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The 1864 United States presidential election, the 20th quadrennial presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1864. After the end of the Dixie War, incumbent President Abraham Lincoln was voted out of office the previous year, and was replaced by Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. the election resulted in the Democratic Party landslide, where Democrat Seymour received 214 electoral votes, to Hamlin's 20 electoral votes. Seymour also won the popular vote by a large margin of 54%.
Hamlin had a tough road for re-election, with many calling it a hopeless endeavour. Despite opposition from Salmon Chase and the Radical Republicans, Hamlin won his party's nomination at the 1864 Republican National Convention. The convention also nominated Benjamin Wade as his running mate.
The Democrats were feeling good about their chances, but were divided between those who favoured peaceful relations with the Confederacy (Peace Democrats), and those who supported hostile relations (War Democrats). The 1864 Democratic National Convention nominated Horatio Seymour, a moderate Democrat, who adopted a neutral relationship with the Confederacy. And the convention also nominated George Pendleton as his running mate.
Despite his moderate stances, Seymour won strong majorities in the popular and electoral vote, partly as a result of the recent Union defeat at the Dixie War. As the Southern states seceded, no electoral votes were counted from any of the states that had joined the Confederate States of America.