Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

Alcott voted in a presidential election for the first time in 1860.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

* 1860 – Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.

Following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, however, events accelerated.

In the election of 1860, he voted for the fusion ticket in New York which was opposed to Abraham Lincoln, but he could not approve of President Buchanan's course in dealing with secession and eventually supported Lincoln.

Just six years later, this new party captured the presidency when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860.

He pointed to Canada's regional politics, as well as the U. S. presidential election of 1860, as examples of often temporary regional instability that occurs from time-to-time in otherwise stable two-party systems ( Riker, 1982 ).

The results in the Electoral College indicated that the Republican Party would probably win the next presidential election, in 1860, if it won just two more states, such as Pennsylvania and Illinois.

The United States presidential election of 1860 was a quadrennial election held on November 6, 1860, for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.

However, he was able to regain enough money in his law practice to purchase an Illinois newspaper to support him in the presidential election of 1860, for which he gained the financial support of businessmen in Philadelphia and New York City.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln, having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to work at the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could pioneer to make way for more women in government service.

The climax was the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, which led immediately to the secession of South Carolina, followed by six other cotton states.

The 1860 presidential election of Republican Abraham Lincoln triggered a crisis as eleven slave states seceded to found the Confederacy in 1861.

In the 1860 presidential election, he ran as one of two candidates of the fractured Democratic Party, representing Southern Democrats.

Breckinridge was an unsuccessful candidate for president in the 1860 election.

In 1860, after the election of Abraham Lincoln to the American presidency, Navarro County in protest lowered the American flag from the courthouse and instead hoisted the Texas flag.

During the war between the states 13. 64 per cent of the voters in the 1860 election volunteered for service.

However, at the end of Reconstruction, the second " s " was quietly dropped and the designated honoree was changed to Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860 as evidenced by a historical marker about the creation of Douglas County:

For example, in the 2008 United States presidential election, a politician and actor named Fred Thompson ran for the Republican Party nomination.

Once Republicans regained control of the Senate, Glenn also served as the ranking minority member on a special Senate investigative committee chaired by Tennessee senator Fred Dalton Thompson that looked into illegal foreign donations by China to U. S. political campaigns for the 1996 election.

Thompson won re-election in 2006 and again in 2010, making him the first Republican to win election in a Knott County office.

On April 5, 2005, Thompson won an unexpected victory in the common council election in Tomah, Wisconsin.

In 2008, Thompson took the place of outgoing Mayor Ludeking, whom he defeated in the mayoral election on April 1 by nearly a 2-1 margin.

After first announcing the formation of an exploratory committee in late 2006, Thompson announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election on April 1, 2007.

He was elected to the United States Senate in 1972, defeating appointed U. S. Senator David H. Gambrell in the Democratic primary and U. S. Rep. Fletcher Thompson in the general election.

He supported Democrats Fernando Ferrer in the 2005 New York mayoral election and Bill Thompson in 2009.

Dow was the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1880, running on a ticket with prohibitionist Henry Adams Thompson, and the ticket came in fourth place, receiving 10, 305 votes.

In the 2008 general election, his party lost the elections to the Democratic Labour Party and their leader David Thompson.

The general secretary of the Yorkshire NUM, Sam Thompson, wrote to NUM members encouraging them to attend the selection meeting in January 1987, Illsley was selected and then easily elected to the House of Commons in the general election in June 1987.

With the support of both Manning and PC leader Robert Stanfield, Thompson sought and won the PC nomination in his electoral district ( riding ) once the June 1968 federal election was called.

He won the congressional seat in a special election called when the incumbent, T. Ashton Thompson of Ville Platte, was killed in an automobile accident.

Thompson was first elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1959 Ontario election as a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party in the Toronto riding of Dovercourt.

On the advice of doctors, Thompson resigned as leader in November 1966 without ever having led his party in an election.

The party had previously chosen Andy Thompson as its leader in September 1964, with the expectation that he would lead the party in the next provincial election.

In the 1965 election, Caouette's Ralliement won nine seats, while Social Credit led by Thompson won five seats.

A Republican, Thompson was elected to four consecutive terms and held the office for 14 years ; his first term was only for two years as Illinois moved its gubernatorial election from Presidential election years to midterm Congressional election years.

Thompson was the first candidate for Governor to receive over 3 million votes, and his tally of 3, 000, 395 remains the highest number of votes ever cast for a candidate in an election for Governor of Illinois.

He supported former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential election, and the American Bar Association mentioned Thompson again as a possible Attorney General or Supreme Court justice during a potential John McCain administration.

He announced in January 2009 that he would not run for re-election in the next federal election However, on April 28, 2009, Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald announced that Casey would be the senior representative for the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs in Ottawa for the province, replacing Ian Thompson.

Prior to the 1972 election, Thompson moved to British Columbia to teach and tried to win a seat from that province, but was defeated in the attempt.