PaPres 1848

Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1848
County	Total Vote	Whig	Democratic	Free Soil	Plurality	Winner	Pct Whig	Pct Dem	Pct Free Soil
		Zachary Taylor	Lewis Cass	Martin Van Buren
Pennsylvania	369092	185730	172186	11176	13538	W	50.32	46.65	3.03
Adams	4363	2576	1762	25	814	W	59.04	40.39	0.57
Allegheny	17482	10112	6591	779	3521	W	57.84	37.70	4.46
Armstrong	4297	2030	2126	141	-96	D	47.24	49.48	3.28
Beaver	5488	2655	2303	530	352	W	48.38	41.96	9.66
Bedford	5653	2836	2816	1	20	W	50.17	49.81	0.02
Berks	14617	5082	9484	51	-4402	D	34.77	64.88	0.35
Blair	3915	2476	1435	4	1041	W	63.24	36.65	0.10
Bradford	6940	3272	1889	1779	1383	W	47.15	27.22	25.63
Bucks	10667	5140	5364	163	-224	D	48.19	50.29	1.53
Butler	4925	2505	2247	173	258	W	50.86	45.62	3.51
Cambria	2631	1233	1386	12	-153	D	46.86	52.68	0.46
Carbon	2021	839	1181	1	-342	D	41.51	58.44	0.05
Centre	4471	1856	2611	4	-755	D	41.51	58.40	0.09
Chester	11826	5949	5370	507	579	W	50.30	45.41	4.29
Clarion	3713	1372	2306	35	-934	D	36.95	62.11	0.94
Clearfield	1952	761	1168	23	-407	D	38.99	59.84	1.18
Clinton	1879	911	967	1	-56	D	48.48	51.46	0.05
Columbia	5688	2263	3396	29	-1133	D	39.79	59.70	0.51
Crawford	5576	2204	2748	624	-544	D	39.53	49.28	11.19
Cumberland	6445	3242	3178	25	64	W	50.30	49.31	0.39
Dauphin .	5990	3705	2251	34	1454	W	61.85	37.58	0.57
Delaware	3825	2194	1547	84	647	W	57.36	40.44	2.20
Elk	392	134	242	16	-108	D	34.18	61.73	4.08
Erie	5796	3418	2022	356	1396	W	58.97	34.89	6.14
Fayette	6559	3045	3441	73	-396	D	46.42	52.46	1.11
Franklin	7209	4006	3199	4	807	W	55.57	44.38	0.06
Greene	3907	1476	2379	52	-903	D	37.78	60.89	1.33
Huntingdon	4537	2590	1922	25	668	W	57.09	42.36	0.55
Indiana	4158	2410	1544	204	866	W	57.96	37.13	4.91
Jefferson	1878	887	972	19	-85	D	47.23	51.76	1.01
Juniata	1707	850	856	1	-6	D	49.79	50.15	0.06
Lancaster	17633	11390	6080	163	5310	W	64.59	34.48	0.92
Lebanon	4860	2996	1862	2	1134	W	61.65	38.31	0.04
Lehigh	6180	2978	3199	3	-221	D	48.19	51.76	0.05
Luzerne	7683	3516	3991	176	-475	D	45.76	51.95	2.29
Lycoming	4289	2036	2244	9	-208	D	47.47	52.32	0.21
McKean	807	367	418	22	-51	D	45.48	51.80	2.73
Mercer	7151	2977	3094	1080	-117	D	41.63	43.27	15.10
Mifflin	3160	1548	1586	26	-38	D	48.99	50.19	0.82
Monroe	2351	518	1830	3	-1312	D	22.03	77.84	0.13
Montgomery	10918	5040	5627	251	-587	D	46.16	51.54	2.30
Northampton	7432	3191	4203	38	-1012	D	42.94	56.55	0.51
Northumberland	4031	1765	2258	8	-493	D	43.79	56.02	0.20
Perry	3862	1562	2295	5	-733	D	40.45	59.43	0.13
Philadelphia	37384	20574	16242	568	4332	W	55.03	43.45	1.52
Philadelphia City	16231	10656	5266	309	5390	W	65.65	32.44	1.90
Pike	1018	216	799	3	-583	D	21.22	78.49	0.29
Potter	942	226	468	248	-242	D	23.99	49.68	26.33
Schuylkill	8674	4939	3700	35	1239	W	56.94	42.66	0.40
Somerset	4166	3018	1127	21	1891	W	72.44	27.05	0.50
Sullivan	451	129	303	19	-174	D	28.60	67.18	4.21
Susquehanna	4717	1853	2563	301	-710	D	39.28	54.34	6.38
Tioga	3647	1350	1344	953	6	W	37.02	36.85	26.13
Union	4810	3129	1656	25	1473	W	65.05	34.43	0.52
Venango	2763	1061	1538	164	-477	D	38.40	55.66	5.94
Warren	2172	948	1088	136	-140	D	43.65	50.09	6.26
Washington	8186	3898	3820	468	78	W	47.62	46.67	5.72
Wayne	2841	997	1642	202	-645	D	35.09	57.80	7.11
Westmoreland	8443	3124	5197	122	-2073	D	37.00	61.55	1.44
Wyoming	1790	861	892	37	-31	D	48.10	49.83	2.07
York	9993	4838	5151	4	-313	D	48.41	51.55	0.04

Source: Niles National Register, 74:367; Whig Almanac, 1849, pp. 49-50; Whig Almanac, 1851, p. 43.
The vote of Tioga County as returned by the judges was Taylor 1264 and Van Buren 1039. This was the result of the accidental reversal of the votes of Taylor and Van Buren.
(Revised 30 November 1998)

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