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of the Democratic majority increased from east to west. In 
Ohio in addition to the Western Reserve counties Clay practi- 
cally doubled the vote of Jackson in Champaign, Clark, Logan, 
Medina, Meigs, Miami, Portage, and Ross. 
Clay carried 19 of the 66 counties of Indiana. The vote was 
uniformly Jacksonian excepting in the third and sixth con- 
gressional districts in the eastern and southeastern parts of 
the state, which, with the Wabash Valley, constituted the 
commercial sections. The heaviest Clay vote and the largest 
majority in any county was in Wayne in the Whitewater 
Valley, later to be a center of Quaker slavery opposition. The 
influence of Jackson’s veto of the Wabash Improvements Bill 
in the early autumn was felt in the vote of the river counties 
of Cass, Fountain, Tippecanoe, Vigo, and Knox.^- Jackson 
received his best support from the territory south of Indian- 
apolis and between Madison and Evansville, a district that 
has remained faithful to the Jacksonian Democracy to the 
present time. Of the 53 counties in Illinois, Clay carried 8, 
and 5 of these were newer northern counties with a total vote 
of only 529 for all candidates. The returns showed the state 
This veto did not seriously aifect the state vote in 1832, but was of considerable 
importance in determining the result in 1836. 
The congressional elections of 1832 in Ohio and Illinois took place under new 
apportionments, Ohio having been given 19 districts by special session of the legis- 
lature in June, and Illinois having become entitled to 3 Congressmen under the census 
of 1830. The Anti-Jackson forces were able to carry only 8 of the 19 districts, altho 
they lost another by only 2 votes, and had a total vote of 66,956 to 61,588 for the Demo- 
crats. The discrepancy between the vote and the results is hardly due to any gerry- 
mander, or at least not a successful one, for the legislature and Governor were both 
Anti- Jackson. It is due rather to the exceedingly large majorities given the Clay men 
in the third, fourth, tenth, fifteen, and sixteenth districts. In 3 of these there were 
2 candidates against the Jackson man, and their total majorities over the Democrat 
ran from 1,200 to 3,300 votes. The Clay districts almost encircled the state ; in the 
Reserve territory were the fifteenth and sixteenth ; the eleventh and long Ohio River 
sixth carried almost over to the fourth, tenth, and third, which ran up the western 
side. Only the thirteenth projected into central Ohio. All the rest of the state, includ- 
ing the fringe of counties next the Ohio River and Indiana boundaries from Scioto to 
Darke, was in Democratic districts. 
The Indiana reapportionment increased the congressional districts from 3 to 7, 
and the campaign, coming as it did after the excitement of the election of 1832, saw 
some relaxation in the strict party alignment. The opposition tried especially to break 
down party ties and emphasize the merits of the candidates. They could not get away 
from the two national questions of the Bank and the public lands, however, and 6 of 
the 7 Congressmen elected were “died-in-the-wool Jacksonians”. John Ewing was 
elected in the second district by a majority of 2 votes. Whig organization was again 
lacking ; in the first district there were 4 candidates and an Anti-Mason against the 
Democrat. The Democratic hold on the congressional delegation of the Northwest was 
still secure, 20 of 29 representatives being Jacksonians, and 4 of the 6 senators. Sen- 
ators Morris of Ohio, Tipton of Indiana, and Robinson and Kane of Illinois were Demo- 
crats ; Ewing of Ohio and William Hendricks of Indiana were Clay men. 
