1876 United States elections

1876 general United States election February 2026 January 2025 1876 Presidential election year November 7 Republican Party (US)Ulysses S. Grant (R) 45th Republican hold Rutherford B. Hayes (R) 185 Samuel J. Tilden (D) 184 Democratic +3.0% 1876 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Hayes, blue denotes states won by Tilden. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. 25 of 76 seatsNot counting special elections. Republican hold Democratic +5Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. 400px Results:#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#666666 Independent gain All 293 voting members Democratic hold Republican +33 400px 1876 House of Representatives election results #3962ae Democratic seat #e61e25 Republican seat #f3ec19 Independent seat Elections were held on November 7, 1876. In one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history, the Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio ended up winning despite the Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York earning a majority of the popular vote. The Republicans maintained their Senate majority and cut into the Democratic majority in the House. This marks one of four occasions where a newly elected president entered office with a divided legislature. This situation occurred again in 1860, 1884, and 1980. 1980 is the only other occasion where the president's party held the Senate, but not the House. A divided Congress also occurred after the 1984 and 2012 elections. President 1876 United States presidential election The 1876 presidential election was heavily contested, and saw the highest turnout of voting age population in American history, 81.8%.Between 1932 and 2008: https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0397.pdf Table 397. Participation in Elections for President and U.S. Representatives: 1932 to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012 U.S. Census Bureau 2013-02-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20121024105846/http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0397.pdf 2012-10-24 deadhttps://apnews.com/article/ap-explains-1876-election-voter-record-fa49a19958231294f820517e3c0478f4 AP News 2024-09-06 EXPLAINER: 1876 election holds record for highest turnout Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York won the Democratic nomination on the second ballot of the 1876 Democratic National Convention, defeating Indiana Governor Thomas A. Hendricks and a handful of other candidates. Republicans chose Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes on the seventh ballot over Maine Senator James G. Blaine, Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin H. Bristow, and several other candidates.1876 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1876 The American Presidency Project 25 June 2014 While Tilden outpolled Hayes in the popular vote by a margin of three percent, he had 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 electoral votes in dispute. In Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, each party reported its candidate had won the state amid various allegations of electoral fraud and intimidation of voters. At the same time, in Oregon, one elector was declared illegal (as an "elected or appointed official") and replaced. To resolve this dispute, Congress formed the Electoral Commission to investigate these electoral votes: this commission awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes after a bitter legal and political battle, giving him the victory with 185 electoral votes to 184. While many Democrats felt that Tilden had been cheated out of victory, the informal "Compromise of 1877" saw Democrats recognize Hayes as President in return for the end of Reconstruction. Excluding the four-candidate 1824 election, Hayes' margin of victory of one electoral vote has never been matched as of 2024. This was the second of five elections where the winning candidate lost the popular vote, and the only one where the popular vote loser lost by more than one point until the 2016 election. United States House of Representatives 1876–77 United States House of Representatives elections While the Republicans picked up 33 seats in the House, it was not enough to regain a majority from the Democrats, who had 155 seats to the Republicans 136 (two seats being held by independents).Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 United States Senate 1876–77 United States Senate elections The Democrats gained three net seats in the Senate, but the Republicans held onto their majority. Since this election was held prior to ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, these seats were chosen by the state legislatures.Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 References Category:1876 elections in the United States 1876