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The1880 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 2, 1880, as part of the1880 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Kansas voted for theRepublican nominee,James A. Garfield, over theDemocratic nominee,Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a margin of 30.68 points.
With 60.40 percent of the popular vote, Kansas would be Garfield's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote afterVermont,Nebraska,Minnesota andRhode Island.[1] The state would also prove to be Weaver's fourth strongest state afterTexas,Iowa, andMichigan.
| 1880 United States presidential election in Kansas[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | James A. Garfield ofOhio | Chester A. Arthur ofNew York | 121,549 | 60.40% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Winfield Scott Hancock ofPennsylvania | William Hayden English ofIndiana | 59,801 | 29.72% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Greenback | James B. Weaver ofIowa | Barzillai J. Chambers ofTexas | 19,851 | 9.86% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Anti-Masonic | John W. Phelps ofVermont | Samuel C. Pomeroy ofKansas | 25 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Neal Dow ofMaine | Henry Adams Thompson ofOhio | 10 | <0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 201,236 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
| 1880 United States presidential election in Kansas by county[3][4] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | James Abram Garfield Republican | Winfield Scott Hancock Democratic | James Baird Weaver Greenback | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allen | 1,576 | 65.04% | 803 | 33.14% | 44 | 1.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 773 | 31.90% | 2,423 |
| Anderson | 1,127 | 56.52% | 497 | 24.92% | 370 | 18.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 630 | 31.59% | 1,994 |
| Atchison | 2,835 | 56.28% | 2,131 | 42.31% | 71 | 1.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 704 | 13.98% | 5,037 |
| Barber | 262 | 52.40% | 175 | 35.00% | 63 | 12.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 87 | 17.40% | 500 |
| Barton | 1,172 | 60.16% | 714 | 36.65% | 62 | 3.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 458 | 23.51% | 1,948 |
| Bourbon | 2,320 | 60.34% | 1,161 | 30.20% | 364 | 9.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,159 | 30.14% | 3,845 |
| Brown | 1,875 | 65.01% | 898 | 31.14% | 107 | 3.71% | 4 | 0.14% | 977 | 33.88% | 2,884 |
| Butler | 2,398 | 60.68% | 1,120 | 28.34% | 434 | 10.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,278 | 32.34% | 3,952 |
| Chase | 716 | 49.41% | 324 | 22.36% | 409 | 28.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 307[a] | 21.19% | 1,449 |
| Chautauqua | 1,321 | 57.21% | 655 | 28.37% | 333 | 14.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 666 | 28.84% | 2,309 |
| Cherokee | 2,374 | 48.34% | 1,681 | 34.23% | 855 | 17.41% | 1 | 0.02% | 693 | 14.11% | 4,911 |
| Clay | 1,765 | 66.23% | 531 | 19.92% | 369 | 13.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,234 | 46.30% | 2,665 |
| Cloud | 2,156 | 69.26% | 888 | 28.53% | 65 | 2.09% | 4 | 0.13% | 1,268 | 40.73% | 3,113 |
| Coffey | 1,420 | 57.70% | 851 | 34.58% | 190 | 7.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 569 | 23.12% | 2,461 |
| Cowley | 2,630 | 60.09% | 1,557 | 35.57% | 190 | 4.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,073 | 24.51% | 4,377 |
| Crawford | 1,902 | 51.20% | 1,356 | 36.50% | 450 | 12.11% | 7 | 0.19% | 546 | 14.70% | 3,715 |
| Davis | 702 | 48.89% | 399 | 27.79% | 335 | 23.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 303 | 21.10% | 1,436 |
| Decatur | 307 | 61.65% | 163 | 32.73% | 28 | 5.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 144 | 28.92% | 498 |
| Dickinson | 1,954 | 62.39% | 886 | 28.29% | 292 | 9.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,068 | 34.10% | 3,132 |
| Doniphan | 2,067 | 63.39% | 1,143 | 35.05% | 51 | 1.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 924 | 28.33% | 3,261 |
| Douglas | 3,049 | 64.08% | 1,462 | 30.73% | 247 | 5.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,587 | 33.35% | 4,758 |
| Edwards | 313 | 75.42% | 102 | 24.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 211 | 50.84% | 415 |
| Elk | 1,274 | 57.44% | 458 | 20.65% | 486 | 21.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 788[a] | 35.53% | 2,218 |
| Ellis | 680 | 58.93% | 420 | 36.40% | 54 | 4.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 260 | 22.53% | 1,154 |
| Ellsworth | 1,077 | 67.65% | 483 | 30.34% | 32 | 2.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 594 | 37.31% | 1,592 |
| Ford | 370 | 54.65% | 287 | 42.39% | 20 | 2.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 83 | 12.26% | 677 |
| Franklin | 2,108 | 56.45% | 728 | 19.50% | 898 | 24.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,210[a] | 32.40% | 3,734 |
| Graham | 494 | 61.14% | 104 | 12.87% | 210 | 25.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 284[a] | 35.15% | 808 |
| Greenwood | 1,311 | 56.39% | 667 | 28.69% | 347 | 14.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 644 | 27.70% | 2,325 |
| Harper | 546 | 54.06% | 294 | 29.11% | 170 | 16.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 252 | 24.95% | 1,010 |
| Harvey | 1,554 | 68.37% | 584 | 25.69% | 135 | 5.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 970 | 42.67% | 2,273 |
| Hodgeman | 176 | 66.17% | 52 | 19.55% | 38 | 14.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 124 | 46.62% | 266 |
| Jackson | 1,504 | 63.46% | 852 | 35.95% | 14 | 0.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 652 | 27.51% | 2,370 |
| Jefferson | 1,976 | 57.21% | 1,397 | 40.45% | 78 | 2.26% | 3 | 0.09% | 579 | 16.76% | 3,454 |
| Jewell | 2,199 | 63.17% | 883 | 25.37% | 399 | 11.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,316 | 37.81% | 3,481 |
| Johnson | 2,132 | 58.06% | 1,180 | 32.14% | 354 | 9.64% | 6 | 0.16% | 952 | 25.93% | 3,672 |
| Kingman | 436 | 60.47% | 200 | 27.74% | 85 | 11.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 236 | 32.73% | 721 |
| Labette | 2,720 | 59.09% | 1,462 | 31.76% | 420 | 9.12% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,258 | 27.33% | 4,603 |
| Leavenworth | 3,186 | 54.29% | 2,508 | 42.73% | 175 | 2.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 678 | 11.55% | 5,869 |
| Lincoln | 957 | 62.55% | 419 | 27.39% | 154 | 10.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 538 | 35.16% | 1,530 |
| Linn | 1,990 | 60.12% | 745 | 22.51% | 575 | 17.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,245 | 37.61% | 3,310 |
| Lyon | 2,398 | 65.34% | 870 | 23.71% | 402 | 10.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,528 | 41.63% | 3,670 |
| Marion | 1,239 | 60.50% | 538 | 26.27% | 271 | 13.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 701 | 34.23% | 2,048 |
| Marshall | 2,276 | 61.50% | 998 | 26.97% | 427 | 11.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,278 | 34.53% | 3,701 |
| McPherson | 2,225 | 66.74% | 564 | 16.92% | 545 | 16.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,661 | 49.82% | 3,334 |
| Miami | 2,010 | 53.06% | 1,324 | 34.95% | 454 | 11.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 686 | 18.11% | 3,788 |
| Mitchell | 1,728 | 62.61% | 797 | 28.88% | 235 | 8.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 931 | 33.73% | 2,760 |
| Montgomery | 1,776 | 47.17% | 1,295 | 34.40% | 694 | 18.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 481 | 12.78% | 3,765 |
| Morris | 1,282 | 63.75% | 550 | 27.35% | 179 | 8.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 732 | 36.40% | 2,011 |
| Nemaha | 1,755 | 65.14% | 934 | 34.67% | 5 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 821 | 30.48% | 2,694 |
| Neosho | 1,471 | 51.08% | 948 | 32.92% | 461 | 16.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 523 | 18.16% | 2,880 |
| Ness | 315 | 58.99% | 129 | 24.16% | 90 | 16.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 186 | 34.83% | 534 |
| Norton | 761 | 58.72% | 337 | 26.00% | 198 | 15.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 424 | 32.72% | 1,296 |
| Osage | 2,704 | 61.40% | 907 | 20.59% | 793 | 18.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,797 | 40.80% | 4,404 |
| Osborne | 1,446 | 68.99% | 589 | 28.10% | 61 | 2.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 857 | 40.89% | 2,096 |
| Ottawa | 1,443 | 62.74% | 524 | 22.78% | 333 | 14.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 919 | 39.96% | 2,300 |
| Pawnee | 697 | 73.45% | 235 | 24.76% | 17 | 1.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 462 | 48.68% | 949 |
| Phillips | 1,261 | 61.97% | 553 | 27.17% | 221 | 10.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 708 | 34.79% | 2,035 |
| Pottawatomie | 2,139 | 60.41% | 1,178 | 33.27% | 224 | 6.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 961 | 27.14% | 3,541 |
| Pratt | 196 | 60.12% | 97 | 29.75% | 33 | 10.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 99 | 30.37% | 326 |
| Reno | 1,384 | 63.72% | 536 | 24.68% | 252 | 11.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 848 | 39.04% | 2,172 |
| Republic | 1,875 | 69.78% | 661 | 24.60% | 151 | 5.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,214 | 45.18% | 2,687 |
| Rice | 1,108 | 57.62% | 496 | 25.79% | 314 | 16.33% | 5 | 0.26% | 612 | 31.83% | 1,923 |
| Riley | 1,484 | 67.21% | 377 | 17.07% | 347 | 15.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,107 | 50.14% | 2,208 |
| Rooks | 805 | 54.80% | 338 | 23.01% | 326 | 22.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 467 | 31.79% | 1,469 |
| Rush | 542 | 67.33% | 238 | 29.57% | 21 | 2.61% | 4 | 0.50% | 304 | 37.76% | 805 |
| Russell | 932 | 68.38% | 317 | 23.26% | 114 | 8.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 615 | 45.12% | 1,363 |
| Saline | 1,950 | 67.64% | 838 | 29.07% | 95 | 3.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,112 | 38.57% | 2,883 |
| Sedgwick | 2,288 | 57.11% | 1,354 | 33.80% | 364 | 9.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 934 | 23.32% | 4,006 |
| Shawnee | 4,403 | 72.49% | 1,548 | 25.49% | 123 | 2.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,855 | 47.00% | 6,074 |
| Sheridan | 93 | 44.50% | 52 | 24.88% | 64 | 30.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 29[a] | 13.88% | 209 |
| Smith | 1,525 | 62.32% | 517 | 21.13% | 405 | 16.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,008 | 41.19% | 2,447 |
| Stafford | 530 | 67.77% | 192 | 24.55% | 60 | 7.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 338 | 43.22% | 782 |
| Sumner | 2,073 | 51.55% | 1,419 | 35.29% | 529 | 13.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 654 | 16.26% | 4,021 |
| Trego | 332 | 71.09% | 107 | 22.91% | 28 | 6.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 225 | 48.18% | 467 |
| Wabaunsee | 1,279 | 69.97% | 510 | 27.90% | 39 | 2.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 769 | 42.07% | 1,828 |
| Washington | 1,957 | 64.91% | 827 | 27.43% | 231 | 7.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,130 | 37.48% | 3,015 |
| Wilson | 1,628 | 56.61% | 721 | 25.07% | 527 | 18.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 907 | 31.54% | 2,876 |
| Woodson | 898 | 66.82% | 437 | 32.51% | 9 | 0.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 461 | 34.30% | 1,344 |
| Wyandotte | 2,410 | 55.09% | 1,729 | 39.52% | 236 | 5.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 681 | 15.57% | 4,375 |
| Totals | 121,549 | 60.40% | 59,801 | 29.72% | 19,851 | 9.86% | 35 | 0.02% | 61,748 | 30.68% | 201,236 |