1870 Alabama gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1870 Alabama gubernatorial election presidential 1868 Alabama gubernatorial election 1868 1872 Alabama gubernatorial election 1872 no November 8, 1870 Robert B. Lindsay.jpg 0.55 Robert B. Lindsay Democratic Party (United States) 77,723 50.47% William Hugh Smith.jpg William Hugh Smith Republican Party (United States) 76,282 49.53% 1870 Alabama gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 170px County resultsLindsay: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90%Smith: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% Governor William Hugh Smith Republican Party (United States) Robert B. Lindsay Democratic Party (United States) The 1870 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1870, in order to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Republican William Hugh Smith was narrowly defeated by Democrat Robert B. Lindsay. The run-up to the election was marred by political and racist terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan, in support of Lindsay. This violence included the lynching of four blacks and a white in Calhoun County, the murder of two blacks (one a Republican politician) in Greene County, and the October Eutaw massacre.Waldrep Christopher Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi https://books.google.com/books?id=Hs8tBNQMIF8C&pg=PA143 2011 U of Georgia P 9780820341941 137–38 In Greene County, for instance, the violence in Eutaw is credited with swaying the vote in that county toward Lindsay: in the 1868 presidential election, Greene County had voted for Ulysses S. Grant by a margin of 2,000 votes; in the 1870 gubernatorial election it voted for Robert B. Lindsay by a margin of 43.Shapiro Herbert White Violence and Black Response: From Reconstruction to Montgomery https://books.google.com/books?id=SXGn2uPGJ6EC&pg=PA12 1988 U of Massachusetts P 9780870235788 12 Results 1870 Alabama gubernatorial electionhttp://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262824 AL Governor 1870 Our Campaigns November 23, 2016 Democratic Party (United States) Robert B. Lindsay 77,723 50.47 Republican Party (United States) William Hugh Smith (incumbent) 76,282 49.53 154,005 100.00 Democratic Party (United States) Republican Party (United States) References 1870 gubernatorial Alabama Category:November 1870 in the United States