excess of the 126 required to win.(c) One elector from Nevada did not vote. Geography of results Cartographic gallery Results by state Source (most states): Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp. 247–57. Source (Tennessee): contemporary Chicago Tribune newspaper. Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): Close states States in red were won by Republican Abraham Lincoln; states in blue were won by Democrat George B. McClellan. State where the margin of victory was under 1% (33 electoral votes): New York 0.92% (6,749 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 5% (35 electoral votes): Connecticut 2.76% (2,405 votes) Pennsylvania 3.50% (20,075 votes) Delaware 3.62% (612 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 10% (65 electoral vote): New Hampshire 5.12% (3,562 votes) New Jersey 5.68% (7,301 votes) Indiana 7.19% (20,189 votes) Michigan 7.20% (10,636 votes) Oregon 7.8% (1,431 votes) Illinois 8.8% (30,788 votes) (Tipping-Point State) See also American election campaigns in the 19th century Electoral history of Abraham Lincoln History of the United States (1849–1865) Second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln Third Party System 1864–65 United States House of Representatives elections Footnotes References Further reading Balsamo, Larry T. We Cannot Have Free Government without Elections': Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1864", Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (2001): 181–99. Donald, David. Lincoln (1995) pp. 516–544 online Dudley, Harold M. "The Election of 1864," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Mar. 1932), pp. 500–18 in JSTOR Fehrenbacher, Don E. "The Making of a Myth: Lincoln and the Vice-Presidential Nomination in 1864". Civil War History 41.4 (1995): 273–290. Long, David E. Jewel of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Re-election and the End of Slavery (1994). Merrill, Louis Taylor. "General Benjamin F. Butler in the Presidential Campaign of 1864". Mississippi Valley Historical Review 33 (March 1947): 537–70. in JSTOR Nelson, Larry E. Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric: Confederate Policy for the United States Presidential Contest of 1864 University of Alabama Press, 1980. Nevins, Allan. The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory, 1864–1865 (vol 8 1971). pp 97–143. Newman, Leonard. "Opposition to Lincoln in the Elections of 1864", Science & Society, vol. 8, no. 4 (Fall 1944), pp. 305–27. In JSTOR. Phillip Shaw Paludan. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (University Press of Kansas, 1994) pp. 274–93. James G. Randall and Richard N. Current. Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure. Vol. 4 of