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1876 United States presidential election in Iowa
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1876 United States presidential election
1876 United States presidential election in Iowa presidential no 1872 United States presidential election in Iowa 1872 1880 United States presidential election in Iowa 1880 24.57% 6.45 pp1876 Presidential Election Results Iowa turnout https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=5968 November 7, 1876 x200px President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880 Restored (cropped).jpg Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Party (United States) Ohio William A. Wheeler 11 171,326 58.50% SamuelJonesTilden.jpg Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Party (United States) New York Thomas A. Hendricks 0 112,121 38.28% President Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Party (United States) 1876 United States presidential election in Iowa results map by county.svg 312px County results
Hayes
#f2b3be 40–50%
#e27f90 50–60%
#cc2f4a 60–70%
#d40000 70–80%
#aa0000 80–90%
#800000 90–100%
Tilden
#b9d7ff 40–50%
#86b6f2 50–60%
#4389e3 60–70%
The 1876 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 7, 1876, as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.1876 Presidential Election Results Iowa https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1876&off=0&elect=0&fips=19&f=0
Iowa was won by Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio (R-Ohio), running with Representative William A. Wheeler, with 58.50% of the vote, against Samuel J. Tilden, the former governor of New York (D–New York), running with Thomas A. Hendricks, the governor of Indiana and future vice president, with 38.28% of the popular vote.
The Greenback Party chose industrialist Peter Cooper and former representative Samuel Fenton Cary, received 3.22% of the vote. Iowa gave the Greenbacks both their largest number of total votes and percentage and Iowa would later be the last bastion of the congressional Greenbacks who held a House seat until 1889.
Results
1876 United States presidential election in Iowa
Republican Party (United States)
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ohio
William A. Wheeler
New York
171,326
58.50%
11
100.00%
Democratic Party (United States)
Samuel J. Tilden
New York
Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
112,121
38.28%
0
0.00%
Greenback Party
Peter Cooper
New York
Samuel Fenton Cary
Ohio
9,431
3.22%
0
0.00%
292,878
100.00%
11
100.00%
See also
United States presidential elections in Iowa
References
Iowa
1876
Category:1876 Iowa elections