Nationwide except for South Carolina, which was not yet using popular vote as its method for elector selection, Abraham Lincoln's total of popular votes in 1860 was about 39.65% of votes cast. He is the only person known to have received a majority of electoral votes with less than 40% of the nationwide popular votes.
Nationwide except for South Carolina, which was not yet using popular vote as its method for elector selection, Abraham Lincoln's total of popular votes in 1860 was about 39.65% of votes cast. He is the only person known to have received a majority of electoral votes with less than 40% of the nationwide popular votes.
Abraham Lincoln received just under forty percent of the popular vote in the 1860 US presidential election.
Abraham Lincoln received just under forty percent of the popular vote in the 1860 US presidential election.
New York City was a bastion of Democrat power in 1860. Abraham Lincoln received 35% of the vote there in 1860.
a bit less than 40%
55.03% of the nationwide popular vote in the 1864 U.S. Presidential Election was in favor of Abraham Lincoln.
The person who won the 1864 presidential election was Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas. Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan.
Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in the 1864 presidential election. He succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865.
Stephen A. Douglas, who Abraham Lincoln defeated in the 1860 Presidential Election, defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 U.S. Senate Election in Illinois.
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Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Mississippi in the 1860 presidential election.
There was no U.S. presidential election in 1866. Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan. Ulysses S. Grant won the 1868 presidential election defeating Horatio Seymour.
Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln won reelection in the 1864 presidential election defeating George McClellan. In the 1864 presidential election Abraham Lincoln received 212 electoral votes and George McClellan received 21 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Lincoln 2,218,388 and McClellan 1,812,807.
Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.
Ulysses S. Grant supported Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.