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1860 United States presidential election
1860 United States presidential election in Vermont Vermont 1837 presidential no 1856 United States presidential election in Vermont 1856 1864 United States presidential election in Vermont 1864 November 2, 1860 x200px Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Hesler, 1860-restored (cropped).png Abraham Lincoln Republican Party (United States) Illinois Hannibal Hamlin 5 33,808 75.86% Senator Stephen A. Douglas (edited).png Stephen A. Douglas Democratic Party (United States) Illinois Herschel V. Johnson 0 8,649 19.41% x260px County results x260px Municipality results Lincoln
#F2B3BE 40–50%
#e27f90 50–60%
#cc2f4a 60–70%
#d40000 70–80%
#AA0000 80–90%
#800000 90–100%
Douglas
#B9D7FF 40–50%
#86b6f2 50–60%
#4389E3 60–70%
#0645B4 80–90% President James Buchanan Democratic Party (United States) Abraham Lincoln Republican Party (United States)
The 1860 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 2, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose five electors of the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Vermont was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Hannibal Hamlin They defeated Democratic candidate Stephen A. Douglas (who himself was born in the Vermont town of Brandon) and his running mate Herschel V. Johnson. Lincoln won the state by a landslide margin of 56.45%.
With 75.86% of the popular vote, Vermont would be Lincoln's strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1860&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1860 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05
Campaign
John S. Robinson, Henry Keyes, Jasper Rand, and E.M. Brown were the at-large delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, with Henry Clark, T.C. Beattie, W.W. White, and E. Plympton as their substitutes. The 1st district was represented by Charles G. Eastman and Pitt W. Hyde (J.A.S. White and John Jackson as substitutes), the 2nd district by Henry E. Stoughton and E.B. Chase (C.N. Davenport and Stephen Thomas as substitutes), and the 3rd district by H.B. Smith and Lucius Robinson (Bradley Smalley and Emory Stewart as substitutes).Delegates 1860
Results
1860 United States presidential election in Vermont1860 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=50&year=1860&f=1&off=0
Abraham Lincoln Republican Party (United States) 33,808 75.86%
Stephen A. Douglas Democratic Party (United States) 8,649 19.41%
John C. Breckinridge Southern Democratic (United States) 1,866 4.19%
John Bell Constitutional Union Party (United States) 217 0.49%N/A Others 26 0.06%
44,644 100%
Results by county
+1860 United States Presidential Election in Vermont (By County)https://books.google.com/books?id=Jz4KAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA47 The Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1861 Tribune Association. enIn the 1861 Tribune Almanac, the votes of Breckinridge and Bell are 218 and 1,969 respectively. However, it is the opposite in David Leip's US Election Atlas. To avoid conflicting data, the county numbers from the Tribune Almanac for Breckinridge and Bell are swapped to match up with the data in the US Election Atlas.CountyAbraham LincolnRepublican Stephen A. DouglasDemocratic John C. BreckinridgeSouthern DemocraticJohn BellConstitutional UnionTotal votescast#%#%#%#%Addison2,62686.55%34411.34%471.55%170.56%3,034Bennington1,93770.36%71025.79%943.41%120.44%2,753Caledonia2,13973.03%58119.84%1896.45%200.68%2,929Chittenden 2,24177.81%54518.92%692.40%250.87%2,880Essex 64666.67%31232.20%101.03%10.10%969Franklin 1,97971.60%53819.46%2278.21%200.72%2,764Grand Isle33371.00%8918.98%418.74%61.28%469Lamoille1,28078.43%31219.12%372.27%30.18%1,632Orange 2,71468.94%97324.71%2125.38%380.97%3,937Orleans 1,74980.67%29313.51%1205.54%60.28%2,168Rutland 4,17873.75%1,34823.80%1162.05%230.41%5,665Washington2,94170.07%1,20928.81%431.02%40.10%4,197Windham 3,73279.69%4619.84%47310.10%170.36%4,683Windsor5,31380.94%93414.23%2914.43%260.40%6,564Total33,80875.73%8,64919.37%1,9694.41%2180.49%44,644
See also
United States presidential elections in Vermont
Notes
References
Works cited
March 23, 1860 Vermont Delegates to Charleston 2 Rutland Weekly Herald and Globe https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-rutland-weekly-herald-and-globe/167940679/ Newspapers.com Delegates 1860
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