1876 United States presidential election in California explained

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Election Name:	1876 United States presidential election in California
Country:	California
Flag Year:	1846
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1872 United States presidential election in California
Previous Year:	1872
Next Election:	1880 United States presidential election in California
Next Year:	1880
Election Date:	November 7, 1876
Image1:	President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880 Restored (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Rutherford B. Hayes
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	Ohio
Running Mate1:	William A. Wheeler
Electoral Vote1:	6
Popular Vote1:	78,614
Percentage1:	50.87%
Nominee2:	Samuel J. Tilden
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Thomas A. Hendricks
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	75,845
Percentage2:	49.08%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Ulysses S. Grant
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Rutherford B. Hayes
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

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

+ 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				154,544

Results by county

County	Rutherford B. Hayes Republican		Samuel J. Tilden Democratic		Peter Cooper Greenback		Scattering		Margin		Total votes cast
County		%		%		%		%		%	Total votes cast
	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^[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	78,614	50.87%	75,845	49.08%	47	0.03%	19	0.01%	2,769	1.79%	154,544

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Liberal Republican to Democratic

Notes and References

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
Web site: Disenfranchised . California Digital Newspaper Collection . Marin County Journal. 19 June 2024 . en . 30 Nov 1876.