See main article: 1880 United States presidential election.
Election Name: | 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire |
Country: | New Hampshire |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1876 United States presidential election in New Hampshire |
Previous Year: | 1876 |
Next Election: | 1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire |
Next Year: | 1884 |
Election Date: | November 2, 1880 |
Image1: | James Abram Garfield, photo portrait seated (cropped).jpg |
Nominee1: | James A. Garfield |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Home State1: | Ohio |
Running Mate1: | Chester A. Arthur |
Electoral Vote1: | 5 |
Popular Vote1: | 44,856 |
Percentage1: | 51.94% |
Nominee2: | Winfield S. Hancock |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Home State2: | Pennsylvania |
Running Mate2: | William H. English |
Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
Popular Vote2: | 40,797 |
Percentage2: | 48.15% |
Map Size: | 295px |
President | |
Before Election: | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | James A. Garfield |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a narrow margin of 4.70%. This would be the last occasion any Democratic presidential candidate won Grafton County until Woodrow Wilson in 1912,[1] and the last occasion a Democrat won an absolute majority of the presidential vote in Belknap County until Lyndon B. Johnson did so in his 1964 landslide.
County | James Abram Garfield[2] Republican | Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic | James Baird Weaver[3] Greenback | Neal Dow Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||||||||||||||
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% | % | % | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||
Belknap | 2,350 | 47.81% | 2,483 | 50.52% | 55 | 1.12% | 27 | 0.55% | -133 | -2.71% | 4,915 | ||||||||||||
Carroll | 2,426 | 47.46% | 2,639 | 51.62% | 24 | 0.47% | 23 | 0.45% | -213 | -4.17% | 5,112 | ||||||||||||
Cheshire | 4,380 | 58.83% | 2,979 | 40.01% | 67 | 0.90% | 19 | 0.26% | 1,401 | 18.82% | 7,445 | ||||||||||||
Coös | 1,829 | 42.89% | 2,387 | 55.98% | 44 | 1.03% | 4 | 0.09% | -558 | -13.09% | 4,264 | ||||||||||||
Grafton | 4,964 | 47.71% | 5,300 | 50.94% | 132 | 1.27% | 8 | 0.08% | -336 | -3.23% | 10,404 | ||||||||||||
Hillsborough | 8,689 | 55.11% | 6,999 | 44.39% | 56 | 0.36% | 24 | 0.15% | 1,690 | 10.72% | 15,768 | ||||||||||||
Merrimack | 5,935 | 49.95% | 5,922 | 49.84% | 9 | 0.08% | 17 | 0.14% | 13 | 0.11% | 11,883 | ||||||||||||
Rockingham | 6,960 | 53.25% | 5,989 | 45.82% | 91 | 0.70% | 30 | 0.23% | 971 | 7.43% | 13,070 | ||||||||||||
Strafford | 4,634 | 53.78% | 3,922 | 45.51% | 38 | 0.44% | 23 | 0.27% | 712 | 8.26% | 8,617 | ||||||||||||
Sullivan | 2,729 | 55.46% | 2,175 | 44.20% | 12 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.10% | 554 | 11.26% | 4,921 | ||||||||||||
Totals | 44,896 | 51.96% | 40,795 | 47.22% | 528 | 0.61% | 180 | 0.21% | 4,101 | 4.75% | 86,399 |