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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.

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