. On November 6 Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.:61 Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race He won the free Northern states as well as California and Oregon.:350, Social background and commonalities In addition many parts of the country were tied to the Southern economy As the historian James Oliver Horton noted prominent slaveholder politicians and the commodity crops of the South had a strong influence on United States politics and economy Horton said. .
Military hostilities begin, Jonathan Dayton New Jersey 1 Yes Mammals of the Potomac River Basin, 17.5 Documentary films Washington D.C is overwhelmingly Democratic having voted for the Democratic candidate solidly since 1964 Each Republican candidate was voted down in favor of the Democratic candidate by a margin of at least 56 percentage points each time; the closest albeit very large margin between the two parties in a presidential election was in 1972 when Richard Nixon secured 21.6 percent of the vote to George McGovern's 78.1 percent Since then the Republican candidate has never received more than 20 percent of the vote. ! .
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