*Scattering, includes the votes of the anti-Masonic and American Alliance tickets.

+ Returning Board's count, Nov. 28, 1876. A majority of 94 to 1197 was claimed for Tilden by the Democrats, and the opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida gave Tilden 94 majority. Returning Board's count. The figures on the face of the returns, when opened by the Board, are claimed to have been: Tilden, 82,326; Hayes, 77,023. Tilden's majority, 5303,

§ Plurality over Hayes.

* From Florida two sets of certificates were received; from Louisiana, three; from Oregon, two; and from South Carolina, two. They were referred to an Electoral Commission, formed under the provisions of the Compromise Bill, approved January 29th, 1877; the Commission decided in favor of counting the Electoral Vote, as returned in the table.

TOTAL POPULAR VOTE AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. NOTE.-See page 122 for reason why no returns of the popular vote prior to 1824 are given.

*The Electors of six States for 1824 were chosen by the Legislatures; in 1828 they were all chosen by the people, except in South Carolina. This will explain the great increase of the popular vote at the election of 1828.

Percentage of the Total Vote Cast received by Candidates for President at each Election from 1804 to 1876.

For those who received electoral votes in place of Horace Greeley, deceased, see ELEOTORAL VOTE of 1872, p. 144.

III.-PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, BY STATES.

[Arrangement and percentages from The Statistician, San Francisco, 1877.]

ALABAMA.

NOTE.-The figures in left-hand column show the number of the election, from the first Presidential election in 1789 to the twenty-third in 1876. Names indented denote unsuccessful candidates.

The table marked "Increase" shows the addition to the popular vote cast in each State since the next preceding Presidential election. In cases where the popular vote was decreased, the sign † is prefixed to the figures showing the falling off.