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[2] [3] Tilden's 50.9% is the largest share of the popular vote received by a candidate who was not elected to the presidency, and was the only presidential election in U.S. history in which the losing candidate won a majority of the popular vote. Tilden was also the last person to win a majority of the popular vote until William McKinley in ...
The 1876 presidential election was heavily contested, and saw the highest turnout of voting age population in American history, 81.8%. [3] [4] Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York won the Democratic nomination on the second ballot of the 1876 Democratic National Convention, defeating Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks and a handful of other candidates.
The 1876 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 7, 1876, as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
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The 1876 presidential election ends indecisively with 184 Electoral College votes for Samuel J. Tilden, 165 for Rutherford B. Hayes, and 20 in dispute. The new president (Hayes) is not decided until 1877. A failed grave robbery of the Lincoln Tomb takes place this night. November 10 – The Centennial Exposition ends in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Jersey voted for the Democratic nominee, Samuel J. Tilden, over the Republican nominee, Rutherford B. Hayes. Tilden won the state by a narrow margin of 5.65%.
Harris supporters await results at Howard University election night party in 'the Yard' ... nine of the last 10 presidential elections, ... include 1876, in which Rutherford B. Hayes won by just ...
Mississippi voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. [2] Mississippi was won by Samuel J. Tilden, the former governor of New York (D–New York), running with Thomas A. Hendricks, the governor of Indiana and future vice president, with 68.08% of the popular vote ...