Candidates:Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln (Illinois) and Hannibal Hamlin (Maine)Southern Democratic Party: John Breckeridge (Kentucky) and Joseph Lane (Oregon)Constitutional Union Party: John Bell (Tennessee) and Edward Everett (Massachusetts)Democratic Party: Stephen Douglas (Illinois) and Herschel Johnson (Georgia) Election Results: Lincoln/Hamlin: 180 electoral votes, 1.86 million popular votes Breckenridge/Lane: 72 electoral votes, 848,000 popular votes Bell/Everett: 39 electoral … Continue reading 1860: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War