The 1860 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Illinois voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Illinois was the home state of both major party nominees, Republican candidate and former Whig congressman Abraham Lincoln as well as Democratic candidate Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The race was, in effect, a rematch of the 1858 Senate election in Illinois, where Douglas prevailed over Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln would win Illinois by a narrow margin of 3.52%.
In Illinois, the Liberty Party ran under the name Union Party. The party's candidate, Gerrit Smith, received 35 of his 171 popular votes in Illinois alone. The other 136 votes came from Ohio. Pope County has voted Democratic twice since this election (in 1992 and 1996) and Johnson County has done so once (in 1992). However, this is the last time either county gave a majority to the Democratic nominee.
Johnson County would give Douglas 96.96 percent of its vote, making it his strongest county nationwide.
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