A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 4, 1856, as part of the 1856 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the U.S. minister to Great Britain James Buchanan and the former U.S. representative from Kentucky's 8th congressional district John C. Breckinridge defeated the Republican ticket of the former U.S. senator from California John C. Frémont and the former U.S. senator from New Jersey William L. Dayton by a margin of 10.3%. The Know Nothing ticket of former president Millard Fillmore and the former U.S. envoy to Prussia Andrew Jackson Donelson finished third. Buchanan defeated Frémont in the national election with 174 electoral votes.
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