Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is the electoral history of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served one term in the United States House of Representatives from Illinois (1847–1849). He later served as the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865).[1]
Contents
Illinois House of Representatives
- 1832 - Lost
- 1834 - Won
- 1836 - Won
- 1838 - Won
- 1840 - Won
United States House of Representatives
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1844 - Lost Whig Party nomination to Edward Dickinson Baker
1846 elections
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | Abraham Lincoln | 6,340 | 55.53 | ||
Democratic | Peter Cartwright | 4,829 | 42.29 | ||
Liberty | Elihu Walcott | 249 | 2.18 | ||
Majority | |||||
Whig hold |
Illinois House of Representatives
1854 - Wins seat in Illinois House of Representatives, declines seat to focus on future candidacy for United States Senate[3]
1854 Senate election
- Note: At this time, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislatures, not by vote of the people
Candidate | Round 1 | ... | Round 7 | Round 8 | Round 9 | Round 10 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lyman Trumbull, Democrat | 5 | ? | ? | 35 | 51 | |
Joel Matteson, Democrat | 0 | 44 | 46 | 47 | ? | |
Abraham Lincoln, Whig | 45 | ? | ? | 15 | Withdrew | |
James Shields (inc.), Democrat | 41 | ? | ? | ? | Withdrew |
51 votes needed for election
- Candidate won that Round of voting
- Candidate withdrew
- Candidate won Senate seat
Note: Five anti-Nebraska Act Democrats voted for Trumbull rather than vote for Lincoln, a Whig. When pro-Nebraska Act Democrats were unable to reelect Shields, they switched their allegiance to Matteson, who had no stance on the Act. Lincoln then withdrew and threw his support to Trumbull, so that an anti-Nebraska candidate would be assured victory.[4][5]
1856 Presidential election
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Vice presidential nomination for the Republican Party
- William Lewis Dayton: 523 (64.73%)
- Abraham Lincoln: 110 (13.61%)
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks: 46 (5.69%)
- David Wilmot: 43 (5.32%)
- Charles Sumner: 35 (4.33%)
- Jacob Collamer: 15 (1.86%)
- John Alsop King: 9 (1.11%)
- Samuel C. Pomeroy: 8 (0.99%)
- Thomas Ford: 7 (0.87%)
- Henry Charles Carey: 3 (0.37%)
- Cassius M. Clay: 3 (0.37%)
- Joshua R. Giddings: 2 (0.25%)
- Whitfield Johnson: 2 (0.25%)
- Aaron Pennington: 1 (0.12%)
- Henry Wilson: 1 (0.12%)
- Wyatt Gauger. 1(0.8%)
1858 Senate election
- Note: At this time, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislatures, not by vote of the people
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Stephen A. Douglas (inc.) | 54 | 54.00 | ||
Republican | Abraham Lincoln | 46 | 46.00 | ||
Majority | 8 | 8.00 | |||
Democratic hold |
1860 Presidential election
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Republican Party nomination
Nominee | Home State | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd "corrected" |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William H. Seward | New York | 173.5 | 184.5 | 180 | 111.5 |
Abraham Lincoln | Illinois | 102 | 181 | 231.5 | 349 |
Simon Cameron | Pennsylvania | 50.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Salmon P. Chase | Ohio | 49 | 42.5 | 24.5 | 2 |
Edward Bates | Missouri | 48 | 35 | 22 | 0 |
William L. Dayton | New Jersey | 14 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
John McLean | Ohio | 12 | 8 | 5 | 0.5 |
Jacob Collamer | Vermont | 10 | 0 | - | - |
Benjamin F. Wade | Ohio | 3 | 0 | - | - |
John M. Read | Pennsylvania | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Charles Sumner | Massachusetts | 1 | 0 | - | - |
John C. Fremont | California | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Cassius M. Clay | Kentucky | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Upon seeing how close Lincoln was to the 233 votes needed after the third ballot, a delegate from Ohio switched 4 votes from Chase to Lincoln. This triggered an avalanche towards Lincoln with a final count of 364 votes out of 466 cast.[6]
General election
Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote(a) | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
Abraham Lincoln | Republican | Illinois | 1,865,908 | 39.8% | 180 | Hannibal Hamlin | Maine | 180 |
John C. Breckinridge | Southern Democratic | Kentucky | 848,019 | 18.1% | 72 | Joseph Lane | Oregon | 72 |
John Bell | Constitutional Union/Whig | Tennessee | 590,901 | 12.6% | 39 | Edward Everett | Massachusetts | 39 |
Stephen A. Douglas | Northern Democratic | Illinois | 1,380,202 | 29.5% | 12 | Herschel Vespasian Johnson | Georgia | 12 |
Other | 531 | 0.0% | — | Other | — | |||
Total | 4,685,561 | 100% | 303 | 303 | ||||
Needed to win | 152 | 152 |
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(a) The popular vote figures exclude South Carolina where the Electors were chosen by the state legislature rather than by popular vote.
1864 presidential election
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Republican Party nomination
Presidential Ballot | ||
Ballot | 1st Before Shifts | 1st After Shifts |
---|---|---|
Abraham Lincoln | 484 | 506 |
Ulysses S. Grant | 22 | 0 |
General election
Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote(a) | Electoral vote(a), (b) |
Running mate | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote(a), (b) | ||||
Abraham Lincoln | National Union(c) | Illinois | 2,218,388 | 55.0% | 212 | Andrew Johnson(c) | Tennessee | 212 |
George Brinton McClellan | Democratic | New Jersey | 1,812,807 | 45.0% | 21 | George Hunt Pendleton | Ohio | 21 |
Other | 692 | 0.0% | — | Other | — | |||
Total | 4,031,887 | 100% | 233 | 233 | ||||
Needed to win | 117 | 117 |
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(b) One Elector from Nevada did not vote
(c) Andrew Johnson had been a Democrat, and after 1869 was a Democrat. The Republican Party called itself the National Union Party to accommodate the War Democrats in this election.
See also
- Lincoln and Liberty, Lincoln's 1860 campaign song
References
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External links
- Abraham Lincoln Reviews His Electoral Record Up to 1849, ALS Shapell Manuscript Foundation