Video: 'Election Night 1876: Rutherford Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden | Full CNN Coverage'

(Tuesday, November 7, 1876, during the 1876 presidential campaign) — Democratic Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York won the popular vote today over Republican Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio but failed to win a majority of the Electoral College by one vote in one of the most contentious, controversial and disputed presidential elections in American history. Continue reading Tilden wins popular vote over Hayes but electoral deadlock leaves presidency in limbo 150 years ago today (Nov 7 1876) →