thirty-six were scattering. T. A. Hendricks was Mr. Tilden's associate. The disputed vote was settled by an Electoral Commission which awarded Hayes one hundred and eighty-five electoral votes and Tilden one hundred and eighty-four. GARFIELD received, in 1880, a popular vote of four million four hundred and forty-nine thousand and fifty-three, and an electoral vote of two hundred and fourteen, together with Chester A. Arthur, his associate. Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English received four million four hundred and forty-two thousand and thirty-five popular, and one hundred and fifty-five electoral votes. The Greenback candidates, James B. Weaver and B. J. Chambers, received three hundred and seven thousand three hundred and six votes, and twelve thousand five hundred and seventy-six were reported as scattering. Thus the Republicans held the Presidency from Lincoln's election in 1860. TABLES OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789 Previous to the election of 1804 each elector voted for two candidates for President; the one receiving the highest number of votes, if a majority, was declared elected President; and the next highest Vice-President. + Three States out of thirteen did not vote, viz.: New York, which had not passed an electoral law; and North Carolina and Rhode Island, which had not adopted the Constitution. There having been a tie vote, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives, A choice was made on the 36th ballot, which was as follows: Jefferson-Georgia, Kentucky Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia-10 States; Burr-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island States; Blank Delaware and South Carolina-2 States. No choice having been made by the Electoral College, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. A choice was made on the first ballot, which was as follows: Adams-Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont-13 States; JacksonAlabama, Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee7 States; Crawford-Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia-4 States. + No candidate having received a majority of the votes of the Electoral College, the pen ate elected R, M, Johnson Vice-President, who received 88 votes; Francis Granger received 16 1840 26 294 Whig Wm. H. Harrison.. 19 1,275,017 234 John Tyler. 234 Democratic Martin Van Buren. 7 1,128,702 60 R. M. Johnson.. 48 Liberty 7,059 Henry Clay.. 15 1,337,243 170 Zachary Taylor.. Democratic Lewis Cass. Free Soil... Martin Van Buren.. L. W. Tazewell. 11 Geo. M. Dallas.. 170 1856 31 296 Democratic James Buchanan...19 1.838.169 174 J. C. Breckinr'ge 174 Republican. John C. Fremont.. 11 1,341,264 114 Wm. L. Dayton. 114 American.. Millard Fillmore... 1 874,534 8 A. J. Donelson.. 1860 33 303 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 17 Democratic. J. C. Breckinridge.. 11 Cons. Union John Bell.. 3 Ind. Dem... S. A. Douglas.... 2 8 1,866,352 180 Hannibal Hamlin 180 845.763 72 Joseph Lane.... 72 589,581 39 Edward Everett. 39 1,375,157 12 H. V. Johnson.. 12 1864 36 314 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 22 2,216,067 212 Andrew Johnson 212 Democratic Geo. B. McClellan.. 3 1,808,725 21 G. H. Pendleton. 21 Vacancies........ 11 81 81 1868 +37 317 Republican. Ulysses S. Grant... 26 3,015,071 214 Schuyler Colfax. 214 Democratic. Horatio Seymour 8 2,709,613 80 F. P. Blair, Jr... 80 1880 38 369 Republican.. James A. Garfield... 19 4,449.053 214 Democratic. Winfeld S. Hancock 19 4,442,035 155 Greenback.. James B. Weaver...... Scattering. 307,306 Chester A. Arthur 214 Eleven States did not vote, viz.: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis sissippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia." †Three States did not vote, viz.: Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. Three electoral votes of Georgia cast for Horace Greeley, and the votes of Arkansas, 0 and Louisiana, 8, cast for U. S. Grant, were rejected. If all had been included in the count the electoral vote would have been 800 for U. S. Grant, and 66 for opposing candidates. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The Presidential election will take place on Tuesday, November 4th, 1884. The Constitution prescribes that each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in Congress. For the election this year the electors by States will be as follows: No Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of profit or trust under the United States, shall be an elector. In all the States, the laws thereof direct that the people shall choose the electors. The Constitution declares that the day when electors are chosen shall be the same throughout the United States. The electors shall meet in their respective States on the first Wednesday in December, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State as themselves. |