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United States presidential election of 1876
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The election results of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden U.S. presidential election of 1876: Tilden/Hendricks campaign broadsheet Campaign pennant Electoral Commission of 1877 Hayes and Wheeler campaign literature Samuel J. Tiden Map of the United States showing the results of the 1876 presidential election by state. States won by Hayes (Republican) are shaded in red, and states won by Tilden (Democratic) are shaded in blue. Each state displays its electoral vote count. Hayes won with 185 electoral votes, while Tilden received 184.
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United States presidential election of 1876, disputed American presidential election held on November 7, 1876, in which Republican Rutherford B. Hayes defeated Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. Tilden led Hayes by more than 260,000 popular votes, and preliminary returns showed Tilden with 184 electoral votes (one shy of the majority needed to win the election) to Hayes’s 165, with the 19 electoral votes of three states (Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina) and one elector from Oregon...

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