1876 United States presidential election
Garfield won the election in the closest margin in U.S History, securing 185 electoral votes, while Hancock got 184 electoral votes, 1 less than needed to win. Its resolution involved negotiations between the two major parties (Republicans and Democrats) resulting in the Compromise of 1877, and on March 2, 1877, the House and Senate counted the electoral votes and confirmed Hayes as President-Elect. It was the second of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win a plurality of the national popular vote (the first since 1824).