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In the 1860 presidential election, Lincoln did not win in the State of Kentucky. The winner there was John Breckenridge.
States in the South seceded from the Union (apex)
The Democrats had split into two factions - a North and a South wing - so the newly-formed Republican Party was bound to win the 1860 election. Lincoln had been nominated as its first presidential candidate because he was moderate on slavery.
Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate was elected US president in 1860. His running mate was Hannibal Hamlin from Maine. The was the first time that a Republican president was elected.This was true, what deflates and at the same time credits, the accomplishment was that the Republican Party was less than 10 years old.
Because the Democratic Party had split into two factions (North and South) and the Republicans were bound to win the 1860 election, with their first President, Abraham Lincoln, who would not allow the creation of any more slave-states.