Six candidates were running:
Stephen A. Douglas from Illinois,
James Guthrie from Kentucky,
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter from Virginia,
Joseph Lane from Oregon,
Daniel S. Dickinson from New York, and
Andrew Johnson from Tennessee, while three other candidates,
Isaac Toucey from Connecticut,
James Pearce from Maryland, and
Jefferson Davis from Mississippi (the future
president of the Confederate States) also received votes.