A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 7, 1836, as part of the 1836 United States presidential election. The Whig ticket of the former major general William Henry Harrison and the U.S. representative from New York's 26th congressional district Francis Granger defeated the Democratic ticket of the incumbent vice president Martin Van Buren and the U.S. representative from Kentucky's 13th congressional district Richard Mentor Johnson. Van Buren defeated Harrison in the national election with 170 electoral votes.
General election
Summary
Indiana chose nine 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 by county
The following table compares the votes for the leading Democratic and Whig electors in each county. It therefore differs slightly from the summary table, which compares the votes for the leading electors statewide.