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Election 1880 Results

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1880 presidential election in Pennsylvania

James A. Garfield (Republican) beat Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1880, 50.8% to 46.6%, a margin of 4.3 points and 37,276 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 4.2 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 36 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 31. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 173,844 votes and went to the Republican by 12.0 points. The closest was Montgomery, where 1 vote 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 444,704 50.8%
Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic 407,428 46.6%
All other candidates 22,651 2.6%
Total874,783

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 76,330 43.9% 97,220 55.9% 294 173,844 R+12.0
Allegheny 22,096 37.2% 35,539 59.8% 1,747 59,382 R+22.6
Lancaster 10,789 35.5% 19,489 64.1% 120 30,398 R+28.6
Berks 16,959 64.3% 9,225 35.0% 181 26,365 D+29.3
Luzerne 12,575 52.4% 11,028 45.9% 403 24,006 D+6.4
Schuylkill 11,511 49.3% 9,337 40.0% 2,491 23,339 D+9.3
Montgomery 11,025 49.7% 11,026 49.7% 112 22,163 level
York 11,581 59.5% 7,870 40.4% 17 19,468 D+19.1
Chester 7,524 39.5% 11,298 59.3% 246 19,068 R+19.8
Bucks 8,627 50.6% 8,385 49.2% 35 17,047 D+1.4
Westmoreland 7,975 49.9% 7,113 44.5% 908 15,996 D+5.4
Erie 6,471 40.8% 8,752 55.1% 654 15,877 R+14.4
Northampton 9,653 61.4% 5,961 37.9% 114 15,728 D+23.5
Dauphin 6,619 42.6% 8,573 55.2% 337 15,529 R+12.6
Crawford 5,847 39.4% 7,192 48.5% 1,798 14,837 R+9.1
Lackawanna 7,178 48.6% 7,357 49.8% 239 14,774 R+1.2
Lehigh 8,292 57.3% 6,144 42.5% 23 14,459 D+14.9
Bradford 4,950 36.2% 8,152 59.6% 581 13,683 R+23.4
Washington 5,850 46.3% 6,451 51.0% 338 12,639 R+4.8
Lycoming 6,416 53.6% 4,955 41.4% 596 11,967 D+12.2
Mercer 5,029 42.5% 6,079 51.3% 735 11,843 R+8.9
Fayette 6,250 53.0% 4,920 41.7% 631 11,801 D+11.3
Delaware 4,473 38.8% 7,008 60.8% 38 11,519 R+22.0
Northumberland 5,931 53.4% 4,847 43.6% 333 11,111 D+9.8
Blair 4,728 43.9% 5,808 53.9% 230 10,766 R+10.0
Franklin 4,964 47.9% 5,379 51.9% 25 10,368 R+4.0
Butler 4,678 45.2% 5,269 51.0% 393 10,340 R+5.7
Cumberland 5,462 54.5% 4,431 44.2% 138 10,031 D+10.3
Tioga 2,815 28.1% 6,018 60.2% 1,169 10,002 R+32.0
Susquehanna 3,802 41.7% 5,031 55.1% 290 9,123 R+13.5
Armstrong 3,991 43.9% 4,721 51.9% 384 9,096 R+8.0
Cambria 4,555 52.4% 3,962 45.6% 169 8,686 D+6.8
Venango 3,573 42.2% 4,089 48.3% 800 8,462 R+6.1
Clearfield 4,928 59.1% 3,105 37.2% 312 8,345 D+21.8
Beaver 3,498 42.0% 4,700 56.4% 136 8,334 R+14.4
Centre 4,598 55.3% 3,602 43.3% 118 8,318 D+12.0
Lebanon 3,218 38.9% 5,042 60.9% 13 8,273 R+22.0
Indiana 2,119 25.7% 4,617 56.1% 1,498 8,234 R+30.3
Clarion 4,433 57.6% 2,933 38.1% 324 7,690 D+19.5
Bedford 3,723 50.2% 3,638 49.1% 53 7,414 D+1.1
Huntingdon 3,039 42.0% 3,787 52.4% 407 7,233 R+10.3
McKean 3,169 44.2% 3,693 51.5% 315 7,177 R+7.3
Columbia 4,598 65.2% 2,236 31.7% 220 7,054 D+33.5
Adams 3,752 53.9% 3,137 45.1% 69 6,958 D+8.8
Somerset 2,500 37.2% 4,150 61.7% 74 6,724 R+24.5
Lawrence 2,047 30.7% 4,360 65.4% 261 6,668 R+34.7
Wayne 3,421 51.4% 3,122 46.9% 116 6,659 D+4.5
Greene 4,271 65.4% 2,210 33.8% 48 6,529 D+31.6
Carbon 3,464 53.9% 2,857 44.5% 104 6,425 D+9.4
Warren 2,118 35.0% 3,207 53.1% 718 6,043 R+18.0
Perry 2,894 48.6% 3,032 50.9% 26 5,952 R+2.3
Jefferson 2,635 47.7% 2,750 49.7% 144 5,529 R+2.1
Clinton 3,117 57.1% 2,284 41.8% 60 5,461 D+15.3
Monroe 3,334 77.3% 962 22.3% 18 4,314 D+55.0
Mifflin 1,955 48.1% 2,075 51.0% 36 4,066 R+3.0
Wyoming 1,983 52.0% 1,787 46.8% 47 3,817 D+5.1
Union 1,502 39.8% 2,254 59.7% 17 3,773 R+19.9
Snyder 1,579 42.3% 2,120 56.7% 37 3,736 R+14.5
Juniata 1,999 54.0% 1,625 43.9% 81 3,705 D+10.1
Montour 1,862 57.9% 1,265 39.4% 87 3,214 D+18.6
Potter 1,134 35.8% 1,773 56.0% 259 3,166 R+20.2
Elk 1,534 65.5% 720 30.7% 88 2,342 D+34.8
Fulton 1,252 59.4% 853 40.5% 2 2,107 D+18.9
Pike 1,332 70.8% 537 28.5% 12 1,881 D+42.3
Sullivan 994 58.8% 625 37.0% 72 1,691 D+21.8
Cameron 582 46.3% 647 51.5% 28 1,257 R+5.2
Forest 325 33.3% 370 37.9% 282 977 R+4.6

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.

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