1876
What happened in Kentucky, 1876
In 1876, Kentucky awarded its 12 electoral votes to Tilden of the Democratic party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Kentucky among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 4th consecutive election in which Kentucky backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1864. The region divided — Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Missouri joined Kentucky for the Democratic ticket, while Ohio and Illinois did not. Across the 59 presidential elections Kentucky has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (28 times). The vote fell within the Gilded Age — Industrialization, narrow margins, and patronage politics.
In the national count, Rutherford B. Hayes took 185 of the 369 electoral votes, against Samuel J. Tilden's 184. Though Rutherford B. Hayes won the Electoral College, Samuel J. Tilden drew more of the national popular vote — 50.92% to 47.92%.
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