Election+of+1860

=The Election of 1860=

toc The election of 1860 involed four canidits. There was Lincoln, Breckinbrige, Bell,and Douglas who ran in this election. The election of 1860 didn't have the 2 party system since they had 4 canidits. The party were Constitutional Union, Northern Democratic, Republican, and Southern Democratic. Lincoln ended up winning this election. It was not close at all.

Votes
In this election many states where undecided. Lincoln had 18 states and 180 electoral votes. He had 39% of the popular votes. Breckinbrige had 11 states and 72 electoral votes. He had 18.1% of the popular votes. Bell had 3 states and 39 electoral votes. He had 12.6% of the popular votes. Douglas had 1 state and 12 electoral votes. He had 29.5% of the popular votes.

Lincoln[[image:http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/jb/civil/jb_civil_lincoln2_1_e.jpg width="104" height="137" align="right"]]
Lincoln won the election he had 18 states while the others had 11, 3, and only 1 state. He was nominated by the republican party. He is orginally from Illinios. He was against slavery which was mainly what this election was about. Some where for slavery others weren't. Lincolns vice president was Hannibal Hamlin.

Breckinbrige
Breckinbrige was a Southern Democratic. He came in 2nd place in this election. He had won 11 states. Breckinbrige's running mate was Joesph Lane. Breckinbrige was orginally from Kentucky. He was for slavery.

Bell
Bell was the Republican nomine. He was for slavery. He had 3 slave states by the end of the election. He was born in Nashville Tennesse. Before the election was in politices. He was the Tennessee senator. He had a lot of slaves but he didn't want slavery to grow any more. He running mate was Edward Everett

The Winner
The winner of the election was Abraham Linclon. He won the election by a lot. He served 1 1/2 terms as president. He was murdered in the middle of his 2nd term. Then his vice president became president. When Linclon was president his major accomplishment was that he abbolished slavery for everyone.