Back انتخابات الرئاسة الأمريكية 1876 Arabic ھەڵبژاردنی سەرۆکایەتیی ویلایەتە یەکگرتووەکانی ئەمریکا (١٨٧٦) CKB Præsidentvalget i USA 1876 Danish Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 1876 German Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 1876 Spanish Yhdysvaltain presidentinvaalit 1876 Finnish Élection présidentielle américaine de 1876 French הבחירות לנשיאות ארצות הברית 1876 HE Elezioni presidenziali negli Stati Uniti d'America del 1876 Italian 1876年アメリカ合衆国大統領選挙 Japanese
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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1876. Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio very narrowly defeated Democrat Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York. Following President Ulysses S. Grant's decision to retire after his second term, U.S. Representative James G. Blaine emerged as frontrunner for the Republican nomination; however, Blaine was unable to win a majority at the 1876 Republican National Convention, which settled on Hayes as a compromise candidate. The 1876 Democratic National Convention nominated Tilden on the second ballot.
The election was among the most contentious in American history, and was only resolved by the Compromise of 1877, where Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction in exchange for recognition of his presidency. On March 2, 1877, the House and Senate confirmed Hayes as president. Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes's 165 in the first count, with the 20 votes from Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Oregon disputed. To address this constitutional crisis, Congress established the Electoral Commission, which awarded all twenty votes and thus the presidency to Hayes in a strict partyline vote. Some Democratic representatives filibustered the commission's decision, hoping to prevent Hayes's inauguration; their filibuster was ultimately ended by party leader Samuel J. Randall.
It was the second of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win a plurality of the national popular vote, after the 1824 election. Although Tilden defeated Hayes in the official popular vote tally, the election involved substantial electoral fraud, voter intimidation by paramilitary groups like the Red Shirts, and disenfranchisement of black Republicans. The election had the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting-age population in American history, at 82.6%.[2][3] Tilden's 50.9% is the largest share of the popular vote received by a candidate who was not elected to the presidency, and was the only presidential election in U.S. history in which the losing candidate won a majority of the popular vote. Tilden was also the last person to win a majority of the popular vote until William McKinley in 1896. As of 2024, this marks the only presidential election in which both candidates were sitting governors.
- ^ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789–Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.
- ^ Between 1828–1928: "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections: 1828–2008". The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
- ^ Between 1932 and 2008: "Table 397. Participation in Elections for President and U.S. Representatives: 1932 to 2010" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 24, 2012. Retrieved February 7, 2013.