Following the election, Pennsylvania would establish itself as a Republican stronghold. This would be the final time that Pennsylvania would vote for a Democratic candidate until
Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state in
1936, as well as the last time that the state voted for a non-Republican candidate until
Theodore Roosevelt’s third-party bid in
1912.
As of the
2020 presidential election, this is the only time
Snyder County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[1] Lebanon County, Lancaster County, Huntingdon County, and Somerset County have voted for the Democratic presidential candidate once since. Blair, Dauphin, and Philadelphia counties would not vote Democratic again until 1936, and Delaware and Lancaster counties until
1964. This remains the only presidential election in history in which
New York voted Republican while its neighboring state, Pennsylvania, voted Democratic.
Results
1856 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[2]