1876 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Turnout	94.6%[1] 9.3pp
Nominee Samuel J. Tilden Rutherford B. Hayes Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Ohio Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks William A. Wheeler Electoral vote 15 0 Popular vote 213,526 208,011 Percentage 49.6% 48.1%
County Results Tilden   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Hayes   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%
President before election Ulysses S. Grant Republican Elected President Rutherford B. Hayes Republican

Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 7, 1876, as part of the1876 United States presidential election. TheDemocratic ticket of thegovernor of New YorkSamuel J. Tilden and thegovernor of IndianaThomas A. Hendricks defeated theRepublican ticket of thegovernor of OhioRutherford B. Hayes and theU.S. representative fromNew York's 19th congressional districtWilliam A. Wheeler. Hayes defeated Tilden in the national election with 185electoral votes.^[2]

This was the first time the Democratic presidential ticket carried Indiana since1856. As of2024, this is the only presidential election in which the Republican nominee won without carrying Indiana. This was the second and most recent election (along with1848) when the state voted for a losing Democrat.

Indiana chose 15 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.^[3] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated byWalter Dean Burnham in his influential study,Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892.^[4]Svend Petersen finds ten more votes for Tilden and 1,140 more for Hayes.^[2]

1876 United States presidential election in Indiana^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Samuel J. Tilden Thomas A. Hendricks	213,516	49.65	3.06
	Republican	Rutherford B. Hayes William A. Wheeler	206,971	48.13	4.87
	Independent	Peter Cooper Samuel Fenton Cary	9,533	2.22	2.22
Total votes			430,020	100.00

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

• Burnham, Walter Dean (1955).Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2002).United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.ISBN 978-0-7864-6422-7.
• Madison, James H. (1986).The Indiana Way: A State History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Petersen, Svend (1963).A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company.LCCN 62-21786.

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