Election in New Hampshire
1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Nominee
James A. Garfield
Winfield S. Hancock
Party
Republican
Democratic
Home state
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Running mate
Chester A. Arthur
William H. English
Electoral vote
5
0
Popular vote
44,856
40,797
Percentage
51.94%
48.15%
County Results
Garfield
40-50%
50-60%
Hancock
50-60%
President before election
Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican
Elected President
James A. Garfield
Republican
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 Grafton or Belknap Counties until Lyndon B. Johnson did so in his 1964 landslide.
Results [ ]
1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[2]
Party
Candidate
Running mate
Popular vote
Electoral vote
Count
%
Count
%
Republican
James Abram Garfield of Ohio
Chester Alan Arthur of New York
44,856
51.94%
5
100.00%
Democratic
Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania
William Hayden English of Indiana
40,797
47.24%
0
0.00%
Greenback
James Baird Weaver of Iowa
Barzillai Jefferson Chambers of Texas
528
0.61%
0
0.00%
Prohibition
Neal Dow of Maine
Henry Adams Thompson of Ohio
180
0.21%
0
0.00%
Total
86,361
100.00%
5
100.00%
Results by county [ ]
County
James Abram Garfield[3] Republican
Winfield Scott Hancock[3] Democratic
James Baird Weaver[4] Greenback
Neal Dow[4] Prohibition
Margin
Total votes cast
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
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
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