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Election day
November 7
Incumbent president
Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
Next Congress
45th
Presidential election
Partisan control
Republican hold
Popular vote margin
Democratic +3.2%
Electoral vote
Rutherford B. Hayes (R)
185
Samuel J. Tilden (D)
184
1876 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Hayes, blue denotes states won by Tilden. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate.
Senate elections
Overall control
Republican hold
Seats contested
25 of 76 seats[1]
Net seat change
Democratic +5[2]
House elections
Overall control
Democratic hold
Seats contested
All 293 voting members
Net seat change
Republican +33[2]
1876 House of Representatives election results
Democratic seat Republican seat
Independent seat
The 1876 United States elections were held on November 7. In one of the most disputed presidential elections in American history, Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio ended up winning despite Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York earning a majority of the popular vote. The Republicans maintained their Senate majority and cut into the Democratic majority in the House.
This marks one of four occasions where a newly elected president entered office with a divided legislature, occurring again in 1860, 1884, and 1980. 1980 is the only other occasion where the president's party held the Senate, but not the House. A divided Congress also occurred after the 1984 and 2012 elections.
^Not counting special elections.
^ abCongressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account.
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