Sorry, I was a little lazy on my note and didn't check the 76% of the vote
a web site said John Bell received in Virginia Presidential Election of
1860. I checked my copy of "Historical Statistics of the United States;
Colonial Times to 1970" published by the Census Bureau, volume 2, page
1080:
1860 Virginia Presidential Election (they rounded to nearest 1,000)
Total votes cast: 167,000
% of eliigible voters voting 71%
Republican: Lincoln 2,000
Democrat: Douglas 16,000
Southern Democrat: Breckinridge 74,000
Constitutional Union: John Bell 74,000 (Bell must have won by a
nose as he received all the Electoral votes).
Lincoln did not receive a single recorded vote in the other 10 States that
made up the Confederacy after the Election.
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Subject: 1860 Presidentail Election--
Would it be fair to conclude that, in Virginia, the voting results of the
Presidential election of 1860 was as follows:
Lincoln 1402, Bell 20,997, Breckenridge 21,908 and Douglas 5,742. These
results total 50,049 votes. The population of Virginia in 1860 was 1.6
million.
There were 549,049 African Americans; 525,000 women and 360,000 males under
the
age of 21 who could not vote. This non-voting population totaled 1,435,049.
These numbers produce an 1860 Virginia voting population of 164,951 men
over the
age of 21 who were eligible to vote, but only 50,049 were cast. From these
statistics, one could assume the turnout in the Presidential election in
Virginia was about thirty percent. OR were there other restrictions on men
over the
age of 21 causing the turnout percentage to be higher?
Ed Sherman of William Brewster
State Historian
Society of Mayflower Descendants in SC
GSMD #64,667 SC #609
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