Presidential election · 1860
1860 electoral map
Abraham Lincoln (Republican) won the 1860 presidential election with 180 electoral votes to John C. Breckinridge's 72. Lincoln carried 18 of the 33 states that took part.
Winner
Abraham Lincoln
180
Southern Democratic
John C. Breckinridge
72
John Bell 39Stephen A. Douglas 12
official Electoral College count
Southern DemocraticRepublicanConstitutional UnionNorthern DemocraticNot a state yet / did not vote
Good to know
- Some electoral votes were split within states, cast by faithless electors or not counted, so the coloured states do not add up exactly to the official totals shown here. Each state is coloured by the party that won most of its electors.
States won in 1860
John C. Breckinridge· Southern Democratic
11 statesAbraham Lincoln· Republican
18 statesJohn Bell· Constitutional Union
3 statesStephen A. Douglas· Northern Democratic
1 stateElectoral College in 1860
33 states held 303 electoral votes in 1860. The largest prize was New York with 35 electoral votes.
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Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): results by state, electors by state and year, and the 1860 election article.