United States presidential election, 1876 - wikipedia United States presidential election, 1876 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2010 ) United States presidential election, 1876 ← 1872 November 7, 1876 ( 1876 - 11 - 07 ) 1880 → All 369 electoral votes of the Electoral College 185 electoral votes needed to win Turnout 81.8 % 10.5 pp Nominee Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel J. Tilden Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio New York Running mate William A. Wheeler Thomas A. Hendricks Electoral vote 185 184 States carried 21 17 Popular vote 4,034,311 4,288,546 Percentage 47.9 % 50.9 % Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Hayes / Wheeler, blue denotes those won by Tilden / Hendricks. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. President before election Ulysses S. Grant Republican Elected President Rutherford B. Hayes Republican The United States presidential election of 1876 was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1876. It was one of the most contentious and controversial presidential elections in American history. The results of the election remain among the most disputed ever, although it is not disputed that Samuel J. Tilden of New York outpolled Ohio 's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes 's 165, with 20 votes unresolved. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states. In the case of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was replaced after being declared illegal for being an `` elected or appointed official ''. The question of who should have been awarded these electoral votes is the source of the continued controversy concerning the results of this election. An informal deal was struck to resolve the dispute : the Compromise of 1877, which awarded all 20 electoral votes to Hayes. In return for the Democrats ' acquiescence to Hayes 's election, the Republicans agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South to end the Reconstruction Era of the United States. The Compromise effectively ceded power in the Southern states to the Democratic Redeemers, who went on to pursue their agenda of returning the South to a political economy resembling that of its pre-war condition, including the disenfranchisement of black voters. This was the first presidential election since 1852 in which the Democratic candidate won a majority of the popular vote. This is also the only election in which a candidate for president received more than 50 percent of the popular vote, but was not elected president by the Electoral College, and one of five elections ( in addition to 1824, 1888, 2000 and 2016 ) in which the person who won the most popular votes did not win the election. To date, it remains the election that recorded the smallest electoral vote victory ( 185 -- 184 ) and the election that yielded the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting age population in American history, at 81.8 %. Contents 1 Nominations 1.1 Republican Party nomination 1.2 Democratic Party nomination 1.3 Greenback Party nomination 1.3. 1 Candidates gallery 1.4 Prohibition Party nomination 1.5 American National Party nomination 2 General election 2.1 Campaign 2.2 Colorado 2.3 Electoral disputes 2.4 Results 2.5 Geography of results 2.5. 1 Cartographic gallery 2.6 Results by state 2.7 Close states 3 Cultural references 4 See also 5 References 6 Sources and further reading 6.1 Primary sources 7 External links Nominations Republican Party nomination Main article : 1876 Republican National Convention Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio Senator James G. Blaine from Maine Secretary of the Treasury Benjamin Bristow Senator Oliver P. Morton from Indiana Senator Roscoe Conkling from New York Governor John F. Hartranft of Pennsylvania Postmaster General Marshall Jewell Ambassador Elihu B. Washburne from Illinois Representative William A. Wheeler from New York President Ulysses S. Grant ( declined in 1875 ) Hayes / Wheeler campaign poster It was widely assumed during the year 1875 that incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant would run for a third term as president in spite of the poor economic conditions, the numerous political scandals that had developed since he assumed office in 1869, and a long - standing tradition set by the first president, George Washington, not to stay in office longer than two terms. Grant 's inner circle advised him to go for a third term and he almost did, but the House, by a sweeping 233 to 18 vote, passed a resolution declaring that the two - term tradition was to prevent a dictatorship. Late in the year, the president withdrew from the running for 1876. When the Sixth Republican National Convention assembled on June 14, 1876, it appeared that James G. Blaine would be the nominee. On the first ballot, Blaine was just 100 votes short of a majority. His vote began to slide after the second ballot, however, as many Republicans feared that Blaine could not win the general election. Anti-Blaine delegates could not agree on a candidate until Blaine 's total rose to 41 % on the sixth ballot. Leaders of the reform Republicans met privately and considered alternatives. Their choice was Ohio 's reform governor, Rutherford B. Hayes. On the seventh ballot, Hayes was nominated with 384 votes to 351 for Blaine and 21 for Benjamin Bristow. William A. Wheeler was nominated for vice-president by a much larger margin ( 366 -- 89 ) over his chief rival, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, who later served as a member of the electoral commission that awarded the election to Hayes. Presidential Ballot Ballot 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th James G. Blaine 285 296 293 292 286 308 351 Oliver P. Morton 124 120 113 108 95 85 0 Benjamin Bristow 113 114 121 126 114 111 21 Roscoe Conkling 99 93 90 84 82 81 0 Rutherford B. Hayes 61 64 67 68 104 113 384 John F. Hartranft 58 63 68 71 69 50 0 Marshall Jewell 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 William A. Wheeler 0 Elihu B. Washburne 0 0 Republican Presidential Nomination Vote by State Delegation By Ballot 1st Presidential Ballot 2nd Presidential Ballot 3rd Presidential Ballot 4th Presidential Ballot 5th Presidential Ballot 6th Presidential Ballot 7th Presidential Ballot Vice Presidential Ballot Ballot 1st Partial William A. Wheeler 366 Frederick T. Frelinghuysen 89 Marshall Jewell 86 Stewart L. Woodford 70 Joseph R. Hawley 25 Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Vote by State Delegation Recorded Vice Presidential Ballot Democratic Party nomination Main article : 1876 Democratic National Convention Democratic candidates : Samuel J. Tilden, governor of New York Thomas A. Hendricks, governor of Indiana Winfield Scott Hancock, United States Army major general from Pennsylvania William Allen, former governor of Ohio Thomas F. Bayard, U.S. senator from Delaware Joel Parker, former governor of New Jersey Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana Major General Winfield Scott Hancock from Pennsylvania William Allen from Ohio Senator Thomas F. Bayard from Delaware Joel Parker from New Jersey Interior of the Merchants Exchange Building of St. Louis, Missouri, during the announcement of Samuel J. Tilden as the Democratic presidential nominee Tilden / Hendricks campaign poster The 12th Democratic National Convention assembled in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 1876, the first political convention held by one of the major American parties west of the Mississippi River. Five thousand people jammed the auditorium in St. Louis with hopes for the first presidential victory for the Democratic Party in 20 years. The platform called for immediate and sweeping reforms in response to the scandals that had plagued the Grant administration. Tilden won more than 400 votes on the first ballot and the nomination by a landslide on the second. Tilden defeated Thomas A. Hendricks, Winfield Scott Hancock, William Allen, Thomas F. Bayard, and Joel Parker for the presidential nomination. Although Tilden was strongly opposed by `` Honest John '' Kelly, the leader of New York 's Tammany Hall, he was still able to obtain the nomination. Thomas Hendricks was nominated for vice-president, since he was the only person put forward for the position. The Democratic platform pledged to replace the corruption of the Grant administration with honest, efficient government and to end `` the rapacity of carpetbag tyrannies '' in the South. It also called for treaty protection for naturalized United States citizens visiting their homelands, restrictions on Asian immigration, tariff reform, and opposition to land grants for railroads. It has been claimed that Tilden 's nomination was received by the voting Democrats with more enthusiasm than any leader since Andrew Jackson. Presidential Ballot 1st Before Shifts 1st After Shifts 2nd Before Shifts 2nd After Shifts Unanimous Samuel J. Tilden 401.5 417.5 535 534 738 Thomas A. Hendricks 140.5 140.5 85 60 Winfield Scott Hancock 75 75 58 59 William Allen 54 54 54 54 Thomas F. Bayard 33 33 11 Joel Parker 18 18 0 18 James Broadhead 16 0 0 0 Allen G. Thurman 0 0 Democratic Presidential Nomination Vote by State Delegation By Ballot 1st Presidential Ballot Before Shifts 1st Presidential Ballot After Shifts Estimated 2nd Presidential Ballot Source : Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held in St. Louis, Mo., June 27th, 28th and 29th, 1876. ( September 3, 2012 ). Vice Presidential Ballot 1st Thomas A. Hendricks 730 Blank 8 Source : Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held in St. Louis, Mo., June 27th, 28th and 29th, 1876. ( September 3, 2012 ). Greenback Party nomination Greenback candidates : Peter Cooper, U.S. philanthropist from New York Andrew Curtin, former governor of Pennsylvania William Allen, former governor of Ohio Alexander Campbell, U.S. representative from Illinois Candidates gallery Philanthropist Peter Cooper from New York Andrew Curtin from Pennsylvania William Allen from Ohio The Greenback Party had been organized by agricultural interests in Indianapolis in 1874 to urge the federal government to inflate the economy through the mass issuance of paper money called greenbacks. Its first national nominating convention was held in Indianapolis in the spring of 1876. Peter Cooper was nominated for president with 352 votes to 119 for three other contenders. The convention nominated anti-monopolist Senator Newton Booth of California for vice-president ; after Booth declined to run, the national committee chose Samuel Fenton Cary as his replacement on the ticket. Presidential Ballot Ballot 1st Peter Cooper 352 Andrew Curtin 58 William Allen 31 Alexander Campbell 30 Source : US President - G Convention. Our Campaigns. ( February 10, 2012 ). Prohibition Party nomination The Prohibition Party, in its second national convention, nominated Green Clay Smith as its presidential candidate and Gideon T. Stewart as its vice-presidential candidate. American National Party nomination This small political party used several different names, often with different names in different states. It was a continuation of the Anti-Masonic Party that met in 1872 and nominated Charles Francis Adams for president. When Adams declined to run, the party did not contest the 1872 election. The convention was held from June 8 to 10, 1875, in Liberty Hall, Pittsburgh. B.T. Roberts of New York served as chairman, and Jonathan Blanchard was the keynote speaker. The platform supported the Reconstruction Amendments to the Constitution, international arbitration, the reading of the scriptures in public schools, specie payments, justice for Native Americans, abolition of the Electoral College, and prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages. It declared the first day of the week to be a day of rest for the United States. The platform opposed secret societies and monopolies. The convention considered three potential presidential nominees : Charles F. Adams, Jonathan Blanchard, and James B. Walker. When Blanchard declined to run, Walker was unanimously nominated. The convention then nominated Donald Kirkpatrick of New York unanimously for vice-president. General election Campaign The election was hotly contested, as can be seen by this poster published in 1877 A certificate for the electoral vote for Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler for the State of Louisiana `` A truce - not a compromise, but a chance for high - toned gentlemen to retire gracefully from their very civil declarations of war. '' By Thomas Nast in Harper 's Weekly, 1877 Feb 17, p. 132. Tilden, who had prosecuted machine politicians in New York and sent legendary political boss William M. Tweed to jail, ran as a reform candidate against the background of the corruption of the Grant administration. Both parties backed civil service reform and an end to Reconstruction. Both sides mounted mud - slinging campaigns, with Democratic attacks on Republican corruption being countered by Republicans raising the Civil War issue, a tactic ridiculed by Democrats who called it `` waving the bloody shirt ''. Republicans chanted, `` Not every Democrat was a rebel, but every rebel was a Democrat. '' Hayes was a virtual unknown outside his home state of Ohio, where he had served two terms as a Congressman and then two terms as governor. Henry Adams wrote `` ( Hayes ) is a third - rate nonentity whose only recommendations are that he is obnoxious to no one. '' He had served in the Civil War with distinction as colonel of the 23rd Ohio Regiment and was wounded several times, which made him marketable to veterans. He had been brevetted as a Major General. Hayes 's most important asset was the help he provided the Republican ticket in carrying the crucial swing state of Ohio. On the other side, newspaper man John D. Defrees described Tilden as `` a very nice, prim, little, withered - up, fidgety old bachelor, about one - hundred and twenty - pounds avoirdupois, who never had a genuine impulse for many nor any affection for woman. '' The Democratic strategy for victory in the South was highly reliant on paramilitary groups such as the Red Shirts and the White League. Using the strategy of the Mississippi Plan, these groups actively suppressed black and white Republican voter turnouts by disrupting meetings and rallies and even using violence and intimidation. They saw themselves as the military wing of the Democratic Party. Because it was considered improper for a candidate to pursue the presidency actively, neither Tilden nor Hayes actively stumped as part of the campaign, leaving that job to surrogates. Colorado Colorado was admitted to the Union as the 38th state on August 1, 1876. With insufficient time or money to organize a presidential election in the new state, Colorado 's state legislature selected the state 's electors. These electors in turn gave their three votes to Hayes and the Republican Party. This was the last election in which any state chose electors through its state legislature. Electoral disputes Further information : Electoral Commission ( United States ) In Florida ( with 4 electoral votes ), Louisiana ( with 8 ), and South Carolina ( with 7 ), reported returns favored Tilden, but election results in each state were marked by fraud and threats of violence against Republican voters. The most egregious case was in South Carolina, where an impossible 101 percent of all eligible voters in the state had their votes counted. One of the points of contention revolved around the design of ballots. At the time, parties would print ballots or `` tickets '' to enable voters to support them in the open ballots. To aid illiterate voters the parties would print symbols on the tickets. In this election, many Democratic ballots were printed with the Republican symbol, Abraham Lincoln, on them. The Republican - dominated state electoral commissions subsequently disallowed a sufficient number of Democratic votes to award their electoral votes to Hayes. In two southern states, the governor recognized by the United States had signed the Republican certificates. The Democratic certificates from Florida were signed by the state attorney - general and the new Democratic governor. Those from Louisiana were signed by the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and those from South Carolina by no state official. In the latter state, the Tilden electors simply claimed that they were chosen by the popular vote, and they were rejected by the state election board. Meanwhile, in Oregon, the vote of a single elector was disputed. The statewide result clearly favored Hayes, but the state 's Democratic governor, La Fayette Grover, claimed that one elector, former postmaster John Watts, was ineligible under Article II, Section 1, of the United States Constitution, since he was a `` person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States. '' Grover then substituted a Democratic elector in his place. The two Republican electors dismissed Grover 's action and each reported three votes for Hayes, while the Democratic elector, C.A. Cronin, reported one vote for Tilden and two votes for Hayes. The two Republican electors presented a certificate signed by the secretary of state of Oregon. Cronin and the two electors he appointed ( Cronin voted for Tilden while his associates voted for Hayes ) used a certificate signed by the governor and attested by the secretary of state. Ultimately, all three of Oregon 's votes were awarded to Hayes. Hayes thus had a majority of one in the Electoral College. The Democrats cried fraud. Suppressed excitement pervaded the country. Threats were even muttered that Hayes would never be inaugurated. In Columbus, Ohio, a shot was fired at Governor Hayes 's residence as he sat down to dinner. Supporters marched to his home, calling for the `` president ''. Hayes urged the crowd that, `` it is impossible, at so early a time, to obtain the result. '' President Grant quietly strengthened the military force in and around Washington. The Constitution provides that `` the President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the ( electoral ) certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. '' Certain Republicans held that the power to count the votes lay with the President of the Senate, the House and Senate being mere spectators. The Democrats objected to this construction, since Mr. Ferry, the Republican President of the Senate, could then count the votes of the disputed states for Hayes. The Democrats insisted that Congress should continue the practice followed since 1865, which was that no vote objected to should be counted except by the concurrence of both houses. The House had a solid Democratic majority ; by throwing out the vote of one state, it could elect Tilden. Facing an unprecedented constitutional crisis, the Congress of the United States passed a law on January 29, 1877 that formed a 15 - member Electoral Commission to settle the result. Five members were selected from each house of Congress, and they were joined by five members of the Supreme Court. William M. Evarts served as counsel for the Republican Party. The Compromise of 1877 might have helped the Democrats accept this electoral commission as well. The majority party in each house named three members and the minority party two. As the Republicans controlled the Senate and the Democrats the House of Representatives, this yielded five Democratic and five Republican members of the Commission. Of the Supreme Court justices, two Republicans and two Democrats were chosen, with the fifth to be selected by these four. The justices first selected a political independent, Justice David Davis. According to one historian, `` ( n ) o one, perhaps not even Davis himself, knew which presidential candidate he preferred. '' Just as the Electoral Commission Bill was passing Congress, the legislature of Illinois elected Davis to the Senate. Democrats in the Illinois legislature believed that they had purchased Davis 's support by voting for him. However, they had made a miscalculation ; instead of staying on the Supreme Court so that he could serve on the Commission, he promptly resigned as a Justice in order to take his Senate seat. All the remaining available justices were Republicans, so the four justices already selected chose Justice Joseph P. Bradley, who was considered the most impartial remaining member of the court. This selection proved decisive. Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Tilden ( Democratic ) and shades of red are for Hayes ( Republican ). It was drawing perilously near to Inauguration Day. The commission met on the last day of January. The cases of Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina were in succession submitted to it by Congress. Eminent counsel appeared for each side. There were double sets of returns from every one of the states named. The commission first decided not to question any returns that were prima facie lawful. Bradley joined the other seven Republican committee members in a series of 8 -- 7 votes that gave all 20 disputed electoral votes to Hayes, giving Hayes a 185 -- 184 electoral vote victory. The commission adjourned on March 2 ; two days later Hayes was inaugurated without disturbance. During intense closed - door meetings, Democratic leaders agreed with reluctance to accept Hayes as president in return for the withdrawal of Federal troops from the last two still - occupied Southern states, South Carolina and Louisiana. Republican leaders in return agreed on a number of handouts and entitlements, including Federal subsidies for a transcontinental railroad line through the South. Although some of these promises were not kept, in particular the railroad proposal, it was enough for the time being to avert a dangerous standoff. The returns accepted by the Commission put Hayes ' margin of victory in South Carolina at 889 votes, the second - closest popular vote margin in a decisive state in U.S. history, after the election of 2000, which was decided by 537 votes in Florida ( though in 2000, the declared margin of victory in the Electoral College for George W. Bush was five votes, as opposed to Hayes ' one vote ). It is not possible to conclude definitively what the result would have been if a fair election had been held without the violence and intimidation throughout the South that disenfranchised many African Americans made eligible to vote under the 15th Amendment. Nevertheless, in the likeliest fair scenario, Hayes would have won the election with 189 electoral votes to Tilden 's 180 by winning all of the states that he did ultimately carry, plus Mississippi, but minus Florida. In a truly fair election, it seems probable that South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, which all had majority black populations, would have gone Republican. Regardless, Hayes would be the last Republican until Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 to win the electoral votes of Louisiana and the last Republican until Barry M. Goldwater in 1964 to carry South Carolina. Florida, with a majority white population, would have likely gone to Tilden in a fair election. It is therefore likely that Hayes would have won appreciably more of the popular vote in a fair election, perhaps even a plurality or majority. Upon his defeat, Tilden said, `` I can retire to public life with the consciousness that I shall receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest position in the gift of the people, without any of the cares and responsibilities of the office. '' Hayes paid off those who helped him win the electoral college with government sinecures. Results According to the Commission 's rulings, of the 2,249 counties and independent cities making returns, Tilden won in 1,301 ( 57.85 % ) while Hayes carried only 947 ( 42.11 % ). One county ( 0.04 % ) in Nevada split evenly between Tilden and Hayes. The election of 1876 was the last one held before the end of the Reconstruction era, which sought to protect the rights of African Americans in the South who usually voted for Republican presidential candidates. No antebellum slave state would be carried by a Republican again until the 1896 realignment, and it was not until the election of 1920 that one of the states of the Confederacy was ever again carried by a Republican presidential candidate. In that case, it was Tennessee, a state that never experienced a long period of occupation by Federal troops and was completely `` reconstructed '' well before the first presidential election of the Reconstruction period ( 1868 ). None of the Southern states that experienced long periods of occupation by Federal troops was carried by a Republican again until the election of 1928 ( Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia ). This proved the last election in which the Republicans won Louisiana until 1956 and the last in which the Republicans won South Carolina until 1964. The next time those two states voted against the Democrats was when they supported the Dixiecrats in 1948 ; Louisiana also voted against the Democrats in 1968 by voting for Wallace. Although 1876 marked the last competitive two party election in the South before Democratic dominance of the South through 1948 and of the border states through 1896, it was also the last election ( as of 2017 ) in which the Democrats won the pro-union counties of Mitchell in North Carolina, Wayne and Henderson in Tennessee, and Lewis County, Kentucky. The election was also the last time a Republican won the presidency without carrying Indiana. Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Ohio 4,034,142 47.92 % 185 William A. Wheeler New York 185 Samuel J. Tilden Democratic New York 4,286,808 50.92 % 184 Thomas A. Hendricks Indiana 184 Peter Cooper Greenback New York 83,726 0.99 % 0 Samuel Fenton Cary Ohio 0 Green Clay Smith Prohibition Kentucky 6,945 0.08 % 0 Gideon T. Stewart Ohio 0 James Walker American National Party Illinois 463 0.01 % 0 Donald Kirkpatrick New York 0 Other 6,575 0.08 % -- Other -- Total 8,418,659 100 % 369 369 Needed to win 185 185 Popular vote Tilden 50.92 % Hayes 47.92 % Cooper 0.99 % Others 0.17 % Electoral vote Hayes 50.14 % Tilden 49.86 % Geography of results Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate 's percentage of the vote Cartographic gallery Map of presidential election results by county Map of Democratic presidential election results by county Map of Republican presidential election results by county Map of `` other '' presidential election results by county Cartogram of presidential election results by county Cartogram of Democratic presidential election results by county Cartogram of Republican presidential election results by county Cartogram of `` other '' presidential election results by county Results by state Source : Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836 - 1892 ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955 ) pp 247 -- 57. States won by Tilden / Hendricks States won by Hayes / Wheeler Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Rutherford B. Hayes Republican Peter Cooper Greenback Green Smith Prohibition Margin State Total State electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % # Alabama 10 102,989 59.98 10 68,708 40.02 - - - - - - - - 34,281 - 19.97 171,699 AL Arkansas 6 58,086 59.92 6 38,649 39.87 - 211 0.22 - - - - - 19,437 - 20.05 96,946 AR California 6 76,460 49.08 - 79,258 50.88 6 47 0.03 - - - - 2,798 1.80 155,784 CA Colorado * CO Connecticut 6 61,927 50.70 6 59,033 48.33 - 774 0.63 - 374 0.31 - - 2,894 - 2.37 122,134 CT Delaware 13,381 55.45 10,752 44.55 - - - - - - - - 2,629 - 10.89 24,133 DE Florida 22,927 49.01 - 23,849 50.99 - - - - - - 922 1.97 46,776 FL Georgia 11 130,157 72.03 11 50,533 27.97 - - - - - - - - 79,624 - 44.07 180,690 GA Illinois 21 258,611 46.66 - 278,232 50.20 21 17,207 3.10 - - - - 19,621 3.54 554,227 IL Indiana 15 213,526 48.65 15 208,011 47.39 - 17,233 3.93 - 141 0.03 - - 5,515 - 1.26 438,911 IN Iowa 11 112,121 38.28 - 171,326 58.50 11 9,431 3.22 - - - - 59,205 20.21 292,878 IA Kansas 5 37,902 30.53 - 78,324 63.10 5 7,770 6.26 - 110 0.09 - 40,422 32.56 124,134 KS Kentucky 12 160,060 61.41 12 97,568 37.44 - - - - - - - - 62,492 - 23.98 260,626 KY Louisiana 8 70,508 48.35 - 75,315 51.65 8 - - - - - - 4,807 3.30 145,823 LA Maine 7 49,917 42.65 - 66,300 56.64 7 - - - - - - 16,383 14.00 117,045 ME Maryland 8 91,779 56.05 8 71,980 43.95 - - - - - - - - 19,799 - 12.09 163,759 MD Massachusetts 13 108,777 41.90 - 150,064 57.80 13 - - - - - - 41,287 15.90 259,620 MA Michigan 11 141,685 44.49 - 166,901 52.41 11 9,023 2.83 - 766 0.24 - 25,216 7.92 318,450 MI Minnesota 5 48,587 39.16 - 72,955 58.80 5 2,389 1.93 - 144 0.12 - 24,368 19.64 124,075 MN Mississippi 8 112,173 68.08 8 52,603 31.92 - - - - - - - - 59,570 - 36.15 164,776 MS Missouri 15 202,086 57.64 15 145,027 41.36 - 3,497 1.00 - - - - - 57,059 - 16.27 350,610 MO Nebraska 17,413 35.30 - 31,915 64.70 - - - - - - 14,502 29.40 49,328 NE Nevada 9,308 47.27 - 10,383 52.73 - - - - - - 1,075 5.46 19,691 NV New Hampshire 5 38,510 48.05 - 41,540 51.83 5 - - - - - - 3,030 3.78 80,141 NH New Jersey 9 115,962 52.66 9 103,517 47.01 - 714 0.32 - - - - - 12,445 - 5.65 220,193 NJ New York 35 521,949 51.40 35 489,207 48.17 - 1,978 0.19 - 2,369 0.23 - - 32,742 - 3.22 1,015,503 NY North Carolina 10 125,427 53.62 10 108,484 46.38 - - - - - - - - 16,943 - 7.24 233,911 NC Ohio 22 323,182 49.07 - 330,698 50.21 22 3,057 0.46 - 1,636 0.25 - 7,516 1.14 658,649 OH Oregon 14,157 47.38 - 15,214 50.92 510 1.71 - - - - 1,057 3.54 29,881 OR Pennsylvania 29 366,204 48.25 - 384,184 50.62 29 7,204 0.95 - 1,318 0.17 - 17,980 2.37 758,993 PA Rhode Island 10,712 40.23 - 15,787 59.29 68 0.26 - 60 0.23 - 5,075 19.06 26,627 RI South Carolina 7 90,897 49.76 - 91,786 50.24 7 - - - - - - 889 0.49 182,683 SC Tennessee 12 133,177 59.79 12 89,566 40.21 - - - - - - - - 43,611 - 19.58 222,743 TN Texas 8 104,755 70.04 8 44,800 29.96 - - - - - - - - 59,955 - 40.09 149,555 TX Vermont 5 20,254 31.38 - 44,091 68.30 5 - - - - - - 23,837 36.93 64,553 VT Virginia 11 140,770 59.58 11 95,518 40.42 - - - - - - - - 45,252 - 19.15 236,288 VA West Virginia 5 56,546 56.75 5 41,997 42.15 - 1,104 1.11 - - - - - 14,549 - 14.60 99,647 WV Wisconsin 10 123,926 48.19 - 130,067 50.57 10 1,509 0.59 - 27 0.01 - 6,141 2.39 257,177 WI TOTALS : 369 4,286,808 50.92 184 4,034,142 47.92 185 83,726 0.99 - 6,945 0.08 - - 252,666 - 3.00 8,418,659 US Close States Margin of victory less than 5 % ( 171 electoral votes ) : South Carolina, 0.49 % Ohio, 1.14 % Indiana, 1.26 % California, 1.80 % Florida, 1.97 % Pennsylvania, 2.37 % Connecticut, 2.37 % Wisconsin, 2.39 % New York, 3.22 % Louisiana, 3.30 % Oregon, 3.54 % Illinois, 3.54 % New Hampshire, 3.78 % Margin of victory between 5 % and 10 % ( 33 electoral votes ) : Nevada, 5.46 % New Jersey, 5.65 % North Carolina, 7.24 % Michigan, 7.92 % Cultural references The presidential election of 1876 is a major theme of Gore Vidal 's novel 1876. 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The Press Gang : Newspapers and Politics, 1865 - 1878 ( 1994 ) Summers, Mark Wahlgren. The Era of Good Stealings ( 1993 ), covers corruption 1868 - 1877 Richard White, `` Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby : A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, D.C. '' Southern Spaces, April 16, 2009 Woodward, C. Vann ( 1951 ). Reunion and Reaction : The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction. Primary sources Democratic National Committee ( 1876 ). The Campaign Text Book : Why the People Want a Change. The Republican Party Reviewed.... External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to United States presidential election, 1876. Presidential Election of 1876 : A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress Rutherford B. Hayes On The Election of 1876 : Original Letter Shapell Manuscript Foundation 1876 popular vote by counties Hayes Presidential Library with essays by historians Hayes vs. Tilden : The Electoral College Controversy of 1876 - 1877 Samuel Tilden How close was the 1876 election ? at the Wayback Machine ( archived August 25, 2012 ) -- Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Booknotes interview with Roy Morris, Jr. on Fraud of the Century : Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, April 6, 2003. Election of 1876 in Counting the Votes ( 1872 ← ) United States presidential election, 1876 ( 1880 → ) Republican Party Convention Nominee Rutherford B. Hayes VP nominee William A. Wheeler Candidates James G. Blaine Benjamin Bristow Oliver P. Morton Roscoe Conkling John F. Hartranft Marshall Jewell Elihu B. Washburne William A. Wheeler Ulysses S. Grant Democratic Party Convention Nominee Samuel J. Tilden VP nominee Thomas A. Hendricks Candidates Thomas A. 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Question: who won the presidential election by one vote
Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes