Lincoln handily won the electoral votes:<ul id="mwB1M"><li id="mwB1Q"><i id="mwB1U"><b id="mwB1Y">Abraham Lincoln: 180 (40% of the <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="./Direct_election" title="Direct election" id="mwB1c">popular vote</a>)</b></i></li> <li id="mwB1g"><b id="mwB1k">J.C. Breckinridge</b>: 72 (18% of the popular vote)</li> <li id="mwB1o"><b id="mwB1s">John Bell</b>: 39 (13% of the popular vote)</li> <li id="mwB1w"><b id="mwB10">Stephen A. Douglas</b>: 12 (30% of the popular vote)</li></ul>
