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Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Virginia, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Virginia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864 during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the election of 1868, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
Electoral results Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote (a) Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Abraham Lincoln: Republican: Illinois: 1,865,908 39.8% 180 Hannibal Hamlin: Maine: 180 John C. Breckinridge: Southern Democratic: Kentucky: 848,019 18.1% 72 Joseph Lane ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1864, near the end of the American Civil War.Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican hold: Popular vote margin: Republican +10.0%: Electoral vote: Abraham Lincoln (R) [1] 212 [2] George B. McClellan (D) 21: 1864 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Lincoln, blue denotes states won by McClellan, and brown denotes Confederate states that
USA Today contributed to the report. This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Electoral College Map: See Presidential Election results by state. Show comments. Advertisement.
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1520-9. Holt, Michael F. (1978). The Political Crisis of the 1850s. Holt, Michael F. The Election of 1860: "A Campaign Fraught with Consequences (2017) online review; Holzer, Harold (2004). Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln ...
The Old Dominion’s 13 electoral votes are among the most coveted electoral prizes for both presidential campaigns. It is also a battleground at the Senate level, where former Gov. Tim Kaine (D) is facing former Sen. George Allen (R); and the 2nd district House race is also worth keeping an eye on.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election