Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
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No. Democratic Party candidate James Buchanan won the 1856 presidential election. Buchanan won 19 states including all of the southern states. The southern states seceded after Republican Party candidate Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.
Lincoln's election would spell an end to slavery, so the southern states refused to add him.
The candidate who supported the Southern view in the 1860 election was John C. Breckinridge. He was nominated by the Southern Democrats and advocated for the expansion of slavery and states' rights.
In the presidential election of 1860 eleven of Southern States supported John Cabell Breckenridge, the former Vice President during Buchanan Administration.
In most states, candidates for election must submit petitions in order to have their names placed on the ballot. The petition must be signed by a large number of residents of the district in which the candidate wishes to run. In some states, political parties that meet some legal standard may directly nominate candidates to put them on the ballot.
Lincoln's election would spell an end to slavery, so the southern states refused to add him.
One is getting on the voting ballot in all the states. Another is getting a fair chance to debate the issues with people from the other parties.
The president received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election.
The President received no electoral votes from Southern states in the election
Actually, Lincoln was on the ballot in Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri.The Northern (free) states comprised 183 electoral votes (60.4%). The Southern (slave) states comprised just 120 electoral votes (39.6%). Lincoln won every free state except New Jersey.
The election of Lincoln caused the southern states to hold their own independent election. This was done in opposition of Abraham Lincoln being the president of the United States.