The Republican standard bearer, Lincoln, prevails against…

The Republican standard bearer, Lincoln, prevails against the three other candidates with 39.8 percent of the total vote in the American presidential election of November 6, 1850.

Of the thirty-three states in the Union, he carries eighteen, but not a single southern one, with a total of 180 electoral votes as against 123 for his three rivals combined.

With a clear majority of the electoral vote (28 more than the number required to win), Lincoln and his running mate, Hannibal Hamlin, win the presidency and vice-presidency.

Stephen A. Douglas, the candidate of the Northern Democrats, receives 29.4% of the popular vote; John C. Breckinridge, nominee of the Southern-based, pro-slavery National Democratic party, corners 18.2%; and John Bell, running on the ideologically “neutral” Constitutional Union party ticket, trails with 12.6%.