John Bell, the Constitutional Party candidate for president represented the border state of Tennessee.
John C. Breckinridge, the then incumbent Vice-President, a native of Kentucky, was the Southern Democrats' candidate for president.
Stephen Arnold Douglas - The incumbent Senator from Illinois, was the Northern Democrats' candidate.
Abraham Lincoln, from Illinois, was the Republican party nominee for President.
Lincoln received 180 Electoral Votes, carrying 18 states: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Breckinridge won 11 states -- 72 Electoral Votes. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North carolina, South Carolina and Texas.
Bell won the Electoral Votes of 3 states -- 39; Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.
Douglas received the Electoral Vote of 1 state - Missouri. (12)
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