1864 United States presidential election in Minnesota
The 1864 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 8, 1864, as part of the 1864 United States presidential election. State voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]
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Minnesota was won by the incumbent President Abraham Lincoln (R-Illinois), running with former Senator and Military Governor of Tennessee Andrew Johnson, with 59.06% of the popular vote, against the 4th Commanding General of the United States Army George B. McClellan (D–Pennsylvania), running with Representative George H. Pendleton, with 40.94% of the vote.[2]
Results
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| National Union | Abraham Lincoln of Illinois | Andrew Johnson of Tennessee | 25,055 | 59.06% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | George B. McClellan of Pennsylvania | George H. Pendleton of Ohio | 17,367 | 40.94% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 42,422 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% | ||||
gollark: Not *always*.
gollark: There were also fewer of them working on problems like this than we have now, and they may have missed retrospectively-obvious things.
gollark: Tradition is *a* reason to think something might be better, but a fairly weak one, since the people of the past had rather different values, and not tools like computer simulations or more recent mathematical analyses of voting systems.
gollark: Also, yes, the context is quite different so reasons from then may not apply.
gollark: It's also possible that more complex systems may have been impractical before computers came along, although that doesn't apply to, say, approval voting.
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