+ The above table shows the returns for 1868, as filed at the Secretary of State's office. The parishes of Avoyelles, West Feliciana, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, Sabine, St. John Baptist, St. Martin's, Terrebonne and Washington, were afterward thrown out for a technical informality, making the legal official vote 27,911 for Grant, and 41.358 for Seymour, giving the latter a majority of 13,447, and making the full vote 69,269. This gave the Republicans the Second Congressional District, (the only one carried by the Democrats at the last election.) The Democrats gain the other districts. Mr. Menard, the first colored Representative to Congress, was elected in the Second District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Col. Mann.

Total
Majority
Aggregate..

2.833 109 5,250 5,777 205

128,550 97,069 91,521 74,604 88,480 65,057 71,762 52,136 1,660 31,481

16,917

23,423

17,966

225,619
166,125
153,597
Bell received 405, and Breckenridge 805 votes.
+ No return.

*New Counties.

125,558

2,681

1,796

2,832

1,980

2,324

1,475

798 401
1,985 1,400 2,175 1,274
3,632 3,836 4,286 3,630 3,570
5,946 7,670 7,325 6,701
9,402 2,959

747

350

442

242

1,710