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The1856 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1856, as part of the1856 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Illinois voted for theDemocratic candidate,James Buchanan, overRepublican candidateJohn C. Frémont andAmerican Party candidateMillard Fillmore. Buchanan won Illinois by a narrow margin of 3.86%.
This would be the final time a Democratic presidential candidate would win Illinois untilGrover Cleveland won it in1892.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | James Buchanan | 105,528 | 44.09% | |
| Republican | John C. Fremont | 96,275 | 40.23% | |
| Know Nothing | Millard Fillmore | 37,531 | 15.68% | |
| Total votes | 239,334 | 100% | ||
| County | James Buchanan Democratic | John C. Frémont Republican | Millard Fillmore Know Nothing | Total Votes Cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 3,311 | 53.76% | 2,226 | 36.14% | 622 | 10.10% | 6,159 |
| Alexander | 401 | 62.07% | 15 | 2.32% | 230 | 35.60% | 646 |
| Bond | 607 | 42.78% | 153 | 10.78% | 659 | 46.44% | 1,419 |
| Boone | 243 | 12.04% | 1,748 | 86.62% | 27 | 1.34% | 2,018 |
| Brown | 903 | 60.00% | 169 | 11.23% | 433 | 28.77% | 1,505 |
| Bureau | 1,234 | 31.76% | 2,603 | 67.00% | 48 | 1.24% | 3,885 |
| Calhoun | 391 | 62.66% | 70 | 11.22% | 163 | 26.12% | 624 |
| Carroll | 237 | 15.28% | 1,161 | 74.85% | 153 | 9.86% | 1,551 |
| Cass | 914 | 55.23% | 303 | 18.31% | 438 | 26.47% | 1,655 |
| Champaign | 550 | 36.23% | 732 | 48.22% | 236 | 15.55% | 1,518 |
| Christian | 884 | 62.17% | 239 | 16.81% | 299 | 21.03% | 1,422 |
| Clark | 1,318 | 55.92% | 709 | 30.08% | 330 | 14.00% | 2,357 |
| Clay | 731 | 56.23% | 29 | 2.23% | 540 | 41.54% | 1,300 |
| Clinton | 840 | 61.63% | 161 | 11.81% | 362 | 26.56% | 1,363 |
| Coles | 1,178 | 42.73% | 783 | 28.40% | 796 | 28.87% | 2,757 |
| Cook | 5,680 | 37.76% | 9,020 | 59.97% | 342 | 2.27% | 15,042 |
| Crawford | 961 | 57.13% | 477 | 28.36% | 244 | 14.51% | 1,682 |
| Cumberland | 641 | 57.13% | 246 | 21.93% | 235 | 20.94% | 1,122 |
| DeKalb | 381 | 14.06% | 2,254 | 83.17% | 75 | 2.77% | 2,710 |
| DeWitt | 679 | 40.42% | 623 | 37.08% | 378 | 22.50% | 1,680 |
| DuPage | 542 | 28.07% | 1,387 | 71.83% | 2 | 0.10% | 1,931 |
| Edgar | 1,342 | 51.58% | 952 | 36.59% | 308 | 11.84% | 2,602 |
| Edwards | 283 | 36.80% | 176 | 22.89% | 310 | 40.31% | 769 |
| Effingham | 784 | 75.60% | 90 | 8.68% | 163 | 15.72% | 1,037 |
| Fayette | 947 | 52.21% | 68 | 3.75% | 799 | 44.05% | 1,814 |
| Franklin | 1,051 | 80.41% | 5 | 0.38% | 251 | 19.20% | 1,307 |
| Fulton | 2,724 | 48.27% | 2,021 | 35.81% | 898 | 15.91% | 5,643 |
| Gallatin | 764 | 63.09% | 24 | 1.98% | 423 | 34.93% | 1,211 |
| Greene | 1,565 | 61.88% | 245 | 9.69% | 719 | 28.43% | 2,529 |
| Grundy | 618 | 39.95% | 923 | 59.66% | 6 | 0.39% | 1,547 |
| Hamilton | 1,135 | 86.91% | 9 | 0.69% | 162 | 12.40% | 1,306 |
| Hancock | 2,011 | 48.69% | 1,120 | 27.12% | 999 | 24.19% | 4,130 |
| Hardin | 332 | 58.76% | 4 | 0.71% | 229 | 40.53% | 565 |
| Henderson | 610 | 40.13% | 757 | 49.80% | 153 | 10.07% | 1,520 |
| Henry | 876 | 30.77% | 1,924 | 67.58% | 47 | 1.65% | 2,847 |
| Iroquois | 460 | 34.90% | 750 | 56.90% | 108 | 8.19% | 1,318 |
| Jackson | 1,056 | 75.86% | 14 | 1.01% | 322 | 23.13% | 1,392 |
| Jasper | 679 | 58.53% | 323 | 27.84% | 158 | 13.62% | 1,160 |
| Jefferson | 1,278 | 72.45% | 60 | 3.40% | 426 | 24.15% | 1,764 |
| Jersey | 702 | 43.36% | 387 | 23.90% | 530 | 32.74% | 1,619 |
| Jo Daviess | 1,509 | 41.20% | 2,110 | 57.60% | 44 | 1.20% | 3,663 |
| Johnson | 1,144 | 93.77% | 2 | 0.16% | 74 | 6.07% | 1,220 |
| Kane | 912 | 19.44% | 3,750 | 79.94% | 29 | 0.62% | 4,691 |
| Kankakee | 258 | 15.14% | 1,386 | 81.34% | 60 | 3.52% | 1,704 |
| Kendall | 334 | 16.96% | 1,622 | 82.38% | 13 | 0.66% | 1,969 |
| Knox | 1,490 | 32.27% | 2,851 | 61.74% | 277 | 6.00% | 4,618 |
| Lake | 558 | 19.14% | 2,347 | 80.51% | 10 | 0.34% | 2,915 |
| LaSalle | 2,665 | 40.96% | 3,721 | 57.18% | 121 | 1.86% | 6,507 |
| Lawrence | 729 | 53.96% | 89 | 6.59% | 533 | 39.45% | 1,351 |
| Lee | 601 | 24.66% | 1,804 | 74.03% | 32 | 1.31% | 2,437 |
| Livingston | 480 | 42.22% | 585 | 51.45% | 72 | 6.33% | 1,137 |
| Logan | 823 | 41.95% | 655 | 33.38% | 484 | 24.67% | 1,962 |
| Macon | 821 | 47.90% | 500 | 29.17% | 393 | 22.93% | 1,714 |
| Macoupin | 1,778 | 49.24% | 823 | 22.79% | 1,010 | 27.97% | 3,611 |
| Madison | 1,451 | 34.38% | 1,111 | 26.33% | 1,658 | 39.29% | 4,220 |
| Marion | 1,150 | 67.13% | 150 | 8.76% | 413 | 24.11% | 1,713 |
| Marshall | 834 | 42.62% | 1,008 | 51.51% | 115 | 5.88% | 1,957 |
| Mason | 737 | 47.33% | 267 | 17.15% | 553 | 35.52% | 1,557 |
| Massac | 630 | 71.11% | 5 | 0.56% | 251 | 28.33% | 886 |
| McDonough | 1,370 | 48.51% | 590 | 20.89% | 864 | 30.59% | 2,824 |
| McHenry | 945 | 24.50% | 2,869 | 74.38% | 43 | 1.11% | 3,857 |
| McLean | 1,517 | 37.79% | 1,937 | 48.26% | 560 | 13.95% | 4,014 |
| Menard | 854 | 52.36% | 109 | 6.68% | 668 | 40.96% | 1,631 |
| Mercer | 769 | 37.51% | 1,141 | 55.66% | 140 | 6.83% | 2,050 |
| Monroe | 900 | 51.02% | 346 | 19.61% | 518 | 29.37% | 1,764 |
| Montgomery | 992 | 53.91% | 162 | 8.80% | 686 | 37.28% | 1,840 |
| Morgan | 1,656 | 47.26% | 963 | 27.48% | 885 | 25.26% | 3,504 |
| Moultrie | 432 | 48.48% | 154 | 17.28% | 305 | 34.23% | 891 |
| Ogle | 734 | 21.02% | 2,469 | 70.70% | 289 | 8.28% | 3,492 |
| Peoria | 2,459 | 49.86% | 2,082 | 42.21% | 391 | 7.93% | 4,932 |
| Perry | 671 | 51.46% | 200 | 15.34% | 433 | 33.21% | 1,304 |
| Piatt | 310 | 41.61% | 85 | 11.41% | 350 | 46.98% | 745 |
| Pike | 2,163 | 51.18% | 1,053 | 24.92% | 1,010 | 23.90% | 4,226 |
| Pope | 855 | 79.17% | 11 | 1.02% | 214 | 19.81% | 1,080 |
| Pulaski | 473 | 71.67% | 21 | 3.18% | 166 | 25.15% | 660 |
| Putnam | 307 | 32.18% | 532 | 55.77% | 115 | 12.05% | 954 |
| Randolph | 1,222 | 49.33% | 709 | 28.62% | 546 | 22.04% | 2,477 |
| Richland | 786 | 62.13% | 39 | 3.08% | 440 | 34.78% | 1,265 |
| Rock Island | 1,114 | 39.38% | 1,439 | 50.87% | 276 | 9.76% | 2,829 |
| Saline | 1,004 | 81.16% | 4 | 0.32% | 229 | 18.51% | 1,237 |
| Sangamon | 2,475 | 47.04% | 1,174 | 22.32% | 1,612 | 30.64% | 5,261 |
| Schuyler | 1,369 | 58.83% | 388 | 16.67% | 570 | 24.50% | 2,327 |
| Scott | 843 | 53.97% | 183 | 11.72% | 536 | 34.31% | 1,562 |
| Shelby | 1,414 | 70.10% | 152 | 7.54% | 451 | 22.36% | 2,017 |
| St. Clair | 1,728 | 36.79% | 1,996 | 42.50% | 973 | 20.72% | 4,697 |
| Stark | 353 | 28.86% | 718 | 58.71% | 152 | 12.43% | 1,223 |
| Stephenson | 1,308 | 40.06% | 1,907 | 58.41% | 50 | 1.53% | 3,265 |
| Tazewell | 1,313 | 42.38% | 1,028 | 33.18% | 757 | 24.44% | 3,098 |
| Union | 1,283 | 81.46% | 46 | 2.92% | 246 | 15.62% | 1,575 |
| Vermilion | 1,111 | 39.52% | 1,506 | 53.58% | 194 | 6.90% | 2,811 |
| Wabash | 481 | 44.21% | 122 | 11.21% | 485 | 44.58% | 1,088 |
| Warren | 1,117 | 41.28% | 1,282 | 47.38% | 307 | 11.35% | 2,706 |
| Washington | 1,132 | 68.23% | 244 | 14.71% | 283 | 17.06% | 1,659 |
| Wayne | 1,218 | 69.64% | 129 | 7.38% | 402 | 22.98% | 1,749 |
| White | 1,062 | 54.91% | 27 | 1.40% | 845 | 43.69% | 1,934 |
| Whiteside | 613 | 22.50% | 1,902 | 69.80% | 210 | 7.71% | 2,725 |
| Will | 1,575 | 39.59% | 2,393 | 60.16% | 10 | 0.25% | 3,978 |
| Williamson | 1,419 | 87.76% | 10 | 0.62% | 188 | 11.63% | 1,617 |
| Winnebago | 457 | 11.00% | 3,636 | 87.53% | 61 | 1.47% | 4,154 |
| Woodford | 747 | 48.76% | 596 | 38.90% | 189 | 12.34% | 1,532 |
| Totals | 105,528 | 44.09% | 96,275 | 40.23% | 37,531 | 15.68% | 239,334 |
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