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Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election defeating 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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∙ 10y agoDemocrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the Constitutional Union Party ran all against Lincoln in 1860.
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Who wanted slavery abolished in the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln ran in the election of 1856 against Fredrick Douglass and wanted slavery stoped.
Who ran for the presidency in 1860?
President Lincoln won the election of 1860. ---- -Buslog
Whom did George Washington defeat in his election?
Washington did not have any serious opponents. No one actively ran against him.
What was Stephen Douglas activities?
Stephen Douglas was a prominent American politician who served as a U.S. Senator and played a key role in shaping the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He was a leading figure in the Democratic Party and was known for his advocacy of popular sovereignty in determining whether new states should allow slavery. Douglas also ran for president in 1860, ultimately losing to Abraham Lincoln.
When was Abraham Lincoln nominated presisent?
Lincoln ran in the election of 1860.
Who ran in election of 1864?
Lincoln ran against former commander McDowell.
Did Lincoln beat Douglas in a landslide during the reelection?
Stephen A. Douglas was not a candidate when Abraham Lincoln ran for re-election in 1864. The only times Lincoln ran against Douglas were in the 1858 election for U.S. Senator from Illinois, which Douglas won with 54% of the vote, and the 1860 election for U.S. President, which Lincoln won with 55% of the vote.
Who ran against Obama in his second term?
Senator John McCain ran against Barack Obama for what became Obama's second term.
Who ran against Hitler in the election?
Paul Von Hindenburg
Was John Breckinridge a presidential candidate in 1860?
No, he ran for U.S. President in 1860 as the Democratic Party's southern candidate.
Who ran against Herbert Hoover in 1928?
Alfred Emanual Smith ran against Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election.
Was John Bell the nominee of the southern democrats in the election of 1860?
No, John C. Breckinridge was the nominee of the Southern Democrats in the election of 1860. John Bell was the nominee of the Constitutional Union Party.
