an anomaly. Additionally, on page 36 of Michael F. Holt's The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party (ISBN 0195055446), it is mentioned that Tyler was forced to resign his Senate seat when the Democrats retook the Virginia legislature and on page 60, Tyler is referred to as one of the Whig party's founders.
