In the election of 1858, democrat Stephen A. Douglas from IL ran for reelection to the senate and republican Abraham Lincoln ran against him. Douglas won, but Lincoln became a national figure.
The 1856 Republican Nominee for U. S. President, the first Republican Presidential Nominee, was John C. Fremont. The Republicans were a new party in 1856 and could not compete with the well-established Democratic Party organization. The Democrats won 45% of the popular vote and carried 19 states. The Republicans won 33% and carried 14 states, all in the North. There was also a competing third-party, the "Know-Nothings" who got 21.6% of the popular vote and actually carried Maryland.
Republican Party candidate James Garfield won the 1880 presidential election defeating Democratic Party candidate Winfield Hancock.
What candidate and party did Fillmore support in the 1864 election
Stephen Douglas
Ross Perot was the Reform Party candidate in the 1996 presidential election.
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Ross Perot was the Reform Party candidate in the 1996 presidential election.
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Lincoln lost
A presidential election is won by the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College.
Barack Obama , Democratic candidate, won re-election in 2012.
Stephen A. Douglas was not a candidate when Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election in 1864. The only times Lincoln ran against Douglas were in the 1858 election for U.S. Senator from Illinois, which Douglas won with 54% of the vote, and the 1860 election for U.S. President, which Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
In 1924, the republican candidate for the presidency was Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge won the election with 54 percent of the vote.
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were the two participants in the great debate over slavery prior to the election of 1858.