Results Of Election Of 1860. Lincolns 1858 speeches during his debates with Douglas made the Republican Partys position well known. On November 6 1860 voters across the nation went to the polls in record numbers to cast their ballots.
Lincolns election served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War. By Lincolns inauguration in March 1861 seven states from the Deep South had already left the Union. Douglas and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell.
Lincoln won the election receiving 398 percent of the popular vote and 180 electoral votes despite not appearing on the ballot in ten slave states.
On November 6 1860 voters across the nation went to the polls in record numbers to cast their ballots. Lincolns victory is odd by the numbers. The election of 1860 was important because it lead to the Civil War. It was held on Tuesday November 6 1860.