1880
Arkansas in 1880
The 1880 contest saw Arkansas line up behind Hancock, delivering 6 electoral votes to the Democratic ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — James A. Garfield (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Arkansas among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Arkansas backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Arkansas did not move alone — neighboring Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas broke the same way in 1880. Across the 47 presidential elections Arkansas has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (32 times). The vote fell within the Gilded Age — Industrialization, narrow margins, and patronage politics.
In the national count, James A. Garfield took 214 of the 369 electoral votes, against Winfield Scott Hancock's 155. James A. Garfield led the national popular vote with 48.31% of the ballots cast.
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