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The1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 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.
New Hampshire voted for theRepublican nominee,James A. Garfield, over theDemocratic nominee,Winfield Scott Hancock. Garfield won the state by a narrow margin of 4.70%. This would be the last occasion any Democratic presidential candidate wonGrafton County untilWoodrow Wilson in1912,[1] and the last occasion a Democrat won an absolute majority of the presidential vote inBelknap County untilLyndon B. Johnson did so in his1964 landslide.
| 1880 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | James Abram Garfield ofOhio | Chester Alan Arthur ofNew York | 44,856 | 51.94% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Winfield Scott Hancock ofPennsylvania | William Hayden English ofIndiana | 40,797 | 47.24% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Greenback | James Baird Weaver ofIowa | Barzillai Jefferson Chambers ofTexas | 528 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Neal Dow ofMaine | Henry Adams Thompson ofOhio | 180 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 86,361 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | James Abram Garfield[3] Republican | Winfield Scott Hancock[3] Democratic | James Baird Weaver[4] Greenback | Neal Dow[4] Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Belknap | 2,350 | 47.81% | 2,483 | 50.52% | 55 | 1.12% | 27 | 0.55% | -133 | -2.71% | 4,915 |
| Carroll | 2,426 | 47.46% | 2,639 | 51.62% | 24 | 0.47% | 23 | 0.45% | -213 | -4.17% | 5,112 |
| Cheshire | 4,380 | 58.83% | 2,979 | 40.01% | 67 | 0.90% | 19 | 0.26% | 1,401 | 18.82% | 7,445 |
| Coös | 1,829 | 42.89% | 2,387 | 55.98% | 44 | 1.03% | 4 | 0.09% | -558 | -13.09% | 4,264 |
| Grafton | 4,964 | 47.71% | 5,300 | 50.94% | 132 | 1.27% | 8 | 0.08% | -336 | -3.23% | 10,404 |
| Hillsborough | 8,689 | 55.11% | 6,999 | 44.39% | 56 | 0.36% | 24 | 0.15% | 1,690 | 10.72% | 15,768 |
| Merrimack | 5,935 | 49.95% | 5,922 | 49.84% | 9 | 0.08% | 17 | 0.14% | 13 | 0.11% | 11,883 |
| Rockingham | 6,960 | 53.25% | 5,989 | 45.82% | 91 | 0.70% | 30 | 0.23% | 971 | 7.43% | 13,070 |
| Strafford | 4,634 | 53.78% | 3,922 | 45.51% | 38 | 0.44% | 23 | 0.27% | 712 | 8.26% | 8,617 |
| Sullivan | 2,729 | 55.46% | 2,175 | 44.20% | 12 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.10% | 554 | 11.26% | 4,921 |
| Totals | 44,896 | 51.96% | 40,795 | 47.22% | 528 | 0.61% | 180 | 0.21% | 4,101 | 4.75% | 86,399 |
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