From 1848 to 1860, the political trend depicted on the maps in the United States is the electoral trend.
An election is a formalized collective decision-making procedure in which a population selects one or more people to serve in elected office.
Since the seventeenth century, elections have been the primary ways by which contemporary typical democracy has functioned.
This was the trend in the United States from 1848 to 1860, where Taylor got 163 of the 290 electoral votes in the election system. Taylor defeated Cass by 138,000 votes in the public election, garnering 47% of the vote, and was elected president.
Therefore, there was the election trend that shown in the maps in the United States.
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