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1876 United States presidential election in California

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← 1872

November 7, 1876

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Nominee	Rutherford B. Hayes	Samuel J. Tilden
Party	Republican	Democratic
Home state	Ohio	New York
Running mate	William A. Wheeler	Thomas A. Hendricks
Electoral vote	6	0
Popular vote	78,614^[a]	75,845^[b]
Percentage	50.87%	49.08%

County Results

Hayes

50–60%

60–70%

Tilden

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

President before election

Ulysses S. Grant
Republican

Elected President

Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican

1910–1919
1911 4 7 8

1960–1969
1964 14

1970–1979
1978 6 8 13

1980–1989
1982 8 1986 64 65 1988 98 99

1990–1999
1994 187 1996 196 209 215 218 1998 6 10 227

2000–2009
2000 21 22 36 39 2003 53 54 2004 1A 55 56 57 58 59 60 60A 61 62 63 64 65 66 69 71 2005 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 2006 81 82 83 85 87 89 90 2008 91 92 93 94, 95, 96, and 97 98 and 99 1A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2009 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

2010–2019
2010 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2012 29 30 32 34 37 38 39 2014 1 2 41 42 45 46 47 48 2016 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 2018 68 69 70 71 72 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

2020–2029
2020 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2022 1 26 27 28 29 30 31 2024 1

Los Angeles County

Board of supervisors
1980 1996 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024

Ballot measures
1980 A 2008 R 2012 B J 2016 M

Elections
2020 2022

Los Angeles

Mayor
1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1909 (sp) 1909 1911 1913 1915 1917 1919 1921 1923 1925 1929 1933 1937 1938 1941 1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2022

City attorney
2009

Ballot measures
1986 U 2017 S

Elections
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Long Beach

Mayor
1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Orange County

Board of supervisors
2018 2020 2022 2024

District attorney
2018

Anaheim

Mayor
2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Irvine

Mayor
1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024

Costa Mesa

Municipal
1947 1953 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024

San Diego County

Board of supervisors
2020

San Diego

Mayor
1887 1889 1891 1893 1895 1897 1899 1901 1903 1905 1907 1909 1911 1913 1915 1917 1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1932 1935 1939 1943 1947 1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 (sp) 1984 1986 (sp) 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2005 (sp) 2008 2012 2013–14 (sp) 2016 2020 2024

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Bakersfield
Mayoral elections: 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Fresno
Mayoral elections: 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Oakland
Mayoral elections: 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Riverside
Mayoral elections: 1997 2001 2005 2009 2012 2016 2020 2024
San Bernardino
Mayoral elections: 2005 2009 2014 2018 2022
Stockton
Mayoral elections: 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
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The 1876 United States presidential election in California was held on November 7, 1876, as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. State voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

California narrowly voted for the Republican nominee, Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden.

The 1876 election was the closest two-candidate contest in the history of the Electoral College, with Hayes ultimately winning by a single electoral vote following the controversial resolution of disputed returns in other states. Hayes thus needed all six of California's electoral votes to win. While most sources give Hayes' plurality in California as 2,798, at the time Californian voters chose presidential electors individually. In four subsequent presidential elections (1880, 1888, 1896 and 1912), the overall results were sufficiently close that the state split its electoral ticket between two candidates. If this had occurred in 1876, Tilden would have been elected president.

Results[edit]

General Election Results^[1]
Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Republican Party	Rutherford B. Hayes	John B. Felton	78,614
	Republican Party	Rutherford B. Hayes	John H. Jewett	78,610
	Republican Party	Rutherford B. Hayes	Morris M. Estee	78,609
	Republican Party	Rutherford B. Hayes	John F. Miller	78,607
	Republican Party	Rutherford B. Hayes	H. J. Ostrander	78,605
	Republican Party	Rutherford B. Hayes	D. A. McKinley	78,604
	Democratic Party	Samuel J. Tilden	John S. Hager	75,845
	Democratic Party	Samuel J. Tilden	J. Campbell Shorb	75,842
	Democratic Party	Samuel J. Tilden	Stuart M. Taylor	75,842
	Democratic Party	Samuel J. Tilden	Frank Ganahl	75,841
	Democratic Party	Samuel J. Tilden	Barclay Henley	75,839
	Democratic Party	Samuel J. Tilden	Joseph H. Budd	75,832
	Greenback Party	Peter Cooper	Alfred Credge	47
	Greenback Party	Peter Cooper	John Condra	47
	Greenback Party	Peter Cooper	S. Harris Herring	47
	Greenback Party	Peter Cooper	B. K. Lowe	47
	Greenback Party	Peter Cooper	J. H. Redstone	47
	Greenback Party	Peter Cooper	C. B. Smith	47
	Write-in		Scattering	19
Votes cast^[c]				154,544

Results by county[edit]

County	Rutherford B. Hayes Republican		Samuel J. Tilden Democratic		Peter Cooper Greenback		Scattering		Margin		Total votes cast^[d]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[d]
Alameda	4,938	59.52%	3,347	40.34%	12	0.14%	0	0.00%	1,591	19.18%	8,297
Alpine	110	62.86%	65	37.14%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	45	25.71%	175
Amador	1,172	47.13%	1,315	52.87%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−143	−5.75%	2,487
Butte	1,665	50.47%	1,634	49.53%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	31	0.94%	3,299
Calaveras	886	48.63%	936	51.37%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−50	−2.74%	1,822
Colusa	766	34.29%	1,468	65.71%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−702	−31.42%	2,234
Contra Costa	1,184	58.58%	837	41.42%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	347	17.17%	2,021
Del Norte	186	44.93%	228	55.07%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−42	−10.14%	414
El Dorado	1,331	48.02%	1,441	51.98%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−110	−3.97%	2,772
Fresno	338	25.88%	968	74.12%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−630	−48.24%	1,306
Humboldt	1,637	59.20%	1127	40.76%	1	0.04%	0	0.00%	510	18.44%	2,765
Inyo	343	47.77%	375	52.23%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−32	−4.46%	718
Kern	556	39.71%	844	60.29%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−288	−20.57%	1,400
Lake	380	35.02%	702	64.70%	0	0.00%	3	0.28%	−322	−29.68%	1,085
Lassen	256	53.00%	227	47.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	29	6.00%	483
Los Angeles	3,041	45.59%	3,615	54.20%	14	0.21%	0	0.00%	−574	−8.61%	6,670
Marin^[e]^[2]	651	51.26%	619	48.74%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	32	2.52%	1,270
Mariposa	364	39.65%	554	60.35%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−190	−20.70%	918
Mendocino	929	42.00%	1,283	58.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−354	−16.00%	2,212
Merced	558	40.97%	804	59.03%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−246	−18.06%	1,362
Modoc	208	39.25%	322	60.75%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−114	−21.51%	530
Mono	153	55.04%	125	44.96%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	28	10.07%	278
Monterey	1,182	53.80%	1,012	46.06%	0	0.00%	3	0.14%	170	7.74%	2,197
Napa	1,153	54.49%	963	45.51%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	190	8.98%	2,116
Nevada	2,300	54.70%	1,905	45.30%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	395	9.39%	4,205
Placer	1,610	55.75%	1,278	44.25%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	332	11.50%	2,888
Plumas	583	53.73%	502	46.27%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	81	7.47%	1,085
Sacramento	3,838	60.71%	2,484	39.29%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1,354	21.42%	6,322
San Benito	434	39.45%	664	60.36%	0	0.00%	2	0.18%	−230	−20.91%	1,100
San Bernardino	674	51.85%	607	46.69%	19	1.46%	0	0.00%	67	5.15%	1,300
San Diego	794	54.31%	668	45.69%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	126	8.62%	1,462
San Francisco	21,172	50.93%	20,399	49.07%	0	0.00%	1	0.00%	773	1.86%	41,572
San Joaquin	2,270	55.10%	1,850	44.90%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	420	10.19%	4,120
San Luis Obispo	772	44.99%	944	55.01%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−172	−10.02%	1,716
San Mateo	871	55.58%	696	44.42%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	175	11.17%	1,567
Santa Barbara	1,174	61.15%	743	38.72%	0	0.00%	2	0.10%	431	22.46%	1,919
Santa Clara	3,335	52.09%	3,065	47.88%	1	0.02%	1	0.02%	270	4.22%	6,402
Santa Cruz	1,537	57.59%	1,132	42.41%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	405	15.17%	2,669
Shasta	625	49.37%	641	50.63%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−16	−1.26%	1,226
Sierra	917	64.31%	509	35.69%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	408	28.61%	1,426
Siskiyou	718	45.47%	861	54.53%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−143	−9.06%	1,579
Solano	1,951	52.67%	1,753	47.33%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	198	5.35%	3,704
Sonoma	2,432	45.50%	2,907	54.39%	0	0.00%	6	0.11%	−475	−8.89%	5,345
Stanislaus	801	42.20%	1,097	57.80%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−296	−15.60%	1,898
Sutter	550	49.82%	553	50.09%	0	0.00%	1	0.09%	−3	−0.27%	1,104
Tehama	646	48.94%	674	51.06%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−28	−2.12%	1,320
Trinity	388	48.74%	408	51.26%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−20	−2.51%	796
Tulare	986	41.85%	1,370	58.15%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−384	−16.30%	2,356
Tuolumne	809	46.90%	916	53.10%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−107	−6.20%	1,725
Ventura	608	50.71%	591	49.29%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	17	1.42%	1,199
Yolo	1,233	47.55%	1,360	52.45%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	−127	−4.90%	2,593
Yuba	1,250	53.74%	1,076	46.26%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	174	7.48%	2,326
Total^[f]	78,614	50.87%	75,845	49.08%	47	0.03%	19	0.01%	2,769	1.79%	154,544

Notes[edit]

^ Many sources give Hayes' vote as 79,258, but this figure corresponds to the first elector listed on the canvass rather than the highest elector on the Republican ticket. It also includes the votes from Marin County which were not counted in the official canvass

^ Many sources give Tilden's vote as 76,480, but this figure corresponds to the first elector listed on the canvass rather than the highest elector on the Democratic ticket. It also includes the votes from Marin County which were not counted in the official canvass

^ Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket

^ Based on highest elector on each ticket

^ The votes from Marin County were not counted in the official canvass because the county clerk forgot to submit the county's election returns to the Secretary of State

^ Does not include the votes from Marin County

References[edit]

^ Statement of the vote polled in the several counties of the State of California, for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, at the General Election held on Tuesday, November 7th AD 1876