Total Popular Vote 4,685,029 1860 (All 33 States Voting- South Carolina no popular vote, only 8 electors cast votes [est. missing popular vote about 100,000)
Total Popular Vote 4,031,195 1864 (25 States Voting- Eleven Confederate States not voting)
Total Popular Vote 5,722,394 1868 (Out of 37 States- Virginia, Mississippi and Texas not allowed to vote)
The rise is votes in some states in four years is VERY impressive, especially during a war while hundreds of thousands of troops are in the field and foreign immigration not rising by a great amount. Pennsylvania rose by nearly 100,000 votes!! Tiny Vermont rose by 11,000 and tiny Conn. Increased by 12,000 both besting the powerhouse Illinois who only increased by about 9,000 votes!
Note: In the 1864 election the following states dropped in popular vote count or stand near the same…
Kentucky 1860 – 146,216
Kentucky 1864 – 92,088
Maryland 1860 – 92,502
Maryland 1864 – 72,892
Missouri 1860 - 165,563
Missouri 1864 – 104,346
California 1860 – 119,827
California 1864 – 105,890
Delaware 1860 – 16,115
Delaware 1864 – 16,922
Wisconsin 1860 – 152,179
Wisconsin 1864 – 149,342
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The following 1864 vote shows a considerable rise in popular vote counts by States…
Conn. 1860 – 74,819
Conn. 1864 – 86,958
Illinois. 1860 – 339,666
Illinois. 1864 – 348, 236
Indiana 1860 – 272,143
Indiana 1864 – 280,117
Iowa 1860 – 128,739
Iowa 1864 – 138,025
Maine 1860 – 100,916
Maine 1864 – 115,099
Mass. 1860 – 169,876
Mass. 1864 – 175,493
Michigan 1860- 154,758
Michigan 1864 – 160,023
Minn. 1860- 34,804
Minn. 1864 – 42,433
New Hamp. 1860 – 65,943
New Hamp. 1864 – 69,630
New Jersey 1860- 121,215
New Jersey 1864 – 128,744
New York 1860- 675,156
New York 1864 – 730,721
Ohio 1860- 442, 866
Ohio 1864 – 471,283
Oregon 1860 – 14,758
Oregon 1864 – 18,350
Penn. 1860 – 476,442
Penn. 1864 – 572,707
Rhode Island 1860- 19,951
Rhode Island 1864 – 23,067
Vermont 1860- 44,644
Vermont 1864 – 55,740
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David Upton