Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candidate in…

November 1876 CE

Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candidate in the confused presidential election of November 7, wins 50.9% of the popular vote, with Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes winning 47.9%.

Tilden, however, has garnered only 184 of the 185 electoral votes needed to win, whereas Hayes has won 165. (Peter Cooper, the greenback party candidate, receives 1% of the popular vote, and no electoral votes.)

Nineteen of the the Southern electoral votes, those of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, are bitterly disputed, as is Oregon’s one electoral vote.

The Republicans claim Hayes has won all these, and should therefore have won the election.

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