1876 United States presidential election in Indiana

1876 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Samuel J. Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Ohio Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks William A. Wheeler Electoral vote 15 0 Popular vote 213,526 208,011 Percentage 49.6% 48.1%

County Results Tilden   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Hayes   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%

President before election Ulysses S. Grant Republican Elected President Rutherford B. Hayes Republican

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 7, 1876, as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the governor of New York Samuel J. Tilden and the governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks defeated the Republican ticket of the governor of Ohio Rutherford B. Hayes and the U.S. representative from New York's 19th congressional district William A. Wheeler. Hayes defeated Tilden in the national election with 185 electoral votes. ^[1]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the Electoral College rather than for president. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. ^[2] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 . ^[3] Svend Petersen finds ten more votes for Tilden and 1,140 more for Hayes. ^[1]

1876 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Samuel J. Tilden Thomas A. Hendricks	213,516	49.65	3.06
	Republican	Rutherford B. Hayes William A. Wheeler	206,971	48.13	4.87
	Independent	Peter Cooper Samuel Fenton Cary	9,533	2.22	2.22
Total votes			430,020	100.00

Statistics

This was the first time the Democratic presidential ticket carried Indiana since 1856. As of 2024, this is the only presidential election in which the Republican nominee won without carrying Indiana. This was the second and most recent election (along with 1848) when the state voted for a losing Democrat.

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. Petersen 1963, p. 46.
2. Dubin 2002, p. xi.
3. Burnham 1955, p. 249.

Bibliography

• Burnham, Walter Dean (1955). Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN   978-0-7864-6422-7.
• Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN   62-21786.