1880 United States presidential election in Indiana

1880 United States presidential election in Indiana

November 2, 1880
 
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

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 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 six more votes for Garfield, one fewer for Hancock, and 80 fewer for 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

Notes

  1. ^ a b 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.