1880 United States presidential election in Georgia

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1880 United States presidential election in Georgia
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  1876 November 2, 1880 (1880-11-02) 1884  
  WinfieldScottHancock2 (cropped 3x4).jpg James Abram Garfield, photo portrait seated (cropped).jpg
Nominee Winfield S. Hancock James Garfield
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Pennsylvania Ohio
Running mate William H. English Chester A. Arthur
Electoral vote110
Popular vote102,98154,470
Percentage65.41%34.59%

Georgia Presidential Election Results 1880.svg
County Results

President before election

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican

Elected President

James Garfield
Republican

The 1880 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s. [1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns [2] – and in presidential elections to a small number of counties elsewhere where blacks were not fully disenfranchised. The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club. [3] This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulative poll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout would begin a decline to be consistently lower than any other former Confederate state except South Carolina. [4]

Despite the failure of outgoing President Rutherford B. Hayes to convert any of the formerly Whig landowners to the GOP, [5] Democratic nominee Winfield Scott Hancock declined by seven percent upon Samuel J. Tilden’s performance in Georgia from 1876, as mountain country whites who could pay the poll tax were nonetheless dissatisfied with the spending cuts of the “Redeemers” and their economic problems from deflation and a regressive and malapportioned tax system. [5]

Results

1880 United States presidential election in Georgia [6]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Winfield Scott Hancock 102,98165.41%11
Republican James A. Garfield 54,47034.59%0

Results by county

CountyWinfield Scott Hancock [7]
Democratic
James Abram Garfield [7]
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %
Appling 29570.74%12229.26%17341.49%417
Baker 53461.03%34138.97%19322.06%875
Baldwin 86073.07%31726.93%54346.13%1,177
Banks 64584.31%12015.69%52568.63%765
Bartow 1,91769.86%82730.14%1,09039.72%2,744
Berrien 84594.84%465.16%79989.67%891
Bibb 1,58863.62%90836.38%68027.24%2,496
Brooks 98457.11%73942.89%24514.22%1,723
Bryan 22364.83%12135.17%10229.65%344
Bulloch 99298.51%151.49%97797.02%1,007
Burke 98331.74%2,11468.26%-1,131-36.52%3,097
Butts 67262.51%40337.49%26925.02%1,075
Calhoun 37848.71%39851.29%-20-2.58%776
Camden 33134.27%63565.73%-304-31.47%966
Campbell 57662.47%34637.53%23024.95%922
Carroll 1,24079.03%32920.97%91158.06%1,569
Catoosa 48888.25%6511.75%42376.49%553
Charlton 14175.40%4624.60%9550.80%187
Chatham 3,40461.18%2,16038.82%1,24422.36%5,564
Chattahoochee 32351.11%30948.89%142.22%632
Chattooga 1,16684.99%20615.01%96069.97%1,372
Cherokee 1,81393.55%1256.45%1,68887.10%1,938
Clarke 80051.12%76548.88%352.24%1,565
Clay 51557.48%38142.52%13414.96%896
Clayton 38272.08%14827.92%23444.15%530
Clinch 36879.83%9320.17%27559.65%461
Cobb 1,98077.98%55922.02%1,42155.97%2,539
Coffee 235100.00%00.00%235100.00%235
Colquitt 17780.45%4319.55%13460.91%220
Columbia 244100.00%00.00%244100.00%244
Coweta 1,38151.80%1,28548.20%963.60%2,666
Crawford 36867.77%17532.23%19335.54%543
Dade 45984.69%8315.31%37669.37%542
Dawson 42076.64%12823.36%29253.28%548
De Kalb 87672.64%33027.36%54645.27%1,206
Decatur 1,09952.23%1,00547.77%944.47%2,104
Dodge 36384.81%6515.19%29869.63%428
Dooly 83577.03%24922.97%58654.06%1,084
Dougherty 36726.25%1,03173.75%-664-47.50%1,398
Douglas 48279.54%12420.46%35859.08%606
Early 73774.75%24925.25%48849.49%986
Echols 18582.22%4017.78%14564.44%225
Effingham 36563.92%20636.08%15927.85%571
Elbert 82796.73%283.27%79993.45%855
Emanuel 76981.29%17718.71%59262.58%946
Fannin 34353.18%30246.82%416.36%645
Fayette 49973.17%18326.83%31646.33%682
Floyd 2,25171.62%89228.38%1,35943.24%3,143
Forsyth 1,15990.62%1209.38%1,03981.24%1,279
Franklin 1,17388.60%15111.40%1,02277.19%1,324
Fulton 3,04557.74%2,22942.26%81615.47%5,274
Gilmer 49468.71%22531.29%26937.41%719
Glascock 21296.36%83.64%20492.73%220
Glynn 29244.24%36855.76%-76-11.52%660
Gordon 1,24888.45%16311.55%1,08576.90%1,411
Greene 75578.89%20221.11%55357.78%957
Gwinnett 1,81288.13%24411.87%1,56876.26%2,056
Habersham 1,12194.92%605.08%1,06189.84%1,181
Hall 1,74586.64%26913.36%1,47673.29%2,014
Hancock 58360.35%38339.65%20020.70%966
Haralson 1,12194.92%605.08%1,06189.84%1,181
Harris 1,03653.71%89346.29%1437.41%1,929
Hart 46073.72%16426.28%29647.44%624
Heard 61770.03%26429.97%35340.07%881
Henry 69157.73%50642.27%18515.46%1,197
Houston 1,38260.32%90939.68%47320.65%2,291
Irwin 235100.00%00.00%235100.00%235
Jackson 1,27174.24%44125.76%83048.48%1,712
Jasper 52466.25%26733.75%25732.49%791
Jefferson 62566.99%30833.01%31733.98%933
Johnson 25998.48%41.52%25596.96%263
Jones 50449.22%52050.78%-16-1.56%1,024
Laurens 52477.17%15522.83%36954.34%679
Lee 21322.95%71577.05%-502-54.09%928
Liberty 41936.79%72063.21%-301-26.43%1,139
Lincoln 275100.00%00.00%275100.00%275
Lowndes 74653.06%66046.94%866.12%1,406
Lumpkin 56889.87%6410.13%50479.75%632
Macon 70348.45%74851.55%-45-3.10%1,451
Madison 59285.06%10414.94%48870.11%696
Marion 46766.43%23633.57%23132.86%703
McDuffie 35185.40%6014.60%29170.80%411
McIntosh 18422.97%61777.03%-433-54.06%801
Meriwether 1,02853.65%88846.35%1407.31%1,916
Miller 24193.05%186.95%22386.10%259
Milton 46090.91%469.09%41481.82%506
Mitchell 60746.48%69953.52%-92-7.04%1,306
Monroe 1,31256.19%1,02343.81%28912.38%2,335
Montgomery 24677.36%7222.64%17454.72%318
Morgan 82842.83%1,10557.17%-277-14.33%1,933
Murray 93390.76%959.24%83881.52%1,028
Muscogee 1,51161.90%93038.10%58123.80%2,441
Newton 74356.12%58143.88%16212.24%1,324
Oconee 45858.20%32941.80%12916.39%787
Oglethorpe 63780.13%15819.87%47960.25%795
Paulding 95278.68%25821.32%69457.36%1,210
Pickens 32650.54%31949.46%71.09%645
Pierce 27558.51%19541.49%8017.02%470
Pike 1,07059.35%73340.65%33718.69%1,803
Polk 1,06667.73%50832.27%55835.45%1,574
Pulaski 82364.75%44835.25%37529.50%1,271
Putnam 62799.84%10.16%62699.68%628
Quitman 30161.18%19138.82%11022.36%492
Rabun 53299.63%20.37%53099.25%534
Randolph 34366.99%16933.01%17433.98%512
Richmond 2,43061.88%1,49738.12%93323.76%3,927
Rockdale 46465.63%24334.37%22131.26%707
Schley 30067.57%14432.43%15635.14%444
Screven 1,13178.05%31821.95%81356.11%1,449
Spalding 74246.29%86153.71%-119-7.42%1,603
Stewart 64083.33%12816.67%51266.67%768
Sumter 98645.80%1,16754.20%-181-8.41%2,153
Talbot 71950.21%71349.79%60.42%1,432
Taliaferro 35547.65%39052.35%-35-4.70%745
Tattnall 56283.26%11316.74%44966.52%675
Taylor 57263.84%32436.16%24827.68%896
Telfair 26780.91%6319.09%20461.82%330
Terrell 73669.24%32730.76%40938.48%1,063
Thomas 1,31652.04%1,21347.96%1034.07%2,529
Towns 25458.80%17841.20%7617.59%432
Troup 1,13958.80%79841.20%34117.60%1,937
Twiggs 19635.13%36264.87%-166-29.75%558
Union 66493.39%476.61%61786.78%711
Upson 78956.93%59743.07%19213.85%1,386
Walker 1,19477.79%34122.21%85355.57%1,535
Walton 85575.40%27924.60%57650.79%1,134
Ware 35363.72%20136.28%15227.44%554
Warren 57268.26%26631.74%30636.52%838
Washington 1,07153.28%93946.72%1326.57%2,010
Wayne 35374.32%12225.68%23148.63%475
Webster 30164.73%16435.27%13729.46%465
White 64492.00%568.00%58884.00%700
Whitfield 90784.06%17215.94%73568.12%1,079
Wilcox 29494.84%165.16%27889.68%310
Wilkes 72779.02%19320.98%53458.04%920
Wilkinson 55788.55%7211.45%48577.11%629
Worth 49178.81%13221.19%35957.62%623
Totals103,03165.92%53,27434.08%49,75731.83%156,305

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