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1856
| Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Electoral votes |
| James Buchanan / John C. Breckinridge (Democratic) | 1,838,169 | 174 |
| John C. Frémont / William L. Dayton (Republican) | 1,341,264 | 114 |
| Millard Fillmore / Andrew Jackson Donelson (American [Know-Nothing]) | 874,534 | 8 |
Buchanan received the nomination on the seventeenth ballot; incumbent president Franklin Pierce was in second place for the first fourteen ballots, before U.S. senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois overtook him. Fillmore also ran as a Whig, the last election in which the Whig Party participated.
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