Who did your state vote for in the 1856 Presidential election?

[TDAS04]

I have to vote option 5 (South Dakota didn't exist yet), but my birth state (Iowa) backed Frémont (thankfully).

[Progressive Pessimist]

Buchanan-free state.

[HillGoose]

i dont know if it existed even

[You don't see any blue avatars now]

Option 2 (North Carolina).

[Del Tachi]

Louisiana, soOption 2

[Rand]

A young Joe Biden.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

2, but we didn't have a popular vote

[wnwnwn]

Fremont if FS
Buchanan if SS

[Frodo]

James Buchanan by a three:two ratio over ex-President Millard Fillmore of the Know-Nothing Party.  It doesn't seem that John C. Fremont (much like Abraham Lincoln in 1860) was even on the ballot in Virginia.  

[Dr. Cynic]

Pennsylvania was so desperate to finally elect a President that we puked out the worst possible man for the job and America has collectively decided that we'll never have another one. We voted for the favorite son who went on to become the least favorite son.

[Liminal Trans Girl]

James Buchanan by a three:two ratio over ex-President Millard Fillmore of the Know-Nothing Party.  It doesn't seem that John C. Fremont (much like Abraham Lincoln in 1860) was even on the ballot in Virginia.  

Lincoln was actually on the ballot in Virginia in 1860

[Frodo]

James Buchanan by a three:two ratio over ex-President Millard Fillmore of the Know-Nothing Party.  It doesn't seem that John C. Fremont (much like Abraham Lincoln in 1860) was even on the ballot in Virginia.  

Lincoln was actually on the ballot in Virginia in 1860

And apparently so was John C. Fremont in 1856.  They were such non-factors that I completely overlooked the fact that (legally speaking) Virginia and other slave states couldn't just eliminate those candidates from their ballots, though electoral results make it seem that they did.  

[TML]

My state voted for Fremont, although all three major candidates (Buchanan, Fillmore, and Fremont) won some counties in the state.

[TheTide]

Pennsylvania was so desperate to finally elect a President that we puked out the worst possible man for the job and America has collectively decided that we'll never have another one. We voted for the favorite son who went on to become the least favorite son.

But one who had a good CV, perhaps the best in the entire history of presidential elections. Which should be a lesson to those voting purely on credentialism.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Fremont was never winning Texas.

[Liminal Trans Girl]

James Buchanan by a three:two ratio over ex-President Millard Fillmore of the Know-Nothing Party.  It doesn't seem that John C. Fremont (much like Abraham Lincoln in 1860) was even on the ballot in Virginia.  

Lincoln was actually on the ballot in Virginia in 1860

And apparently so was John C. Fremont in 1856.  They were such non-factors that I completely overlooked the fact that (legally speaking) Virginia and other slave states couldn't just eliminate those candidates from their ballots, though electoral results make it seem that they did.  

Lincoln nearly won a county in Virginia in 1860 as well

[TDAS04]

James Buchanan by a three:two ratio over ex-President Millard Fillmore of the Know-Nothing Party.  It doesn't seem that John C. Fremont (much like Abraham Lincoln in 1860) was even on the ballot in Virginia.  

Lincoln was actually on the ballot in Virginia in 1860

And apparently so was John C. Fremont in 1856.  They were such non-factors that I completely overlooked the fact that (legally speaking) Virginia and other slave states couldn't just eliminate those candidates from their ballots, though electoral results make it seem that they did.  

Lincoln nearly won a county in Virginia in 1860 as well

Right, thanks to Wheeling (in present-day West Virginia), but Lincoln still only received 1.1% of the statewide vote in Virginia. The only slave states where Fremont made the ballot were Maryland and Bidenland.

[Crumpets]

Washington was Washington Territory at the time, and DC didn't have presidential voting rights. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

James Buchanan by a three:two ratio over ex-President Millard Fillmore of the Know-Nothing Party.  It doesn't seem that John C. Fremont (much like Abraham Lincoln in 1860) was even on the ballot in Virginia.  

Lincoln was actually on the ballot in Virginia in 1860

And apparently so was John C. Fremont in 1856.  They were such non-factors that I completely overlooked the fact that (legally speaking) Virginia and other slave states couldn't just eliminate those candidates from their ballots, though electoral results make it seem that they did.  

Ballots in this era were typically printed by the party or candidate rather than by the government, and there was little expectation of secrecy. So being "on the ballot" somewhere was effectively a question of whether a campaign had an organizational presence in a particular locale and/or people were willing to openly support it.