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1860 United States presidential election in Missouri

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1860 United States presidential election in Missouri

← 1856 November 2, 1860 1864 →
 
Nominee Stephen A. Douglas John Bell
Party Democratic Constitutional Union
Home state Illinois Tennessee
Running mate Herschel V. Johnson Edward Everett
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 58,801 58,372
Percentage 35.52% 35.26%

 
Nominee John C. Breckinridge Abraham Lincoln
Party Southern Democratic Republican
Home state Kentucky Illinois
Running mate Joseph Lane Hannibal Hamlin
Electoral vote 0 0
Popular vote 31,362 17,028
Percentage 18.94% 10.28%

County Results[a]

President before election

James Buchanan
Democratic

Elected President

Abraham Lincoln
Republican

The 1860 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 2, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Missouri was won by Democratic candidate Stephen A. Douglas, by a very narrow margin of 0.26%. The state was the only one to fully give its votes to Douglas, though he won the popular vote and three of the seven electoral votes from New Jersey under a fusion ticket.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Putnam County, Ozark County, and Taney County voted for a candidate running as a Democrat, with the former voting for Douglas and the latter two voting for Breckinridge. This was also the last election until 1984 in which Monroe County did not vote for the Democratic candidate. This was the first time in American history that four candidates each won at least one county in the same state, something that has only been repeated in 1912 (in North Dakota and in Kansas).[1]

Results

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1860 United States presidential election in Missouri[2]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Stephen A. Douglas 58,801 35.52%
Constitutional Union John Bell 58,372 35.26%
Southern Democratic John C. Breckinridge 31,362 18.94%
Republican Abraham Lincoln 17,028 10.28%
Total votes 165,563 100%

Results By County

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County Stephen A. Douglas

Democratic

John Bell

Constitutional Union

John C. Breckinridge

Southern Democratic

Abraham Lincoln

Republican

Total Votes Cast[3]
# % # % # % # %
Adair 616 42.99% 293 20.45% 339 23.66% 185 12.91% 1,433
Andrew 819 42.83% 677 35.41% 319 16.68% 97 5.07% 1,912
Atchison 645 68.54% 165 17.53% 63 6.70% 68 7.23% 941
Audrain 289 26.86% 580 53.90% 206 19.14% 1 0.09% 1,076
Barry 257 29.30% 333 37.97% 286 32.61% 1 0.11% 877
Barton 107 35.20% 76 25.00% 93 30.59% 28 9.21% 304
Bates 511 40.08% 386 30.27% 348 27.29% 30 2.35% 1,275
Benton 574 54.46% 306 29.03% 100 9.49% 74 7.02% 1,054
Bollinger 250 46.47% 166 30.86% 99 18.40% 23 4.28% 538
Boone 578 19.84% 1,671 57.36% 652 22.38% 12 0.41% 2,913
Buchanan 1,626 40.86% 1,287 32.34% 614 15.43% 452 11.36% 3,979
Butler 235 68.91% 88 25.81% 17 4.99% 1 0.29% 341
Caldwell 263 30.62% 367 42.72% 186 21.65% 43 5.01% 859
Callaway 839 31.88% 1,306 49.62% 472 17.93% 15 0.57% 2,632
Camden 269 42.63% 224 35.50% 132 20.92% 6 0.95% 631
Cape Girardeau 543 32.05% 651 38.43% 325 19.19% 175 10.33% 1,694
Carroll 752 47.50% 552 34.87% 276 17.44% 3 0.19% 1,583
Carter 4 3.88% 16 15.53% 83 80.58% 0 0.00% 103
Cass 242 15.25% 715 45.05% 607 38.25% 23 1.45% 1,587
Cedar 324 37.20% 266 30.54% 277 31.80% 4 0.46% 871
Chariton 692 43.36% 608 38.10% 295 18.48% 1 0.06% 1,596
Christian 120 15.58% 342 44.42% 308 40.00% 0 0.00% 770
Clark 542 26.21% 752 36.36% 497 24.03% 277 13.39% 2,068
Clay 528 28.12% 1,045 55.64% 305 16.24% 0 0.00% 1,878
Clinton 368 26.92% 674 49.31% 314 22.97% 11 0.80% 1,367
Cole 430 34.21% 226 17.98% 487 38.74% 114 9.07% 1,257
Cooper 988 44.09% 952 42.48% 281 12.54% 20 0.89% 2,241
Crawford 169 22.56% 353 47.13% 192 25.63% 35 4.67% 749
Dade 283 28.24% 406 40.52% 305 30.44% 8 0.80% 1,002
Dallas 225 31.91% 288 40.85% 172 24.40% 20 2.84% 705
Daviess 692 45.08% 545 35.50% 265 17.26% 33 2.15% 1,535
DeKalb 239 34.05% 243 34.62% 213 30.34% 7 1.00% 702
Dent 207 26.04% 243 30.57% 338 42.52% 7 0.88% 795
Dunklin 150 34.25% 209 47.72% 79 18.04% 0 0.00% 438
Franklin 888 42.96% 577 27.91% 108 5.22% 494 23.90% 2,067
Gasconade 188 22.68% 157 18.94% 51 6.15% 433 52.23% 829
Gentry 873 47.19% 517 27.95% 259 14.00% 201 10.86% 1,850
Greene 298 17.13% 986 56.67% 414 23.79% 42 2.41% 1,740
Grundy 416 33.49% 507 40.82% 190 15.30% 129 10.39% 1,242
Harrison 910 57.74% 319 20.24% 50 3.17% 297 18.85% 1,576
Henry 623 39.58% 703 44.66% 232 14.74% 16 1.02% 1,574
Hickory 298 45.64% 197 30.17% 143 21.90% 15 2.30% 653
Holt 453 38.59% 348 29.64% 171 14.57% 202 17.21% 1,174
Howard 939 44.57% 920 43.66% 247 11.72% 1 0.05% 2,107
Howell 136 33.75% 176 43.67% 91 22.58% 0 0.00% 403
Iron 349 50.80% 194 28.24% 36 5.24% 108 15.72% 687
Jackson 1,095 29.58% 1,473 39.79% 943 25.47% 191 5.16% 3,702
Jasper 407 38.36% 424 39.96% 192 18.10% 38 3.58% 1,061
Jefferson 490 40.50% 416 34.38% 155 12.81% 149 12.31% 1,210
Johnson 617 25.86% 1,224 51.30% 527 22.09% 18 0.75% 2,386
Knox 687 41.16% 520 31.16% 301 18.03% 161 9.65% 1,669
Laclede 189 23.45% 335 41.56% 276 34.24% 6 0.74% 806
Lafayette 774 28.19% 1,577 57.43% 371 13.51% 24 0.87% 2,746
Lawrence 138 11.92% 445 38.43% 516 44.56% 59 5.09% 1,158
Lewis 468 24.11% 833 42.92% 597 30.76% 43 2.22% 1,941
Lincoln 806 41.76% 725 37.56% 396 20.52% 3 0.16% 1,930
Linn 521 37.46% 546 39.25% 219 15.74% 105 7.55% 1,391
Livingston 401 27.30% 578 39.35% 470 31.99% 20 1.36% 1,469
Macon 1,176 47.75% 655 27.53% 414 17.40% 134 5.63% 2,379
Madison 305 47.81% 226 35.42% 98 15.36% 9 1.41% 638
Maries 98 19.25% 95 18.66% 309 60.71% 7 1.38% 509
Marion 1,240 37.66% 1,386 42.09% 432 13.12% 235 7.14% 3,293
McDonald 206 38.08% 138 25.51% 194 35.86% 3 0.55% 541
Mercer 682 47.96% 491 34.53% 169 11.88% 80 5.63% 1,422
Miller 94 11.68% 193 23.98% 495 61.49% 23 2.86% 805
Mississippi 233 32.18% 305 42.13% 185 25.55% 1 0.14% 724
Moniteau 476 33.03% 546 37.89% 332 23.04% 87 6.04% 1,441
Monroe 680 31.16% 1,086 49.77% 408 18.70% 8 0.37% 2,182
Montgomery 612 43.78% 658 47.07% 83 5.94% 45 3.22% 1,398
Morgan 550 50.32% 321 29.37% 204 18.66% 18 1.65% 1,093
New Madrid 117 23.40% 223 44.60% 160 32.00% 0 0.00% 500
Newton 654 48.92% 406 30.37% 255 19.07% 22 1.65% 1,337
Nodaway 546 44.32% 265 21.51% 274 22.24% 147 11.93% 1,232
Oregon 66 18.44% 45 12.57% 245 68.44% 2 0.56% 358
Osage 235 23.71% 190 19.17% 308 31.08% 258 26.03% 991
Ozark[b] 81 26.56% 69 22.62% 155 50.82% 0 0.00% 305
Pemiscot 118 34.50% 154 45.03% 70 20.47% 0 0.00% 342
Perry 467 52.71% 217 24.49% 63 7.11% 139 15.69% 886
Pettis 369 30.65% 615 51.08% 211 17.52% 9 0.75% 1,204
Phelps 254 27.61% 199 21.63% 430 46.74% 37 4.02% 920
Pike 1,117 39.17% 1,300 45.58% 420 14.73% 15 0.53% 2,852
Platte 845 28.78% 1,208 41.14% 877 29.87% 6 0.20% 2,936
Polk 125 9.36% 730 54.64% 477 35.70% 4 0.30% 1,336
Pulaski 107 23.41% 62 13.57% 281 61.49% 7 1.53% 457
Putnam 590 44.83% 369 28.04% 246 18.69% 111 8.43% 1,316
Ralls 391 34.72% 585 51.95% 149 13.23% 1 0.09% 1,126
Randolph 360 21.16% 821 48.27% 520 30.57% 0 0.00% 1,701
Ray 881 41.38% 1,006 47.25% 233 10.94% 9 0.42% 2,129
Reynolds 123 49.20% 38 15.20% 85 34.00% 4 1.60% 250
Ripley 78 20.31% 74 19.27% 232 60.42% 0 0.00% 384
Saline 563 28.67% 1,035 52.70% 366 18.64% 0 0.00% 1,964
Schuyler 455 46.10% 267 27.05% 251 25.43% 14 1.42% 987
Scotland 741 47.47% 436 27.93% 187 11.98% 197 12.62% 1,561
Scott 215 32.77% 243 37.04% 192 29.27% 6 0.91% 656
Shannon 27 13.92% 38 19.59% 127 65.46% 2 1.03% 194
Shelby 476 30.49% 702 44.97% 293 18.77% 90 5.77% 1,561
St. Charles 832 40.61% 619 30.21% 64 3.12% 534 26.06% 2,049
St. Francois 592 50.47% 421 35.89% 141 12.02% 19 1.62% 1,173
St. Louis 9,264 37.43% 4,931 19.92% 610 2.46% 9,945 40.18% 24,750
Ste. Genevieve 351 51.02% 217 31.54% 72 10.47% 48 6.98% 688
Stoddard 230 28.29% 385 47.36% 198 24.35% 0 0.00% 813
Stone 83 36.73% 31 13.72% 112 49.56% 0 0.00% 226
Sullivan 557 35.08% 373 23.49% 575 36.21% 83 5.23% 1,588
Taney 97 22.72% 43 10.07% 287 67.21% 0 0.00% 427
Texas 61 7.90% 194 25.13% 511 66.19% 6 0.78% 772
Vernon 151 20.43% 207 28.01% 381 51.56% 0 0.00% 739
Warren 510 50.95% 307 30.67% 89 8.89% 95 9.49% 1,001
Washington 635 52.13% 493 40.48% 62 5.09% 28 2.30% 1,218
Wayne 185 25.55% 245 33.84% 291 40.19% 3 0.41% 724
Webster 172 19.33% 335 37.64% 376 42.25% 7 0.79% 890
Wright 44 8.13% 128 23.66% 369 68.21% 0 0.00% 541
Total[4] 58,801 35.52% 58,372 35.26% 31,362 18.94% 17,028 10.28% 165,563

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Current county borders
  2. ^ The votes for Douglas County are included with those for Ozark

References

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  1. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 239–246 ISBN 0786422173
  2. ^ "1860 Presidential Election Results – Missouri".
  3. ^ "Presidential Results: Missouri, 1860". votearchive.com. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  4. ^ "Presidential Results: Missouri, 1860". votearchive.com. Retrieved July 10, 2024.