Presidential election in the United States 1880

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24. Presidential election
November 2, 1880

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Republican Party
James Garfield / Chester Arthur
electors 214  
be right 4,446,158  
  
48.3%
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Democratic Party
Winfield Hancock / William English
electors 155  
be right 4,444,260  
  
48.2%

Election results by state
Map of election results by state
  19 states  
Garfield / Arthur
  19 states  
Hancock / English

President of the United States
Before the election
Rutherford Hayes
Republican Party

The 1880 presidential election in the United States was largely viewed as a referendum on the republican "détente and reconstruction effort" in the southern states.

In order to keep the promise he made during the 1876 campaign, President Rutherford B. Hayes did not stand for re-election. The Republican Party chose James A. Garfield as its candidate; his running mate was Chester A. Arthur . The Democrats nominated Civil War general Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English as the vice-presidential candidate . They missed their goal of winning several northern states and thus gaining a majority. Although Garfield only had 2,000 more votes than Hancock, he was appointed president thanks to his clear lead on the electoral body . To date, apart from the five cases (most recently in 2016 ) in which the elected president received fewer votes, it is the narrowest popular vote victory in American history.

Result

Results in the counties : In counties colored blue the Democrat Winfield S. Hancock won , in counties colored red James A. Garfield received the majority of the votes. In counties colored green , James B. Weaver got a majority of the votes. The darker the color, the stronger the lead.
candidate Political party be right electors
number percent
James A. Garfield republican 4,446,158 48.27% 214
Winfield S. Hancock democrat 4,444,260 48.25% 155
James B. Weaver Greenback 305.997 3.32% 0
Neal S. Dow Prohibitionist 10.305 0.11% 0
John W. Phelps Know nothing 707 0.01% 0
total 9,211,058 100% 369

Despite the narrow margin of 2,000 votes (0.02 percent), James Garfield managed to get a clear majority in the Electoral College. He achieved this, among other things, by winning in the so-called Swing States : In New York and Connecticut , the gap between Garfield and Winfield S. Hancock was less than two percent. These two states were still able to win the Democrats in the elections in 1876.

Moreover reached James B. Weaver of the Greenback Party still a relatively good result. He was able to achieve more than ten percent of the votes in Iowa and Texas and also achieved a relative or absolute majority of the votes in some counties. The candidates for the Prohibition Party and the Know-Nothing Party remained basically insignificant and nowhere did they achieve a share of more than 0.4 percent of the vote.

Results in the states

The following table lists the results of the three top-voting candidates (in percent) in each state.

Country Garfield Hancock Weaver electors
Alabama 37.1 60.0 2.9 10
Arkansas 38.7 56.1 3.8 6th
Colorado 51.3 46.0 2.7 3
Connecticut 50.5 48.5 0.7 6th
Delaware 48.0 51.5 0.4 3
Florida 45.8 54.2 - 4th
Georgia 34.6 65.4 - 11
Illinois 51.1 44.6 4.2 21st
Indiana 49.3 47.9 2.8 15th
Iowa 57.0 32.8 10.0 11
California 48.9 49.0 2.1 6th
Kansas 60.4 29.7 9.9 5
Kentucky 39.9 55.7 4.3 12
Louisiana 37.3 62.3 0.4 8th
Maine 51.5 45.3 3.1 7th
Maryland 45.6 54.4 - 8th
Massachusetts 58.5 39.6 - 13
Michigan 52.5 37.3 9.9 11
Minnesota 62.3 35.4 2.2 5
Mississippi 29.8 64.7 5.0 8th
Missouri 38.7 52.5 8.8 15th
Nebraska 62.9 32.6 4.5 3
Nevada 47.6 57.7 - 3
New Hampshire 51.9 47.2 0.6 5
New Jersey 49.0 49.8 1.1 9
new York 50.3 48.2 1.1 35
North Carolina 48.0 51.6 0.5 10
Ohio 51.7 47.0 0.9 22nd
Oregon 50.5 48.9 0.6 3
Pennsylvania 50.8 46.6 0.4 29
Rhode Island 62.2 36.9 0.8 3
South carolina 34.1 65.5 0.3 7th
Tennessee 44.3 53.3 2.5 12
Texas 24.0 64.7 11.3 8th
Vermont 69.8 28.2 1.9 5
Virginia 39.5 60.5 - 11
West Virginia 41.1 51.0 8.0 5
Wisconsin 54.0 42.9 3.0 10
total 48.3 48.2 3.3 369

literature

  • Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 219-228 (= Chapter 26: James A. Garfield's Election. ).

Web links

Commons : US Presidential Election 1880  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. In Electoral College , Hancock received five votes, Garfield one