I already uploaded the map to this election, so I might as well add the infobox, too. Here is my infobox for the 1867 Confederate States presidential election from Harry Turtledove's classic 1992 alternate history novel
The Guns of the South
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Notes:
1: The map labels Robert E. Lee (Confederate Party) as blue and Nathan Bedford Forrest (Patriot Party) as red. However, Lee's states are red and Forrest's states are blue.
2: I originally had the map posted inside the infobox. However, the map screwed up the infobox somehow and I was forced to remove it and put it under the infobox, instead.
The
1867 Confederate States presidential election took place on November 5, 1867 and was the second sextennial presidential election held. It set the stage for the path of the country going forward, particularly as regards to slavery. Two new parties were born, the Confederate Party of General Robert E. Lee and the Patriot Party of Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Candidates
The new Confederate Party was created by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It had Liberal-Centralist positions on Federalism, nationalism and was anti-slavery. Lee was nominated to be the party's candidate while Albert Gallitin Brown was chosen as his running mate.
The new Patriot Party was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest. It had Conservative-Centralist positions on Nationalism, Confederalism, States' Rights and was pro-slavery. Forrest was nominated to be the party's candidate while Louis Wigfall was chosen to be his running mate. Forrest was also supported by the Rivington Men.
Campaign
During the campaign Forrest went on the stump around the Confederacy, while Lee remained at home. Until election day, Lee felt sure he would win. Forrest ran for president on the platform to continue slavery, while Lee promised to ease restrictions against blacks. Lee also went soft-line on the United States and made use of various issues, while Forrest just kept to his platform.
Election Results
The election came to ride on Tennessee with the Electoral College tied down 55-50 (60 were required for election). Eventually, several days after the election, Lee won the College 69-50 and the popular vote 496,536 to 466,901.
Totals by States
Totals:
Robert E. Lee-Albert Gallatin Brown (Confederate Party)
496,536 popular votes
69 electoral votes
6 states carried
Nathan Bedford Forrest-Louis Wigfall (Patriot Party)
466,901 popular votes
50 electoral votes
6 states carried
Total amount of popular votes: 963,437
Total amount of electoral votes: 119
Results by state:
Alabama
Forrest wins the state with
51,189 popular votes and also wins the states 11 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 38,933 votes. 90,122 votes in the state in total.
Arkansas
Forrest wins the state with
28,376 popular votes and also wins the states 6 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 25,776 votes. 54,152 votes in the state in total.
Florida
Lee wins the state with
7,063 popular votes and also wins the states 4 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 6,238 votes. 13,301 votes in the state in total
Georgia
Lee wins the state with
57,056 popular votes and also wins the states
12 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 49,391 votes. 106,447 votes in the state in total.
Kentucky
Lee wins the state with
80,565 popular votes and also wins the states
14 electoral votes.
Forrest comes in second with 65,651 votes. 146,216 votes in the state in total.
Louisiana
Forrest wins the state with
26, 215 popular votes and also wins the state
8 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 24,295 votes. 50,510 votes in the state in total.
Mississippi
Forrest wins the state with
39,384 popular votes and also wins the states
9 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 29,711 votes. 69,095 votes in the state in total.
North Carolina
Lee wins the state with
55,223 popular votes and also wins the states
12 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 41,489 votes. 96,712 votes in state in total.
South Carolina
No popular vote in the state, but Forrest wins the states
8 electoral votes.
Tennessee
Lee wins the state with
74,368 popular votes and also wins the states
14 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 71,738 votes. 146,106 votes in the state in total.
Texas
Forrest wins the state with
35,248 popular votes and also wins the states
8 electoral votes. Lee comes in second with 27,807 votes. 63,055 votes in the state in total.
Virginia
Lee wins the state with
75,739 popular votes and also wins the states
13 electoral votes. Forrest comes in second with 51,982. 127,721 votes in the state in total.
Note: South Carolina's electors to the Electoral College were chosen by the state's legislature rather than by popular vote.
Well, since I've added an infobox the 1867 Confederate States presidential election from Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South, I might as well upload the infobox for the 1864 United States presidential election as well.
Notes:
1: The map shows Nevada with 2 electoral votes (like in the real life 1864 US Presidential Election). However, in the book, the state has 3. In real life, three were cast, but one elector abstained and was not replaced. He was apparently replaced in the altered timeline.
2: I originally had the map posted inside the infobox. However, the map screwed up the infobox somehow and I was forced to remove it and put it under the infobox, instead.
3: I know that a War Democrat like Andrew Johnson would never be on the Radical Republican ticket with John C. Frémont. Take that up with the big man himself, Harry Turtledove.
4: I know that
Dutch_Atlantic_13 made an infobox about this election a while back. But this is established alternate history, so it's fair game.
5: I couldn't get the Radical Republicans on the infobox to link up with the article for some reason no matter how I tried to link or redirect it. So sorry that the writing under Frémont is black and not blue like it should be.
The
1864 United States presidential election, the 20th quadrennial presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. Following the aftermath of the Second American Revolution (the American Civil War), Democratic candidate Horatio Seymour defeated incumbent Republican president Abraham Lincoln by a narrow margin of 138 to 83 electoral votes and a popular vote percentage of 41.5% to 40.6%. Also running in the election were Radical Republican candidate John C. Frémont and Independent candidate George McClellan.
Nominations
Republican Party nomination
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's seizure of Washington, D.C. delayed the convention in Baltimore, Maryland, but when it finally took place it renominated President Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Hannibal Hamlin respectively.
Democratic Party Nomination
The Democrats were in no better condition than the Republicans. They had barely finished nominating former Governor of New York Horatio Seymour and Clement Vallandigham of Ohio on September 5. This was a mismatched ticket, as Seymour tended to be a War Democrat while Vallandigham was a Copperhead. This illustrated just how confused the Democrats were.
Radical Republican Nomination
In response to the Republicans renomination Lincoln and Hamlin, the Radical Republicans seceded (a word used by both the Richmond Dispatch and the northern papers) and put forward General (and the first Republican nominee from 1856) John C. Frémont (who had attempted to free Missouri's slaves in 1861, only to be overruled by Lincoln) with Senator Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who still adamantly refused to admit that his home state no longer accepted the authority of Washington D.C.
Independent Nomination
Following his failure to gain the Democratic nomination, General George McClellan had announced he would run an independent campaign like. Edward Everett (the former 1860 Constitutional Union Party running mate ) as his running mate.
Campaign
During late September, John C. Frémont gave a series of fiery speeches that put Abraham Lincoln on the defensive. Some former Democrats, like Benjamin Butler, had one foot and a couple of toes in the Frémont camp. Others, Lincoln loyalists like Edwin M. Stanton, were sorry to see the path ahead so rocky. Other Republicans, like William Seward, were against Lincoln but still within the party. At this time, George McClellan was calling for an invasion of British North America.
Results
The election ran close, and it took until November 19 to work out whether Lincoln or Seymour had won, but Seymour ultimately triumphed narrowly. Seymour won 10 states while Lincoln won 12. McClellan won only two states (Delaware and his home state of New Jersey) while Frémont won only radical Kansas.
This would be the final time Kentucky would vote in a United States presidential election. Following the election, both Kentucky and Missouri would vote in plebiscites to see if they would either remain in the Union or join the Confederacy. As a result of the plebiscites, Missouri voted to remain in the Union while Kentucky chose to join the Confederacy. Kentucky would vote in its first Confederate presidential election in 1867.
Totals:
Horatio Seymour-Clement Vallandigham (Democratic Party)
1,671,580 popular votes
138 electoral votes
10 states carried
Abraham Lincoln-Hannibal Hamlin (Republican Party)
1,638,415 popular votes
83 electoral votes
12 states carried
John C. Frémont-Andrew Johnson (Radical Republicans)
436,337 popular votes
3 electoral votes
1 state carried
George McClellan-Edward Everett (Independent)
287,749 popular votes
10 electoral votes
2 states carried
Total amount of popular vote: 4,034,081
Total amount of electoral vote: 234
Results by state:
California:
Seymour wins the state with
38,649 popular votes and also carrying its
5 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 36,108 votes, McClellan in third with 19,860 votes and Frémont in last place with 12,379.
Connecticut:
Lincoln wins the state with
35,740 popular votes and also carrying its
6 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 29653 votes, Frémont in third with 11,913 votes and McClellan in last with 9,652 votes.
Delaware:
McClellan wins the state with
5,889 popular votes and also carrying its
3 electoral votes (This state and neighboring New Jersey are the only states that McClellan won). Seymour and Lincoln come in a close second and third place with Seymour getting 4,941 votes and Lincoln getting 4,874. Frémont comes in last with just 1218 votes.
Illinois:
Lincoln wins his home state with
164,716 popular votes and also carrying its
16 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 161,233 votes, Frémont comes in third with 18,457 votes while McClellan comes in last with 3,831 votes.
Indiana:
Seymour wins the state with
124,372 popular votes and also carrying its
13 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 117,089 votes, Frémont comes in third with 29,412 votes while McClellan comes in last with 9,244 votes.
Iowa:
Lincoln wins the state with
62,618 popular votes and also carrying its
8 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 51,716 votes, Frémont comes in third with 18,457 votes while McClellan comes in last with 4,254 votes.
Kansas:
Frémont wins the state with
11,524 popular votes and also wins the state's
3 electoral votes (This was the only state that Frémont would win) . Lincoln comes in second with 6,215 votes, Seymour comes in third with 3,151 votes while McClellan comes in last with just 691 votes.
Kentucky:
Seymour wins the state with
59,213 popular votes and also wins the states
11 electoral votes. McClellan comes in second with 18,510 votes, Lincoln comes in third with 12,892 votes while Frémont comes in last with 1,473 votes.
Maine:
Lincoln wins the state with
46,034 popular votes and also wins the states
7 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 40,638 votes, Frémont comes in third with 23,303 votes while McClellan comes in last with 4,821 votes.
Maryland:
Seymour wins the state with
40,892 popular votes and also wins the states
7 electoral votes. McClellan comes in second with 19,900 votes, Lincoln comes in third with 18,879 votes while Frémont comes in last 2,114 votes.
Massachusetts:
Lincoln wins the state with
83,005 popular votes and also wins the states
12 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 42,468 votes, Frémont comes in third with 35,273 votes while McClellan comes in last with 14,741 votes.
Michigan:
Lincoln wins the state with
74,106 popular votes and also wins the state
8 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 71,070 votes, Frémont comes in third with 19338 votes while McClellan comes in last with just 661 votes.
Minnesota:
Lincoln wins the state with
19,465 popular votes and also wins the states
4 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 15,818 votes, McClellan comes in third with 13,461 votes and Frémont comes in last with 6,615 votes.
Missouri:
Seymour wins the state with
49,147 popular votes and also wins the states
11 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 37,356 votes, McClellan comes in third with 13,461 votes while Frémont comes in last with 4,318 votes.
Nevada:
Lincoln wins the state with
7,389 popular votes and also wins the states
3 electoral votes. Seymour comes in a close second with 6,814 votes, Frémont comes in third with 1,626 votes while McClellan comes in last with just 591 votes.
New Hampshire:
Lincoln wins the state with
30,150 popular votes and also wins the states
5 electoral votes, Seymour comes in second with 26,758 votes, Frémont comes in third with 11,49 votes while McClellan comes in last with just 1,323 votes.
New Jersey:
McClellan wins the state with
50,982 popular votes and also wins the states
7 electoral votes (This state and neighboring Delaware are the only states that McClellan won), Seymour comes in a close second with 49,051 votes, Lincoln comes in third with 16,350 votes while Fremont comes in last with 12,359 votes.
New York:
Seymour wins the state with
333,209 popular votes and wins the states
33 electoral votes (the most votes from any state). Lincoln comes in second with 293,019 votes, Frémont comes in third with 87,687 votes while McClellan comes in last with 16,807.
Ohio:
Seymour wins the state with
219,618 popular votes and also wins the states
21 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 197,939 votes, Frémont comes in third place with 41,002 votes while McClellan comes in last with 12,725 votes.
Oregon:
Seymour wins the state with
6,789 popular votes wand also wins the states
3 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 5,210 votes while McClellan and Frémont come in a close third and last with McClellan getting 3,302 votes and Frémont coming in close behind with 3,064 votes.
Pennsylvania:
Seymour wins the state with
228,678 popular votes and also wins the states
26 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 217,033 votes, McClellan comes in third with 72,371 votes while Frémont comes in last with 55,652 votes.
Rhode Island:
Lincoln wins the state with
8,696 popular votes and also wins the states
4 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 7,820 votes, Frémont comes in third with 5559 votes while McClellan comes in last with just 992 votes.
Vermont:
Lincoln wins the state with
25,083 popular votes and also carrying its
5 electoral votes. Frémont comes in second with 17,391 votes, Seymour comes in third with 11,873 votes while McClellan comes in last with 1,394 votes.
West Virginia:
Lincoln wins the state with
19,585 popular votes and also carrying the states
5 electoral votes. Seymour comes in second with 11,754 votes, Frémont comes in third with 2,197 votes while McClellan comes in last with 1,091 votes.
Wisconsin:
Seymour wins the state with
68,996 popular votes and also carrying the states
8 electoral votes. Lincoln comes in second with 66,159 votes, Frémont comes in third with 13,590 votes while McClellan comes in last with just 597 votes.