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| Elections in Virginia |
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The 1860 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Archibald Campbell and John Curtiss Underwood attempted to have the Republican National Convention held in Wheeling, Virginia. Many national Republicans supported the idea, including chair Edwin D. Morgan. However, the hostile reaction to the Republican Party by the south after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry resulted in the committee choosing to host the convention in Chicago. [1]
1,500 people attended the Republican Party of Virginia's state convention in Wheeling on May 2, 1860. The party's delegation to the national convention was the sixth-largest there, despite a credentials challenge against the entire south by opponents of William H. Seward. The initially pro-Seward Virginia delegation gave a majority of its votes to Abraham Lincoln on the first ballot. The delegation supported Cassius Marcellus Clay for the vice presidential nomination. [2]
Four companies of Wide Awakes totaling 350 men were formed during the campaign. [3] Almost all of Lincoln's support came from around Wheeling [4] and his best county was Ohio County. [3]
| 1860 United States presidential election in Virginia [5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Constitutional Union | John Bell | 74,481 | 44.63% | 15 | |
| Southern Democratic | John C. Breckinridge | 74,325 | 44.54% | 0 | |
| Democratic | Stephen A. Douglas | 16,198 | 9.71% | 0 | |
| Republican | Abraham Lincoln | 1,887 | 1.13% | 0 | |
| Totals | 166,891 | 100.0% | 15 | ||
| County | John Bell Constitutional Union | John C. Breckinridge Southern Democratic | Stephen A. Douglas Democratic | Abraham Lincoln Republican | Total Votes Cast [6] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Accomack | 736 | 47.39% | 737 | 47.46% | 80 | 5.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,553 |
| Albemarle | 1,317 | 53.32% | 1,056 | 42.75% | 97 | 3.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,470 |
| Alexandria | 1,012 | 58.36% | 565 | 32.58% | 141 | 8.13% | 16 | 0.92% | 1,734 |
| Alleghany | 250 | 39.62% | 344 | 54.52% | 37 | 5.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 631 |
| Amelia | 282 | 50.09% | 249 | 44.23% | 32 | 5.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 563 |
| Amherst | 622 | 42.72% | 808 | 55.49% | 26 | 1.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,456 |
| Appomattox | 221 | 27.83% | 563 | 70.91% | 10 | 1.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 794 |
| Augusta | 2,553 | 66.05% | 218 | 5.64% | 1,094 | 28.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,865 |
| Barbour | 422 | 30.71% | 910 | 66.23% | 39 | 2.84% | 3 | 0.22% | 1,374 |
| Bath | 220 | 45.32% | 163 | 40.25% | 22 | 5.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 405 |
| Bedford | 1,468 | 56.55% | 1,037 | 39.95% | 91 | 3.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,596 |
| Berkeley | 913 | 49.38% | 830 | 44.89% | 106 | 5.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,849 |
| Boone | 121 | 34.67% | 204 | 58.45% | 24 | 6.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 349 |
| Botetourt | 590 | 43.61% | 589 | 43.53% | 174 | 12.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,353 |
| Braxton | 274 | 50.09% | 227 | 41.50% | 46 | 8.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 547 |
| Brooke | 173 | 19.84% | 450 | 51.61% | 76 | 8.72% | 173 | 19.84% | 872 |
| Brunswick | 308 | 32.90% | 444 | 46.28% | 187 | 19.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 939 |
| Buchanan | 14 | 8.38% | 134 | 80.24% | 19 | 11.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 167 |
| Buckingham | 545 | 50.00% | 523 | 47.98% | 22 | 2.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,090 |
| Cabell | 316 | 35.59% | 161 | 18.13% | 407 | 45.83% | 4 | 0.45% | 888 |
| Calhoun | 19 | 6.23% | 285 | 93.44% | 1 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 305 |
| Campbell | 1,521 | 52.90% | 1,208 | 42.02% | 146 | 5.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,875 |
| Caroline | 561 | 41.52% | 772 | 57.14% | 18 | 1.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,351 |
| Carroll | 315 | 29.86% | 729 | 69.10% | 11 | 1.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,055 |
| Charles City | 224 | 65.12% | 111 | 32.26% | 9 | 2.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 344 |
| Charlotte | 418 | 46.04% | 465 | 51.21% | 25 | 2.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 908 |
| Chesterfield | 788 | 46.24% | 328 | 19.25% | 588 | 34.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,704 |
| Clarke | 288 | 42.86% | 335 | 49.85% | 49 | 7.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 672 |
| Clay | 119 | 76.28% | 37 | 23.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 156 |
| Craig | 112 | 25.69% | 322 | 73.85% | 2 | 0.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 436 |
| Culpeper | 526 | 49.16% | 525 | 49.07% | 19 | 1.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,070 |
| Cumberland | 278 | 47.04% | 276 | 46.70% | 37 | 6.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 591 |
| Dinwiddie | 389 | 47.09% | 254 | 30.75% | 183 | 22.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 826 |
| Doddridge | 143 | 24.20% | 356 | 60.24% | 91 | 15.40% | 1 | 0.16% | 591 |
| Elizabeth City | 248 | 56.88% | 164 | 37.61% | 24 | 5.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 436 |
| Essex | 279 | 47.21% | 308 | 52.11% | 4 | 0.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 591 |
| Fairfax | 691 | 47.10% | 685 | 46.69% | 91 | 6.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,491 |
| Fauquier | 989 | 48.13% | 1,027 | 49.98% | 39 | 1.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,056 |
| Fayette | 381 | 55.46% | 241 | 35.08% | 65 | 9.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 687 |
| Floyd | 384 | 46.83% | 400 | 48.78% | 36 | 4.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 820 |
| Fluvanna | 487 | 51.97% | 443 | 47.28% | 7 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 937 |
| Franklin | 863 | 41.65% | 1,076 | 51.93% | 133 | 6.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,072 |
| Frederick | 963 | 41.08% | 1,315 | 56.10% | 66 | 2.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,344 |
| Giles | 366 | 54.46% | 244 | 36.31% | 62 | 9.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 672 |
| Gilmer | 117 | 28.40% | 268 | 65.05% | 27 | 6.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 412 |
| Gloucester | 301 | 39.55% | 460 | 60.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 761 |
| Goochland | 244 | 34.41% | 428 | 60.37% | 37 | 5.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 709 |
| Grayson | 315 | 40.49% | 447 | 57.46% | 16 | 2.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 762 |
| Greenbrier | 993 | 60.88% | 505 | 30.96% | 133 | 8.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,631 |
| Greene | 74 | 12.23% | 521 | 86.12% | 10 | 1.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 605 |
| Greensville | 139 | 41.99% | 151 | 45.62% | 41 | 12.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 331 |
| Halifax | 563 | 27.97% | 1,312 | 65.18% | 138 | 6.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,013 |
| Hampshire | 878 | 43.37% | 1,054 | 52.49% | 75 | 3.74% | 1 | 0.04% | 2,008 |
| Hancock | 33 | 5.29% | 262 | 41.32% | 85 | 13.42% | 254 | 40.06% | 634 |
| Hanover | 575 | 42.56% | 749 | 55.44% | 27 | 2.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,351 |
| Hardy | 894 | 67.57% | 355 | 26.83% | 74 | 5.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,323 |
| Harrison | 931 | 41.36% | 1,191 | 52.91% | 107 | 4.75% | 22 | 0.98% | 2,251 |
| Henrico | 1,403 | 62.83% | 641 | 28.71% | 189 | 8.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,233 |
| Henry | 543 | 51.91% | 444 | 44.45% | 59 | 5.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,046 |
| Highland | 215 | 33.59% | 170 | 26.56% | 255 | 39.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 640 |
| Isle of Wight | 147 | 15.93% | 757 | 82.02% | 19 | 2.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 923 |
| Jackson | 388 | 39.88% | 500 | 51.39% | 64 | 6.58% | 21 | 2.16% | 973 |
| James City | 148 | 69.48% | 60 | 28.17% | 5 | 2.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 213 |
| Jefferson | 959 | 51.64% | 458 | 24.66% | 440 | 23.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,857 |
| Kanawha | 1,176 | 67.55% | 513 | 29.47% | 52 | 2.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,741 |
| King and Queen | 255 | 33.25% | 510 | 66.49% | 2 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 767 |
| King George | 184 | 41.44% | 223 | 50.23% | 37 | 8.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 444 |
| King William | 142 | 30.54% | 315 | 67.74% | 8 | 1.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 465 |
| Lancaster | 209 | 57.58% | 142 | 39.12% | 12 | 3.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 363 |
| Lee | 462 | 33.82% | 894 | 65.45% | 10 | 0.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,366 |
| Lewis | 332 | 28.06% | 604 | 51.06% | 247 | 20.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,183 |
| Logan | 100 | 26.53% | 271 | 71.88% | 6 | 1.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 377 |
| Loudoun | 2,033 | 69.10% | 778 | 26.44% | 120 | 4.08% | 11 | 0.37% | 2,942 |
| Louisa | 498 | 39.71% | 754 | 60.13% | 2 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,254 |
| Lunenburg | 251 | 30.99% | 527 | 65.06% | 32 | 3.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 810 |
| McDowell | 35 | 48.61% | 37 | 51.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 72 |
| Madison | 74 | 7.97% | 834 | 89.87% | 20 | 2.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 928 |
| Marion | 569 | 27.84% | 1,337 | 65.41% | 137 | 6.70% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,044 |
| Marshall | 928 | 45.49% | 809 | 39.66% | 108 | 5.29% | 195 | 9.56% | 2,040 |
| Mason | 716 | 47.39% | 439 | 29.05% | 297 | 19.66% | 59 | 3.90% | 1,511 |
| Mathews | 251 | 45.06% | 306 | 54.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 557 |
| Mecklenburg | 430 | 30.85% | 901 | 64.63% | 63 | 4.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,394 |
| Mercer | 443 | 49.89% | 432 | 48.65% | 13 | 1.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 888 |
| Middlesex | 151 | 38.52% | 241 | 61.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 392 |
| Monongalia | 622 | 30.24% | 601 | 29.22% | 757 | 36.80% | 77 | 3.74% | 2,057 |
| Monroe | 693 | 53.47% | 520 | 40.12% | 83 | 6.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,296 |
| Montgomery | 712 | 58.79% | 425 | 35.09% | 74 | 6.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,211 |
| Morgan | 308 | 52.92% | 254 | 43.62% | 20 | 3.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 582 |
| Nansemond | 477 | 52.59% | 429 | 47.30% | 1 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 907 |
| Nelson | 733 | 59.35% | 390 | 31.58% | 112 | 9.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,235 |
| New Kent | 264 | 60.27% | 172 | 39.27% | 2 | 0.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 438 |
| Nicholas | 345 | 63.03% | 152 | 27.89% | 48 | 8.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 545 |
| Norfolk City | 982 | 59.38% | 439 | 26.54% | 233 | 14.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,654 |
| Norfolk County | 704 | 58.52% | 447 | 37.16% | 52 | 4.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,203 |
| Northampton | 234 | 51.54% | 214 | 47.14% | 6 | 1.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 454 |
| Northumberland | 276 | 44.02% | 350 | 55.82% | 1 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 627 |
| Nottoway | 232 | 52.85% | 179 | 40.77% | 28 | 6.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 439 |
| Ohio | 1,202 | 33.43% | 915 | 25.39% | 716 | 19.87% | 771 | 21.39% | 3,604 |
| Orange | 427 | 46.72% | 475 | 51.97% | 12 | 1.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 914 |
| Page | 141 | 12.23% | 937 | 81.27% | 75 | 6.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,153 |
| Patrick | 433 | 46.31% | 432 | 46.20% | 70 | 7.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 935 |
| Pendleton | 400 | 53.33% | 217 | 28.93% | 133 | 17.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 750 |
| Petersburg | 970 | 53.71% | 223 | 12.35% | 613 | 33.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,806 |
| Pittsylvania | 1,702 | 57.98% | 1,057 | 36.00% | 177 | 6.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,936 |
| Pleasants | 140 | 32.94% | 166 | 39.06% | 119 | 28.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 425 |
| Pocahontas | 163 | 30.99% | 333 | 63.31% | 30 | 5.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 526 |
| Portsmouth | 678 | 46.60% | 559 | 38.42% | 214 | 14.72% | 4 | 0.27% | 1,455 |
| Powhatan | 225 | 47.67% | 127 | 26.91% | 120 | 25.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 472 |
| Preston | 562 | 30.33% | 942 | 50.84% | 239 | 12.90% | 110 | 5.94% | 1,853 |
| Prince Edward | 374 | 43.39% | 423 | 49.07% | 65 | 7.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 862 |
| Prince George | 243 | 43.39% | 191 | 34.11% | 126 | 22.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 560 |
| Princess Anne | 451 | 53.31% | 379 | 44.80% | 16 | 1.89% | 0 | 0.00% | 846 |
| Prince William | 243 | 23.32% | 718 | 68.91% | 26 | 2.50% | 55 | 5.28% | 1,042 |
| Pulaski | 332 | 56.56% | 250 | 42.59% | 5 | 0.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 587 |
| Putnam | 400 | 52.29% | 327 | 42.75% | 38 | 4.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 765 |
| Raleigh | 230 | 73.48% | 69 | 22.04% | 14 | 4.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 313 |
| Randolph | 259 | 39.85% | 248 | 38.15% | 143 | 22.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 650 |
| Rappahannock | 491 | 52.85% | 409 | 44.03% | 29 | 3.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 929 |
| Richmond City | 2,402 | 55.58% | 1,167 | 27.08% | 753 | 17.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,322 |
| Richmond County | 353 | 64.89% | 185 | 34.01% | 6 | 1.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 544 |
| Ritchie | 224 | 26.26% | 544 | 63.77% | 73 | 8.56% | 12 | 1.41% | 853 |
| Roane | 237 | 45.84% | 264 | 51.06% | 16 | 3.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 517 |
| Roanoke | 293 | 40.81% | 373 | 51.95% | 52 | 7.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 718 |
| Rockbridge | 1,231 | 55.13% | 361 | 16.17% | 641 | 28.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,233 |
| Rockingham | 883 | 30.31% | 676 | 23.21% | 1,354 | 46.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,913 |
| Russell | 473 | 47.35% | 526 | 52.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 999 |
| Scott | 491 | 41.75% | 594 | 50.60% | 91 | 7.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,176 |
| Shenandoah | 427 | 17.13% | 1,883 | 75.53% | 170 | 6.82% | 13 | 0.52% | 2,493 |
| Smyth | 446 | 45.01% | 496 | 50.05% | 49 | 4.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 991 |
| Southampton | 545 | 48.79% | 563 | 50.40% | 9 | 0.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,117 |
| Spotsylvania | 599 | 43.66% | 516 | 37.61% | 257 | 18.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,372 |
| Stafford | 404 | 41.61% | 402 | 41.41% | 165 | 16.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 971 |
| Surry | 197 | 53.68% | 115 | 31.34% | 55 | 14.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 367 |
| Sussex | 177 | 31.22% | 294 | 51.85% | 96 | 16.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 567 |
| Taylor | 647 | 51.68% | 575 | 45.93% | 26 | 2.08% | 4 | 0.32% | 1,252 |
| Tazewell | 306 | 24.68% | 934 | 75.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,240 |
| Tucker | 22 | 15.28% | 99 | 68.75% | 23 | 15.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 144 |
| Tyler | 315 | 33.69% | 423 | 45.24% | 197 | 21.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 935 |
| Upshur | 331 | 33.98% | 589 | 60.47% | 54 | 5.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 974 |
| Warren | 276 | 36.80% | 462 | 61.60% | 12 | 1.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 750 |
| Warwick | 72 | 69.23% | 32 | 30.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 104 |
| Washington | 916 | 42.60% | 1,178 | 54.79% | 56 | 2.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,150 |
| Wayne | 326 | 56.82% | 166 | 28.42% | 82 | 14.04% | 10 | 1.71% | 584 |
| Webster | 86 | 45.03% | 96 | 50.26% | 9 | 4.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 191 |
| Westmoreland | 438 | 72.76% | 160 | 26.58% | 4 | 0.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 602 |
| Wetzel | 90 | 10.51% | 607 | 70.91% | 153 | 17.87% | 6 | 0.70% | 856 |
| Williamsburg | 49 | 42.24% | 43 | 37.07% | 24 | 20.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 116 |
| Wirt | 150 | 35.63% | 255 | 60.57% | 16 | 3.80% | 0 | 0.00% | 421 |
| Wise | 102 | 21.56% | 363 | 76.74% | 8 | 1.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 473 |
| Wood | 832 | 46.20% | 832 | 46.20% | 56 | 3.11% | 81 | 4.50% | 1,801 |
| Wyoming [lower-alpha 1] | 60 | 61.22% | 29 | 29.60% | 9 | 9.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 98 |
| Wythe | 617 | 43.03% | 795 | 55.44% | 22 | 1.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,434 |
| York | 227 | 70.93% | 90 | 28.13% | 3 | 0.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 320 |
| Total | 74,701 | 44.65% | 74,379 | 44.46% | 16,292 | 9.74% | 1,929 | 1.15% | 167,301 |
Virginia was one of only three states to vote for the Constitutional Union candidate, former U.S. Senator John Bell, over the Southern Democratic candidate, Vice President John C. Breckinridge, and the Democratic candidate, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Former U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was also the Republican candidate in this election, but he received the lowest support for any Republican presidential candidate (as well as the lowest support of any candidate who won the presidency) in the history of Virginia.
This was the first presidential election since the formation of political parties in which Virginia did not vote for the Democratic or Democratic-Republican candidate. It was also the closest presidential election result in Virginia history: Bell won by 156 votes, or a margin of 0.093474% – the thirteenth-closest statewide presidential result in United States history and the closest between 1836 and 1876. Virginia eventually seceded from the United States on April 17, 1861, and did not participate in the following elections in 1864 and 1868. However, unionist counties in the Ohio basin, plus a number of adjacent counties in the northwest, seceded to form the state of West Virginia and did participate in those two elections. As of the 2020 presidential election [update] , this is the last election in which Morgan County, one of the counties that broke off to form West Virginia, did not vote for the Republican candidate.
Virginia was the only one of the eleven states that would later declare their secession from the Union and be controlled by Confederate armies where any ballots for Lincoln were distributed, and the vast majority of the votes Lincoln received were cast in border counties of what would soon become West Virginia – the future state accounted for 1,832 of Lincoln's 1,929 votes. [7] Lincoln received no votes at all in 121 of the state's then-145 counties (including 31 of the 50 that would form West Virginia), received a single vote in three counties and received ten or fewer votes in nine of the 24 counties where he polled votes. Lincoln's best results, by far, were in the four counties that comprised the state's northern panhandle, a region which had long felt alienated from Richmond and which was economically and culturally linked to its neighbors Ohio and Pennsylvania and which would become the key driver in the successful effort to form a separate state. Hancock County (Virginia's northernmost at the time) returned Lincoln's best result – he polled over 40% of the vote there and finished in second place (Lincoln polled only eight votes fewer than Breckinridge). Of the 97 votes cast for Lincoln in the state's post-1863 boundaries, 93 were polled in four counties along the Potomac River and four were cast in the coastal city of Portsmouth.
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The 1860–61 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 6, 1860, and October 24, 1861, before or after the first session of the 37th United States Congress convened on July 4, 1861. The number of House seats initially increased to 239 when California was apportioned an extra one, but these elections were affected by the outbreak of the American Civil War and resulted in over 56 vacancies.
The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) is the Virginia chapter of the Republican Party. It is based at the Richard D. Obenshain Center in Richmond. As of May 2024, it controls all three statewide elected offices and 5 out of 11 U.S. House seats.
The 1856 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met from June 17 to June 19, 1856, at Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the first national nominating convention of the Republican Party, founded two years earlier in 1854. It was held to nominate the party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1856 election. The convention selected John C. Frémont, a former United States Senator from California, for president, and former Senator William L. Dayton of New Jersey for vice president. The convention also appointed members of the newly established Republican National Committee.
The 1856 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention that met from June 2 to June 6 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was held to nominate the Democratic Party's candidates for president and vice president in the 1856 election. The convention selected former Secretary of State James Buchanan of Pennsylvania for president and former Representative John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky for vice president.
The 1860 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The 1860 United States elections elected the members of the 37th United States Congress. The election marked the start of the Third Party System and precipitated the Civil War. The Republican Party won control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, making it the fifth party to accomplish such a feat. The election is widely considered to be a realigning election.
The 1856 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 4, 1856, as part of the 1856 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The 1860 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 6, 1860. State voters chose four electors to represent the state in the Electoral College, which chose the president and vice president.
The 2016 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New Hampshire voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and his running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence, against the Democratic Party's nominee, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College.
The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States, govern the state during a state of emergency, and write a new Constitution for Virginia, which was subsequently voted down in a referendum under the Confederate Government.
The 1860 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose 35 electors of the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New York was the tipping state in this election, and had Lincoln lost it there would have been a contingent election decided by Congress.
The 2020 United States presidential election in West Virginia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. West Virginia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. West Virginia had five electoral votes in the Electoral College.
