1876 Presidential General Election Results

Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote Rutherford Hayes William Wheeler Republican 4,034,142 47.92% 185 50.1% Samuel Tilden Thomas Hendricks Democratic 4,286,808 50.92% 184 49.9% Peter Cooper Samuel Cary Greenback 83,726 0.99% 0 0.0% Other (+) - - 13,983 0.17% 0 0.0% Total 8,418,659 369 Map Key  > 40%  > 50%  > 60%  > 70% Turnout Maps   Data and Statistics: Popular Vote State-Level Data (Table) Popular Vote State-Level Data (Graphs) Electoral Vote State-Level Data Election 1876 Statistics Compare National Data by Year (Table) Compare National Data by Year (Graphs) Compare National Maps by Year National JavaCompare! Data Sources for Popular Vote Election Tools for 1876 Electoral College Calculator for 1876 Blog Interactive Map Widget Code for This Contest (uselectionatlas.org Weblogs) Results for an Individual State: AlabamaArkansas California Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Election Notes: Election Returns in OR, FL, SC, and LA were disputed. In a joint session of Congress on March 2, 1877 Hayes and Wheeler were declared elected as President and Vice President. Electors from the state of Colorado were appointed by the state legislature (and not elected in a popular vote).