The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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The popular vote for President of the Yankee States.

The Tribune contains the official returns of the vote for Presidential Electors from nearly every State in the Union. In consequence of the early meeting of the Electoral Colleges, it was impossible to get in all the returns in some of the large Western States, such as Missouri, Iowa, the Michigan Peninsula, Minnesota, etc.; but these deficiencies are trivial, and make no difference in the relative proportion of the vote. The aggregate vote, as actually returned, is 3,957,702-- say 4,000,000, including such as were excluded by being too late. Of those duly returned, the respective candidates had:

Abraham Lincoln	2,182,502
George Brinton McClellan	1,775,200
majority for Lincoln	407,302

taking the entire popular vote in all the States entitled to a voice, we may put Lincoln's clear majority at 450,000. the vote in detail (Estimating Oregon) is as follows, comparing with the same States in 1860:

President, 1864. President, 1860.

				All
States.	Lincoln.	McCle'n.	Lincoln.	others.
California	43,844	26,875	39,173	79,667
Connecticut	44,691	42,285	43,792	33,454
Delaware	8,155	8,767	3,815	12,224
Illinois	189,496	158,730	172,161	167,532
Indiana	150,238	130,233	139,033	133,110
Iowa	89,075	49,596	70,409	57,922
Kansas	16,441	3,691
Kentucky	26,592	61,478	1,364	144,852
Maine	61,803	44,211	62,811	35,107
Maryland	40,153	32,739	2,294	90,208
Massachusetts	126,742	48,745	106,533	62,642
Michigan	85,352	67,370	88,480	66,267
Minnesota	25,060	17,375	22,069	12,730
Missouri	71,192	31,299	17,028	148,490
Nevada (est.)	10,217	6,984
New Hampshire	34,382	32,200	37,519	28,434
New Jersey	60,723	68,924	58,324	62,801
New York	368,735	361,986	362,646	312,510
Ohio	264,975	205,557	231,610	210,831
Oregon (est.)	8,900	6,000	5,270	9,140
Pennsylvania	296,391	276,316	268,030	208,412
Rhode Island	13,692	8,740	12,244	7,707
Vermont	42,419	13,321	33,808	9,036
West Virginia	23,152	10,438		44,941
Wisconsin	80,082	63,028	86,110	66,070
Total	2,182,502	1,775,200	1,864,523	2,004,093
Per cent	55.19	44.85	48.20	51.80
Lincoln's maj.	407,302	Anti-Lincoln maj.,		439,570

Whole vote in 1860, 3,868,616; in 1864, (estimating that not counted,) 4,000,000; increase, 131,384. The entire vote for President in 1860, including all the Southern States, was 4,680,193.