Despite Republican candidate and former Illinois representative Abraham Lincoln having been born and raised for the first five years of his life in Kentucky, he came in a distant fourth, failing to win 1% of the vote. Even worse, Lincoln failed to win LaRue County, the location of his birth. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Clay County and Owsley County voted for a Democratic candidate.
Lincoln's support came from German-Americans and the mountainous counties.[2]
Results
1860 United States presidential election in Kentucky[1]