1880_United_States_presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania
1880 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Election in Pennsylvania
The 1880 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose 29 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield, over the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won Pennsylvania by a margin of 4.27%. Had Hancock won the state, the election would have been decided by one electoral vote, like the 1876 election.
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1880 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | James A. Garfield | 444,704 | 50.84% | 29 | |
Democratic | Winfield Scott Hancock | 407,428 | 46.57% | 0 | |
Greenback | James B. Weaver | 20,668 | 2.36% | 0 | |
Prohibition | Neal S. Dow | 1,939 | 0.22% | 0 | |
Anti-Masonic | John W. Phelps | 44 | 0.01% | 0 | |
Totals | 874,783 | 100.0% | 29 | ||
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Results by county
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County | James Abram Garfield[2] Republican |
Winfield Scott Hancock[2] Democratic |
James Baird Weaver[3] Greenback |
Various candidates[3] Other parties |
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Adams | 3,137 | 45.08% | 3,752 | 53.92% | 69 | 0.99% | 0 | 0.00% | -615 | -8.84% | 6,958 |
Allegheny | 35,539 | 59.85% | 22,096 | 37.21% | 1,636 | 2.76% | 111 | 0.19% | 13,443 | 22.64% | 59,382 |
Armstrong | 4,721 | 51.90% | 3,991 | 43.88% | 375 | 4.12% | 9 | 0.10% | 730 | 8.03% | 9,096 |
Beaver | 4,700 | 56.40% | 3,498 | 41.97% | 129 | 1.55% | 7 | 0.08% | 1,202 | 14.42% | 8,334 |
Bedford | 3,638 | 48.96% | 3,723 | 50.10% | 53 | 0.71% | 17 | 0.23% | -85 | -1.14% | 7,431 |
Berks | 9,225 | 34.99% | 16,959 | 64.32% | 179 | 0.68% | 2 | 0.01% | -7,734 | -29.33% | 26,365 |
Blair | 5,808 | 53.95% | 4,728 | 43.92% | 195 | 1.81% | 35 | 0.33% | 1,080 | 10.03% | 10,766 |
Bradford | 8,152 | 59.65% | 4,950 | 36.22% | 496 | 3.63% | 68 | 0.50% | 3,202 | 23.43% | 13,666 |
Bucks | 8,385 | 49.19% | 8,627 | 50.61% | 23 | 0.13% | 12 | 0.07% | -242 | -1.42% | 17,047 |
Butler | 5,269 | 50.96% | 4,678 | 45.24% | 346 | 3.35% | 47 | 0.45% | 591 | 5.72% | 10,340 |
Cambria | 3,962 | 45.61% | 4,555 | 52.44% | 150 | 1.73% | 19 | 0.22% | -593 | -6.83% | 8,686 |
Cameron | 647 | 51.47% | 582 | 46.30% | 27 | 2.15% | 1 | 0.08% | 65 | 5.17% | 1,257 |
Carbon | 2,857 | 44.47% | 3,464 | 53.91% | 88 | 1.37% | 16 | 0.25% | -607 | -9.45% | 6,425 |
Centre | 3,602 | 43.30% | 4,598 | 55.28% | 99 | 1.19% | 19 | 0.23% | -996 | -11.97% | 8,318 |
Chester | 11,298 | 59.25% | 7,524 | 39.46% | 90 | 0.47% | 156 | 0.82% | 3,774 | 19.79% | 19,068 |
Clarion | 2,933 | 38.14% | 4,433 | 57.65% | 322 | 4.19% | 2 | 0.03% | -1,500 | -19.51% | 7,690 |
Clearfield | 3,105 | 37.21% | 4,928 | 59.05% | 296 | 3.55% | 16 | 0.19% | -1,823 | -21.85% | 8,345 |
Clinton | 2,284 | 41.82% | 3,117 | 57.08% | 36 | 0.66% | 24 | 0.44% | -833 | -15.25% | 5,461 |
Columbia | 2,236 | 31.70% | 4,598 | 65.18% | 192 | 2.72% | 28 | 0.40% | -2,362 | -33.48% | 7,054 |
Crawford | 7,192 | 48.47% | 5,847 | 39.41% | 1,759 | 11.86% | 39 | 0.26% | 1,345 | 9.07% | 14,837 |
Cumberland | 4,431 | 44.17% | 5,462 | 54.45% | 118 | 1.18% | 20 | 0.20% | -1,031 | -10.28% | 10,031 |
Dauphin | 8,573 | 55.21% | 6,619 | 42.62% | 315 | 2.03% | 22 | 0.14% | 1,954 | 12.58% | 15,529 |
Delaware | 7,008 | 60.84% | 4,473 | 38.83% | 21 | 0.18% | 17 | 0.15% | 2,535 | 22.01% | 11,519 |
Elk | 720 | 30.74% | 1,534 | 65.50% | 88 | 3.76% | 0 | 0.00% | -814 | -34.76% | 2,342 |
Erie | 8,752 | 55.12% | 6,471 | 40.76% | 641 | 4.04% | 13 | 0.08% | 2,281 | 14.37% | 15,877 |
Fayette | 4,920 | 41.69% | 6,250 | 52.96% | 609 | 5.16% | 22 | 0.19% | -1,330 | -11.27% | 11,801 |
Forest | 370 | 37.87% | 325 | 33.27% | 281 | 28.76% | 1 | 0.10% | 45 | 4.61% | 977 |
Franklin | 5,379 | 51.88% | 4,964 | 47.88% | 4 | 0.04% | 21 | 0.20% | 415 | 4.00% | 10,368 |
Fulton | 853 | 40.48% | 1,252 | 59.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.09% | -399 | -18.94% | 2,107 |
Greene | 2,210 | 33.85% | 4,271 | 65.42% | 32 | 0.49% | 16 | 0.25% | -2,061 | -31.57% | 6,529 |
Huntingdon | 3,787 | 52.36% | 3,039 | 42.02% | 393 | 5.43% | 14 | 0.19% | 748 | 10.34% | 7,233 |
Indiana | 4,617 | 56.07% | 2,119 | 25.73% | 1,488 | 18.07% | 10 | 0.12% | 2,498 | 30.34% | 8,234 |
Jefferson | 2,750 | 49.74% | 2,635 | 47.66% | 137 | 2.48% | 7 | 0.13% | 115 | 2.08% | 5,529 |
Juniata | 1,625 | 43.86% | 1,999 | 53.95% | 62 | 1.67% | 19 | 0.51% | -374 | -10.09% | 3,705 |
Lackawanna | 7,357 | 49.80% | 7,178 | 48.59% | 151 | 1.02% | 88 | 0.60% | 179 | 1.21% | 14,774 |
Lancaster | 19,489 | 64.11% | 10,789 | 35.49% | 39 | 0.13% | 81 | 0.27% | 8,700 | 28.62% | 30,398 |
Lawrence | 4,360 | 65.39% | 2,047 | 30.70% | 168 | 2.52% | 93 | 1.39% | 2,313 | 34.69% | 6,668 |
Lebanon | 5,042 | 60.95% | 3,218 | 38.90% | 7 | 0.08% | 6 | 0.07% | 1,824 | 22.05% | 8,273 |
Lehigh | 6,144 | 42.49% | 8,292 | 57.35% | 17 | 0.12% | 6 | 0.04% | -2,148 | -14.86% | 14,459 |
Luzerne | 11,028 | 45.94% | 12,575 | 52.38% | 372 | 1.55% | 31 | 0.13% | -1,547 | -6.44% | 24,006 |
Lycoming | 4,955 | 41.41% | 6,416 | 53.61% | 560 | 4.68% | 36 | 0.30% | -1,461 | -12.21% | 11,967 |
McKean | 3,693 | 51.46% | 3,169 | 44.15% | 299 | 4.17% | 16 | 0.22% | 524 | 7.30% | 7,177 |
Mercer | 6,079 | 51.33% | 5,029 | 42.46% | 490 | 4.14% | 245 | 2.07% | 1,050 | 8.87% | 11,843 |
Mifflin | 2,075 | 51.03% | 1,955 | 48.08% | 25 | 0.61% | 11 | 0.27% | 120 | 2.95% | 4,066 |
Monroe | 962 | 22.30% | 3,334 | 77.28% | 17 | 0.39% | 1 | 0.02% | -2,372 | -54.98% | 4,314 |
Montgomery | 11,026 | 49.75% | 11,025 | 49.75% | 75 | 0.34% | 37 | 0.17% | 1 | 0.00% | 22,163 |
Montour | 1,265 | 39.36% | 1,862 | 57.93% | 80 | 2.49% | 7 | 0.22% | -597 | -18.57% | 3,214 |
Northampton | 5,961 | 37.90% | 9,653 | 61.37% | 93 | 0.59% | 21 | 0.13% | -3,692 | -23.47% | 15,728 |
Northumberland | 4,847 | 43.62% | 5,931 | 53.38% | 319 | 2.87% | 14 | 0.13% | -1,084 | -9.76% | 11,111 |
Perry | 3,032 | 50.94% | 2,894 | 48.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 26 | 0.44% | 138 | 2.32% | 5,952 |
Philadelphia | 97,220 | 55.92% | 76,330 | 43.91% | 237 | 0.14% | 57 | 0.03% | 20,890 | 12.02% | 173,844 |
Pike | 537 | 28.55% | 1,332 | 70.81% | 10 | 0.53% | 2 | 0.11% | -795 | -42.26% | 1,881 |
Potter | 1,773 | 56.00% | 1,134 | 35.82% | 255 | 8.05% | 4 | 0.13% | 639 | 20.18% | 3,166 |
Schuylkill | 9,337 | 40.01% | 11,511 | 49.32% | 2,488 | 10.66% | 3 | 0.01% | -2,174 | -9.31% | 23,339 |
Snyder | 2,120 | 56.75% | 1,579 | 42.26% | 13 | 0.35% | 24 | 0.64% | 541 | 14.48% | 3,736 |
Somerset | 4,150 | 61.72% | 2,500 | 37.18% | 55 | 0.82% | 19 | 0.28% | 1,650 | 24.54% | 6,724 |
Sullivan | 625 | 36.96% | 994 | 58.78% | 72 | 4.26% | 0 | 0.00% | -369 | -21.82% | 1,691 |
Susquehanna | 5,031 | 55.15% | 3,802 | 41.67% | 256 | 2.81% | 34 | 0.37% | 1,229 | 13.47% | 9,123 |
Tioga | 6,018 | 60.17% | 2,815 | 28.14% | 1,151 | 11.51% | 18 | 0.18% | 3,203 | 32.02% | 10,002 |
Union | 2,254 | 59.74% | 1,502 | 39.81% | 11 | 0.29% | 6 | 0.16% | 752 | 19.93% | 3,773 |
Venango | 4,089 | 48.32% | 3,573 | 42.22% | 685 | 8.10% | 115 | 1.36% | 516 | 6.10% | 8,462 |
Warren | 3,207 | 53.07% | 2,118 | 35.05% | 684 | 11.32% | 34 | 0.56% | 1,089 | 18.02% | 6,043 |
Washington | 6,451 | 51.04% | 5,850 | 46.29% | 330 | 2.61% | 8 | 0.06% | 601 | 4.76% | 12,639 |
Wayne | 3,122 | 46.88% | 3,421 | 51.37% | 13 | 0.20% | 103 | 1.55% | -299 | -4.49% | 6,659 |
Westmoreland | 7,113 | 44.47% | 7,975 | 49.86% | 899 | 5.62% | 9 | 0.06% | -862 | -5.39% | 15,996 |
Wyoming | 1,787 | 46.82% | 1,983 | 51.95% | 38 | 1.00% | 9 | 0.24% | -196 | -5.13% | 3,817 |
York | 7,870 | 40.43% | 11,581 | 59.49% | 9 | 0.05% | 8 | 0.04% | -3,711 | -19.06% | 19,468 |
Totals | 444,704 | 50.84% | 407,428 | 46.57% | 20,667 | 2.36% | 1,984 | 0.23% | 37,276 | 4.26% | 874,783 |
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- "1880 Presidential General Election Results - Pennsylvania". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
- Géoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- Géoelections; Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)