Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A zaben shugaban kasa, wakilin Republican James Garfield daga Ohio ya kayar da Janar Winfield Hancock na Democrat. Ko da yake Garfield ya lashe rinjaye mafi rinjaye na kuri'un zabe, ya lashe kuri'un da aka fi sani da shi ta hanyar mafi ƙanƙanci a cikin tarihin. Shugaba mai jiran gado na Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ya ƙi neman sake zaɓe. Garfield ya fito ne a matsayin mai baƙar fata na Jam'iyyar Republican bayan taron Jam'iyyar Republican na shekara ta 1880, wanda ya yi nasara a kuri'a ta 36 a kan tsohon Shugaban kasa Ulysses S. Grant, Sanata James G. Blaine, da kuma Sanata John Sherman. Hancock ya karbi zaben a 1880 Democratic National Convention
a zagaye na biyu, ya kayar da Sanata Thomas F. Bayard na Delaware da wasu 'yan takara da dama. Garfield shi ne dan majalisa na farko da aka zaba a matsayin shugaban kasa, kuma ya kasance dan majalisa ne kawai wanda ya lashe zaben shugaban kasa.