1860 United States presidential election in Indiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1860 United States presidential election in Indiana United States 1859 presidential no 1856 United States presidential election in Indiana 1856 1864 United States presidential election in Indiana 1864 November 6, 1860 89.4%Madison 1986 330 1.1 pp 200x200px File:Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Hesler, 1860-restored (3x4 cropped).png Abraham Lincoln Republican Party (United States) Illinois Hannibal Hamlin 13 139,013 51.14% File:Senator Stephen A. Douglas (edited).png Stephen A. Douglas Democratic Party (United States) Illinois Herschel V. Johnsonvp Replacing Benjamin Fitzpatrick. 0 115,166 42.37% 1860 United States presidential election in Indiana results map by county.svg 300px County results Lincoln #ffccd0 30–40% #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Douglas #d3e7ff 30–40% #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #0645b4 80–90% Breckinridge #c7e9c0 30–40% President James Buchanan Democratic Party (United States) Abraham Lincoln Republican Party (United States) A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the former U.S. representative from Illinois's 7th congressional district Abraham Lincoln and the senior U.S. senator from Maine Hannibal Hamlin defeated the Democratic ticket of the senior U.S. senator from Illinois Stephen A. Douglas and the governor of Georgia Herschel V. Johnson. The Southern Democratic ticket of the incumbent vice president John C. Breckinridge and the senior U.S. senator from Oregon Joseph Lane polled less than five percent of the vote, but narrowly carried Warrick County, the only county outside the slave states and the Far Western states of California and Oregon to report a plurality for the Southern Democrats.Dubin 2002 164–66 Lincoln defeated Douglas, Breckinridge, and Constitutional Unionist John Bell in the national election with 180 electoral votes.1860 Electoral College Results https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1860 National Archives October 8, 2025 General election Summary Indiana chose 13 electors in a statewide general election. Nineteenth-century presidential elections used a form of block voting that allowed voters to modify the electoral list nominated by a political party before submitting their ballots. Because voters elected each member of the Electoral College individually, electors nominated by the same party often received differing numbers of votes as a consequence of voter rolloff, split-ticket voting, or electoral fusion.Lampi n.d. Ratcliffe 2014 57 This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Michael J. Dubin. 1860 United States presidential election in IndianaDubin 2002 164–66 Abraham LincolnHannibal Hamlin Republican Party (United States) 139,013 51.14 11.05 Stephen A. DouglasHerschel V. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) 115,166 42.37 8.04 John C. BreckinridgeJoseph Lane Southern Democratic (United States) 12,295 4.52 4.52 John BellEdward Everett Constitutional Union Party (United States) 5,339 1.96 1.96 Gerrit SmithSamuel McFarland Radical Abolitionist Party 5 0.00 271,818 100.00 Results by county County Abraham LincolnRepublican Stephen A. DouglasDemocratic John C. BreckinridgeSouthern Democratic John BellConstitutional Union Total Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes PercentAdams 632 40.72 887 57.15 22 1.42 11 0.71 1,552Allen 2,552 43.62 3,224 55.11 42 0.72 32 0.55 5,850 Bartholomew 1,769 47.62 1,846 49.69 66 1.78 34 0.92 3,715 Benton 375 60.10 235 37.66 6 0.96 8 1.28 624 Blackford 275 37.57 408 55.74 40 5.46 9 1.23 732 Boone 1,699 50.93 941 28.21 649 19.45 47 1.41 3,336 Brown 301 28.21 729 68.32 31 2.91 6 0.56 1,067 Carroll 1,590 52.05 1,446 47.33 5 0.16 14 0.46 3,055 Cass 1,874 49.77 1,727 45.87 130 3.45 34 0.90 3,765 Clinton 1,454 49.15 1,437 48.58 61 2.06 6 0.20 2,958 Clark 1,369 36.29 1,837 48.70 250 6.63 316 8.38 3,772 Clay 889 38.62 1,316 57.17 47 2.04 50 2.17 2,302 Crawford 778 46.53 844 50.48 8 0.48 42 2.51 1,672 DeKalb 1,550 53.17 1,339 45.93 2 0.07 24 0.82 2,915 Delaware 1,933 62.96 1,029 33.52 98 3.19 10 0.33 3,070 Daviess 934 39.83 749 31.94 529 22.56 133 5.67 2,345 Dearborn 2,004 44.30 2,378 52.56 51 1.13 91 2.01 4,524 Decatur 2,028 55.00 1,546 41.93 93 2.52 20 0.54 3,687 Dubois 301 18.02 1,347 80.66 2 0.12 20 1.20 1,670 Elkhart 2,471 55.69 1,938 43.68 27 0.61 1 0.02 4,437 Fayette 1,343 58.19 917 39.73 39 1.69 9 0.39 2,308 Floyd 1,151 33.31 1,888 54.65 96 2.78 320 9.26 3,455 Fountain 1,656 50.02 1,360 41.08 269 8.12 26 0.79 3,311 Franklin 1,695 42.11 2,272 56.45 49 1.22 9 0.22 4,025 Fulton 1,019 50.00 991 48.63 22 1.08 6 0.29 2,038 Gibson 1,295 43.15 1,565 52.15 29 0.97 112 3.733,001 Grant 1,668 56.16 1,223 41.18 33 1.11 46 1.55 2,970 Greene 1,420 47.97 1,316 44.46 204 6.89 20 0.68 2,960 Hamilton 2,195 63.79 1,144 33.25 98 2.85 4 0.12 3,441 Hancock 1,201 46.19 1,289 49.58 97 3.73 13 0.50 2,600 Harrison 1,593 45.59 1,848 52.89 36 1.03 17 0.49 3,494 Hendricks 2,050 59.98 1,083 31.69 244 7.14 41 1.20 3,418 Henry 2,926 69.04 1,206 28.46 90 2.12 16 0.38 4,238 Howard 1,589 62.98 875 34.68 34 1.35 25 0.99 2,523 Huntington 1,582 51.87 1,402 45.97 52 1.70 14 0.46 3,050 Jackson 1,185 38.50 1,740 56.53 117 3.80 36 1.17 3,078 Jasper 534 63.88 278 33.25 7 0.84 17 2.03 836 Jay 1,135 50.90 1,077 48.30 12 0.54 6 0.27 2,230 Jefferson 2,644 58.70 1,146 25.44 564 12.52 150 3.33 4,504 Jennings 1,649 57.92 830 29.15 326 11.45 42 1.48 2,847 Johnson 1,303 42.15 1,392 45.03 336 10.87 60 1.94 3,091 Knox 1,570 47.30 1,666 50.23 42 1.27 39 1.18 3,317 Kosciusko 2,298 60.31 1,500 39.37 9 0.24 3 0.08 3,810 LaGrange 1,695 68.62 749 30.32 10 0.40 16 0.652,470 Lake 1,225 72.06 455 26.76 20 1.18 0 0.00 1,700 LaPorte 3,167 61.25 1,504 29.09 478 9.24 22 0.43 5,171 Lawrence 1,100 41.97 784 29.91 530 20.22 207 7.90 2,621 Madison 1,709 46.75 1,841 50.36 70 1.91 36 0.98 3,656 Marion 5,024 57.38 3,252 37.14 318 3.63 161 1.84 8,755 Marshall 1,426 52.33 1,273 46.72 24 0.88 2 0.07 2,725 Martin 516 34.89 754 50.98 153 10.34 56 3.79 1,479 Miami 1,835 52.90 1,608 46.35 26 0.75 0 0.00 3,469 Monroe 1,198 50.48 716 30.17 395 16.65 64 2.70 2,373 Montgomery 2,366 49.38 2,279 47.57 68 1.42 78 1.63 4,791 Morgan 1,775 52.65 1,516 44.97 65 1.93 15 0.44 3,371 Newton 305 56.59 189 35.06 44 8.16 1 0.19 539 Noble 1,742 56.12 1,320 42.53 38 1.22 4 0.45 3,104 Ohio 301 29.71 335 33.07 203 20.04 174 17.18 1,013 Orange 849 38.17 1,114 50.09 176 7.91 85 3.82 2,224 Owen 1,140 43.20 1,293 49.00 88 3.33 118 4.47 2,639 Parke 1,898 56.52 1,321 39.34 55 1.64 84 2.50 3,358 Perry 926 46.56 897 45.10 6 0.30 160 8.04 1,989 Pike 894 47.73 882 47.09 58 3.10 39 2.08 1,873 Porter 1,529 56.82 1,128 41.92 28 1.04 6 0.22 2,691 Posey 1,055 36.71 1,128 39.25 523 18.20 168 5.85 2,874 Pulaski 571 45.86 663 53.25 4 0.32 7 0.56 1,245 Putnam 1,888 45.85 1,747 42.42 360 8.74 123 2.99 4,118 Randolph 2,295 64.81 1,180 33.32 56 1.58 10 0.28 3,541 Ripley 1,988 54.36 1,458 39.87 174 4.76 37 1.01 3,657 Rush 1,757 51.87 1,119 33.04 476 14.05 35 1.03 3,387 St. Joseph 2,363 60.98 1,489 38.43 23 0.59 0 0.00 3,875 Scott 650 46.07 447 31.68 262 18.57 52 3.69 1,411 Shelby 1,900 47.32 2,047 50.98 43 1.07 25 0.62 4,015 Spencer 1,296 47.11 1,108 40.28 172 6.25 175 6.36 2,751 Starke 190 43.48 231 52.86 14 3.20 2 0.46 437 Steuben 1,560 71.01 547 24.90 82 3.73 8 0.36 2,197 Sullivan 856 29.55 1,858 54.82 128 4.42 55 1.90 2,897 Switzerland 734 33.08 476 21.45 499 22.49 510 22.98 2,219 Tippecanoe 3,480 58.91 2,276 38.53 117 1.98 34 0.58 5,907 Tipton 780 48.00 822 50.58 20 1.23 3 0.18 1,625 Union 849 55.13 652 42.34 36 2.34 3 0.19 1,540 Vanderburgh 1,867 47.95 1,542 39.60 183 4.70 302 7.76 3,894 Vermillion 1,125 56.42 818 41.02 17 0.85 34 1.71 1,994 Vigo 2,429 50.49 2,127 44.21 44 0.91 211 4.39 4,811 Wabash 2,287 64.82 1,142 32.37 79 2.24 20 0.57 3,528 Warren 1,412 63.35 769 34.50 33 1.48 15 0.67 2,229 Wayne 4,234 67.31 1,784 28.36 164 2.61 108 1.72 6,290 Wells 1,099 54.51 909 45.09 6 0.30 2 0.10 2,016 White 993 52.82 811 43.14 67 3.56 9 0.48 1,880 Whitley 1,133 50.65 1,067 47.70 33 1.48 4 0.18 2,237 Warrick 745 30.53 784 32.13 816 33.44 95 3.89 2,440 Washington 1,378 40.03 1,985 57.67 48 1.39 31 0.90 3,442 TOTAL 139,013 51.14 115,166 42.37 12,295 4.52 5,339 1.96 271,813 See also United States presidential elections in Indiana Notes References Bibliography 1860 Electoral College Results https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1860 National Archives October 8, 2025 Dubin Michael J. United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860 2002 McFarland & Co. Jefferson, NC 978-0-7864-6422-7 Lampi Philip J. Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/?f%5Boffice_id_ssim%5D%5B%5D=ON056 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society n.d. October 5, 2025 Madison James H. The Indiana Way: A State History 1986 Indiana University Press Bloomington https://archive.org/details/indianawaystate00madi Ratcliffe Donald J. Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824 Journal of the Early Republic Spring 2014 34 1 45–77 24486931 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486931 Indiana 1860 Category:1860 Indiana elections