Who won Tennessee in the 1876 presidential election?

Tilden (Democratic) carried Tennessee in 1876, winning its 12 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Tennessee have in 1876?

Tennessee cast 12 electoral votes in the 1876 presidential election.

Did Tennessee vote for the national winner in 1876?

No. Tennessee backed Tilden, while Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidency nationally.

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1876

Tennessee: Tilden carries 12 EV.

Tennessee cast its 12 electoral votes for Tilden (Democratic). National winner: Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) — Tennessee voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Tennessee, 1876

In 1876, Tennessee 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 Tennessee among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Tennessee backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1872. Tennessee did not move alone — neighboring Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri broke the same way in 1876. Across the 57 presidential elections Tennessee has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (24 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%.

The 1876 national map

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