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. Thanks, Rich Fulton, [log in to unmask] World Wide Mid-Market Sales Executive, zSeries SW, SWG IBM, home office 2409 Columbia Drive Flower Mound, TX. 75022 USA Phone: 972-724-4794, t/l 450-8996 mobile: 469-360-3875 ---------------------- Forwarded by Richard Fulton/Dallas/IBM on 02/27/2004 09:49 AM --------------------------- Please respond to [log in to unmask] Sent by: "Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] cc: 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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html