1876 United States presidential election in Mississippi

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1876 United States presidential election in Mississippi
Flag of the United States (1877-1890).svg
  1872 November 7, 1876 1880  
Turnout19.90% Increase2.svg 4.26 pp [1]
  SamuelJonesTilden.jpg President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880 Restored (cropped).jpg
Nominee Samuel J. Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Ohio
Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks William A. Wheeler
Electoral vote80
Popular vote112,17352,603
Percentage68.08%31.92%

Mississippi Presidential Election Results 1876.svg
County Results

President before election

Ulysses S. Grant
Republican

Elected President

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican

The 1876 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 7, 1876, as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. [2]

Mississippi was won by Samuel J. Tilden, the former governor of New York (DNew York), running with Thomas A. Hendricks, the governor of Indiana and future vice president, with 68.08% of the popular vote, against Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio (R-Ohio), running with Representative William A. Wheeler, with 31.92% of the vote. [2] This election marked the beginning of an 18-election, or 68-year streak of the state voting heavily Democratic, which would ultimately end when Strom Thurmond of the States' Rights Democratic Party won the state in a landslide in 1948.

Results

United States presidential election in Mississippi, 1876 [2]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Samuel J. Tilden of New York Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana 112,17368.08%8100.00%
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio William A. Wheeler of New York 52,60331.92%00.00%
Total164,776100.00%8100.00%

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References

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