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United States presidential election, 1880

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 3, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 23:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)



The United States presidential election of 1880, held on November 2, 1880, was a contest between Republican James A. Garfield and Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock, with Garfield being elected president. The Republicans nominated Garfield, an Ohio Congressman and Civil War general and the Democratics selected Pennsylvania-born Civil War general and career army officer Hancock as their nominee. The dominance of those two major parties began to fray as a new left-wing party, the Greenback Party, nominated another Civil War general, Iowa Congressman James B. Weaver. In an campaign fought mainly over issues of Civil War loyalties, tariffs, and Chinese immigration, Garfield and Hancock each took just over 48 percent of the popular vote. Weaver and two other minor candidates made up the remaining percentage. Voter turnout was among the highest in the nation's history. In the end, the two main candidates' popular vote totals were separated by fewer than 2,000 votes, the smallest popular vote victory ever recorded. In the electoral college, Garfield's victory was decisive as he won nearly all of the populous Northern states for a 214 to 155 victory.
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 * Main editors: Coemgenus
 * Promoted: October 6, 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: The first U.S. presidential election to be featured, I'd propose to run it on November 3, which will be an American election day (though not a presidential election). November 2, the actual anniversary, seems to have a good choice already queued up.
 * Support as nominator. Coemgenus (talk) 14:04, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * This is not on the summary chart, can someone please add? I would do it my self but I don't know how to code it,--67.68.29.107 (talk) 17:08, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support: On the first Tuesday of November, general election day, USA, very appropriate topic.   Montanabw (talk)  20:15, 10 October 2015 (UTC)