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In the election of 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio defeated Democrat Samuel J. Tilden of New York in one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in the nation's history. [12] The early results indicated a Democratic victory, but the electoral votes of several Southern states were disputed bitterly.
The Greenbacks' best showings were in Kansas, where Cooper earned just over six percent of the vote, and in Indiana, where he earned 17,207 votes, which far exceeded Tilden's margin of victory of roughly 5,500 votes over Hayes in that state. The election of 1876 was the last one held before the end of the Reconstruction era, which sought to ...
The voter returns accepted by the Commission put Hayes' margin of victory in Oregon at 1,057 votes, Florida at 922 votes, Louisiana at 4,807 votes, and South Carolina at 889 votes; the closest popular vote margin in a decisive state in U.S. history until the presidential election of 2000.
The 1824 election was the first in which the popular vote was first fully recorded and reported. Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election, the popular vote of presidential elections has been decided by single ...
Election day: November 7: Incumbent president: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) Next Congress: 45th: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican hold: Popular vote margin: Democratic +3.2%: Electoral vote: Rutherford B. Hayes (R) 185: Samuel J. Tilden (D) 184: 1876 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Hayes, blue ...
In the November 1876 United States presidential election, Samuel J. Tilden received 184 uncontested electoral votes and Rutherford B. Hayes received 165, with 185 votes necessary for a majority. Four states (Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina) returned disputed slates of presidential electors with a total of 20 electoral votes at stake.
Now, they use a survey called APVoteCast, accounting for the rise in votes cast before election day. ... In 2020, South Carolina didn’t hold a Republican presidential primary. In 2016, Trump won ...
Prior to the election of 1824, most states did not have a popular vote. In the election of 1824, only 18 of the 24 states held a popular vote, but by the election of 1828, 22 of the 24 states held a popular vote. Minor candidates are excluded if they received fewer than 100,000 votes or less than 0.1% of the vote in their election year.