Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump come from New York State. Has it ever happened before that the two last candidates were from the same state?

by Gustacho
Gama_Rex

Yes! The 1944 election pitted Franklin Roosevelt, a former New York governor running for a fourth Presidential term, against Thomas Dewey, the incumbent governor of New York.

Roosevely won the election by a 7.5 percent margin (similar to Obama's margin over McCain in 2008), by far the closest election of Roosevelt's four wins. Roosevelt won New York 52-47 over its incumbent governor.

The 1944 election is a real oddity. Thanks in large part to its wartime timing, the number of votes cast declined dramatically, from ~50 million in 1940 to ~48 million in 1944.

TheyMightBeTrolls

In the four-way presidential race of 1860, the top two candidates by popular vote were Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, both of Illinois. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois senate race, and was considered the moderate candidate on slavery. The moderate democratic base was widely spread, which caused him to finish fourth in the electoral college while being second in the popular vote.