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1876 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) beat Samuel J. Tilden (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1876, 50.6% to 48.2%, a margin of 2.4 points and 17,954 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 5.4 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 35 of the 66 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 31. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 139,259 votes and went to the Republican by 10.7 points. The closest was Cameron, where 29 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 384,157 50.6%
Samuel J. Tilden Democratic 366,203 48.2%
All other candidates 8,612 1.1%
Total758,972

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 62,138 44.6% 77,088 55.4% 33 139,259 R+10.7
Allegheny 19,248 39.4% 28,729 58.8% 894 48,871 R+19.4
Luzerne 18,395 54.1% 14,919 43.9% 707 34,021 D+10.2
Lancaster 9,638 35.6% 17,425 64.3% 43 27,106 R+28.7
Berks 15,612 65.1% 8,019 33.5% 335 23,966 D+31.7
Schuylkill 10,457 51.3% 8,677 42.6% 1,248 20,382 D+8.7
Montgomery 9,654 50.4% 9,385 49.0% 108 19,147 D+1.4
York 10,403 60.4% 6,827 39.6% 1 17,231 D+20.8
Chester 6,621 40.4% 9,715 59.3% 52 16,388 R+18.9
Bucks 8,023 50.9% 7,722 49.0% 13 15,758 D+1.9
Erie 6,179 41.2% 8,724 58.2% 85 14,988 R+17.0
Northampton 9,271 63.5% 5,311 36.4% 15 14,597 D+27.1
Crawford 6,537 46.5% 7,345 52.2% 177 14,059 R+5.7
Westmoreland 7,466 53.5% 6,217 44.5% 275 13,958 D+8.9
Dauphin 5,474 41.0% 7,493 56.1% 400 13,367 R+15.1
Lehigh 7,757 58.1% 5,586 41.8% 7 13,350 D+16.3
Bradford 4,989 38.0% 8,008 61.0% 121 13,118 R+23.0
Washington 5,323 47.0% 5,806 51.2% 202 11,331 R+4.3
Mercer 4,587 43.0% 5,508 51.7% 566 10,661 R+8.6
Butler 4,830 45.8% 5,643 53.5% 80 10,553 R+7.7
Lycoming 5,423 52.9% 4,110 40.1% 714 10,247 D+12.8
Fayette 5,594 54.7% 4,379 42.8% 251 10,224 D+11.9
Franklin 4,620 48.5% 4,897 51.4% 14 9,531 R+2.9
Northumberland 5,064 53.7% 4,268 45.3% 97 9,429 D+8.4
Cumberland 5,062 54.6% 4,151 44.8% 51 9,264 D+9.8
Tioga 2,729 31.0% 5,892 67.0% 179 8,800 R+35.9
Susquehanna 3,885 44.3% 4,823 55.0% 60 8,768 R+10.7
Delaware 3,250 37.2% 5,484 62.8% 2 8,736 R+25.6
Blair 3,933 45.1% 4,752 54.5% 35 8,720 R+9.4
Armstrong 3,821 45.2% 4,613 54.6% 21 8,455 R+9.4
Lebanon 3,028 39.9% 4,552 60.0% 5 7,585 R+20.1
Venango 3,471 46.0% 3,847 51.0% 223 7,541 R+5.0
Centre 4,065 55.3% 3,266 44.4% 25 7,356 D+10.9
Cambria 4,257 57.9% 2,989 40.7% 106 7,352 D+17.2
Beaver 2,950 40.5% 3,982 54.7% 343 7,275 R+14.2
Clarion 4,167 57.5% 3,060 42.2% 17 7,244 D+15.3
Indiana 2,248 31.1% 4,934 68.3% 46 7,228 R+37.2
Bedford 3,532 52.4% 3,210 47.6% 1 6,743 D+4.8
Clearfield 4,220 64.3% 2,318 35.3% 26 6,564 D+29.0
Huntingdon 2,982 45.7% 3,493 53.5% 50 6,525 R+7.8
Columbia 4,394 67.6% 2,069 31.8% 39 6,502 D+35.8
Wayne 3,680 57.1% 2,760 42.8% 10 6,450 D+14.3
Adams 3,439 54.0% 2,921 45.8% 12 6,372 D+8.1
Somerset 2,336 38.1% 3,784 61.7% 9 6,129 R+23.6
Carbon 3,106 52.1% 2,758 46.3% 96 5,960 D+5.8
Warren 2,365 41.4% 3,151 55.1% 201 5,717 R+13.7
Greene 3,719 65.5% 1,956 34.5% 5,675 D+31.1
Perry 2,789 50.7% 2,684 48.8% 24 5,497 D+1.9
Lawrence 1,764 32.2% 3,429 62.6% 282 5,475 R+30.4
Jefferson 2,459 50.5% 2,350 48.3% 59 4,868 D+2.2
Clinton 2,974 61.4% 1,809 37.4% 60 4,843 D+24.1
Monroe 3,280 80.9% 776 19.1% 4,056 D+61.7
Wyoming 2,020 54.6% 1,679 45.3% 4 3,703 D+9.2
Union 1,489 40.8% 2,154 59.0% 8 3,651 R+18.2
Mifflin 1,892 52.3% 1,718 47.5% 6 3,616 D+4.8
Juniata 2,013 56.5% 1,550 43.5% 1 3,564 D+13.0
Snyder 1,539 44.5% 1,922 55.5% 1 3,462 R+11.1
Potter 1,280 43.9% 1,621 55.5% 18 2,919 R+11.7
Montour 1,728 59.2% 1,136 38.9% 53 2,917 D+20.3
McKean 1,320 47.8% 1,427 51.7% 13 2,760 R+3.9
Fulton 1,190 59.2% 821 40.8% 2,011 D+18.3
Elk 1,330 69.5% 534 27.9% 50 1,914 D+41.6
Pike 1,387 75.8% 443 24.2% 1 1,831 D+51.6
Sullivan 879 62.4% 502 35.7% 27 1,408 D+26.8
Cameron 543 48.3% 572 50.8% 10 1,125 R+2.6
Forest 385 45.3% 464 54.7% 849 R+9.3

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4