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1876 presidential election in Delaware

Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) beat Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) in Delaware in 1876, 55.4% to 44.6%, a margin of 10.9 points and 2,629 votes.

Delaware voted 7.9 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.0.

Delaware changed party: in 1872 it went Republican, for Ulysses S. Grant.

Democrats led in 3 of the 3 counties as they stood then. The largest, New Castle, cast 12,667 votes and went to the Democrat by 4.4 points.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Samuel J. Tilden won Democratic 13,381 55.4%
Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 10,752 44.6%
Total24,133

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New Castle 6,613 52.2% 6,054 47.8% 12,667 D+4.4
Sussex 3,490 55.8% 2,763 44.2% 6,253 D+11.6
Kent 3,278 62.9% 1,935 37.1% 5,213 D+25.8

Counties as they stood in 1876; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Delaware in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+19.0
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+11.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+18.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+7.6
2000 Al Gore (D) D+13.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+12.4
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+19.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.3
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+5.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+22.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+1.6
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+10.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+3.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.3
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.1
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+20.9
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+13.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+2.4
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+13.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+6.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+9.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+8.8
1896 William McKinley (R) R+10.1
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+11.6
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+13.4
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+3.5
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+10.9
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.2
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+18.0