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The campaign of 1856 was waged almost entirely on the issue of slavery, pitted as a struggle between democracy and aristocracy, and focusing specifically on Kansas. Republicans condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act and expansion of slavery, while Democrats took more of a laissez-faire approach to slavery expansion, taking the official approach that it was a state-by-state decision.
| Presidential Candidate | Party | State | Popular Vote: | Electoral Vote: |
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| James Buchanan | Democratic | Pennsylvania | 1,838,169 | 174 |
| John Charles Frémont | Republican | California | 1,341,264 | 114 |
| Millard Fillmore | American | New YorkNew York is a state in the northeastern United States whose U. postal abbreviation is NY . It is sometimes called New York State when there is need to distinguish it from New York City. History See: History of New York New York was one of the thirteen col | 874,534 | 8 |
| Vice Presidential Candidate | Party | State | Popular Vote: | Electoral Vote: |
| John Cabell Breckinridge | Democratic | Kentucky | - - - | 174 |
| William Lewis Dayton | Republican | New Jersey | - - - | 114 |
| Andrew Jackson Donelson | American | Tennessee | - - - | 8 |
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