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1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
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1880 United States presidential election
1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire New Hampshire presidential no 1876 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 1876 1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 1884 November 2, 1880 x200px James Abram Garfield, photo portrait seated (cropped).jpg James A. Garfield Republican Party (United States) Ohio Chester A. Arthur 5 44,856 51.94% WinfieldScottHancock2 (cropped 3x4).jpg Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic Party (United States) Pennsylvania William Hayden English 0 40,797 48.15% 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire results map by county.svg 295px County results
Garfield
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Hancock
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The 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a narrow margin of 4.70%. This would be the last occasion any Democratic presidential candidate won Grafton County until Woodrow Wilson in 1912,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 257 0786422173 and the last occasion a Democrat won an absolute majority of the presidential vote in Belknap County until Lyndon B. Johnson did so in his 1964 landslide.
Results
1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire1880 Presidential General Election Results – New Hampshire http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1880&fips=33&f=1&off=0&elect=0
Republican Party (United States)
James Abram Garfield
Ohio
Chester Alan Arthur
New York
44,856
51.94%
5
100.00%
Democratic Party (United States)
Winfield Scott Hancock
Pennsylvania
William Hayden English
Indiana
40,797
47.24%
0
0.00%
Greenback Party
James Baird Weaver
Iowa
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers
Texas
528
0.61%
0
0.00%
Prohibition Party
Neal Dow
Maine
Henry Adams Thompson
Ohio
180
0.21%
0
0.00%
86,361
100.00%
5
100.00%
Results by county
County James Abram GarfieldGéoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)Republican Winfield Scott HancockDemocratic James Baird WeaverGéoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)GreenbackNeal DowProhibition Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Belknap 2,350 47.81% 2,483 50.52% 55 1.12% 27 0.55% -133 -2.71% 4,915 Carroll 2,426 47.46% 2,639 51.62% 24 0.47% 23 0.45% -213 -4.17% 5,112 Cheshire 4,380 58.83% 2,979 40.01% 67 0.90% 19 0.26% 1,401 18.82% 7,445 Coös 1,829 42.89% 2,387 55.98% 44 1.03% 4 0.09% -558 -13.09% 4,264 Grafton 4,964 47.71% 5,300 50.94% 132 1.27% 8 0.08% -336 -3.23% 10,404 Hillsborough 8,689 55.11% 6,999 44.39% 56 0.36% 24 0.15% 1,690 10.72% 15,768 Merrimack 5,935 49.95% 5,922 49.84% 9 0.08% 17 0.14% 13 0.11% 11,883 Rockingham 6,960 53.25% 5,989 45.82% 91 0.70% 30 0.23% 971 7.43% 13,070 Strafford 4,634 53.78% 3,922 45.51% 38 0.44% 23 0.27% 712 8.26% 8,617 Sullivan 2,729 55.46% 2,175 44.20% 12 0.24% 5 0.10% 554 11.26% 4,921Totals44,89651.96%40,79547.22%5280.61%1800.21%4,1014.75%86,399
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Merrimack
See also
United States presidential elections in New Hampshire
References
New Hampshire
1880
United States presidential
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