This marked the first of eighteen Republican victories in Michigan over the next nineteen presidential election cycles. Michigan would not vote for a Democratic candidate again until Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, and would not vote for a different candidate until Theodore Roosevelt’s third-party bid in 1912. Michigan would also not send any Democratic electors to the Electoral College until Grover Cleveland won 5 of the state's 14 electoral votes in 1892.
Results
1856 United States presidential election in Michigan[2][3]