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Election 1880 Results

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1880 presidential election in Kansas

James A. Garfield (Republican) beat Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) in Kansas in 1880, 60.4% to 29.7%, a margin of 30.7 points and 61,748 votes.

Kansas voted 30.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1876, when Rutherford B. Hayes won.

Republicans led in 79 of the 79 counties as they stood then. The largest, Shawnee, cast 6,074 votes and went to the Republican by 47.0 points. The closest was Sheridan, 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
James A. Garfield won Republican 121,549 60.4%
Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic 59,801 29.7%
James B. Weaver Greenback 19,851 9.9%
All other candidates 25 0.0%
Total201,226

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Shawnee 1,548 25.5% 4,403 72.5% 123 6,074 R+47.0
Leavenworth 2,489 42.6% 3,188 54.5% 171 5,848 R+12.0
Atchison 2,132 42.3% 2,834 56.3% 71 5,037 R+13.9
Cherokee 1,681 34.2% 2,374 48.3% 856 4,911 R+14.1
Douglas 1,463 30.8% 3,048 64.1% 246 4,757 R+33.3
Labette 1,462 31.8% 2,721 59.1% 421 4,604 R+27.3
Osage 907 20.6% 2,704 61.4% 793 4,404 R+40.8
Wyandotte 1,733 39.6% 2,410 55.0% 236 4,379 R+15.5
Cowley 1,557 35.6% 2,630 60.1% 190 4,377 R+24.5
Sumner 1,419 35.3% 2,073 51.6% 529 4,021 R+16.3
Sedgwick 1,354 33.8% 2,288 57.1% 364 4,006 R+23.3
Butler 1,119 28.3% 2,398 60.7% 433 3,950 R+32.4
Bourbon 1,161 30.2% 2,320 60.3% 364 3,845 R+30.1
Miami 1,324 35.0% 2,010 53.1% 454 3,788 R+18.1
Montgomery 1,294 34.4% 1,773 47.2% 693 3,760 R+12.7
Franklin 728 19.5% 2,108 56.5% 898 3,734 R+37.0
Crawford 1,356 36.5% 1,902 51.2% 457 3,715 R+14.7
Marshall 997 26.9% 2,276 61.5% 427 3,700 R+34.6
Johnson 1,182 32.2% 2,132 58.0% 360 3,674 R+25.9
Lyon 869 23.7% 2,398 65.4% 402 3,669 R+41.7
Pottawatomie 1,179 33.3% 2,138 60.4% 224 3,541 R+27.1
Jewell 883 25.4% 2,199 63.2% 399 3,481 R+37.8
Jefferson 1,397 40.4% 1,976 57.2% 81 3,454 R+16.8
McPherson 564 16.9% 2,225 66.7% 545 3,334 R+49.8
Linn 745 22.5% 1,990 60.1% 577 3,312 R+37.6
Doniphan 1,143 35.1% 2,067 63.4% 51 3,261 R+28.3
Dickinson 886 28.3% 1,954 62.4% 292 3,132 R+34.1
Cloud 888 28.5% 2,156 69.3% 69 3,113 R+40.7
Washington 827 27.4% 1,957 64.9% 230 3,014 R+37.5
Saline 838 29.1% 1,950 67.6% 95 2,883 R+38.6
Neosho 948 32.9% 1,471 51.1% 461 2,880 R+18.2
Wilson 722 25.1% 1,627 56.6% 527 2,876 R+31.5
Brown 896 31.4% 1,850 64.8% 111 2,857 R+33.4
Mitchell 797 28.9% 1,728 62.6% 235 2,760 R+33.7
Nemaha 934 34.7% 1,755 65.1% 5 2,694 R+30.5
Republic 661 24.6% 1,875 69.8% 151 2,687 R+45.2
Clay 531 19.9% 1,765 66.2% 369 2,665 R+46.3
Coffey 851 34.6% 1,422 57.8% 189 2,462 R+23.2
Smith 517 21.1% 1,524 62.3% 406 2,447 R+41.2
Allen 803 33.1% 1,576 65.0% 44 2,423 R+31.9
Jackson 853 36.0% 1,504 63.4% 14 2,371 R+27.5
Greenwood 667 28.7% 1,311 56.4% 347 2,325 R+27.7
Chautauqua 655 28.4% 1,321 57.2% 333 2,309 R+28.8
Ottawa 524 22.8% 1,443 62.7% 333 2,300 R+40.0
Harvey 585 25.7% 1,554 68.3% 136 2,275 R+42.6
Elk 458 20.6% 1,274 57.4% 486 2,218 R+36.8
Riley 376 17.0% 1,484 67.2% 347 2,207 R+50.2
Reno 536 24.7% 1,384 63.7% 252 2,172 R+39.0
Osborne 589 28.1% 1,446 69.0% 61 2,096 R+40.9
Marion 539 26.3% 1,239 60.5% 271 2,049 R+34.2
Phillips 553 27.2% 1,261 62.0% 221 2,035 R+34.8
Morris 550 27.4% 1,281 63.7% 179 2,010 R+36.4
Anderson 497 24.9% 1,127 56.5% 370 1,994 R+31.6
Barton 714 36.7% 1,172 60.2% 62 1,948 R+23.5
Rice 496 25.8% 1,108 57.6% 318 1,922 R+31.8
Wabaunsee 510 27.9% 1,279 70.0% 39 1,828 R+42.1
Ellsworth 483 30.3% 1,077 67.7% 32 1,592 R+37.3
Lincoln 419 27.4% 957 62.5% 154 1,530 R+35.2
Rooks 338 23.0% 805 54.8% 326 1,469 R+31.8
Chase 324 22.4% 716 49.4% 409 1,449 R+27.1
Davis 399 27.8% 702 48.9% 335 1,436 R+21.1
Russell 317 23.3% 932 68.6% 110 1,359 R+45.3
Woodson 437 32.5% 898 66.8% 9 1,344 R+34.3
Norton 337 26.0% 761 58.7% 198 1,296 R+32.7
Ellis 420 36.4% 680 58.9% 54 1,154 R+22.5
Harper 294 29.1% 546 54.1% 170 1,010 R+25.0
Pawnee 235 24.8% 697 73.4% 17 949 R+48.7
Graham 104 12.9% 494 61.1% 210 808 R+48.3
Rush 238 29.5% 542 67.1% 28 808 R+37.6
Stafford 192 24.6% 530 67.8% 60 782 R+43.2
Kingman 200 27.7% 436 60.5% 85 721 R+32.7
Ford 288 43.8% 370 56.2% 658 R+12.5
Decatur 163 32.7% 307 61.6% 28 498 R+28.9
Trego 107 22.9% 332 71.1% 28 467 R+48.2
Ness 129 29.1% 315 70.9% 444 R+41.9
Edwards 102 24.6% 313 75.4% 415 R+50.8
Pratt 97 29.7% 196 59.9% 34 327 R+30.3
Hodgeman 52 21.6% 176 73.0% 13 241 R+51.5
Sheridan 52 24.9% 93 44.5% 64 209 R+19.6

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.

Kansas in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+14.6
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+20.6
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+21.7
2008 John McCain (R) R+15.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+25.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+20.8
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+18.2
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+38.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+9.0
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+21.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+31.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+9.0
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+21.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.5
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+45.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.9
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+32.2
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+5.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+18.8
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+9.6
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+6.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+3.7
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+24.2
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+24.2
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+30.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+32.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+33.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+37.7