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United States presidential election in Virginia, 1860






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Nominee

John Bell

John C. Breckinridge

Stephen A. Douglas
Party

Constitutional Union

Southern Democratic

Democratic
Home state

Tennessee

Kentucky

Illinois
Running mate

Edward Everett

Joseph Lane

Herschel V. Johnson
Electoral vote

15
0
0
Popular vote

74,481
74,325
16,198
Percentage

44.63%
44.54%
9.71%





President before election

James Buchanan
Democratic



Elected President

Abraham Lincoln
Republican








The 1860 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose fifteen representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


Virginia was one of only three states to vote for the Constitutional Union candidate, former U.S. Senator John Bell, over the Southern Democratic candidate, Vice President John C. Breckinridge, and the Democratic candidate, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Former U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln was also the Republican candidate in this election, but he received the lowest support for any Republican presidential candidate (as well as the lowest support of any candidate who won the presidency) in the history of Virginia.


This was the first presidential election since the formation of political parties in which Virginia did not vote for the Democratic or Democratic-Republican candidate. It was also the closest presidential election result in Virginia history: Bell won by 156 votes, or a margin of 0.093474 percent – the thirteenth-closest statewide presidential result in United States history and the closest between 1836 and 1876. Virginia eventually seceded from the United States on April 17, 1861, and did not participate in the following elections in 1864 and 1868. However, unionist counties in the Ohio basin, plus a number of adjacent counties in the northwest, seceded to form West Virginia and did participate in those two elections. As of the 2016 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Morgan County, one of the counties that broke off to form West Virginia, did not vote for the Republican candidate.


Virginia was the only one the eleven states that would later declare their secession from the Union and be controlled by Confederate armies in which ballots for Lincoln were distributed, and the vast majority of the votes Lincoln received were cast in border counties of what would soon become West Virginia - the future state accounted for 1,832 of Lincoln's 1,929 votes. [1] Lincoln received no votes at all in 121 of the state's then-145 counties (including 31 of the 50 that would form West Virginia), received a single vote in three counties and received ten or fewer votes in nine of the 24 counties where he polled votes. Lincoln's best results, by far, were in the four counties that comprised the state's northern panhandle, a region which had long felt alienated from Richmond and which was economically and culturally linked to its neighbors Ohio and Pennsylvania and which would become the key driver in the successful effort to form a separate state. Hancock County (Virginia's northernmost at the time) returned Lincoln's best result - he polled over 40% of the vote there and finished in second place (Lincoln polled only eight votes fewer than Breckinridge). Of the 97 votes cast for Lincoln in the state's post-1863 boundaries, 93 were polled in four counties (all along the Potomac River) and four were cast in the coastal city of Portsmouth.



Results[edit]



































United States presidential election in Virginia, 1860[2]
Party
Candidate
Votes
Percentage
Electoral votes


Constitutional Union

John Bell

74,481

44.63%

15


Southern Democratic

John C. Breckinridge
74,325
44.54%
0


Democratic

Stephen A. Douglas
16,198
9.71%
0


Republican

Abraham Lincoln
1,887
1.13%
0

Totals

166,891

100.0%

15


References[edit]




  1. ^ Results by county in Virginia


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