1880 United States presidential election in Indiana

1880 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee James A. Garfield Winfield Scott Hancock Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio Pennsylvania Running mate Chester A. Arthur William Hayden English Electoral vote 15 0 Popular vote 232,164 225,522 Percentage 49.3% 47.9%

County Results Garfield   40–50%   50–60%   60–70% Hancock   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Tie   <50%

President before election Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Elected President James A. Garfield Republican

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the U.S. representative from Ohio's 19th congressional district James A. Garfield and the chair of the New York Republican Party Chester A. Arthur defeated the Democratic ticket of the major general Winfield S. Hancock and the former U.S. representative from Indiana's 2nd congressional district William H. English. Garfield defeated Hancock in the national election with 214 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 six more votes for Garfield, one fewer for Hancock, and 80 fewer Weaver in Indiana. ^[1]

1880 United States presidential election in Indiana

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur	232,158	49.32	1.19
	Democratic	Winfield Scott Hancock William Hayden English	225,523	47.91	1.74
	Greenback Labor	James B. Weaver Barzillai J. Chambers	13,066	2.78	0.56
Total votes			470,747	100.00

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. Petersen 1963, p. 49.
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.