1876
Reading the 1876 result in Michigan
Michigan backed Hayes (Republican) in the 1876 presidential election, casting 11 electoral votes for the ticket. Michigan ended up on the winning side — Rutherford B. Hayes captured the White House that year.
It marked the 6th consecutive election in which Michigan backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1856. The region divided — Ohio and Wisconsin joined Michigan for the Republican ticket, while Indiana did not. Across the 51 presidential elections Michigan has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican 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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