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1852
| Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Electoral votes |
| Franklin Pierce / William Rufus King (Democratic) | 1,601,474 | 254 |
| Winfield Scott / William A. Graham (Whig) | 1,386,578 | 42 |
Through fifty-two ballots, neither Scott nor incumbent president Millard Fillmore could secure enough votes to win the nomination of the Whig Party. Scott finally won on the fifty-third ballot. On the Democratic side, former secretary of state James Buchanan, Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, and former secretary of war William L. Marcy were early leaders, but none received a majority of electoral votes to win the nomination. Dark-horse candidate Pierce, a former senator from New Hampshire, emerged and, on the forty-ninth ballot, received a majority tally of 282 votes, securing the nomination.
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