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1860 United States presidential election in Georgia

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The 1860 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1860 United States presidential election in Georgia
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Nominee John C. Breckinridge John Bell Stephen A. Douglas
Party Southern Democratic Constitutional Union Democratic
Home state Kentucky Tennessee Illinois
Running mate Joseph Lane Edward Everett Herschel V. Johnson
Electoral vote 10 0 0
Popular vote 52,181[a] 42,954[b] 11,687
Percentage 48.85% 40.21% 10.94%
Legislature vote 173 (70.61%) 54 (22.04%) 18 (7.35%)
County Results
President before election

James Buchanan
Democratic

Elected President

Abraham Lincoln
Republican

In the election, Southern Democratic candidate 14th Vice President of the United States John C. Breckinridge and his running mate Senator Joseph Lane won the plurality of the vote against Constitutional Union candidate Senator John Bell and his running mate Governor of Massachusetts Edward Everett as well as Democratic candidate Senator Stephen A. Douglas and his running mate 41st Governor of Georgia Herschel V. Johnson. Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln did not appar on the ballot.

As no candidate received a majority of the popular vote, the election was thrown into the General Assembly, which voted to select 10 Breckinridge electors.[1]

Results

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Legislature vote by elector

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1860 United States presidential election in Georgia[2]
Party Candidate elector Votes
SD Peter Cone Cone 173
SD Hardy Strickland 173
SD W. M. Slaughter 172
SD O. C. Gibson 172
SD Hugh Buchanan 172
SD W. A. Lofton 172
SD W. M. McIntosh 172
SD Henry R. Jackson 171
SD Lewis Tumlin 171
SD Alfred H. Colquitt 162
CU Benjamin Harvey Hill 54
CU Wm. F. Wright 54
CU J. R. Parrott 54
CU I. E. Dupree 54
CU Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar 54
CU William Law 53
CU S. Spencer 52
CU L. T. Doyal 52
CU Hiram Parks Bell 52
CU M. Douglass 47
D Alexander H. Stephens 18
D Ambrose R. Wright 8
D James Lindsay Seward 8
D B. Y. Martin 8
D Nathan Bass 8
D Hiram B. Warner 8
D J. W. Harris 8
D J. P. Simmons 8
D J. S. Hook 8
D Julien Cumming 8
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1860 United States presidential election in Georgia[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Southern Democratic John C. Breckinridge 52,181[a] 48.85%
Constitutional Union John Bell 42,954[b] 40.21%
Democratic Stephen A. Douglas 11,687 10.94%
Total votes 106,822 100%

Results By County

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1860 United States Presidential Election in Georgia (By County)[3]
County John Breckinridge
Southern Democratic 		John Bell
Constitutional Union 		Stephen Douglas
Democratic 		Total
# % # % # %
Appling 287 71.75% 112 28.00% 1 0.25% 400
Baker 259 69.44% 112 30.03% 2 0.54% 373
Baldwin 440 47.21% 397 42.60% 95 10.19% 932
Banks 466 81.75% 94 16.49% 10 1.75% 570
Berrien 316 58.96% 219 40.86% 1 0.19% 536
Bibb 812 39.28% 876 42.38% 379 18.34% 2,067
Brooks 336 54.11% 281 45.25% 4 0.64% 621
Bryan 193 71.75% 75 27.88% 1 0.37% 269
Bulloch 567 98.61% 7 1.22% 1 0.17% 575
Burke 468 50.16% 211 22.62% 254 27.22% 933
Butts 309 51.07% 269 44.46% 27 4.46% 605
Calhoun 230 68.86% 98 29.34% 6 1.80% 334
Camden 207 85.54% 35 14.46% 0 0.00% 242
Campbell 785 64.82% 412 34.02% 14 1.16% 1,211
Carroll 1,294 70.67% 508 27.74% 29 1.58% 1,831
Cass 1,055 50.67% 699 33.57% 328 15.75% 2,082
Catoosa 382 48.11% 338 42.57% 74 9.32% 794
Charlton 141 75.81% 43 23.12% 2 1.08% 186
Chatham 1,812 67.11% 568 21.04% 320 11.85% 2,700
Chattahoochee 303 55.29% 226 41.24% 19 3.47% 548
Chattooga 287 32.80% 436 49.83% 152 17.37% 875
Cherokee 851 59.06% 446 30.95% 144 9.99% 1,441
Clarke 452 37.54% 695 57.72% 57 4.73% 1,204
Clay 286 52.57% 246 45.22% 12 2.21% 544
Clayton 197 32.24% 311 50.90% 103 16.86% 611
Clinch 115 50.66% 106 46.70% 6 2.64% 227
Cobb 1,368 67.16% 623 30.58% 46 2.26% 2,037
Coffee 93 67.88% 30 21.90% 14 10.22% 137
Colquitt 115 62.84% 67 36.61% 1 0.55% 183
Columbia 67 8.75% 336 43.86% 363 47.39% 766
Coweta 896 60.34% 534 35.96% 55 3.70% 1,485
Crawford 378 66.55% 188 33.10% 2 0.35% 568
Dade 259 56.43% 177 38.56% 23 5.01% 459
Dawson 338 68.70% 92 18.70% 62 12.60% 492
Decatur 579 52.68% 519 47.22% 1 0.09% 1,099
DeKalb 636 57.04% 415 37.22% 64 5.74% 1,115
Dooly 348 55.33% 253 40.22% 28 4.45% 629
Dougherty 372 55.11% 277 41.04% 26 3.85% 675
Early 294 70.50% 122 29.26% 1 0.24% 417
Echols 87 77.68% 25 22.32% 0 0.00% 112
Effingham 209 50.00% 206 49.28% 3 0.72% 418
Elbert 120 13.82% 291 33.53% 457 52.65% 868
Emanuel 210 42.51% 242 48.99% 42 8.50% 494
Fannin 545 69.43% 148 18.85% 92 11.72% 785
Fayette 466 58.47% 302 37.89% 29 3.64% 797
Floyd 756 39.96% 849 44.87% 287 15.17% 1,892
Forsyth 630 60.52% 364 34.97% 47 4.51% 1,041
Franklin 726 83.83% 137 15.82% 3 0.35% 866
Fulton 1,018 39.77% 1,195 46.68% 347 13.55% 2,560
Gilmer 755 82.97% 122 13.41% 33 3.63% 910
Glascock 58 23.58% 15 6.10% 173 70.33% 246
Glynn 177 90.77% 17 8.72% 1 0.51% 195
Gordon 874 60.03% 490 33.65% 92 6.32% 1,456
Greene 114 13.48% 581 68.68% 151 17.85% 846
Gwinnett 643 38.92% 775 46.91% 234 14.16% 1,652
Habersham 457 63.74% 188 26.22% 72 10.04% 717
Hall 467 44.48% 500 47.62% 83 7.90% 1,050
Hancock 128 18.88% 402 59.29% 148 21.83% 678
Haralson 356 84.96% 62 14.80% 1 0.24% 419
Harris 392 35.28% 689 62.02% 30 2.70% 1,111
Hart 482 66.67% 151 20.89% 90 12.45% 723
Heard 439 49.83% 380 43.13% 62 7.04% 881
Henry 523 42.35% 658 53.28% 54 4.37% 1,235
Houston 555 48.05% 569 49.26% 31 2.68% 1,155
Irwin 74 77.89% 19 20.00% 2 2.11% 95
Jackson 675 54.17% 463 37.16% 108 8.67% 1,246
Jasper 251 31.65% 369 46.53% 173 21.82% 793
Jefferson 67 8.86% 363 48.02% 326 43.12% 756
Johnson 117 29.62% 182 46.08% 96 24.30% 395
Jones 235 50.76% 214 46.22% 14 3.02% 463
Laurens 128 21.62% 428 72.30% 36 6.08% 592
Lee 240 50.10% 222 46.35% 17 3.55% 479
Liberty 264 61.40% 145 33.72% 21 4.88% 430
Lincoln 34 10.83% 167 53.18% 113 35.99% 314
Lowndes 313 57.33% 231 42.31% 2 0.37% 546
Lumpkin 393 52.96% 319 42.99% 30 4.04% 742
Macon 271 38.49% 419 59.52% 14 1.99% 704
Madison 375 60.58% 233 37.64% 11 1.78% 619
Marion 321 47.00% 321 47.00% 41 6.00% 683
McIntosh 200 82.99% 41 17.01% 0 0.00% 241
Meriwether 615 50.37% 557 45.62% 49 4.01% 1,221
Miller 231 89.19% 28 10.81% 0 0.00% 259
Milton 417 53.32% 340 43.48% 25 3.20% 782
Mitchell 327 65.53% 144 28.86% 28 5.61% 499
Monroe 464 40.03% 638 55.05% 57 4.92% 1,159
Montgomery 40 13.29% 255 84.72% 6 1.99% 301
Morgan 102 16.86% 361 59.67% 142 23.47% 605
Murray 421 47.73% 251 28.46% 210 23.81% 882
Muscogee 769 45.34% 767 45.22% 160 9.43% 1,696
Newton 364 23.87% 810 53.11% 351 23.02% 1,525
Oglethorpe 263 32.19% 367 44.92% 187 22.89% 817
Paulding 781 76.72% 198 19.45% 39 3.83% 1,018
Pickens 452 69.86% 150 23.18% 45 6.96% 647
Pierce 237 74.76% 79 24.92% 1 0.32% 317
Pike 596 57.42% 427 41.14% 15 1.45% 1,038
Polk 326 45.34% 345 47.98% 48 6.68% 719
Pulaski 464 59.18% 286 36.48% 34 4.34% 784
Putnam 176 28.21% 291 46.63% 157 25.16% 624
Quitman 237 58.23% 167 41.03% 3 0.74% 407
Rabun 353 91.93% 21 5.47% 10 2.60% 384
Randolph 587 51.58% 494 43.41% 57 5.01% 1,138
Richmond 403 17.49% 849 36.85% 1,052 45.66% 2,304
Schley 142 32.13% 235 53.17% 65 14.71% 442
Screven 343 62.59% 171 31.20% 34 6.20% 548
Spalding 596 51.69% 530 45.97% 27 2.34% 1,153
Stewart 538 51.73% 484 46.54% 18 1.73% 1,040
Sumter 380 31.54% 694 57.59% 131 10.87% 1,205
Talbot 406 40.76% 504 50.60% 86 8.63% 996
Taliaferro 9 2.24% 173 43.03% 220 54.73% 402
Tattnall 313 60.31% 202 38.92% 4 0.77% 519
Taylor 394 50.71% 361 46.46% 22 2.83% 777
Telfair 98 42.42% 127 54.98% 6 2.60% 231
Terrell 227 33.24% 387 56.66% 69 10.10% 683
Thomas 402 42.99% 499 53.37% 34 3.64% 935
Towns 192 49.61% 101 26.10% 94 24.29% 387
Troup 462 31.22% 970 65.54% 48 3.24% 1,480
Twiggs 320 63.12% 181 35.70% 6 1.18% 507
Union 474 67.62% 216 30.81% 11 1.57% 701
Upson 279 29.46% 619 65.36% 49 5.17% 947
Walker 487 33.49% 649 44.64% 318 21.87% 1,454
Walton 555 42.30% 574 43.75% 183 13.95% 1,312
Ware 212 85.83% 34 13.77% 1 0.40% 247
Warren 55 7.62% 240 33.24% 427 59.14% 722
Washington 313 26.02% 608 50.54% 282 23.44% 1,203
Wayne 134 78.36% 37 21.64% 0 0.00% 171
Webster 244 45.19% 293 54.26% 3 0.56% 540
White 220 55.00% 151 37.75% 29 7.25% 400
Whitfield 747 53.40% 450 32.17% 202 14.44% 1,399
Wilcox 254 92.03% 19 6.88% 3 1.09% 276
Wilkes 266 35.99% 302 40.87% 171 23.14% 739
Wilkinson 484 50.47% 364 37.96% 111 11.57% 959
Worth 263 67.61% 122 31.36% 4 1.03% 389
Total 52,172 48.82% 43,069 40.30% 11,627 10.88% 106,868

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b According to the added official county returns. Stated total was 52,210[1]
  2. ^ a b Stated total was 43,083[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860: The Official Results by County and State. McFarland & Company. p. 159–187. ISBN 9780786410170.
  2. ^ Jones, W. S. (December 1, 1860). "Daily chronicle & sentinel., December 01, 1860". Daily chronicle & sentinel. p. 1.
  3. ^ Burnham, Walter Dean (1955). Presidential Ballots, 1836-1892. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 332–362.
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