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Belmont County, presidential election of 1876

Belmont County

50.03%Samuel J. Tilden (D), the most votes10,041Votes counted for president

Every election in Belmont County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1876

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What this is

Belmont County counted 10,041 votes for president across 3 candidates in 1876. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Samuel J. TildenDemocratic5,02450.03%
Rutherford B. HayesRepublican4,97649.56%
OtherOther410.41%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) with 50.21%, a 1.1-point margin over Samuel J. Tilden. The country elected Rutherford B. Hayes.
Against the state
Belmont County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+0.5 against Ohio's R+1.1: 1.6 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 46th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1872
From 1872 to 1876 the county's lean moved 8.3 points toward the Democrats, from R+7.8 to D+0.5.
Matched
Belmont County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1876 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1876 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1876-11-07 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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