1864 United States presidential election

Re-election of Abraham Lincoln November 2013 February 2023related races 1864 United States elections 1864 United States presidential election United States 1863 presidential no 1860 United States presidential election 1860 1868 United States presidential election 1868 234 members"Abstention of One Elector" 234 electors were permitted to cast votes; however, an elector from Nevada pledged to the Lincoln/Johnson ticket was snowbound and unable to cast a vote for President or Vice President, bringing the total number of electoral votes cast to 233.Rocha Guy Nevada Myths https://nsla.nv.gov/myths Nevada State Library and Archives 22 April 2021 2 September 8, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220908135411/https://nsla.nv.gov/myths dead (+17 invalidated)"Louisiana and Tennessee Electoral Votes" Elections were held in the Union-occupied military districts in the states of Louisiana and Tennessee, but no electoral votes were counted from them. of the Electoral College 118 electoral 73.8% http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections The American Presidency Project UC Santa Barbara 7.4 pp November 8, 1864 x200px Abraham Lincoln O-84 by Brady, 1864 (Cropped).jpg Abraham Lincoln National Union Party (United States) Illinois Andrew Johnson 212 (+17 invalidated)"Abstention of One Elector""Louisiana and Tennessee Electoral Votes" 22 (+2 invalidated) 2,218,388 55.0% GeorgeMcClellan2 (3x4 cropped).jpg George B. McClellan Democratic Party (United States) New Jersey George H. Pendleton 21 3 1,812,807 45.0% 350px Presidential election results map. Dark Red denotes states won by Lincoln/Johnson, Blue denotes those won by McClellan/Pendleton, and Maroon denotes non-voting Confederate states. The seceded states of Louisiana and Tennessee, which had recently been captured from Confederate control, held elections; however, no electoral votes were counted from either of them due to their allegiance to the Confederacy. One of Nevada's three electors was snowbound and unable to cast a vote for President or Vice President.Rocha Guy Nevada Myths https://nsla.nv.gov/myths Nevada State Library and Archives 22 April 2021 2 September 8, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220908135411/https://nsla.nv.gov/myths dead Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state. President Abraham Lincoln Republican Party (United States) Abraham Lincoln National Union Party (United States) Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War. Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party broadly defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote. For the election, the Republican Party and some Democrats created the National Union Party, especially to attract War Democrats. Despite some intra-party opposition from Salmon Chase and the Radical Republicans, Lincoln won his party's nomination at the 1864 National Union National Convention. Rather than re-nominate Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, the convention selected Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, a War Democrat, as Lincoln's running mate. John C. Frémont, who had been the Republican nominee in 1856, started to run as the nominee of the new Radical Democratic Party, with War Democrat John Cochrane as Frémont's running mate; the new party criticized Lincoln for being too moderate on the issue of racial equality, but Frémont and Cochrane withdrew from the race in September and their new party dissolved. The Democrats were divided between the Copperheads, who favored immediate peace with the Confederacy, and War Democrats, who supported the war. The 1864 Democratic National Convention nominated McClellan, a War Democrat, but adopted a platform advocating peace with the Confederacy, which McClellan rejected, although his running mate George H. Pendleton wrote it. While the Confederacy seemed to have survival potential in summer 1864, it was visibly collapsing by election day in November. Despite his early fears of defeat, Lincoln won strong majorities in the popular and electoral vote, partly as a result of the recent Union victory at the Battle of Atlanta.Davis William C. https://books.google.com/books?id=g2Vi9B5e2XYC&pg=PA211 Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln became Father to an Army and a Nation Simon and Schuster 1999 0-684-83337-9 211 William C. Davis (historian) The public entrusted Lincoln with another term in spite of widespread revulsion at the death toll in the Wilderness Campaign. Republicans had found success in gubernatorial races in Ohio and Pennsylvania by attracting the votes of furloughed soldiers. In order to copy the same success nationally, thirteen Union states allowed their citizens serving as soldiers in the field to cast ballots. Four additional Union states allowed "proxy" absentee voting. "By margins of three to one or better, the soldiers lined up behind Lincoln." In every state, those returning home influenced their friends and family. For an alternative account of army voting, see W. Dean Burnham, "Presidential Ballots: 1836–1892", pp. 260–83. Out of the 40,247 Army votes cast in seven states, Lincoln carried six of them with 30,503 votes (75.8%). As the Civil War was still raging, no electoral votes were counted from any of the eleven southern states that had joined the Confederate States of America.Donald David Herbert Jean Harvey Baker Michael F. Holt The Civil War and Reconstruction New York W. W. Norton & Company 2001 427 https://books.google.com/books?id=OqhxQgAACAAJ&pg=PA427 9780393974270 Lincoln's re-election ensured that he would preside over the successful conclusion of the Civil War. Lincoln's victory made him the first president to win re-election since Andrew Jackson in 1832, as well as the first Northern president to ever win re-election. Lincoln was assassinated six weeks into his second term. He was succeeded by his vice president, Andrew Johnson, who favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the former slaves. This led to conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, culminating in Johnson's impeachment by the House of Representatives in 1868; he was acquitted in the Senate by one vote. Background The 1864 presidential election took place during the American Civil War. According to the Miller Center for the study of the presidency, the election was noteworthy for occurring at all, an unprecedented democratic exercise in the midst of a civil war.http://millercenter.org/president/biography/lincoln-campaigns-and-elections Abraham Lincoln: Campaigns and Elections University of Virginia American President: A Reference Resource October 4, 2016 November 20, 2016 A group of Republican dissidents who called themselves Radical Republicans formed a party named the Radical Democratic Party and nominated John C. Frémont as their candidate for president. Frémont later withdrew and endorsed Lincoln. War Democrats joined with Republicans as the National Union Party, with Lincoln at the head of the ticket.Martis, Kenneth C., "Atlas of the Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789–1989" 0-02-920170-5 p. 117. Altogether they elected 9 Senators and 25 Representatives in Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The National Union Party was a temporary name used to attract War Democrats and Southern Border State Unionists who would not vote for the Republican Party. It faced off against the regular Democratic Party, including Peace Democrats. Nominations The 1864 presidential election conventions of the parties are considered below in order of the party's popular vote. National Union Party nomination 1864 National Union National Convention National Union Party (United States) 1864 National Union Party ticket white Abraham Lincoln white Andrew Johnsonfor Presidentfor Vice President center|200x200px center|200x200px 16thPresident of the United States(1861–1865) Military Governor of Tennessee(1862–1865) National Union candidates: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant, Commanding General from Illinois National Union Party presidential candidates gallery National Union Party vice presidential candidates gallery Temporary split in the Republican Party 1864 Republican National Convention As the Civil War progressed, political opinions within the Republican Party began to diverge. Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson from Massachusetts wanted the Republican Party to advocate constitutional amendments to prohibit slavery and guarantee racial equality before the law. Initially, not all northern Republicans supported such measures. Democratic leaders hoped that the radical Republicans would put forth their own ticket in the election. The New York World newspaper, particularly interested in undermining the National Union Party, ran a series of articles predicting a delay for the National Union Convention until late in 1864 to allow Frémont time to collect delegates to win the nomination. Frémont supporters in New York City established a newspaper called the New Nation, which declared in one of its initial issues that the National Union Convention would be a "nonentity". The New York World also published false information (further purported by Samuel S. Cox) to limit Lincoln's popularity.Guilford Gwynn Fake news isn't a new problem in the US—it almost destroyed Abraham Lincoln https://qz.com/842816/fake-news-almost-destroyed-abraham-lincoln/ Quartz Quartz (publication) https://web.archive.org/web/20200906074117/https://qz.com/842816/fake-news-almost-destroyed-abraham-lincoln/ September 6, 2020 en November 28, 2016 live this miscegenation hoax still "damn near sank Lincoln that year" National Union Party thumb|250px|Lincoln and Johnson campaign poster Before the election, some War Democrats joined the Republicans to form the National Union Party.World Book With the outcome of the Civil War still in doubt, some political leaders, including Salmon P. Chase, Benjamin Wade, and Horace Greeley, opposed Lincoln's re-nomination on the grounds that he could not win. Chase himself became the only candidate to contest Lincoln's re-nomination actively, but he withdrew in March when a slew of Republican officials, including some within the state of Ohio upon whom Chase's campaign depended, endorsed Lincoln for re-nomination. Lincoln was still popular with most members of the Republican Party, and the National Union Party nominated him for a second term as president at their convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 7–8, 1864.The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents The party platform included these goals: "pursuit of the war, until the Confederacy surrendered unconditionally; a constitutional amendment for the abolition of slavery; aid to disabled Union veterans; continued European neutrality; enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine; encouragement of immigration; and construction of a transcontinental railroad." It also praised the use of black troops and Lincoln's management of the war.http://elections.harpweek.com/1864/Overview-1864-2.htm#Convention HarpWeek | Elections | 1864 Overview Elections.harpweek.com 2013-10-12 With incumbent vice president Hannibal Hamlin remaining indifferent about the prospect of a second term in office, Andrew Johnson, the former senator from and current military governor of Tennessee, was named as Lincoln's vice presidential running-mate. He had been governor of Tennessee from 1853 to 1857 and was elected by the legislature to the Senate in 1857. In his congressional service, he sought passage of the Homestead Bill which was enacted soon after he left his Senate seat in 1862. When the Southern slave states, including Tennessee, seceded, he remained firmly with the Union. He was the only sitting senator from a Confederate state who did not resign his seat upon learning of his state's secession. In 1862, Lincoln appointed him as military governor of Tennessee after most of it had been retaken. In 1864, Johnson was a logical choice as running mate for Lincoln, who wished to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign, especially to ensure the electoral votes of the border states. Others who were considered for the nomination, at one point or another, were former Senator Daniel Dickinson, Major General Benjamin Butler, Major General William Rosecrans, Joseph Holt, and former Treasury Secretary and Senator John Dix. Democratic Party nomination 1864 Democratic National Convention 1864 Democratic Party ticket white George B. McClellan white George H. Pendletonfor Presidentfor Vice President center|200x200px center|200x200px 4thCommanding General of the U.S. Army(1861–1862) U.S. Representativefor Ohio's 1st(1857–1865)Campaign Democratic presidential candidates: George B. McClellan, General from New Jersey Thomas H. Seymour, Former Governor of Connecticut Democratic Party candidates gallery Democratic Party vice presidential candidates gallery thumbnail|"How the War Commenced and How Near It Is Ended" published by the National Union Executive Committee. The Democratic Party was bitterly split between War Democrats and Peace Democrats, a group further divided among competing factions. Moderate Peace Democrats who supported the war against the Confederacy, such as Horatio Seymour, were preaching the wisdom of a negotiated peace. After the Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, moderate Peace Democrats proposed a negotiated peace that would secure Union victory. They believed this was the best course of action, because an armistice could finish the war without devastating the South.They Also Ran Radical Peace Democrats known as Copperheads, such as Thomas H. Seymour, declared the war to be a failure and favored an immediate end to hostilities without securing Union victory.The American Pageant thumb|250px|McClellan and Pendleton campaign poster George B. McClellan vied for the presidential nomination. Additionally, friends of Horatio Seymour insisted on placing his name before the convention, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, on August 29–31, 1864. But on the day before the organization of that body, Horatio Seymour announced positively that he would not be a candidate. Since the Democrats were divided by issues of war and peace, they sought a strong candidate who could unify the party. The compromise was to nominate pro-war General George B. McClellan for president and anti-war Representative George H. Pendleton for vice president. McClellan, a War Democrat, was nominated for president over the Copperhead Thomas H. Seymour. Pendleton, a close associate of the Copperhead Clement Vallandigham, balanced the ticket, since he was known for having strongly opposed the Union war effort.George Pendleton. Ohio History Central (May 23, 2013). Retrieved 2013-08-17. The convention adopted a peace platformhttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29578 Democratic Party Platforms: 1864 Democratic Party Platform – a platform McClellan personally rejected.http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=258 George B. McClellan Ohio History Central 2007-03-06 McClellan supported the continuation of the war and restoration of the Union, but the party platform, written by Vallandigham, opposed this position. Radical Democratic Party nomination thumb|250px|Frémont and Cochrane campaign poster 1864 Radical Democratic National Convention Radical Democratic Party (United States) Radical Democratic Party candidates gallery Radical Democratic Party vice presidential candidates gallery The Radical Democratic Convention assembled in Ohio with delegates arriving on May 29, 1864. The New York Times reported that the hall which the convention organizers had planned to use had been double-booked by an opera troupe. Almost all delegates were instructed to support Frémont, with a major exception being the New York delegation, which was composed of War Democrats who supported Ulysses S. Grant. Various estimates of the number of delegates were reported in the press; The New York Times reported 156 delegates, but the number generally reported elsewhere was 350 delegates. The delegates came from 15 states and the District of Columbia. They adopted the name Radical Democratic Party.http://elections.harpweek.com/1864/Overview-1864-2.htm HarpWeek: Explore History, 1864: Lincoln v. McClellan 2010-05-31 A supporter of Grant was appointed chairman. The platform was passed with little discussion, and a series of resolutions that bogged down the convention proceedings were voted down decisively. The convention nominated Frémont for president, and he accepted the nomination on June 4, 1864. In his letter, he stated that he would step aside if the National Union Convention would nominate someone other than Lincoln for president. John Cochrane was nominated for vice president.Guide to U.S. Elections CQ Press 2010 978-1-60426-536-1 Kalb Deborah Washington, DC 508McKinney Effie Cleveland Convention https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/cleveland-convention May 13, 2022 Encyclopedia of Cleveland History May 11, 2018 General election thumb|left|170px|A National Union poster warns of a McClellan victory. thumb|right|An anti-McClellan poster from Harper's Weekly, drawn by Thomas Nast, showing rioters assaulting children, slave-catchers chasing runaway slaves, and a woman being sold at a slave auction. The 1864 election was the first time since 1812 that a presidential election took place during a war. For much of 1864, Lincoln himself believed he had little chance of being re-elected. Confederate forces had triumphed at the Battle of Mansfield, the Battle of Cold Harbor, the Battle of Brices Cross Roads, the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and the Battle of the Crater. In addition, the war was continuing to take a very high toll in terms of casualties with campaigns such as Grant's Overland Campaign and the perceived lack of progress. The prospect of a long and bloody war started to make the idea of "peace at all cost" offered by the Ultra Peace Democrats look more desirable. However, several political and military events eventually made Lincoln's re-election inevitable. In the first place, the Democrats had to confront the severe internal strains within their party at the Democratic National Convention. The political compromises made at the Democratic National Convention were contradictory and made McClellan's efforts to campaign seem inconsistent. Secondly, the Democratic National Convention influenced Frémont's campaign. Frémont was appalled at the Democratic platform, which he described as "union with slavery". After three weeks of discussions with Cochrane and his supporters, Frémont withdrew from the race in September 1864. In his statement, Frémont declared that winning the Civil War was too important to divide the Republican vote. Although he still felt that Lincoln was not going far enough, the defeat of McClellan was of the greatest necessity. General Cochrane, who was a War Democrat, agreed and withdrew with Frémont. On September 23, 1864, Frémont also brokered a political deal in which Lincoln removed U.S. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair from office, and on September 24 Abraham Lincoln relieved Blair of his duty as Postmaster General. McClellan's chances of victory faded after Frémont withdrew from the presidential race. right|thumb|upright=2|Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of red are for Lincoln (National Union) and shades of blue are for McClellan (Democratic). Lastly, with the fall of Atlanta on September 2, there was no longer any question that a Union military victory was inevitable and close at hand.Lowe Robert E. Lincoln, the Fall of Atlanta, and the 1864 Presidential Election Georgia Historical Quarterly 2016 100 3 260 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=119493972&site=eds-live&scope=site 14 February 2018 In the end, the Union Party mobilized the full strength of both the Republicans and the War Democrats under the slogan "Don't change horses in the middle of a stream". It was energized as Lincoln made emancipation the central issue, and state Republican parties stressed the perfidy of the Copperheads.J. G. Randall Richard Current Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure 1955 307 University of Illinois Press https://books.google.com/books?id=zSdvTJt0BpoC&pg=PA307 9780252068720 Results 24.4% of the voting age population and 76.3% of eligible voters participated in the election.Abramson Aldrich Rohde 1995 99 The American Civil War was in progress and unfinished during this election. Because eleven Southern states plus two claimed additional Southern states had declared secession from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America, only twenty-five states participated in the election. Louisiana and Tennessee had recently been re-captured. They chose presidential electors, but their votes were rejected by Congress due to having recently seceded from the Union. Both states had voted for Lincoln, so it would not have changed the result in any case. Three new states participated for the first time: Kansas, West Virginia, and Nevada. Despite Kentucky's state government never fully seceding from the Union, and Kentucky's Confederate Government that was formed at the Russellville Convention being driven from the state in 1862, the Commonwealth had an election participation rate decrease of almost 40% compared to the election of 1860.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=1864&fips=21&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state Presidential General Election Results Comparison - Kentucky Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections live https://web.archive.org/web/20060918213956/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=1864&fips=21&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state 18 September 2006 25 February 2019 McClellan won just three states: Kentucky, Delaware, and his home state of New Jersey. Lincoln won in every state he carried in 1860 except New Jersey, and also carried a state won four years earlier by Stephen Douglas (Missouri), one carried by John C. Breckinridge (Maryland) and all three newly admitted states (Kansas, Nevada and West Virginia). Altogether, 212 electoral votes were counted in Congress for Lincoln – more than enough to win the presidency even if all of the states in rebellion had participated and voted against him. This would be the last election in which a party nominee won completely different states than the previous nominee, with McClellan flipping Kentucky and New Jersey, while having lost Missouri. Lincoln was highly popular with soldiers and they in turn recommended him to their families back home.Phillip Shaw Paludan, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas, 1994) pp. 274–93Oscar O. Winther, "The Soldier Vote in the Election of 1864", New York History (1944) 25: 440–58 The following states allowed soldiers to cast ballots: California, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Out of the 40,247 army votes cast, Lincoln received 30,503 (75.8%) and McClellan 9,201 (22.9%), with the rest (543 votes) scattering (1.3%). Only soldiers from Kentucky gave McClellan a majority of their votes, and he carried the army vote in the state by a vote of 2,823 (70.3%) to 1,194 (29.7%).Presidential Ballots: 1836–1892, W. Dean Burnham, pp. 260–83 Of the 1,129 counties making returns, Lincoln won in 728 (64.5%), while McClellan carried 400 (35.4%). One county (0.1%) in Iowa split evenly between Lincoln and McClellan. This was the last election the Republicans won in Maryland until 1896.Counting the Votes; Maryland https://web.archive.org/web/20171107030833/http://www.countingthevotes.com/maryland November 7, 2017 File: United States Electoral College 1864.svg (a) (a), (b), (c) Abraham Lincoln (incumbent) Andrew Johnson National Union Illinois Tennessee 2,218,388 55.02% 212(b) George B. McClellan George H. Pendleton Democratic New Jersey Ohio 1,812,807 44.96% 21 658 0.02% 4,031,887 233(b) 118(b) Source (Popular Vote): 1864 July 27, 2005Source (Electoral Vote): 1864 July 31, 2005 Popular vote 600px 410px Lincoln #B22222 55.02 McClellan Democratic Party (US) 44.96 Others #777777 0.02 Electoral vote 600px 410px Lincoln #B22222 91.63 McClellan Democratic Party (US) 8.93 (a) The states in rebellion did not participate in the election of 1864.(b) The 17 electoral votes from Tennessee and Louisiana were rejected. Had they not been rejected, Lincoln would have received 229 electoral votes out of a total of 251 (250 cast), well in excess of the 126 required to win.(c) One elector from Nevada did not vote. Geography of results Cartographic gallery Results by state Source (most states): Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp. 247–57. Source (Tennessee): contemporary Chicago Tribune newspaper.Humanities National Endowment for the 1864-11-18 Chicago tribune. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1864–1872, November 18, 1864, Image 2 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014064/1864-11-18/ed-1/seq-2/ 2021-12-05 2572-9977 States/districts won by McClellan/PendletonStates/districts won by Lincoln/Johnson Abraham LincolnNational UnionGeorge B. McClellanDemocraticMarginState TotalStateelectoralvotes#%electoralvotes#%electoralvotes # %#California562,14058.63%543,83841.36%–18,30217.27%105,986Connecticut644,69351.38%642,28848.62%–2,4052.76%86,981Delaware38,15548.19%–8,76751.81%3 -612 -3.62%16,922Illinois16189,51254.42%16158,72445.58%–30,7888.84%348,236Indiana13150,42253.59%13130,23346.40%–20,1897.19%280,655Iowa888,50064.12%849,52535.88%–38,97528.24%138,025Kansas317,08979.19%33,83617.78%–13,25361.41%21,580Kentucky1127,78730.17%–64,30169.83%11 -36,514 -39.66%92,088Louisiana7no popular vote7no popular vote–N/AVotes not countedMaine767,80559.07%746,99240.93%–20,81318.14%114,797Maryland740,15355.09%732,73944.91%–7,41410.18%72,892Massachusetts12126,74272.22%1248,74527.78%–77,99744.44%175,490Michigan879,14953.60%868,51346.40%–10,6367.20%147,662Minnesota425,05559.06%417,35740.94%–7,68818.12%42,422Missouri1172,75069.72%1131,59630.28%–41,15439.44%104,346Nevada29,82659.84%26,59440.16%–3,23219.68%16,420New Hampshire536,59652.56%533,03447.44%–3,5625.12%69,630New Jersey760,72347.16%–68,02452.84%7 -7,301 -5.68%128,747New York33368,73550.46%33361,98649.54%–6,7490.92%730,721Ohio21265,65456.37%21205,59943.63%–60,05512.74%471,253Oregon39,88853.90%38,45746.10%–1,4317.80%18,345Pennsylvania26296,39151.75%26276,31648.25%–20,0753.50%572,707Rhode Island413,96262.24%48,47037.76%–5,49224.48%22,432Tennessee1030,00085.71%105,00014.29%–25,00035,000Vermont542,42076.10%513,32223.90%–29,09852.20%55,742West Virginia523,79968.24%511,07831.76%–12,72136.48%34,877Wisconsin883,45855.88%865,88444.12%–17,57411.80%149,342TOTALS:2332,211,31755.03%2121,806,22744.93%21405,09010.10%4,018,202 Source (Popular Vote): 1864 July 27, 2005 Source (Electoral Vote): 1864 July 31, 2005 States that flipped from Constitutional Union to Democratic Kentucky States that flipped from Democratic to National Union Maryland Missouri States that flipped from Republican to Democratic New Jersey (EVs only) Close states States in red were won by Republican Abraham Lincoln; states in blue were won by Democrat George B. McClellan. State where the margin of victory was under 1% (33 electoral votes): New York 0.92% (6,749 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 5% (35 electoral votes): Connecticut 2.76% (2,405 votes) Pennsylvania 3.50% (20,075 votes) Delaware 3.62% (612 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 10% (65 electoral votes): New Hampshire 5.12% (3,562 votes) New Jersey 5.68% (7,301 votes) Indiana 7.19% (20,189 votes) Michigan 7.20% (10,636 votes) Oregon 7.8% (1,431 votes) Illinois 8.8% (30,788 votes) (Tipping-Point State) See also American election campaigns in the 19th century Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln History of the United States (1849–1865) Second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln Third Party System 1864–65 United States House of Representatives elections Footnotes References 30em Works cited Abramson Paul Aldrich John Rohde David Change and Continuity in the 1992 Elections CQ Press 1995 0871878399 Further reading "Election of 1864" in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ed. Coming to Power: Critical Presidential Elections in American History (1972) pp. 144–167. online Balsamo, Larry T. We Cannot Have Free Government without Elections': Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1864", Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (2001): 181–99. Donald, David. Lincoln (1995) pp. 516–544 online Dudley, Harold M. "The Election of 1864", Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Mar. 1932), pp. 500–18 in JSTOR Fehrenbacher, Don E. "The Making of a Myth: Lincoln and the Vice-Presidential Nomination in 1864". Civil War History 41.4 (1995): 273–290. Long, David E. Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery (1994). Merrill, Louis Taylor. "General Benjamin F. Butler in the Presidential Campaign of 1864". Mississippi Valley Historical Review 33 (March 1947): 537–70. in JSTOR Nelson, Larry E. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864 University of Alabama Press, 1980. Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865 (vol 8 1971). pp 97–143. Newman, Leonard. "Opposition to Lincoln in the Elections of 1864", Science & Society, vol. 8, no. 4 (Fall 1944), pp. 305–27. In JSTOR. Phillip Shaw Paludan. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas, 1994) pp. 274–93. James G. Randall and Richard N. Current. Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure. Vol. 4 of Lincoln the President. 1955. Vorenberg, Michael. The Deformed Child': Slavery and the Election of 1864" Civil War History 2001 47(3): 240–57. Waugh, John C. Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency (1998). White, Jonathan W. "Canvassing the Troops: the Federal Government and the Soldiers' Right to Vote" Civil War History 2004 50(3): 291–317. White, Jonathan W. Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014). Winther, Oscar O. "The soldier vote in the election of 1864." New York History 25.4 (1944): 440–458. online Zornow, William Frank. Lincoln and the Party Divided (1954). online Primary sources Chester, Edward W. A guide to political platforms (1977) pp. 80–85 online Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. National party platforms, 1840–1964 (1965) online 1840–1956 External links Leip Dave http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/home.php?year=1864&f=0 1864 Presidential Election – Home States Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090125215234/http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/home.php?year=1864&f=0 January 25, 2009 2009-01-11 1864 popular vote by counties 1864 State-by-state popular results https://web.archive.org/web/20100216231757/http://multied.com/elections/1864Pop.html February 16, 2010 Transcript of the 1864 Democratic Party Platform Harper's Weekly – Overview more from Harper's Weekly Presidential Election of 1864: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress Election of 1864 in Counting the Votes https://web.archive.org/web/20171005101448/http://www.countingthevotes.com/1864/ October 5, 2017 Category:Andrew Johnson Category:Abraham Lincoln Category:George B. 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