1864 United States presidential election in Kansas: Difference between revisions

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| election_name = 1864 United States presidential election in Kansas

| country = Kansas

| flag_year = 1863

| type = presidential

| ongoing = no

| previous_year =

| next_election = 1868 United States presidential election in Kansas

| next_year = 1868

| election_date = November 8, 1864

| image_size = x200px

| image1 = Abraham Lincoln November 1863.jpg

| nominee1 = '''[[Abraham Lincoln]]'''

| party1 = National Union Party (United States)

| home_state1 = [[Illinois]]

| running_mate1 = '''[[Andrew Johnson]]'''

| electoral_vote1 = '''3'''

| popular_vote1 = '''17,089'''

| percentage1 = '''81.67%'''

| image2 = GeorgeMcClellan2 (cropped).jpg

| nominee2 = [[George B. McClellan]]

| party2 = Democratic Party (United States)

| home_state2 = [[New Jersey]]

| running_mate2 = [[George H. Pendleton]]

| electoral_vote2 = 0

| popular_vote2 = 3,836

| percentage2 = 18.33%

| title = President

| before_election = [[Abraham Lincoln]]

| before_party = Republican Party (United States)

| after_election = [[Abraham Lincoln]]

| after_party = National Union Party (United States)

| map_image = Kansas Presidential Election Results 1864.svg

| map_size = 300px

| map_caption = County Results

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The '''1864 United States presidential election in Kansas''' took place on November 8, 1864, as part of the [[1864 United States presidential election]]. Kansas voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]], who voted for [[President of the United States|president]] and [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]].

This was the first presidential election in which [[Kansas]] participated, following its admission as the 34th state on [[Kansas Day|January 29, 1861]]. The [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] ticket of incumbent [[President of the United States|President]] [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Governor of Tennessee|Tennessee Governor]] [[Andrew Johnson]] defeated the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ticket of former [[Commanding General of the United States Army]] [[George B. McClellan]] and [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] [[George 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Leip |first1=Dave |title=1864 Presidential Election Statistics |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1864&f=0&off=0&elect=0 |website=Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |access-date=March 5, 2018}}</ref>

In addition to the votes cast for the regular electoral tickets pledged to Lincoln and McClellan, 655 votes were cast for Ellsworth Cheeseborough{{efn|Sometimes spelled Cheesebrough or Chesebrough.}} of [[Atchison County, Kansas|Atchison County]]. Some [[tertiary source]]s, such as ''[[Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections]]'', count these as votes for [[Independent politician|independent]] or [[write-in candidate]]s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leip |first1=Dave |title=1864 Presidential General Election Results - Kansas |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1864&fips=20&f=0&off=0&elect=0 |website=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |access-date=August 20, 2024}}</ref>{{efn|Leip counts 543 votes for Cheeseborough and 112 write-in votes; on inspection of the original returns published in the ''Annals of Kansas'' (p. 390), it appears these represent the soldier and civilian totals for Cheeseborough, which were tabulated separately.}} In fact, Cheeseborough was an elector nominated on the National Union ticket who died prior to the election.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andreas |first1=A. T. |title=History of the State of Kansas |date=1883 |location=Chicago |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5t09AQAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Republican Union State Ticket |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015486/1864-10-20/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=White Cloud Kansas Chief |date=October 20, 1864}}</ref> Nineteenth century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]], whose names appeared on tickets printed and circulated by the parties alongside the nominees for president and vice president.<ref>{{cite book |title=General Laws of the State of Kansas [...] |location = Lawrence |date = 1863 |pages=98–100 |chapter=Election for Electors, and Amending an Act |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-j9NAQAAMAAJ&q=%22election%20for%20electors,%20and%20amending%20an%20act%22 |author1 = Kansas }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Presidential Counts: A Complete Official Record [...] |date=1877 |location=New York |page=441 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o2wFAAAAQAAJ |quote=One great objection to the present electoral system is that it absolutely circumscribes the power and the rights of the individual voter. He cannot now vote for the man of his choice for President, but must vote for electors.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ratcliffe |first1=Donald J. |title=Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824 |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |date=Spring 2014 |volume=34 |issue=1 |page=57 |jstor=24486931 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486931}}</ref> 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.)<ref>Andreas, 213.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Regular Union Republican Ticket |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016419/1864-11-05/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=Emporia News |date=November 5, 1864}}</ref> Nevertheless, Cheeseborough's name continued to appear on printed tickets as a National Union candidate for elector in the final days before the election.<ref>{{cite news |title=Presidential Electors |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84030186/1864-10-29/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=Smoky Hill and Republican Union |date=October 29, 1864}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=For Presidential Electors |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027640/1864-10-29/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=Big Blue Union |date=October 29, 1864}}</ref> A small number of tickets featuring Cheeseborough were cast, and these were counted separately from votes for the substitute National Union ticket.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilder |first1=Daniel W. |title=The Annals of Kansas |date=1875 |location=Topeka |pages=389–90 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGPJErBisxcC |quote=Abstract of the Soldier vote for Electors of President and Vice President [...] E. Cheeseborough, 543.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Admire |first1=W. W. |title=Admire's Political and Legislative Handbook for Kansas |date=1891 |location=Topeka |page=224 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXJDAAAAIAAJ |quote=Abstract of the soldier vote for electors of president and vice president [...] E. Cheeseborough, 543.}}</ref>

| title = 1864 United States presidential election in Kansas<ref>{{cite book |title=Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. elections |date=1985 |publisher=Congressional Quarterly Inc. |location=Washington, D.C. |page=336 |url=https://archive.org/details/congressionalqua0000unse/page/336/mode/2up}}</ref>

| percentage = 81.67

| percentage = 18.33

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| votes = 20,923

| percentage= 100%

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===Results by elector===

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| title = 1864 United States presidential election in Kansas<ref>Wilder, 389–90; Admire, 224.</ref>

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Robert McBratney

| party = National Union Party (United States)

| votes = 17,029

| percentage = 27.20

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = W. F. McCloud

| party = National Union Party (United States)

| votes = 16,814

| percentage = 26.86

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Thomas Moonlight

| party = National Union Party (United States)

| votes = 10,431

| percentage = 16.66

| candidate = Marcus J. Parrott

| party = [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] (Anti-[[Jim Lane (politician)|Lane]])

| color = #b22222

| votes = 6,203

| percentage = 9.91

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Nelson Cobb

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 3,836

| percentage = 6.13

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Andrew G. Ege

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 3,828

| percentage = 6.11

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Thomas Bridgens

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 3,807

| percentage = 6.08

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{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Ellsworth Cheeseborough †

| party = National Union Party (United States)

| votes = 655

| percentage = 1.01

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