Millard Fillmore - Electoral History

Electoral History

United States presidential election, 1848

  • Zachary Taylor/Millard Fillmore (Whig) – 1,361,393 (47.3%) and 163 electoral votes (16 states carried)
  • Lewis Cass/William Orlando Butler (Democrats) – 1,223,460 (42.5%) and 127 electoral votes (15 states carried)
  • Martin Van Buren/Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (Free Soil) – 291,501 (10.1%) and 0 electoral votes

United States presidential election, 1856

  • James Buchanan/John C. Breckinridge (Democrats) – 1,836,072 (45.3%) and 174 electoral votes (19 states carried)
  • John C. Fremont/William L. Dayton (Republicans) – 1,342,345 (33.1%) and 114 electoral votes (11 states carried)
  • Millard Fillmore/Andrew Jackson Donelson (Know Nothing/Whig) – 873,053 (21.6%) and 8 electoral votes (1 state carried)

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