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1876 presidential election in New Jersey

Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) beat Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) in New Jersey in 1876, 52.7% to 47.0%, a margin of 5.7 points and 12,445 votes.

New Jersey voted 2.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.0.

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

Republicans led in 11 of the 21 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 10. The largest, Essex, cast 34,308 votes and went to the Republican by 5.6 points. The closest was Mercer, where 53 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
Samuel J. Tilden won Democratic 115,962 52.7%
Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 103,517 47.0%
All other candidates 714 0.3%
Total220,193

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Essex 16,132 47.0% 18,037 52.6% 139 34,308 R+5.6
Hudson 17,784 61.9% 10,958 38.1% 8 28,750 D+23.7
Burlington 6,468 50.2% 6,402 49.7% 8 12,878 D+0.5
Mercer 6,035 49.8% 6,088 50.2% 2 12,125 R+0.4
Camden 5,211 44.2% 6,563 55.6% 22 11,796 R+11.5
Monmouth 6,942 59.6% 4,709 40.4% 1 11,652 D+19.2
Union 5,994 53.7% 5,134 46.0% 32 11,160 D+7.7
Middlesex 5,846 52.7% 5,243 47.2% 8 11,097 D+5.4
Passaic 5,301 48.1% 5,708 51.8% 3 11,012 R+3.7
Morris 5,118 49.7% 5,183 50.3% 10,301 R+0.6
Hunterdon 5,781 60.9% 3,709 39.1% 2 9,492 D+21.8
Warren 5,442 64.3% 3,016 35.6% 3 8,461 D+28.7
Cumberland 3,399 44.4% 3,944 51.5% 311 7,654 R+7.1
Bergen 4,357 57.3% 3,253 42.7% 7,610 D+14.5
Somerset 3,177 51.3% 3,009 48.6% 1 6,187 D+2.7
Salem 2,843 49.0% 2,952 50.8% 11 5,806 R+1.9
Sussex 3,706 64.5% 2,037 35.5% 5,743 D+29.1
Gloucester 2,557 44.9% 3,006 52.7% 138 5,701 R+7.9
Ocean 1,563 45.9% 1,834 53.9% 8 3,405 R+8.0
Atlantic 1,440 45.9% 1,677 53.5% 17 3,134 R+7.6
Cape May 866 45.1% 1,055 54.9% 1,921 R+9.8

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.

New Jersey in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+5.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+15.9
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+14.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+15.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+6.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+15.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+17.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+20.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+13.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+2.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+31.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+30.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.9
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.2
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+11.7
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+18.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+14.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+23.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+4.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.7
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.8
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+5.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+9.0
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.8