1864 United States presidential election in Kansas

November 8, 1864 1868 →

Nominee Abraham Lincoln George B. McClellan Party National Union Democratic Home state Illinois New Jersey Running mate Andrew Johnson George H. Pendleton Electoral vote 3 0 Popular vote 17,089 3,836 Percentage 81.67% 18.33%

County Results Lincoln   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% McClellan   50–60%

President before election Abraham Lincoln Republican Elected President Abraham Lincoln National Union

The1864 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 8, 1864, as part of the1864 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

This was the first presidential election in whichKansas participated, following its admission as the 34th state onJanuary 29, 1861. TheNational Union ticket of incumbentPresidentAbraham Lincoln andTennessee GovernorAndrew Johnson defeated theDemocratic ticket of formerCommanding General of the United States ArmyGeorge B. McClellan andU.S. RepresentativeGeorge H. Pendleton and carried Kansas's three electoral votes. Lincoln and Johnson carried the state by a landslide margin of 63%.

With more than 81% of the popular vote, Lincoln's victory in the state was his strongest victory in the country in terms of his share of the popular vote, and the strongest performance by any presidential candidate in Kansas.^[1]

In addition to the votes cast for the regular electoral tickets pledged to Lincoln and McClellan, 655 votes were cast for Ellsworth Cheeseborough^[a] ofAtchison County. Sometertiary sources, such asDave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, count these as votes forindependent orwrite-in candidates.^[2][b] In fact, Cheeseborough was an elector nominated on the National Union ticket who died prior to the election.^[3][4] Nineteenth century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of theElectoral College, whose names appeared on tickets printed and circulated by the parties alongside the nominees for president and vice president.^[5][6] 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, or if one or several electors were replaced close to the election.^[7] Following Cheeseborough's death, the National Union Party substituted Thomas Moonlight and W. F. Cloud as candidates for the Electoral College from Kansas. (Nelson McCracken, the second elector on the National Union ticket, had also died in the interim.)^[8][9] Nevertheless, Cheeseborough's name continued to appear on printed tickets as a National Union candidate for elector in the final days before the election.^[10][11] A small number of tickets featuring Cheeseborough were cast, and these were counted separately from votes for the substitute National Union ticket.^[12][13]

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