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| Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Presidential Electoral votes |
| Martin Van Buren / Richard M. Johnson (Democratic) | 762,678 | 170 |
| William Henry Harrison / Francis Granger (Whig) | 550,816 | 73 |
| Hugh Lawson White (Whig) | 146,107 | 26 |
| Daniel Webster (Whig) | 41,201 | 14 |
| Willie Person Mangum (Whig) | unknown | 11 |
The Whig Party presented four regional candidates for president. John Tyler and William Smith were also Whig vice presidential candidates. Democratic vice presidential nominee Johnson did not receive a majority of electoral votes, so his election came as a result of a vote in the U.S. Senate, the only vice president in history to be elected that way.
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