1860 Illinois gubernatorial election

1860 Illinois gubernatorial election
	November 6, 1860
	November 6, 1860
	County Results
Governor before election; John Wood; Republican	Elected Governor ; Richard Yates; Republican

The Illinois gubernatorial election of 1860 was the twelfth election for this office. Republican governor William Henry Bissell died early in his term, and incumbent governor John Wood did not seek re-election. Former Democratic Congressman and former Clerk of the U.S. House James C. Allen was the Democratic nominee.[1] A Number of third-party candidates ran as well; none received over one percent of the vote. At this time in Illinois history the Lieutenant Governor was elected on a separate ballot from the governor. This would remain the case until the adoption of the 1970 constitution.

Results

1860 gubernatorial election, Illinois
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Republican	Richard Yates	172,196	51.15%	+4.22%
	Democratic	James C. Allen	159,253	47.34%	+2.35%
	Independent	Thomas Hope	2,049	0.61%	N/A
	Constitutional Union	John T. Stuart	1,626	0.48%	N/A
	Independent	J. W. Chickering	1,148	0.34%	N/A
	Independent	William Brown	68	0.02%	N/A
	Independent	John Hassack	46	0.01%	N/A
	Independent	Scattering	17	0.01%	N/A
Majority			12,943	3.85%	-6.77%
Turnout			336,403	100.00%
	Republican hold		Swing

gollark: Oh, and also stuff like this (https://archive.is/P6mcL) - there seem to be companies looking at using your information for credit scores and stuff.

gollark: But that is... absolutely not the case.

gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.

gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.

gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically

References

"Our Campaigns - IL Governor Race - Nov 06, 1860". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved 2019-01-04.

Illinois Blue Book 1899
The Political Graveyard

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[1] "Our Campaigns - IL Governor Race - Nov 06, 1860". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved 2019-01-04.