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{{col-3}}Pierce{{legend|#b9d7ff|40-50%}}{{legend|#86b6f2|50-60%}}{{legend|#4389e3|60-70%}}{{legend|#1666cb|70-80%}}{{col-3}}Scott{{legend|#ffd26a|40-50%}}{{legend|#fec44f|50-60%}}{{legend|#fe9929|60-70%}}{{col-3}}Hale{{legend|#b5d9ac|40-50%}}{{col-end}}| title = President| before_election = Millard Fillmore| before_party = Whig Party (United States)| after_election = Franklin Pierce| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)}}{{ElectionsOH}}The 1852 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 2, 1852 as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.Ohio was narrowly won by the Democratic Party candidate, Franklin Pierce, who won the state with a plurality of 47.83 percent of the popular vote. The Whig Party candidate, Winfield Scott, garnered 43.18 percent of the popular vote, and Free Soil Party candidate John P. Hale gained 8.98 percent,WEB,weblink 1852 Presidential General Election Results – Ohio, Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas, a figure exceeded by a third-party candidate in Ohio only six times since.{{efn|In 1912, both Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene V. Debs exceeded Hale’s share, as did Robert M. La Follette in 1924, George Wallace in 1968, and Ross Perot in both 1992 and 1996.WEB,weblink Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Ohio, Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas, }}Pierce would become the final Democrat to win Ohio until Woodrow Wilson won it in 1912.

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! colspan="6" | 1852 United States presidential election in Ohio! colspan="2" style="width: 15em" |Party! style="width: 17em" |Candidate! style="width: 5em" |Votes! style="width: 7em" |Percentage! style="width: 5em" |Electoral votes! style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}; width: 3px" | Democratic| Franklin Pierce 168,933 47.83% 23! style="background-color:{{party color|Whig Party (United States)}}; width: 3px" | Whig| Winfield Scott 152,523 43.18% 0! style="background-color:{{party color|Free Soil Party}}; width: 3px" | Free Soil| John P. Hale 31,732 8.98% 0bgcolor="#EEEEEE" Totals 353,188 100.0% 23

See also

• United States presidential elections in Ohio

Notes

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References

{{Reflist}}{{State Results of the 1852 U.S. presidential election}}{{United States elections}}{{Ohio-election-stub}}