He received the electoral votes of every Southern State except Maryland, which pronounced for Fillmore.

In the North, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and California voted for Buchanan.

The other eleven free States, beginning with Maine and ending with Iowa, declared for Fremont.

The popular vote was for Buchanan 1,838,169, Fremont 1,341,264, Fillmore 874,534.
With the people, therefore, Mr.Buchanan was in a minority, the combined opposition outnumbering his vote by nearly four hundred thousand.
The Republicans, far from being discouraged, felt and acted as men who had won the battle.

Indeed, the moral triumph was theirs, and they believed that the actual victory at the polls was only postponed.
The Democrats were mortified and astounded by the large popular vote against them.