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Presidential Votes

Year
Whig/Republican
Votes
Democrat
Votes
Third Party
Votes
1828 John Q. Adams
278
Andrew Jackson*
97
1832 Henry Clay
694
Andrew Jackson*
412
1836 Daniel Webster
878
Martin Van Buren*
894
1840 William Henry Harrison*
1470
Martin Van Buren
856
1844  Henry Clay
1745
James K. Polk*
1096
James Birney (Liberty)
246
1848 Zachary Taylor*
1959
Lewis Cass
870
Martin Fillmore (Free Soil)
1096
1852 Winfield Scott
2032
Franklin Pierce
1576
1856 John C. Fremont
3087
James Buchanan *
1248
Millard Fillmore (American)
182
1860 Abraham Lincoln*
2779
John C.  Breckenridge
140
John Bell (Constitution Union)
435
Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat)
1002
1864 Abraham Lincoln (Union)*
2473
George B. McClellan
1096
1868 Ulysses S. Grant*
3152
Horatio Seymour
1593
1872 Ulysses S. Grant*
3467
Horace Greeley
1673
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes*
4003
Samuel J. Tilden
3089
1880 James A. Garfield*
4515
Winfield S. Hancock
3927
1884 James G. Blaine
4785
Grover Cleveland*
3710
Benjamin F. Bulter (Greenback)
843
1888 Benjamin Harrison*
5630
Grover Cleveland
5226
1892 Benjamin Harrison
5974
Grover Cleveland*
6227
1896 William McKinley*
7870
William J. Bryan
4091
1900 William McKinley*
6726
William J. Bryan
5805
1904 Theodore Roosevelt*
7086
Alton B. Parker
5661
1908 William H. Taft*
6426
William J. Bryan
6031
1912 William H. Taft*
3034
Woodrow Wilson*
5459
Theodore Roosevelt (Bull Moose) 3783
1916 Charles E. Hughes*
6213
Woodrow Wilson*
7357
1920 Warren G. Harding*
15,456
James M. Cox
9028
1924 Calvin Coolidge*
14,361
John W. Davis
9324
Robert LaFollette (Progressive) 4496
1928 Herbert Hoover*
13,155
Alfred Smith
23,695
1932 Herbert Hoover
12,406
Franklin D. Roosevelt*
23,069
1936 Alfred M. Landon
12,512
Franklin D. Roosevelt*
25,766
1940 Wendell L. Willkie
16,260
Franklin D. Roosevelt*
29,573
1944 Thomas E. Dewey
14,400
Franklin D. Roosevelt*
27,374
1948 Thomas E. Dewey
15,677
Harry S. Truman*
30,633
Henry A. Wallace (Progressive)
511
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower*
21,735
Adlai E. Stevenson
27,519
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower*
22,082
Adlai E. Stevenson
24,471
1960 Richard M. Nixon
12,343
John F. Kennedy*
34,186
1964 Barry M. Goldwater
6714
Lyndon B. Johnson*
35,651
1968 Richard M. Nixon *
8559
Hubert Humphrey
28,735
1972 Richard M. Nixon*
15,245
George McGovern
23,583

George C. Wallace  
(America-Independent)
1006