He recieved a plurality of the popular vote and a majority of the electoral vote.
Andrew Johnson, who became president upon Lincoln's death , ran with Lincoln in 1864.
Lincoln's major objective was to preserve the union, which was threatened after South Carolina seceded from the union.
Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.
Voters cast a single vote for both the President and the Vice President.
because it did.
November 6, 1860.
The state of South Carolina seceded from the USA, followed by six others before Lincoln's inauguration.
As soon as the result was in, South Carolina seceded from the United States.
Four days after Lincoln's election, South Carolina called for a special convention to consider secession.
The weakness in the election process is that the president and vice president would be elected from different parties and this flaw reveals that farmers aren’t completely into the president.
Barack Obama won the president election for 2012.
because they thought that he was going to keep slavery