U.S. presidential election of 1860, American election in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. After Lincoln’s election seven Southern states seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

Election of 1860 Lincoln’s Political History. Abraham Lincoln ’s political ambitions began in 1832 when he was just 23 years old and ran... 1860 Republican National Convention. The Republican Party held its second national convention on May 16, 1860, in... Democrats Split Over Slavery. The ...

1860 Election Facts Welcome: Minnesota and Oregon become states during this election cycle Original 13 States control fewer than 50% of total Electoral Votes for first time Lincoln received only about 40% of the popular vote in a divided nation on the brink of Civil War New Jersey: Douglas won the ...

The Democratic Party began its convention in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 23, 1860. The incumbent president, James Buchanan, was a Democrat from Pennsylvania who had Southern sympathies but opposed secession.

They decided that the best way out of the present difficulties that faced the nation was to take no stand at all on the issues that divided the north and the south. The votes of the Electoral College were split among four candidates in the 1860 presidential election.

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The election of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency over Stephen A. Douglas and two others, essentially was a referendum on the expansion of slavery. Lincoln won 40% of the popular vote ...