in 1840, despite Louisiana having a property requirement to vote. A steward, pilot, and passenger of the steamboat Agnes reportedly said that the ship ferried voters from New Orleans to Plaquemines parish where the steward was pushed by the Captain to vote for the Polk ticket three times, despite not being of voting age. A man named Charles Bruland was seen driven out of the voting booth wounded and bloody after attempting to cast a vote for the Clay ticket in Plaquemines Parish. Ultimately, these allegations of fraud would not have changed the election (though the Whig Almanac makes a slippery slope argument that if this fraud occurred in Louisiana, it must also have occurred in New York, which had Clay won he would have won the election), as Louisiana switching its vote would make the final count 164 electoral vote for Polk to 111 for Clay. 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. Cartographic gallery Results by state Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836-1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57. Close states States where the margin of victory was under 1%: Tennessee 0.10% (123 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 5%: New York 1.05% (5,106 votes) (tipping point state) New Jersey 1.09% (823 votes) Indiana 1.65% (2,314 votes) Pennsylvania 1.91% (6,322 votes) Ohio 1.94% (6,052 votes) Georgia 2.38% (2,047 votes) Delaware 2.45% (301 votes) Louisiana 2.6% (699 votes) Connecticut 4.63% (2,991 votes) North Carolina 4.78% (3,945 votes) Maryland 4.78% (3,278 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 10%: Michigan 6.03% (3,362 votes) Virginia 6.1% (5,819 votes) Kentucky 8.18% (9,261 votes) Electoral College selection Consequences Polk's election confirmed that Manifest Destiny had majority support in the electorate despite Whig opposition. The annexation of Texas was formalized on March 1, 1845, days before Polk took office. Mexico refused to accept the annexation and the Mexican–American War broke out in 1846. Instead of demanding all of Oregon, Polk compromised. Washington and London negotiated the Buchanan–Pakenham Treaty, which split up the Oregon Territory between the two countries. Records This is the most recent presidential election where the election took place on different days in different states. It is the only presidential election in which both major party nominees were former Speakers of the