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1876 presidential election in New Hampshire

Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) beat Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) in New Hampshire in 1876, 51.8% to 48.1%, a margin of 3.7 points and 2,999 votes.

New Hampshire voted 6.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.0.

The Republican hold continued from 1872, when Ulysses S. Grant won.

Democrats led in 5 of the 10 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 5. The largest, Hillsborough, cast 15,009 votes and went to the Republican by 9.3 points. The closest was Merrimack, where 27 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rutherford B. Hayes won Republican 41,540 51.8%
Samuel J. Tilden Democratic 38,541 48.1%
All other candidates 62 0.1%
Total80,143

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Hillsborough 6,790 45.2% 8,190 54.6% 29 15,009 R+9.3
Rockingham 5,576 46.5% 6,422 53.5% 3 12,001 R+7.0
Merrimack 5,687 50.1% 5,660 49.8% 8 11,355 D+0.2
Grafton 5,092 51.7% 4,763 48.3% 1 9,856 D+3.3
Strafford 3,363 45.3% 4,052 54.6% 1 7,416 R+9.3
Cheshire 2,984 41.7% 4,162 58.2% 8 7,154 R+16.5
Sullivan 2,106 45.0% 2,568 54.9% 3 4,677 R+9.9
Carroll 2,474 55.1% 2,016 44.9% 3 4,493 D+10.2
Belknap 2,308 53.2% 2,028 46.7% 6 4,342 D+6.4
Coos 2,161 56.3% 1,679 43.7% 3,840 D+12.6

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.

New Hampshire in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+2.8
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+7.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+0.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+1.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+1.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+26.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+37.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+29.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.3
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+29.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+27.8
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+6.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.6
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+25.1
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+2.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+21.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+22.3
1900 William McKinley (R) R+20.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+4.0
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.6
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+4.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+3.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+7.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.5