1876 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 7, 1876
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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
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.
Summary
Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. 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]
| 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 | |||
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Petersen 1963, p. 46.
- ^ Dubin 2002, p. xi.
- ^ a b 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.