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1880 presidential election in Vermont

James A. Garfield (Republican) beat Winfield Scott Hancock (Democrat) in Vermont in 1880, 70.0% to 28.1%, a margin of 41.9 points and 27,251 votes.

Vermont voted 41.8 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 14 of the 14 counties as they stood then. The largest, Rutland, cast 8,153 votes and went to the Republican by 40.1 points. The closest was Grand Isle, where 158 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 45,567 70.0%
Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic 18,316 28.1%
All other candidates 1,215 1.9%
Total65,098

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Rutland 2,421 29.7% 5,690 69.8% 42 8,153 R+40.1
Windsor 1,740 22.0% 6,122 77.3% 59 7,921 R+55.3
Windham 1,426 23.5% 4,637 76.4% 9 6,072 R+52.9
Chittenden 2,020 33.6% 3,902 64.9% 94 6,016 R+31.3
Washington 1,927 33.4% 3,611 62.7% 224 5,762 R+29.2
Franklin 1,652 32.9% 3,018 60.1% 354 5,024 R+27.2
Orange 1,631 34.2% 3,107 65.1% 32 4,770 R+30.9
Caledonia 1,372 30.3% 3,134 69.1% 29 4,535 R+38.9
Addison 585 13.1% 3,842 85.7% 55 4,482 R+72.7
Bennington 1,440 35.3% 2,641 64.7% 4,081 R+29.4
Orleans 804 21.5% 2,911 77.8% 27 3,742 R+56.3
Lamoille 587 23.0% 1,702 66.6% 268 2,557 R+43.6
Essex 472 35.5% 853 64.1% 5 1,330 R+28.6
Grand Isle 239 36.6% 397 60.8% 17 653 R+24.2

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.

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1