1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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Nominee James A. Garfield Winfield S. Hancock Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio Pennsylvania Running mate Chester A. Arthur William H. English Electoral vote 5 0 Popular vote 44,856 40,797 Percentage 51.94% 48.15%

County Results Garfield   40–50%   50–60% Hancock   50–60%

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

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

New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a narrow margin of 4.70%. This would be the last occasion any Democratic presidential candidate won Grafton County until Woodrow Wilson in 1912, ^[1] and the last occasion a Democrat won an absolute majority of the presidential vote in Belknap County until Lyndon B. Johnson did so in his 1964 landslide.

Results

1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire [2]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Republican	James Abram Garfield of Ohio	Chester Alan Arthur of New York	44,856	51.94%	5	100.00%
	Democratic	Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania	William Hayden English of Indiana	40,797	47.24%	0	0.00%
	Greenback	James Baird Weaver of Iowa	Barzillai Jefferson Chambers of Texas	528	0.61%	0	0.00%
	Prohibition	Neal Dow of Maine	Henry Adams Thompson of Ohio	180	0.21%	0	0.00%
Total				86,361	100.00%	5	100.00%

Results by county

County	James Abram Garfield [3] Republican		Winfield Scott Hancock [3] Democratic		James Baird Weaver [4] Greenback		Neal Dow [4] Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Belknap	2,350	47.81%	2,483	50.52%	55	1.12%	27	0.55%	-133	-2.71%	4,915
Carroll	2,426	47.46%	2,639	51.62%	24	0.47%	23	0.45%	-213	-4.17%	5,112
Cheshire	4,380	58.83%	2,979	40.01%	67	0.90%	19	0.26%	1,401	18.82%	7,445
Coös	1,829	42.89%	2,387	55.98%	44	1.03%	4	0.09%	-558	-13.09%	4,264
Grafton	4,964	47.71%	5,300	50.94%	132	1.27%	8	0.08%	-336	-3.23%	10,404
Hillsborough	8,689	55.11%	6,999	44.39%	56	0.36%	24	0.15%	1,690	10.72%	15,768
Merrimack	5,935	49.95%	5,922	49.84%	9	0.08%	17	0.14%	13	0.11%	11,883
Rockingham	6,960	53.25%	5,989	45.82%	91	0.70%	30	0.23%	971	7.43%	13,070
Strafford	4,634	53.78%	3,922	45.51%	38	0.44%	23	0.27%	712	8.26%	8,617
Sullivan	2,729	55.46%	2,175	44.20%	12	0.24%	5	0.10%	554	11.26%	4,921
Totals	44,896	51.96%	40,795	47.22%	528	0.61%	180	0.21%	4,101	4.75%	86,399

See also

• United States presidential elections in New Hampshire

References

1. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 257 ISBN   0786422173
2. "1880 Presidential General Election Results – New Hampshire".
3. Géoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
4. Géoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)