1856 United States presidential election in Illinois
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The 1856 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1856, as part of the 1856 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Illinois voted for the Democratic candidate, James Buchanan, over Republican candidate John C. Frémont and American Party candidate Millard Fillmore. Buchanan won Illinois by a narrow margin of 3.86%.
This would be the final time a Democratic presidential candidate would win Illinois until Grover Cleveland won it in 1892.
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | James Buchanan | 105,528 | 44.09% | |
| Republican | John C. Fremont | 96,275 | 40.23% | |
| Know Nothing | Millard Fillmore | 37,531 | 15.68% | |
| Total votes | 239,334 | 100% | ||
Results by County
[edit]| Elections in Illinois |
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| County | James Buchanan
Democratic |
John C. Frémont
Republican |
Millard Fillmore
Know Nothing |
Total Votes Cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 3,311 | 53.76% | 2,226 | 36.14% | 622 | 10.10% | 6,159 |
| Alexander | 401 | 62.07% | 15 | 2.32% | 230 | 35.60% | 646 |
| Bond | 607 | 42.78% | 153 | 10.78% | 659 | 46.44% | 1,419 |
| Boone | 243 | 12.04% | 1,748 | 86.62% | 27 | 1.34% | 2,018 |
| Brown | 903 | 60.00% | 169 | 11.23% | 433 | 28.77% | 1,505 |
| Bureau | 1,234 | 31.76% | 2,603 | 67.00% | 48 | 1.24% | 3,885 |
| Calhoun | 391 | 62.66% | 70 | 11.22% | 163 | 26.12% | 624 |
| Carroll | 237 | 15.28% | 1,161 | 74.85% | 153 | 9.86% | 1,551 |
| Cass | 914 | 55.23% | 303 | 18.31% | 438 | 26.47% | 1,655 |
| Champaign | 550 | 36.23% | 732 | 48.22% | 236 | 15.55% | 1,518 |
| Christian | 884 | 62.17% | 239 | 16.81% | 299 | 21.03% | 1,422 |
| Clark | 1,318 | 55.92% | 709 | 30.08% | 330 | 14.00% | 2,357 |
| Clay | 731 | 56.23% | 29 | 2.23% | 540 | 41.54% | 1,300 |
| Clinton | 840 | 61.63% | 161 | 11.81% | 362 | 26.56% | 1,363 |
| Coles | 1,178 | 42.73% | 783 | 28.40% | 796 | 28.87% | 2,757 |
| Cook | 5,680 | 37.76% | 9,020 | 59.97% | 342 | 2.27% | 15,042 |
| Crawford | 961 | 57.13% | 477 | 28.36% | 244 | 14.51% | 1,682 |
| Cumberland | 641 | 57.13% | 246 | 21.93% | 235 | 20.94% | 1,122 |
| DeKalb | 381 | 14.06% | 2,254 | 83.17% | 75 | 2.77% | 2,710 |
| DeWitt | 679 | 40.42% | 623 | 37.08% | 378 | 22.50% | 1,680 |
| DuPage | 542 | 28.07% | 1,387 | 71.83% | 2 | 0.10% | 1,931 |
| Edgar | 1,342 | 51.58% | 952 | 36.59% | 308 | 11.84% | 2,602 |
| Edwards | 283 | 36.80% | 176 | 22.89% | 310 | 40.31% | 769 |
| Effingham | 784 | 75.60% | 90 | 8.68% | 163 | 15.72% | 1,037 |
| Fayette | 947 | 52.21% | 68 | 3.75% | 799 | 44.05% | 1,814 |
| Franklin | 1,051 | 80.41% | 5 | 0.38% | 251 | 19.20% | 1,307 |
| Fulton | 2,724 | 48.27% | 2,021 | 35.81% | 898 | 15.91% | 5,643 |
| Gallatin | 764 | 63.09% | 24 | 1.98% | 423 | 34.93% | 1,211 |
| Greene | 1,565 | 61.88% | 245 | 9.69% | 719 | 28.43% | 2,529 |
| Grundy | 618 | 39.95% | 923 | 59.66% | 6 | 0.39% | 1,547 |
| Hamilton | 1,135 | 86.91% | 9 | 0.69% | 162 | 12.40% | 1,306 |
| Hancock | 2,011 | 48.69% | 1,120 | 27.12% | 999 | 24.19% | 4,130 |
| Hardin | 332 | 58.76% | 4 | 0.71% | 229 | 40.53% | 565 |
| Henderson | 610 | 40.13% | 757 | 49.80% | 153 | 10.07% | 1,520 |
| Henry | 876 | 30.77% | 1,924 | 67.58% | 47 | 1.65% | 2,847 |
| Iroquois | 460 | 34.90% | 750 | 56.90% | 108 | 8.19% | 1,318 |
| Jackson | 1,056 | 75.86% | 14 | 1.01% | 322 | 23.13% | 1,392 |
| Jasper | 679 | 58.53% | 323 | 27.84% | 158 | 13.62% | 1,160 |
| Jefferson | 1,278 | 72.45% | 60 | 3.40% | 426 | 24.15% | 1,764 |
| Jersey | 702 | 43.36% | 387 | 23.90% | 530 | 32.74% | 1,619 |
| Jo Daviess | 1,509 | 41.20% | 2,110 | 57.60% | 44 | 1.20% | 3,663 |
| Johnson | 1,144 | 93.77% | 2 | 0.16% | 74 | 6.07% | 1,220 |
| Kane | 912 | 19.44% | 3,750 | 79.94% | 29 | 0.62% | 4,691 |
| Kankakee | 258 | 15.14% | 1,386 | 81.34% | 60 | 3.52% | 1,704 |
| Kendall | 334 | 16.96% | 1,622 | 82.38% | 13 | 0.66% | 1,969 |
| Knox | 1,490 | 32.27% | 2,851 | 61.74% | 277 | 6.00% | 4,618 |
| Lake | 558 | 19.14% | 2,347 | 80.51% | 10 | 0.34% | 2,915 |
| LaSalle | 2,665 | 40.96% | 3,721 | 57.18% | 121 | 1.86% | 6,507 |
| Lawrence | 729 | 53.96% | 89 | 6.59% | 533 | 39.45% | 1,351 |
| Lee | 601 | 24.66% | 1,804 | 74.03% | 32 | 1.31% | 2,437 |
| Livingston | 480 | 42.22% | 585 | 51.45% | 72 | 6.33% | 1,137 |
| Logan | 823 | 41.95% | 655 | 33.38% | 484 | 24.67% | 1,962 |
| Macon | 821 | 47.90% | 500 | 29.17% | 393 | 22.93% | 1,714 |
| Macoupin | 1,778 | 49.24% | 823 | 22.79% | 1,010 | 27.97% | 3,611 |
| Madison | 1,451 | 34.38% | 1,111 | 26.33% | 1,658 | 39.29% | 4,220 |
| Marion | 1,150 | 67.13% | 150 | 8.76% | 413 | 24.11% | 1,713 |
| Marshall | 834 | 42.62% | 1,008 | 51.51% | 115 | 5.88% | 1,957 |
| Mason | 737 | 47.33% | 267 | 17.15% | 553 | 35.52% | 1,557 |
| Massac | 630 | 71.11% | 5 | 0.56% | 251 | 28.33% | 886 |
| McDonough | 1,370 | 48.51% | 590 | 20.89% | 864 | 30.59% | 2,824 |
| McHenry | 945 | 24.50% | 2,869 | 74.38% | 43 | 1.11% | 3,857 |
| McLean | 1,517 | 37.79% | 1,937 | 48.26% | 560 | 13.95% | 4,014 |
| Menard | 854 | 52.36% | 109 | 6.68% | 668 | 40.96% | 1,631 |
| Mercer | 769 | 37.51% | 1,141 | 55.66% | 140 | 6.83% | 2,050 |
| Monroe | 900 | 51.02% | 346 | 19.61% | 518 | 29.37% | 1,764 |
| Montgomery | 992 | 53.91% | 162 | 8.80% | 686 | 37.28% | 1,840 |
| Morgan | 1,656 | 47.26% | 963 | 27.48% | 885 | 25.26% | 3,504 |
| Moultrie | 432 | 48.48% | 154 | 17.28% | 305 | 34.23% | 891 |
| Ogle | 734 | 21.02% | 2,469 | 70.70% | 289 | 8.28% | 3,492 |
| Peoria | 2,459 | 49.86% | 2,082 | 42.21% | 391 | 7.93% | 4,932 |
| Perry | 671 | 51.46% | 200 | 15.34% | 433 | 33.21% | 1,304 |
| Piatt | 310 | 41.61% | 85 | 11.41% | 350 | 46.98% | 745 |
| Pike | 2,163 | 51.18% | 1,053 | 24.92% | 1,010 | 23.90% | 4,226 |
| Pope | 855 | 79.17% | 11 | 1.02% | 214 | 19.81% | 1,080 |
| Pulaski | 473 | 71.67% | 21 | 3.18% | 166 | 25.15% | 660 |
| Putnam | 307 | 32.18% | 532 | 55.77% | 115 | 12.05% | 954 |
| Randolph | 1,222 | 49.33% | 709 | 28.62% | 546 | 22.04% | 2,477 |
| Richland | 786 | 62.13% | 39 | 3.08% | 440 | 34.78% | 1,265 |
| Rock Island | 1,114 | 39.38% | 1,439 | 50.87% | 276 | 9.76% | 2,829 |
| Saline | 1,004 | 81.16% | 4 | 0.32% | 229 | 18.51% | 1,237 |
| Sangamon | 2,475 | 47.04% | 1,174 | 22.32% | 1,612 | 30.64% | 5,261 |
| Schuyler | 1,369 | 58.83% | 388 | 16.67% | 570 | 24.50% | 2,327 |
| Scott | 843 | 53.97% | 183 | 11.72% | 536 | 34.31% | 1,562 |
| Shelby | 1,414 | 70.10% | 152 | 7.54% | 451 | 22.36% | 2,017 |
| St. Clair | 1,728 | 36.79% | 1,996 | 42.50% | 973 | 20.72% | 4,697 |
| Stark | 353 | 28.86% | 718 | 58.71% | 152 | 12.43% | 1,223 |
| Stephenson | 1,308 | 40.06% | 1,907 | 58.41% | 50 | 1.53% | 3,265 |
| Tazewell | 1,313 | 42.38% | 1,028 | 33.18% | 757 | 24.44% | 3,098 |
| Union | 1,283 | 81.46% | 46 | 2.92% | 246 | 15.62% | 1,575 |
| Vermilion | 1,111 | 39.52% | 1,506 | 53.58% | 194 | 6.90% | 2,811 |
| Wabash | 481 | 44.21% | 122 | 11.21% | 485 | 44.58% | 1,088 |
| Warren | 1,117 | 41.28% | 1,282 | 47.38% | 307 | 11.35% | 2,706 |
| Washington | 1,132 | 68.23% | 244 | 14.71% | 283 | 17.06% | 1,659 |
| Wayne | 1,218 | 69.64% | 129 | 7.38% | 402 | 22.98% | 1,749 |
| White | 1,062 | 54.91% | 27 | 1.40% | 845 | 43.69% | 1,934 |
| Whiteside | 613 | 22.50% | 1,902 | 69.80% | 210 | 7.71% | 2,725 |
| Will | 1,575 | 39.59% | 2,393 | 60.16% | 10 | 0.25% | 3,978 |
| Williamson | 1,419 | 87.76% | 10 | 0.62% | 188 | 11.63% | 1,617 |
| Winnebago | 457 | 11.00% | 3,636 | 87.53% | 61 | 1.47% | 4,154 |
| Woodford | 747 | 48.76% | 596 | 38.90% | 189 | 12.34% | 1,532 |
| Totals | 105,528 | 44.09% | 96,275 | 40.23% | 37,531 | 15.68% | 239,334 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1856 Presidential General Election Results - Illinois". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ "1856 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project. University of California Santa Barbara. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ "Our Campaigns - IL US President Race - Nov 04, 1856". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved January 9, 2025.
