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The 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a narrow margin of 4.70%. This would be the last occasion any Democratic presidential candidate won Grafton County until Woodrow Wilson in 1912,[1] and the last occasion a Democrat won an absolute majority of the presidential vote in Belknap County until Lyndon B. Johnson did so in his 1964 landslide.
Results
| 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[2] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | James Abram Garfield of Ohio | Chester Alan Arthur of New York | 44,856 | 51.94% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania | William Hayden English of Indiana | 40,797 | 47.24% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Greenback | James Baird Weaver of Iowa | Barzillai Jefferson Chambers of Texas | 528 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Neal Dow of Maine | Henry Adams Thompson of Ohio | 180 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 86,361 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county
| County | James Abram Garfield[3] Republican |
Winfield Scott Hancock[3] Democratic |
James Baird Weaver[4] Greenback |
Neal Dow[4] Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Belknap | 2,350 | 47.81% | 2,483 | 50.52% | 55 | 1.12% | 27 | 0.55% | -133 | -2.71% | 4,915 |
| Carroll | 2,426 | 47.46% | 2,639 | 51.62% | 24 | 0.47% | 23 | 0.45% | -213 | -4.17% | 5,112 |
| Cheshire | 4,380 | 58.83% | 2,979 | 40.01% | 67 | 0.90% | 19 | 0.26% | 1,401 | 18.82% | 7,445 |
| Coös | 1,829 | 42.89% | 2,387 | 55.98% | 44 | 1.03% | 4 | 0.09% | -558 | -13.09% | 4,264 |
| Grafton | 4,964 | 47.71% | 5,300 | 50.94% | 132 | 1.27% | 8 | 0.08% | -336 | -3.23% | 10,404 |
| Hillsborough | 8,689 | 55.11% | 6,999 | 44.39% | 56 | 0.36% | 24 | 0.15% | 1,690 | 10.72% | 15,768 |
| Merrimack | 5,935 | 49.95% | 5,922 | 49.84% | 9 | 0.08% | 17 | 0.14% | 13 | 0.11% | 11,883 |
| Rockingham | 6,960 | 53.25% | 5,989 | 45.82% | 91 | 0.70% | 30 | 0.23% | 971 | 7.43% | 13,070 |
| Strafford | 4,634 | 53.78% | 3,922 | 45.51% | 38 | 0.44% | 23 | 0.27% | 712 | 8.26% | 8,617 |
| Sullivan | 2,729 | 55.46% | 2,175 | 44.20% | 12 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.10% | 554 | 11.26% | 4,921 |
| Totals | 44,896 | 51.96% | 40,795 | 47.22% | 528 | 0.61% | 180 | 0.21% | 4,101 | 4.75% | 86,399 |
See also
References
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 257 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1880 Presidential General Election Results – New Hampshire".
- ^ a b Géoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ a b Géoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)
State and district results of the 1880 United States presidential election | ||
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