1861 Confederate States presidential election
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Presidential election results map. Green denotes states won by Davis/Stephens. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential elections were held in the Confederate States of America on November 6, 1861. The incumbent provisional president Jefferson Davis and provisional vice president Alexander H. Stephens were re-elected unopposed. These were the first and only presidential elections held under the permanent constitution of the Confederacy. Davis and Stephens's term ended prematurely on May 5, 1865 following the dissolution of the Confederate government, less than three years before they were scheduled to leave office on February 22, 1868.