United States presidential election in Maine, 1880

United States presidential election in Maine, 1880
November 2, 1880

 
Nominee James A. Garfield Winfield S. Hancock
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Ohio Pennsylvania
Running mate Chester A. Arthur William H. English
Electoral vote 7 0
Popular vote 74,052 65,211
Percentage 51.46% 45.32%
President before election

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican

 Elected President

James A. Garfield
Republican

The 1880 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Maine voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a narrow margin of 6.14 percent. Hancock’s relatively strong showing was due to his firm stance against immigration, toward which Garfield was relatively favourable,[1] but which was a major issue for Maine voters who feared immigration would depress their wages.[2] He proved the only Democrat to carry any of Maine’s counties between 1856 and 1896 inclusive, and was the last to carry Aroostook County until Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide, and the last to carry Lincoln County and Waldo County until Woodrow Wilson in 1912.[3]

Results

United States presidential election in Maine, 1880[4]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Republican James Abram Garfield of Ohio Chester Alan Arthur of New York 74,052 51.46% 7 100.00%
Democratic Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania William Hayden English of Indiana 65,211 45.32% 0 0.00%
Greenback James Baird Weaver of Iowa Barzillai Jefferson Chambers of Texas 4,409 3.06% 0 0.00%
N/A Others Others 139 0.10% 0 0.00%
Prohibition Neal Dow of Maine Henry Adams Thompson of Ohio 92 0.06% 0 0.00%
Total 143,903 100.00% 7 100.00%

References

  1. ↑ Walter, Dr. Aaron T.; Dirty, Rotten, Scandalous: U.S. Presidential Elections Throughout History, p. 85 ISBN 1365317951
  2. ↑ Kurashige, Lon; Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States, pp. 55-56 ISBN 1469629445
  3. ↑ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 218-219 ISBN 0786422173
  4. ↑ "1880 Presidential General Election Results - Maine".
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