NOVEMBER 6, 1860:
In a splintered race that had two
parallel sets of candidates (Republicans Abraham Lincoln/Hannibal Hamlin versus
National Democrats Stephen A. Douglas/Herschel V. Johnson primarily in the
Northern States and Constitutional Democrats John C. Breckenridge/Joseph A.
Lane versus Constitutional Unionists John Bell/Edward Everett primarily in the
Southern States), Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 presidential election on a
platform that includes the prohibition of slavery in new States and
territories.
Lincoln wins all of the electoral votes in all of the Free States
except New Jersey where he wins 4 votes.
He wins no electoral votes at all in
the South, and no popular votes in five Southern States, not even a crank,
though poll tampering was almost certainly the reason.
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