United States Presidential Election, 1864 (Abraham Lincoln Born in the 20th Century)

The United States presidential election of 1864 was the 20th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. In this match, incumbent president Republican William H. Steward who unsuccessfully ran for reelection against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan who won the election

Since the election of 1860, the Electoral College had expanded with the admission of Kansas, West Virginia, and Nevada as free-soil states.