page_title: 1832 Democratic National Convention
section_title: Vice Presidential candidates
hierarchical_section_title: 1832 Democratic National Convention / Vice Presidential nomination / Vice Presidential candidates
caption_attribution_description: English: Results by State Delegation of the 1st Ballot for the 1832 Democratic Party Vice Presidential Nomination.
context_page_description: The 1832 Democratic National Convention was held from May 21 to May 23, 1832, in Baltimore, Maryland. In the first presidential nominating convention ever held by the Democratic Party, incumbent President Andrew Jackson was nominated for a second term, while former Secretary of State Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice president.
  The Anti-Masonic Party and the National Republican Party had held the first presidential nominating conventions in 1831, and Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet" helped organize a Democratic convention in 1832. As party leaders assumed that Jackson would be nominated for president, the primary purpose of holding the convention was to nominate a candidate for vice president. Jackson needed a new running mate because he had fallen out with Vice President John C. Calhoun over the Petticoat affair and the Nullification Crisis.
  The convention, which was presided over by Governor Robert Lucas, hosted delegates from every state except Missouri. Jackson won the presidential nomination unanimously.
context_section_description: Martin Van Buren was nominated for vice president on the first ballot after receiving 208 votes, well over the two-thirds majority required. Altogether, 283 of the 334 registered delegates voted.
caption: First ballot vote for the 1832 vice presidential nomination by state delegations
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