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Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election. Opposition to Lincoln was divided with 3 candidates challenging him. Lincoln won 39.8% of the popular vote and defeated John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. In the 1860 presidential election Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln received 180 electoral votes (59.4%), Southern Democratic candidate John Breckinridge from Kentucky received 72 electoral votes, Constitutional Party candidate John Bell from Tennessee received 39 electoral votes, and Northern Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas from Illinois received 12 electoral votes. Lincoln received his electoral votes from 18 of the 33 states. He did not receive electoral votes from any southern state. Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
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What political party was formed for the election of 1860 and what was its purpose?
The political party formed for the election of 1860 was the Constitutional Union party and their purpose was to preserve the Union.
What political party did not nominate a candidate for the election of 1860?
The Know Nothing party
Which party in the 1860 election hope to heal the political split between the north and south?
constitutional union party
What was john bell's political party?
John Bell was the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party in the 1860 U.S. presidential election.
Which political party was against the spread of slavery into new territories?
The Republican Party. (Lincoln became its first president, winning the election of 1860.)
What political party survived into 1860?
the democratic party(:
The Democratic split was so severe during the 1860 elections that?
The Democratic split was so severe during the 1860 elections that the party actually put two candidates up to run against each other in the presidential election. The candidates' names were Stephen Douglas and John Breckenridge.
What happen in the 1860 election year?
Lincoln won the election and the Republican Party was established.
Why were the north and the south two distinct political entitles in the 1860 election?
Because the Democratic Party had split into two wings - North and South. So the Republican Party was bound to win.
How did the Democratic Party split affect the election of 1860?
they didint
What party and candidate did Massachusetts support in that election in 1860?
Massachusetts voted Abraham Lincoln of the Republican party in the 1860 elections.
What did presidential candidate during the election of 1860?
Constitutional Party candidate John Bell condemned sectional political parties and sectional strife in the U.S. Senate.
