1880 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1880 Presidential election year November 2 Republican Party (US)Rutherford B. Hayes (R) 47th Republican hold James A. Garfield (R) 214 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) 155 Republican +0.1% 1880 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Garfield, blue denotes states won by Hancock. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. 25 of 76 seatsNot counting special elections. Republican gainRepublicans gained a majority after the Senate elections, but lost it in September 1881 when Vice President Chester A. Arthur assumed the presidency. The two major parties shared power in the Senate for the remainder of the 47th Congress. Republican +5Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account, or elections later contested. 400px Results:#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#00cafeff Readjuster gain All 293 voting members Republican gain Republican +19 400px Results#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#666666 Independent gain #999999 Independent hold #00C000 Greenback gain #42FF42 Greenback hold #161687 Readjuster gain Elections occurred during the Third Party System, and elected the members of the 47th United States Congress. The Republicans retained the presidency and took control of the House. An unclear partisan situation prevailed in the Senate. As the first presidential election after the end of the Reconstruction Era, this election saw the first occurrence of the Democratic Party sweeping the Southern United States; the party would carry an overwhelming majority of Southern states well into the 20th century. In the presidential election, the Republican Representative James Garfield from Ohio defeated the Democratic General Winfield Hancock.1880 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1880 The American Presidency Project 25 June 2014 Though Garfield won a clear majority of electoral votes, he won the popular vote by the smallest margin in history. Incumbent one-term Republican president Rutherford B. Hayes declined to seek re-election. Garfield emerged as the dark horse Republican nominee following the 1880 Republican National Convention, prevailing on the 36th ballot over former president Ulysses S. Grant, Maine senator James G. Blaine, and Ohio senator John Sherman. Hancock took the nomination at the 1880 Democratic National Convention on the second ballot, defeating Delaware senator Thomas F. Bayard and several other candidates. Garfield was the first sitting member of Congress to be elected president, and remains the only sitting member of the House to win a presidential election. Republicans picked up several seats in the House, taking a majority of the chamber for the first time since the 1874 elections.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 In the Senate, Republicans made small gains at the expense of the Democrats, but neither party had a majority due to the presence of an independent senator and a Readjuster senator.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 The Republicans and Readjusters ultimately agreed to share power, along with the Republican vice president.The Great Senate Deadlock of 1881 https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Senate_Deadlock_1881.htm Senate.gov US Senate 1 July 2014 See also 1880 United States presidential election 1880 United States House of Representatives elections 1880–81 United States Senate elections References 1880