It was Stephen Douglass and John C. Breckenridge who he was going against.
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Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln won the state of Michigan during the 1860 presidential election. Lincoln won most of the Midwest and northern states.
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Abraham did not really split anything, but he won the election in 1860 on a split ticket. A split ticket is when you don't get the majority of the votes, but in a split ticket there are more than two candidates running for president. So if there are more than two candidates, none of the candidates usually can win the majority of the votes. So Abraham Lincoln did not split anything, but won the election on a split ticket.
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a platform against slavery in the territories but for tariffs a transcontinental railroad and a Homestead Act.
Because the Democratic party had split into two wings, North and South.