Background Presidential Election Of 1876

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.

Background presidential election of 1876. Hayes faced democrat samuel j. In 1876 when the nation went to the polls to elect grant s successor democratic candidate samuel tilden governor of new york emerged with a lead of more than 260 000 popular votes. The presidential election of 1876 remains one of the most controversial elections in american history.

The presidential election of 1876 in the centenary year of the declaration of independence a deeply troubled american republic went to the polls to elect a new president. Grant was considering a third run for president which would break the tradition that had been set since george washington had left office after the election of 1800. A close and bitter election followed fought in the shadow of scandal and fraud.

It was one of the most contentious presidential elections in american history and gave rise to the compromise of 1877 by which the democrats conceded the election to hayes in return for an end to reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal troops from the south. He decided to not run. The 1876 united states presidential election was the 23rd quadrennial presidential election held on tuesday november 7 1876 in which republican nominee rutherford b.