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Wybory prezydenckie w USA w 1852 roku – 17 wybory na urząd prezydenta i wiceprezydenta w Stanach Zjednoczonych, które odbyły się we wtorek 2 listopada 1852 roku. Wybory podobne do tych z roku 1844. Jeszcze raz urzędujący prezydent pochodził z Partii Wigów zostajac wybranym po smierci swojego poprzednika. W tym wypadku był to Millard Fillmore ktory zastapil Generała Zachary'ego Taylor'a. Partia Wigów zastapila urzedujacego prezydenta Fillmore'a Generalem Winfieldem Scottem. Demokraci nominowali czarnego konia Franklina Piercea. Partia Wigów ponownie prowadzila kampanie oparta na niejasnosciach kandydata demokratow i znowu taka strategia zawiodla.
Pierce and his running mate William R. King went on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, defeating Scott and his running mate, William Alexander Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42. In the aftermath of this overwhelming defeat the Whig Party rapidly collapsed as a national political force as internal tensions regarding the issue of slavery caused mass abandonment of the party, resulting in the party's failure to nominate a candidate for President in 1856, making 1852 the last presidential election in which the Whig Party participated.
Pierce's substantial margin of victory did not signal the dawn of a new era of political dominance for the Democrats. The Whigs were soon replaced as the Democratic Party's primary opposition by the new Republican Party, which became the dominant force in American Presidential politics for decades to come after the late 1850s. No presidential candidate from the Democratic party would again win a majority in both the popular and electoral vote until 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Herbert Hoover. Pierce himself would prove to be a largely ineffectual President and was denied his own party's nomination in 1856 in favor of James Buchanan (who would also serve just one term in office).
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