1880 United States presidential election in New Jersey

The 1880 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the 1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1880 United States presidential election in New Jersey

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Nominee Winfield S. Hancock James A. Garfield
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Pennsylvania Ohio
Running mate William H. English Chester A. Arthur
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 122,565 120,555
Percentage 49.84% 49.02%

County Results

President before election

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican

Elected President

James A. Garfield
Republican

New Jersey voted for the Democratic nominee, Winfield Scott Hancock, over the Republican nominee, James A. Garfield. Hancock won the state by a very narrow margin of 0.82 percentage points.

This was the last time until 2004 that a Republican candidate would win the national popular vote without New Jersey.

Results

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1880 United States presidential election in New Jersey[1]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania William Hayden English of Indiana 122,565 49.84% 9 100.00%
Republican James Abram Garfield of Ohio Chester Alan Arthur of New York 120,555 49.02% 0 0.00%
Greenback James Baird Weaver of Iowa Barzillai Jefferson Chambers of Texas 2,617 1.06% 0 0.00%
Prohibition Neal Dow of Maine Henry Adams Thompson of Ohio 191 0.08% 0 0.00%
Total 245,928 100.00% 9 100.00%

Results by county

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County Winfield Scott Hancock[2]
Democratic
James Abram Garfield[2]
Republican
James Baird Weaver[3]
Greenback
Neal Dow[3]
Prohibition
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Atlantic 1,720 40.46% 2,488 58.53% 43 1.01% 0 0.00% -768 -18.07% 4,251
Bergen 4,242 53.41% 3,680 46.34% 20 0.25% 0 0.00% 562 7.08% 7,942
Burlington 6,543 47.64% 7,010 51.04% 154 1.12% 27 0.20% -467 -3.40% 13,734
Camden 5,832 42.25% 7,895 57.20% 57 0.41% 19 0.14% -2,063 -14.95% 13,803
Cape May 961 42.15% 1,276 55.96% 3 0.13% 40 1.75% -315 -13.82% 2,280
Cumberland 3,640 42.31% 4,446 51.67% 514 5.97% 4 0.05% -806 -9.37% 8,604
Essex 17,795 45.66% 20,707 53.13% 466 1.20% 4 0.01% -2,912 -7.47% 38,972
Gloucester 2,658 42.97% 3,345 54.07% 177 2.86% 6 0.10% -687 -11.11% 6,186
Hudson 19,586 56.98% 14,632 42.57% 153 0.45% 1 0.00% 4,954 14.41% 34,372
Hunterdon 5,650 58.69% 3,753 38.98% 171 1.78% 53 0.55% 1,897 19.70% 9,627
Mercer 6,673 47.78% 7,248 51.90% 39 0.28% 5 0.04% -575 -4.12% 13,965
Middlesex 6,557 54.45% 5,420 45.01% 64 0.53% 1 0.01% 1,137 9.44% 12,042
Monmouth 7,614 56.94% 5,693 42.58% 47 0.35% 17 0.13% 1,921 14.37% 13,371
Morris 5,037 46.18% 5,720 52.44% 145 1.33% 5 0.05% -683 -6.26% 10,907
Ocean 1,654 45.89% 1,898 52.66% 52 1.44% 0 0.00% -244 -6.77% 3,604
Passaic 5,776 43.01% 7,576 56.42% 72 0.54% 4 0.03% -1,800 -13.40% 13,428
Salem 3,012 48.09% 3,155 50.38% 66 1.05% 30 0.48% -143 -2.28% 6,263
Somerset 3,157 49.21% 3,217 50.14% 41 0.64% 1 0.02% -60 -0.94% 6,416
Sussex 3,353 56.91% 2,519 42.75% 20 0.34% 0 0.00% 834 14.15% 5,892
Union 5,865 50.03% 5,746 49.01% 108 0.92% 4 0.03% 119 1.02% 11,723
Warren 5,240 61.04% 3,131 36.47% 205 2.39% 9 0.10% 2,109 24.57% 8,585
Totals 122,565 49.83% 120,555 49.01% 2,617 1.06% 230 0.09% 2,010 0.82% 245,967

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "1880 Presidential General Election Results — New Jersey".
  2. ^ a b "Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
  3. ^ a b "Presidential election of 1880 Popular Vote for James B. Weaver". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)