1852 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 1852 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Georgia party leaders had formed a Unionist coalition in response to what they saw as pointental threats to the South, forming a majority of delegates sent to a convention called in response to the admission of California. At the convention, they issued the Georgia Platform, stating that while they supported the Compromise of 1850, it was the "final solution." Opposing them was the anti-Union "Resistance".

In the aftermath of this convention, the coalition formed the Constitutional Union Party, while the resistance became the Southern Rights Party of Georgia. The former party was divided between former Democrat and former Whig factions, even sending delegates to their previous national affiliation's conventions. The Southern Rights Party also sent delegates to the Democratic convention with a slate of secessionists, though they ultimately supported the Pierce ticket.

When the next Constitutional Union convention nominated Pierce, anti-Pierce/anti-Scott Whigs walked out of the convention. These dissenting Whigs hoped to nominate Daniel Webster and throw the election into the House of Representatives, which they proceeded to do at a convention in Macon without permission from Webster. Webster died of natural causes shortly before the election. Simultaneously, pro-Winfield Scott Whigs nominated their preferred candidate at a separate convention in Macon. After these conventions, the Democratic majority of the Constitutional Union Party dissolved the party. Democrats who did not wish to vote for a Southern Rights Party-sponsored ticket fielded their own Pierce ticket.

In the end, the Southern Rights-Democrat ticket swept the other three competeing tickets, showing that while the "majority of voters in Georgia accepted the Compromise of 1850 as a settlement of past difficulties," according to historian Murray, "they would demand more specific recognition of "Southern Rights" as a basis for future action."