which Alabama and Mississippi voted for different candidates. The 1840 presidential election was the only U.S. presidential election in which four people who either had been or would become a U.S. President (Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, and Polk) received at least one vote in the Electoral College. Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): (a) The popular vote figures exclude South Carolina where the Electors were chosen by the state legislature rather than by popular vote. Geography of results Cartographic gallery Results by state Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–257. Close states States where the margin of victory was under 1%: Pennsylvania 0.12% (334 votes) Maine 0.46% (422 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 5%: Virginia 1.3% (1,120 votes) Illinois 2.01% (1,867 votes) New York 3.0% (13,268 votes) New Jersey 3.59% (2,317 votes) (tipping point state) Michigan 4.14% (1,837 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 10%: Mississippi 6.86% (2,505 votes) Maryland 7.66% (4,776 votes) Ohio 8.53% (23,375 votes) Alabama 8.76% (5,481 votes) Campaign songs/slogans Harrison "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" Van Buren Election paraphernalia Electoral college selection In popular culture In the film Amistad, Van Buren (played by Nigel Hawthorne) is seen campaigning for re-election. These scenes have been criticized for their historical inaccuracy. See also 1840–41 United States House of Representatives elections 1840–41 United States Senate elections History of the United States (1789–1849) Second Party System Notes References Further reading Chambers, William Nisbet. "The Election of 1840" in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (ed.) History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–1968 (1971) vol 2; analysis plus primary sources Cheathem, Mark. R. The Coming of Democracy: Presidential Campaigning in the Age of Jackson (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) Ellis, Richard J. Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox: The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation (U of Kansas Press, 2020) online review Formisano, Ronald P. "The new political history and the election of 1840," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring 1993, Vol. 23 Issue 4, pp. 661–82 in JSTOR Greeley's description of the 1840 election is posted on Wikisource. Holt, Michael F. "The Election of 1840, Voter Mobilization, and the Emergence of the Second American Party System: A Reappraisal of Jacksonian Voting Behavior", in Holt and John McCardell, eds. A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donald (1986); emphasizes economic factors; See Formisano (1993) for