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1880 presidential election in Nevada

Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) beat James A. Garfield (Republican) in Nevada in 1880, 52.4% to 47.6%, a margin of 4.8 points and 879 votes.

Nevada voted 4.9 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.1.

Nevada changed party: in 1876 it went Republican, for Rutherford B. Hayes.

Democrats led in 11 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 3. The largest, Storey, cast 5,138 votes and went to the Democrat by 7.6 points. The closest was Churchill, where 17 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Winfield Scott Hancock won Democratic 9,611 52.4%
James A. Garfield Republican 8,732 47.6%
Total18,343

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Storey 2,765 53.8% 2,373 46.2% 5,138 D+7.6
Eureka 891 46.5% 1,026 53.5% 1,917 R+7.0
Elko 886 53.1% 782 46.9% 1,668 D+6.2
Washoe 828 52.3% 755 47.7% 1,583 D+4.6
Esmeralda 673 52.6% 607 47.4% 1,280 D+5.2
Lander 575 52.8% 515 47.2% 1,090 D+5.5
Ormsby (Ext) 452 42.0% 624 58.0% 1,076 R+16.0
Humboldt 598 61.6% 372 38.4% 970 D+23.3
White Pine 440 52.5% 398 47.5% 838 D+5.0
Nye 418 55.2% 339 44.8% 757 D+10.4
Lincoln 417 61.9% 257 38.1% 674 D+23.7
Lyon 294 45.3% 355 54.7% 649 R+9.4
Douglas 275 52.7% 247 47.3% 522 D+5.4
Churchill 99 54.7% 82 45.3% 181 D+9.4

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.

Nevada in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+3.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+2.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+2.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+6.7
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+12.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+2.6
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.6
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+35.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+17.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+15.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+3.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+45.6
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+38.8
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+13.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.7
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+17.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+23.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+23.8
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+24.5
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+62.3
1892 Third party (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+15.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.5
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+4.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+5.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+14.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.8