1876 United States presidential election in North Carolina

United States presidential election in North Carolina, 1876

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Turnout21.83% Increase 6.41 pp[1]
 
Nominee Samuel J. Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Ohio
Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks William A. Wheeler
Electoral vote 10 0
Popular vote 125,427 108,484
Percentage 53.62% 46.38%

County Results

President before election

Ulysses S. Grant
Republican

Elected President

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican

The 1876 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 7, 1876, as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for the president and vice president.[2]

North Carolina 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 53.62% of the popular vote, against Rutherford B. Hayes, the governor of Ohio (R-Ohio), running with Representative William A. Wheeler, with 46.38% of the vote.[2]

This is the only occasion when Unionist, high-altitude Mitchell County has ever voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.[3]

  1. ^ "1876 Presidential Election Results North Carolina turnout".
  2. ^ a b "1876 Presidential Election Results North Carolina".
  3. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 265-271 ISBN 0786422173

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