Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner by a vote of eight to seven along party lines in the fifteen-member commission. The Senate officially declared him the winner at 4:10 am on the 2nd of March 1877.
President Rutherford B. Hayes removed all remaining U.S. military forces from Louisiana and South Carolina while outgoing President Ulysses S. Grant had already withdrawn soldiers from Florida. This withdrawal allowed Redeemer Democrats to take control immediately and effectively ended the Reconstruction Era.
C. Vann Woodward published Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction in 1951. He identified five points of compromise including the appointment of David M. Key of Tennessee as Postmaster General under the Hayes administration.
Allan Peskin argued that three of the five conditions proposed by C. Vann Woodward were never met because a southern transcontinental railroad was not built and federal legislation to industrialize the South failed to pass. He noted that the Republican Party did not abandon efforts to regulate race relations until at least 1890 despite claims of an informal deal.
A total of 20 electoral votes from Florida, Louisiana, Oregon, and South Carolina remained disputed after Samuel J. Tilden secured 184 uncontested votes while Rutherford B. Hayes held only 165. Congress resolved these disputes through a fifteen-member commission that voted eight to seven along party lines to certify each vote for Hayes.