:Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln
{{short description|List of political elections featuring Abraham Lincoln as a candidate}}
Image:Abraham Lincoln O-84 by Brady, 1864.jpg
{{Abraham Lincoln series}}
This is the electoral history of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln served one term in the United States House of Representatives from Illinois (1847–1849). He later served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865).{{cite web|url=http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html|title=The History Place presents Abraham Lincoln|access-date=4 August 2015}}
Illinois House of Representatives
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Illinois Sangamon County House District General Election, 1832{{Cite book|title=Illinois election returns, 1818-1848;|last=Theodore Calvin|first=Pease|series=Collections of the Illinois state historical library, vol. XVIII. [Statistical series, vol. I]|publisher=The Trustees of the Illinois state historical library|year=1923|location=Springfield, Illinois|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004859552&view=2up&seq=350&size=125}}
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Edmund D. Taylor
| votes = 1127
| percentage = 13.55
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = John T. Stuart
| votes = 991
| percentage = 11.92
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Achilles Morris
| votes = 945
| percentage = 11.37
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Peter Cartwright
| votes = 815
| percentage = 9.80
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Archer G. Herndon
| votes = 806
| percentage = 9.69
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Democratic?
| candidate = William Carpenter
| votes = 774
| percentage = 9.31
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = John Dawson
| votes = 717
| percentage = 8.62
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Abraham Lincoln
| votes = 657
| percentage = 7.90
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Thomas M. Neale
| votes = 571
| percentage = 6.87
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Richard Quinton
| votes = 485
| percentage = 5.83
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Zachariah Peters
| votes = 214
| percentage = 2.57
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Edward Robinson
| votes = 169
| percentage = 2.03
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = William Kirkpatrick
| votes = 44
| percentage = 0.53
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 8315
| percentage = 100.0
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Illinois Sangamon County House District General Election, 1834
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{{Election box winning candidate no change
| party = White Party
| candidate = John Dawson
| votes = 1390
| percentage = 16.22
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Abraham Lincoln
| votes = 1376
| percentage = 16.06
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = William Carpenter
| votes = 1170
| percentage = 13.65
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = John T. Stuart (incumbent)
| votes = 1164
| percentage = 13.58
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Richard Quinton
| votes = 1038
| percentage = 12.11
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = White Party
| candidate = Andrew McCormick
| votes = 694
| percentage = 8.10
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = William Alvey
| votes = 613
| percentage = 7.15
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = White Party
| candidate = Thomas M. Neale
| votes = 514
| percentage = 6.00
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Shadrick J. Campbell
| votes = 192
| percentage = 2.24
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Independent?
| candidate = James Shepherd
| votes = 154
| percentage = 1.80
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Whig?
| candidate = James Baker
| votes = 130
| percentage = 1.52
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = John Durley
| votes = 92
| percentage = 1.07
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = William Kendall
| votes = 42
| percentage = 0.49
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 8569
| percentage = 100.0
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Illinois Sangamon County House District General Election, 1836
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Abraham Lincoln (incumbent)
| votes = 1716
| percentage = 9.39
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = William F. Elkin
| votes = 1694
| percentage = 9.27
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Ninian W. Edwards
| votes = 1659
| percentage = 9.08
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = John Dawson (incumbent)
| votes = 1641
| percentage = 8.98
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{{Election box winning candidate no change
| party = Harrison Party
| candidate = Daniel Stone
| votes = 1438
| percentage = 7.87
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Robert L. Wilson
| votes = 1353
| percentage = 7.40
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Andrew McCormick
| votes = 1306
| percentage = 7.14
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = John Calhoun
| votes = 1278
| percentage = 6.99
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Jacob M. Early
| votes = 1194
| percentage = 6.53
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Richard Quinlon
| votes = 1137
| percentage = 6.22
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Thomas Winn
| votes = 972
| percentage = 5.32
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Democratic?
| candidate = Aaron Vandiver
| votes = 922
| percentage = 5.04
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Michael Mann
| votes = 913
| percentage = 4.99
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = George Power
| votes = 905
| percentage = 4.95
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Anti-Junto Whig
| candidate = James Baker
| votes = 101
| percentage = 0.55
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = John L. Thompson
| votes = 38
| percentage = 0.21
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Yancy
| votes = 12
| percentage = 0.07
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 18279
| percentage = 100.0
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Illinois Sangamon County House District General Election, 1838
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Abraham Lincoln (incumbent)
| votes = 1803
| percentage = 8.87
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Ninian W. Edwards (incumbent)
| votes = 1779
| percentage = 8.75
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Edward Dickinson Baker
| votes = 1745
| percentage = 8.58
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = John Calhoun
| votes = 1711
| percentage = 8.41
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = William F. Elkin (incumbent)
| votes = 1688
| percentage = 8.30
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = John Dawson (incumbent)
| votes = 1614
| percentage = 7.94
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Andrew McCormick (incumbent)
| votes = 1569
| percentage = 7.72
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Thomas J. Vance
| votes = 1537
| percentage = 7.56
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Moses K. Anderson
| votes = 1506
| percentage = 7.41
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = Harry Riggin
| votes = 1318
| percentage = 6.48
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Thomas Skinner
| votes = 1222
| percentage = 6.01
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Anti-Junto Party
| candidate = Davis Robinson
| votes = 1167
| percentage = 5.74
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Nonpartisan politician
| candidate = Francis Reegnier
| votes = 1069
| percentage = 5.26
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Anti-Junto Whig
| candidate = Wharton Ransdell
| votes = 228
| percentage = 1.12
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Anti-Junto Whig
| candidate = William Hacknay
| votes = 198
| percentage = 0.97
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{{Election box candidate no change
| party = Anti-Junto Whig
| candidate = James Baker
| votes = 182
| percentage = 0.89
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 20336
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Illinois Sangamon County House District General Election, 1840
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = James M. Bradford
| votes = 1859
| percentage = 12.13
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = James N. Brown
| votes = 1857
| percentage = 12.12
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = John Darneille
| votes = 1852
| percentage = 12.08
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Josiah Francis
| votes = 1846
| percentage = 12.05
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| party = Whig Party (United States)
| candidate = Abraham Lincoln (incumbent)
| votes = 1844
| percentage = 12.03
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = John Calhoun (incumbent)
| votes = 1266
| percentage = 8.26
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = Jesse B. Thomas, Jr.
| votes = 1241
| percentage = 8.10
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = James W. Barrett
| votes = 1211
| percentage = 7.90
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = John Cooper
| votes = 1175
| percentage = 7.67
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| party = Democratic Party of Illinois
| candidate = Moses K. Anderson
| votes = 1174
| percentage = 7.66
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 15325
| percentage = 100.0
}}
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United States House of Representatives
{{see also|Illinois's 7th congressional district}}
1842: Despite aspirations for the congressional office, Lincoln did not actively run for the Whig Party nomination; as a delegate to the Whig nominating convention, Lincoln helped cut a deal that would give John J. Hardin the nomination in 1842, Edward Dickinson Baker the nomination in 1844 and Lincoln the nomination in 1846.{{Cite web |title=Seventh Congressional District Election Return (1846) |url=https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/online_exhibits/100_documents/1846-seventh-congress-election.html |website=Office of the Illinois Secretary of State}}{{Cite web |title=Congressional Nomination of 1843 |url=http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/congressional-nomination-of-1843/ |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=Mr. Lincoln and Friends |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Papers Of Abraham Lincoln |url=https://papersofabrahamlincoln.org/documents/D200330 |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=papersofabrahamlincoln.org}}
= 1846 elections =
{{Election box begin no change | title=Illinois's 7th congressional district general election, 1846{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1odBTiRSJcC&pg=PA115 |title=Lincoln and His World|isbn=9780786461929|access-date=4 August 2015|last1=Miller|first1=Richard Lawrence|date=10 January 2014}}}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
|party = Whig Party (United States)
|candidate = Abraham Lincoln
|votes = 6340
|percentage = 55.53
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Peter Cartwright
|votes = 4829
|percentage = 42.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
|party = Liberty Party (US, 1840)
|candidate = Elihu Walcott
|votes = 249
|percentage = 2.18
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 11418
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box hold with party link no change
| winner = Whig Party (United States)
}}
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Illinois House of Representatives
1854 - Wins seat in Illinois House of Representatives.{{cite web|url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/29.2/pinsker.html#FOOT33 |title=History Cooperative - A short history of nearly everything! |access-date=4 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805030736/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/29.2/pinsker.html |archive-date=5 August 2011 }} Declines serving in that seat in order to be eligible for his immediate candidacy for United States Senate.{{Cite web |title=Notice that Abraham Lincoln declines to serve in the General Assembly (1854) |url=https://www.ilsos.gov/departments/archives/online_exhibits/100_documents/1854-lincoln-declines-ga.html |website=Office of the Illinois Secretary of State}}{{Cite book |last=Oates |first=Stephen |title=With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln |year=1977 |pages=118–120}} The election was held in November 1854, for a term starting in January 1855.{{cite constitution |article=3 |section=2 & 11 |polity=Illinois|date=1848 }}
1855 US Senate election
The election was held on February 8, 1855,{{Cite book | last=Goodwin | first=Doris Kearns | author-link=Doris Kearns Goodwin | title=Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | date=26 September 2006 | publisher=Simon & Schuster | isbn=0-7432-7075-4 | pages=170–173}}{{cite web|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2:312|title=Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2.|access-date=4 August 2015}}{{cite book |title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, 1855. |publisher=Lanphier & Walker, Printers |location=Springfield, IL |year=1855 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.15545134;view=1up;seq=352 }} for a term starting in March 1855.
:Note: At this time, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislatures, not by vote of the people
| class="wikitable" |
| Candidate
! Round 1 ! Round 2 ! Round 3 ! Round 4 ! Round 5 ! Round 6 ! Round 7 ! Round 8 ! Round 9 ! Round 10 |
|---|
| James Shields, Democrat
| 41 | 41 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 41 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 41 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 42 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Abraham Lincoln, Whig
| style="background:#ccffcc;"| 45 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 44 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 41 | 38 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 27 | 15 | 0 |
| Lyman Trumbull, Democrat
| 5 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 18 | 35 | style="background:cornflowerblue;"| 51 |
| William B. Ogden, Democrat
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Joel A. Matteson, Democrat
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 44 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 46 | style="background:#ccffcc;"| 47 | 47 |
| William Kellogg
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gustavus Koerner
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Cyrus Edwards
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Orlando B. Ficklin, Democrat
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| William A. Denning
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Martin P. Sweet
| 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Archibald Williams, Whig
| 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| J. Young Scammon, Whig
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Orville H. Browning, Whig
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| John A. Logan, Democrat
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| John A. McClernand, Democrat
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
51 votes needed for election
:{{Color box|#ccffcc;|border=darkgray}} Candidate won that Round of voting
:{{Color box|cornflowerblue|border=darkgray}} Candidate won Senate seat
Note: Five "anti-Nebraska" Democrats (i.e. opposed to the Kansas–Nebraska Act) voted for Trumbull rather than vote for Lincoln, a Whig. When pro-Nebraska Democrats were unable to reelect Shields, they switched their allegiance to Matteson, who had no stance on the Act. Lincoln then withdrew and threw his support to Trumbull, so that an anti-Nebraska candidate would be assured victory.
1856 presidential election
{{see also|1856 Republican National Convention|United States presidential election, 1856}}
=Vice presidential nomination for the Republican Party=
- William Lewis Dayton: 523 (64.73%)
- Abraham Lincoln: 110 (13.61%)
- Nathaniel Prentice Banks: 46 (5.69%)
- David Wilmot: 43 (5.32%)
- Charles Sumner: 35 (4.33%)
- Jacob Collamer: 15 (1.86%)
- John Alsop King: 9 (1.11%)
- Samuel C. Pomeroy: 8 (0.99%)
- Thomas Ford: 7 (0.87%)
- Henry Charles Carey: 3 (0.37%)
- Cassius M. Clay: 3 (0.37%)
- Joshua R. Giddings: 2 (0.25%)
- Whitfield Johnson: 2 (0.25%)
- Aaron Pennington: 1 (0.12%)
- Henry Wilson: 1 (0.12%)
- Wyatt Gauger. 1(0.8%)
1858 US Senate election
:Note: At this time, U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislatures, not by vote of the people
{{Election box begin | title=United States Senate election in Illinois, 1858}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = Stephen A. Douglas (inc.)
|votes = 54
|percentage = 54.00
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = Abraham Lincoln
|votes = 46
|percentage = 46.00
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 8
|percentage = 8.00
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link without swing|
|winner = Democratic Party (United States)
|loser = Democratic Party (United States)
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{{Election box end}}
1860 presidential election
{{see also|United States presidential election, 1860}}
=Republican Party nomination=
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|+Presidential ballot | |||||
| Nominee | Home State | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd "corrected" |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{sortname|William H.|Seward}} | New York | 173.5 | 184.5 | 180 | 111.5 |
| {{sortname|Abraham|Lincoln}} | Illinois | 102 | 181 | 231.5 | 349 |
| {{sortname|Simon|Cameron}} | Pennsylvania | 50.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| {{sortname|Salmon P.|Chase}} | Ohio | 49 | 42.5 | 24.5 | 2 |
| {{sortname|Edward|Bates}} | Missouri | 48 | 35 | 22 | 0 |
| {{sortname|William L.|Dayton}} | New Jersey | 14 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| {{sortname|John|McLean}} | Ohio | 12 | 8 | 5 | 0.5 |
| {{sortname|Jacob|Collamer}} | Vermont | 10 | 0 | - | - |
| {{sortname|Benjamin F.|Wade}} | Ohio | 3 | 0 | - | - |
| {{sortname|John M.|Read}} | Pennsylvania | 1 | 0 | - | - |
| {{sortname|Charles|Sumner}} | Massachusetts | 1 | 0 | - | - |
| {{sortname|John C.|Fremont}} | California | 1 | 0 | - | - |
| {{sortname|Cassius M.|Clay|Cassius Clay (1810–1903)}} | Kentucky | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Upon seeing how close Lincoln was to the 233 votes needed after the third ballot, a delegate from Ohio switched 4 votes from Chase to Lincoln. This triggered an avalanche towards Lincoln with a final count of 364 votes out of 466 cast.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofrep00repuiala|title=Proceedings of the Republican national convention held at Chicago, May 16, 17 and 18, 1860|work=Internet Archive|year=1860|access-date=4 August 2015}}
=General election=
{{start U.S. presidential ticket box|pv_footnote=(a)|ev_footnote=}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=Abraham Lincoln|vp_name=Hannibal Hamlin|party=Republican|state=Illinois|vp_state=Maine|pv=1,865,908|pv_pct=39.8%|ev=180}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=John C. Breckinridge|vp_name=Joseph Lane|party=Southern Democratic|state=Kentucky|vp_state=Oregon|pv=848,019|pv_pct=18.1%|ev=72}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=John Bell|vp_name=Edward Everett|party=Constitutional Union/Whig|state=Tennessee|vp_state=Massachusetts|pv=590,901|pv_pct=12.6%|ev=39}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=Stephen A. Douglas|vp_name=Herschel Vespasian Johnson|party=Northern Democratic|state=Illinois|vp_state=Georgia|pv=1,380,202|pv_pct=29.5%|ev=12}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box other|pv=531|pv_pct=0.0%}}
{{end U.S. presidential ticket box|pv=4,685,561|ev=303|to_win=152}}
Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source| year=1860| as of=July 27, 2005}}
Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1860| as of=July 31, 2005}}
(a) The popular vote figures exclude South Carolina where the Electors were chosen by the state legislature rather than by popular vote.
1864 presidential election
{{see also|United States presidential election, 1864}}
=Republican Party nomination=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
| colspan="3" | Presidential ballot | ||
| Ballot | 1st before shifts | 1st after shifts |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | 484 | 506 |
| Ulysses S. Grant | 22 | 0 |
=General election=
{{start U.S. presidential ticket box|pv_footnote=(a)|ev_footnote=(a), (b)}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=Abraham Lincoln|vp_name=Andrew Johnson(c)|party=National Union(c)|state=Illinois|vp_state=Tennessee|pv=2,218,388|pv_pct=55.0%|ev=212}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=George Brinton McClellan|vp_name=George Hunt Pendleton|party=Democratic|state=New Jersey|vp_state=Ohio|pv=1,812,807|pv_pct=45.0%|ev=21}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box other|footnote=|pv=692|pv_pct=0.0%}}
{{end U.S. presidential ticket box|pv=4,031,887|ev=233|to_win=117}}
Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source| year=1864| as of=July 27, 2005}}
Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1864| as of=July 31, 2005}}
(a) The states in rebellion did not participate in the election of 1864.
(b) One Elector from Nevada did not vote
(c) Andrew Johnson had been a Democrat, and after 1869 was a Democrat. The Republican Party called itself the National Union Party to accommodate the War Democrats in this election.
See also
- Lincoln and Liberty, Lincoln's 1860 campaign song
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- [https://archive.today/20130415195402/http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?169853 Abraham Lincoln Reviews His Electoral Record Up to 1849, ALS] Shapell Manuscript Foundation
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