UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF 1876 ===================================================================== In Colorado, which had just been admitted to the Union, the legislature cast the state's Electoral College votes. POPULAR VOTE AND ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE BY STATE ===================================================================== Rutherford B Samuel J Hayes Tilden (Republican, OH) (Democrat, NY) -------------------------------------------------------------------- State vote % ECV vote % ECV -------------------------------------------------------------------- ALABAMA 68,708 40.0 - 102,989 60.0 10 ARKANSAS 38,649 39.9 - 58,086 59.9 6 CALIFORNIA 79,258 50.9 6 76,460 49.1 - COLORADO * 3 * - CONNECTICUT 59,033 48.3 - 61,927 50.7 6 DELAWARE 10,752 44.6 - 13,381 55.5 3 FLORIDA 23,849 51.0 4 22,927 49.0 - GEORGIA 50,533 28.0 - 130,157 72.0 11 ILLINOIS 278,232 50.2 21 258,611 46.7 - INDIANA 208,011 48.3 - 213,529 49.5 15 IOWA 171,326 58.4 11 112,121 38.2 - KANSAS 78,324 63.1 5 37,902 30.5 - KENTUCKY 97,568 37.4 - 160,060 61.4 12 LOUISIANA 75,315 51.7 8 70,508 48.4 - MAINE 66,300 56.6 7 49,917 42.7 - MARYLAND 71,980 44.0 - 91,779 56.1 8 MASSACHUSETTS 150,063 57.8 13 108,777 41.9 - MICHIGAN 166,901 52.4 11 141,665 44.5 - MINNESOTA 72,962 58.8 8 48,799 39.3 - MISSISSIPPI 52,603 31.9 - 112,173 68.1 8 MISSOURI 145,027 41.4 - 202,086 57.6 15 NEBRASKA 31,915 64.8 3 17,343 35.2 - NEVADA 10,383 52.7 3 9.308 47.3 - NEW HAMPSHIRE 41,540 51.8 5 38,510 48.1 - NEW JERSEY 103,517 47.0 - 115,962 52.7 9 NEW YORK 489,207 48.2 - 521,949 51.4 35 NTH CAROLINA 108,484 46.4 - 125,427 53.6 10 OHIO 330,698 50.2 22 323,182 49.1 - OREGON 15,207 50.9 3 14,157 49.1 - PENNSYLVANIA 384,157 50.6 29 366,204 48.3 - RHODE ISLAND 15,787 59.6 4 10,712 40.4 - STH CAROLINA 91,786 50.2 7 90,897 49.8 - TENNESSEE 89,566 40.2 - 133,177 59.8 12 TEXAS 45,013 29.7 - 106,372 70.2 8 VERMONT 44,092 68.4 5 20,254 31.4 - VIRGINIA 95,518 40.4 - 140,770 59.6 11 WEST VIRGINIA 41,997 42.2 - 56,546 56.8 5 WISCONSIN 130,050 50.6 10 123,922 48.2 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4,034,311 47.9 185 4,288,546 51.0 184 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Although Tilden received a majority of the popular vote, narrow (and disputed) Republican victories in Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina gave Hayes a majority in the Electoral College. --------------------------------------------------------------------