republican
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln was the Republican. He ran against Stephen Douglas, a Democrat in 1858. Douglas won.
Democrat Peter Cartwright, an itinerant Methodist preacher
Illinois
the republican party
It was Stephen Douglass and John C. Breckenridge who he was going against.
Lincoln was the nominee for the young Republican Party. He ran against Stephen Douglas, a northern Democrat. Also running was John C. Breckinridge, a Southern Pro-Slavery Democrat and John Bell, Constitutional Union Party. Lincoln defeated them all in November of 1860. The split within the Democratic Party led to the election of Abraham Lincoln to the US presidency.
In the electoral campaign of 1860, Lincoln was nominated by the Republican Party to run for President against Steven A. Douglas.
Illinois
In the 1984 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln ran against George B. McClellan, a Democrat. Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
NO- he was not a candidate for President. However, at the 1888 Republican Convention he did receive a vote for the Republican nomination.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1858 Republican Party nomination for senator for Illinois.