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1880 presidential election in Delaware

Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) beat James A. Garfield (Republican) in Delaware in 1880, 51.5% to 48.0%, a margin of 3.5 points and 1,033 votes.

Delaware voted 3.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.1.

The Democratic hold continued from 1876, when Samuel J. Tilden won.

Democrats led in 2 of the 3 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 1. The largest, New Castle, cast 15,390 votes and went to the Republican by 0.7 points.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Winfield Scott Hancock won Democratic 15,181 51.5%
James A. Garfield Republican 14,148 48.0%
All other candidates 129 0.4%
Total29,458

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New Castle 7,623 49.5% 7,724 50.2% 43 15,390 R+0.7
Sussex 3,893 52.9% 3,382 46.0% 83 7,358 D+6.9
Kent 3,665 54.6% 3,042 45.3% 3 6,710 D+9.3

Counties as they stood in 1880; 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