The map above shows the result of the 1848 US presidential election between Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass. Turnout for the election was 72.80%. Here are the key details: What were the key issues in the 1848 election?

Taylor won a plurality of the popular vote, with 1,360,967 votes to 1,222,342 votes for Cass and Van Buren's 291,263. Taylor's electoral college vote came in at 163 to Cass's 127.

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Map of A map of the United States showing the results of the 1848 presidential election. The map is keyed to show the states carried by the Whigs (Zachary Taylor)and Democrats (Lewis Cass). The figures indicate the number of Electoral Votes for each State.

Results of the presidential election of 1848, won by Zachary Taylor with 163 electoral votes

In 1848, Zachary Taylor from the Whig Party became the 12th president of America. While he won with only 163 electoral votes, his main opponent Lewis Cass had 127.

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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1848. Held in the aftermath of the Mexican–American War, General Zachary Taylor of the Whig Party defeated Senator Lewis Cass of the Democratic Party. [2] Despite Taylor's unclear political affiliations and beliefs, and the Whig opposition to the Mexican–American War, the …

United States presidential election of 1848 was an American presidential election held on November 7, 1848, in which Whig candidate Zachary Taylor defeated Democratic nominee Lewis Cass.

In the presidential election, Whig General Zachary Taylor defeated Democratic former senator Lewis Cass of Michigan and the Free Soil candidate, former President Martin Van Buren. [4] Taylor won most of the Northeast and several Southern states, giving him a fairly comfortable majority in both the electoral and popular vote.