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Election 1876 Results

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1876 presidential election results by state and county

Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote, but disputed returns from three Southern states gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency by a single electoral vote, 185 to 184.

Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) beat Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, winning 185 electoral votes to 184. Samuel J. Tilden carried 17 states and Rutherford B. Hayes 20. Across the states, the Democratic and Republican vote came to 4,285,739 and 4,033,010 (D+3.0 of all votes cast).

The closest states were South Carolina (R+0.5), Ohio (R+1.1) and Indiana (D+1.3). 17 states changed party from 1872: Alabama to the Democrats, Arkansas to the Democrats, Connecticut to the Democrats, Delaware to the Democrats, Georgia to the Democrats, Indiana to the Democrats, Kentucky to the Democrats, Maryland to the Democrats, Mississippi to the Democrats, Missouri to the Democrats, New Jersey to the Democrats, New York to the Democrats, North Carolina to the Democrats, Tennessee to the Democrats, Texas to the Democrats, Virginia to the Democrats and West Virginia to the Democrats.

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About the 1876 presidential election

By 1876 the Grant administration was weighed down by scandal and a long economic depression that began with the Panic of 1873. Democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden, the reforming governor of New York. Republicans chose Rutherford B. Hayes, governor of Ohio. Tilden won the national popular vote and took back a long list of states for the Democrats, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana and most of the South. He finished one electoral vote short of a majority, however, because the results in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina were contested, along with one elector in Oregon. Both parties claimed victory in the three Southern states, where fraud and intimidation were widespread. In the counts that stood, Hayes carried South Carolina by half a point and Florida by 2 points, and he held his home state of Ohio by 1.1. Congress created an Electoral Commission, which voted along party lines to award all the disputed electors to Hayes. Democrats accepted the result under an informal bargain known as the Compromise of 1877, and Hayes withdrew the remaining federal troops from the South. That ended Reconstruction and opened the way for Democratic rule across the former Confederacy.

Every state

StateDemocratVotesRepublicanVotesOthersMargin EV
Alabama flip Samuel J. Tilden102,989 (60.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes68,708 (40.0%) 2 D+20.0 10
Arkansas flip Samuel J. Tilden58,086 (59.9%) Rutherford B. Hayes38,649 (39.9%) 211 D+20.1 6
California Samuel J. Tilden75,845 (49.1%) Rutherford B. Hayes78,614 (50.9%) 85 R+1.8 6
Connecticut flip Samuel J. Tilden61,927 (50.7%) Rutherford B. Hayes59,033 (48.3%) 1,174 D+2.4 6
Delaware flip Samuel J. Tilden13,381 (55.4%) Rutherford B. Hayes10,752 (44.6%) D+10.9 3
Florida Samuel J. Tilden22,927 (49.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes23,849 (51.0%) R+2.0 4
Georgia flip Samuel J. Tilden130,157 (72.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes50,533 (28.0%) D+44.1 11
Illinois Samuel J. Tilden258,611 (46.6%) Rutherford B. Hayes278,232 (50.2%) 17,525 R+3.5 21
Indiana flip Samuel J. Tilden213,526 (48.6%) Rutherford B. Hayes208,011 (47.4%) 17,374 D+1.3 15
Iowa Samuel J. Tilden112,121 (38.3%) Rutherford B. Hayes171,325 (58.5%) 9,528 R+20.2 11
Kansas Samuel J. Tilden37,902 (30.5%) Rutherford B. Hayes78,324 (63.1%) Peter Cooper (Greenback) 7,770 (6.3%)
 R+32.6 5
Kentucky flip Samuel J. Tilden160,060 (61.4%) Rutherford B. Hayes97,568 (37.4%) 2,998 D+24.0 12
Louisiana Samuel J. Tilden70,508 (48.4%) Rutherford B. Hayes75,315 (51.6%) R+3.3 8
Maine Samuel J. Tilden49,917 (42.6%) Rutherford B. Hayes66,300 (56.6%) 828 R+14.0 7
Maryland flip Samuel J. Tilden91,779 (56.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes71,980 (44.0%) D+12.1 8
Massachusetts Samuel J. Tilden108,777 (42.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes150,063 (58.0%) R+16.0 13
Michigan Samuel J. Tilden141,527 (44.5%) Rutherford B. Hayes166,849 (52.4%) 9,789 R+8.0 11
Minnesota Samuel J. Tilden48,799 (39.3%) Rutherford B. Hayes72,936 (58.8%) 2,399 R+19.4 5
Mississippi flip Samuel J. Tilden111,991 (68.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes52,592 (32.0%) D+36.1 8
Missouri flip Samuel J. Tilden202,086 (57.6%) Rutherford B. Hayes145,027 (41.4%) 3,497 D+16.3 15
Nebraska Samuel J. Tilden17,343 (35.2%) Rutherford B. Hayes31,915 (64.8%) R+29.6 3
Nevada Samuel J. Tilden9,308 (47.3%) Rutherford B. Hayes10,383 (52.7%) R+5.5 3
New Hampshire Samuel J. Tilden38,541 (48.1%) Rutherford B. Hayes41,540 (51.8%) 62 R+3.7 5
New Jersey flip Samuel J. Tilden115,962 (52.7%) Rutherford B. Hayes103,517 (47.0%) 714 D+5.7 9
New York flip Samuel J. Tilden521,949 (51.4%) Rutherford B. Hayes489,207 (48.2%) 4,347 D+3.2 35
North Carolina flip Samuel J. Tilden125,427 (53.6%) Rutherford B. Hayes108,484 (46.4%) D+7.2 10
Ohio Samuel J. Tilden323,183 (49.1%) Rutherford B. Hayes330,698 (50.2%) 4,770 R+1.1 22
Oregon Samuel J. Tilden14,157 (47.4%) Rutherford B. Hayes15,207 (50.9%) 509 R+3.5 3
Pennsylvania Samuel J. Tilden366,203 (48.2%) Rutherford B. Hayes384,157 (50.6%) 8,612 R+2.4 29
Rhode Island Samuel J. Tilden10,712 (40.4%) Rutherford B. Hayes15,787 (59.6%) R+19.2 4
South Carolina Samuel J. Tilden90,897 (49.8%) Rutherford B. Hayes91,786 (50.2%) R+0.5 7
Tennessee flip Samuel J. Tilden132,894 (59.8%) Rutherford B. Hayes89,212 (40.2%) D+19.7 12
Texas flip Samuel J. Tilden104,755 (70.0%) Rutherford B. Hayes44,800 (30.0%) D+40.1 8
Vermont Samuel J. Tilden20,254 (31.5%) Rutherford B. Hayes44,092 (68.5%) R+37.1 5
Virginia flip Samuel J. Tilden140,770 (59.6%) Rutherford B. Hayes95,518 (40.4%) D+19.2 11
West Virginia flip Samuel J. Tilden56,546 (56.7%) Rutherford B. Hayes41,997 (42.1%) 1,104 D+14.6 5
Wisconsin Samuel J. Tilden123,922 (48.2%) Rutherford B. Hayes130,050 (50.6%) 3,204 R+2.4 10

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Margins are Democrat minus Republican, of all votes. Certified results, from the states' own archives, the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, Heideman (2026) and Algara & Amlani (2021). Maine and Nebraska are shown whole, without their district votes. By county: "As they were" draws each county as it stood on election day; "Today's" shares the old votes among today's counties by area, so its county detail is an estimate. County boundaries: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5). How these results were checked.

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