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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