<P> The election of 1876 was the last one held before the end of the Reconstruction era, which sought to protect the rights of African Americans in the South who usually voted for Republican presidential candidates . No antebellum slave state would be carried by a Republican again until the 1896 realignment, and it was not until the election of 1920 that one of the states of the Confederacy was ever again carried by a Republican presidential candidate . In that case, it was Tennessee, a state that never experienced a long period of occupation by Federal troops and was completely "reconstructed" well before the first presidential election of the Reconstruction period (1868). None of the Southern states that experienced long periods of occupation by Federal troops was carried by a Republican again until the election of 1928 (Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia). This proved the last election in which the Republicans won Louisiana until 1956 and the last in which the Republicans won South Carolina until 1964 . The next time those two states voted against the Democrats was when they supported the Dixiecrats in 1948; Louisiana also voted against the Democrats in 1968 by voting for Wallace . </P> <P> Although 1876 marked the last competitive two party election in the South before Democratic dominance of the South through 1948 and of the border states through 1896, it was also the last election (as of 2017) in which the Democrats won the pro-union counties of Mitchell in North Carolina, Wayne and Henderson in Tennessee, and Lewis County, Kentucky . The election was also the last time a Republican won the presidency without carrying Indiana . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Presidential candidate </Th> <Th> Party </Th> <Th> Home state </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Popular vote </Th> <Th> Electoral vote </Th> <Th_colspan="3"> Running mate </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Count </Th> <Th> Percentage </Th> <Th> Vice-presidential candidate </Th> <Th> Home state </Th> <Th> Electoral vote </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Rutherford B. Hayes </Td> <Td> Republican </Td> <Td> Ohio </Td> <Td> 4,034,142 </Td> <Td> 47.92% </Td> <Td> 185 </Td> <Td> William A. Wheeler </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 185 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Samuel J. Tilden </Td> <Td> Democratic </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 4,286,808 </Td> <Td> 50.92% </Td> <Td> 184 </Td> <Td> Thomas A. Hendricks </Td> <Td> Indiana </Td> <Td> 184 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Peter Cooper </Td> <Td> Greenback </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 83,726 </Td> <Td> 0.99% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> Samuel Fenton Cary </Td> <Td> Ohio </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Green Clay Smith </Td> <Td> Prohibition </Td> <Td> Kentucky </Td> <Td> 6,945 </Td> <Td> 0.08% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> Gideon T. Stewart </Td> <Td> Ohio </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> James Walker </Td> <Td> American National Party </Td> <Td> Illinois </Td> <Td> 463 </Td> <Td> 0.01% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> Donald Kirkpatrick </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> Other </Td> <Td> 6,575 </Td> <Td> 0.08% </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td_colspan="2"> Other </Td> <Td>--</Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="3"> Total </Th> <Td> 8,418,659 </Td> <Td> 100% </Td> <Td> 369 </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> <Td> 369 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="5"> Needed to win </Th> <Td> 185 </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> <Td> 185 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Presidential candidate </Th> <Th> Party </Th> <Th> Home state </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Popular vote </Th> <Th> Electoral vote </Th> <Th_colspan="3"> Running mate </Th> </Tr>

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