1860 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Turnout	89.4%[1] 1.1pp
Nominee Abraham Lincoln Stephen A. Douglas Party Republican Democratic Home state Illinois Illinois Running mate Hannibal Hamlin Herschel V. Johnson[a] Electoral vote 13 0 Popular vote 139,013 115,166 Percentage 51.1% 42.4%
County Results Lincoln   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Douglas   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   80–90% Breckinridge   30–40%
President before election James Buchanan Democratic Elected President Abraham Lincoln Republican

Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 6, 1860, as part of the1860 United States presidential election. TheRepublican ticket of the formerU.S. representative fromIllinois's 7th congressional districtAbraham Lincoln and the seniorU.S. senator fromMaineHannibal Hamlin defeated theDemocratic ticket of the senior U.S. senator fromIllinoisStephen A. Douglas and thegovernor of GeorgiaHerschel V. Johnson. TheSouthern Democratic ticket of the incumbentvice presidentJohn C. Breckinridge and the senior U.S. senator fromOregonJoseph Lane polled less than five percent of the vote, but narrowly carriedWarrick County, the only county outside theslave states and theFar Western states ofCalifornia andOregon to report a plurality for the Southern Democrats.^[2] Lincoln defeated Douglas, Breckinridge, andConstitutional UnionistJohn Bell in the national election with 180electoral votes.^[3]

Indiana chose 13 electors on a statewidegeneral ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.^[4] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Michael J. Dubin.

1860 United States presidential election in Indiana^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin	139,013	51.14	11.05
	Democratic	Stephen A. Douglas Herschel V. Johnson	115,166	42.37	8.04
	Southern Democratic	John C. Breckinridge Joseph Lane	12,295	4.52	4.52
	Constitutional Union	John Bell Edward Everett	5,339	1.96	1.96
	Radical Abolitionist	Gerrit Smith Samuel McFarland	5	0.00
Total votes			271,818	100.00

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

• "1860 Electoral College Results".National Archives. RetrievedOctober 8, 2025.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2002).United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.ISBN 978-0-7864-6422-7.
• Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.)."Electoral College".A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. RetrievedOctober 5, 2025.
• Madison, James H. (1986).The Indiana Way: A State History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Ratcliffe, Donald J. (Spring 2014)."Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824".Journal of the Early Republic.34 (1):45–77.JSTOR 24486931.

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