United States presidential election, 1880 | Wikipedia audio article
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United States presidential election, 1880


00:02:15 1 Background
00:06:29 2 Conventions
00:06:45 2.1 Republicans
00:08:55 2.2 Democrats
00:10:20 2.3 Others
00:13:01 3 Candidates
00:13:10 3.1 Garfield
00:15:14 3.2 Hancock
00:17:03 3.3 Weaver
00:18:40 4 Campaign
00:18:49 4.1 Bloody shirt
00:21:55 4.2 Tariffs and immigration
00:24:11 5 Results
00:26:18 5.1 Irregularities
00:27:51 5.2 Detailed results
00:28:00 5.3 Cartographic gallery
00:28:09 5.4 Results by state
00:28:18 6 Aftermath
00:31:10 7 See also



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The United States presidential election of 1880 was the 24th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1880. The voter turnout rate was one of the highest in the nation's history.
Incumbent President Rutherford B. Hayes did not seek re-election, keeping a promise made during the 1876 campaign. After the longest convention in the party's history, the divided Republicans chose another Ohioan, Representative James A. Garfield, as their standard-bearer. The Democratic Party chose General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania as their nominee. The dominance of the two major parties began to fray as an upstart left-wing party, the Greenback Party, nominated another Civil War general for president, Iowa Congressman James B. Weaver. In a campaign fought mainly over issues of Civil War loyalties, tariffs, and Chinese immigration, Garfield and Hancock each took just over 48 percent of the popular vote. Weaver and two other minor candidates, Neal Dow and John W. Phelps, together made up the remaining percentage. The election of 1880 was the sixth consecutive presidential election won by the Republicans, the second longest winning streak in American history after the Democratic-Republican Party during the period 1800–1824.
In the end, the popular vote totals of the two main candidates were separated by 1,898 votes, the smallest victory in the popular vote ever recorded. In the electoral college, however, Garfield's victory was decisive; he won nearly all of the populous Northern states to achieve a majority of 214 electoral votes to 155 for Hancock. Hancock's sweep of the Southern states was not enough for victory, but it cemented his party's dominance of the region for generations.  This is the first presidential election in which people in every state (at the time) were able to vote for president (In 1876, Colorado appointed electors by state legislature due to insufficient time to organize an election, in 1864–1872, some states skipped out due to the civil war or reconstruction, and before then some states used state legislature including South Carolina which used the system up through 1860).