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Democratic Candidates:

Northern Democrats: Stephen Douglas

Southern Democrats: John C. Breckinridge

Republican Candidates:

Abraham Lincoln

John Bell

November of 1860, Abe became our 16th President.

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John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. In the 1960 presidential election John F. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes, Richard Nixon received 219 electoral votes, and Harry Byrd received 15 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Kennedy 34,226,731 and Nixon 34,108,157.

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Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4%), John Breckinridge received 72 electoral votes, John Bell received 39 electoral votes, and Stephen Douglas received 12 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 1,865,908 (39.8%), Breckinridge 848,019 (18.1%), Bell 590,901 (12.6%), and Douglas 1,380,202 (29.5%). Lincoln received his 180 electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

Lincoln received electoral votes from the following states: California 4, Connecticut 6, Illinois 11, Indiana 13, Iowa 4, Maine 8, Massachusetts 13, Michigan 6, Minnesota 4, New Hampshire 5, New Jersey 4 of the 7 electoral votes, New York 35, Ohio 23, Oregon 3, Pennsylvania 27, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 5, and Washington 5.

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LOL, GEE, I WONDER WHEN THE ELECTION OF 1860 WAS!!! HMMM, LETS THINK ABOUT THAT REAL HARD...

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The Democratic Party had split into two factions, Northern and Southern. So the newly-formed Republican Party, under the little-known prairie lawyer Lincoln, was bound to win.

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I'm pretty sure it was in... 1860.

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