The Final Result

Candidates

Public Opinion

Election Strategies

Consequences

Election of 1864

George Pendleton

(McClellan’s VP)

George McClellan

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

(Lincoln’s VP)

The Candidates

A Bitter RivalryLincoln McClell

an

Negotiated Peace with

South

Anti-Lincoln War Policy

Democrat Beliefs

Preserve Union

Emancipation

Republican Beliefs

Personal Animosities

Election Stratagems

Democrats Republicans

RepublicansOpposition to

Lincoln = Disloyalty to Union

“Don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream.”

Allow Union soldiers to vote (Return to state or absentee ballots)

Vowed to prosecute war with more vigor

Rejected the section of platform that sought peace

Democrats

The Stragies

The Public’s Opinion

Abraham Lincoln

George McClellan

LincolnPace of war slow;

Lincoln thought he had no chance of reelection

Union victories soon after nominations boosted opinion (ex. Fall of Atlanta)

War Democrat, praised as amazing trainer of new recruits

Many took his hesitancy in battle as a sign of cowardice

McClellan

Opinion of the Public

Final Results

Results of Voting

Lincoln2,219,924 Popular Votes

212 Electoral Votes

1,814,228 Popular Votes

21 Electoral Votes

McClellan

The Election

Abraham LincolnReeleceted

Consequences

Effects of the Election

Effects of the Election

Lincoln’s continued presidency leaves him open to his assassination on April 14, 1865

Democrats are once again defeated, due to party divides

The Republican party will gain a majority in the legislature

Lincoln’s death boosts Andrew Johnson into office

Reconstruction handled poorly possibly due to Johnson