A county result
Mercer County, presidential election of 1856
Mercer County
60.94%James Buchanan (D), the most votes1,902Votes counted for president
What this is
Mercer County counted 1,902 votes for president across 3 candidates in 1856. 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.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Buchanan | Democratic | 1,159 | 60.94% |
| John C. Frémont | Republican | 629 | 33.07% |
| Millard Fillmore | American (Know Nothing) | 114 | 5.99% |
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 John C. Frémont (Republican) with 48.51%, a 4.3-point margin over James Buchanan. The country elected James Buchanan.
- Against the state
- Mercer County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+27.9 against Ohio's R+4.3: 32.2 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 85th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Matched
- Mercer County parted from Ohio and voted for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
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Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1856 United States presidential election in Ohio
- 1856 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1856-11-04 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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