James Buchanan Democratic Abraham Lincoln Republican The 1860 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election.

Tennessee was won by the Constitutional Union candidate and Tennessee native Senator John Bell and his running mate the 15th Governor of Massachusetts Edward Everett.

They defeated the Southern Democratic candidate 14th Vice President of the United States John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky) and his running mate Senator Joseph Lane of Oregon as well as Democratic candidate Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and his running mate 41st Governor of Georgia Herschel V. Johnson.

Republican Party candidate and president-elect Abraham Lincoln was not on the ballot in Tennessee.

Tennessee was the only one of ten states where Lincoln was not on the ballot that would be carried by a candidate other than Breckinridge.