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1872 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results

1872 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results

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The United States presidential election of 1872 was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. The incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant was easily elected to a second term in office, with Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts as his running mate. Grant's decisive re-election was achieved in the face of a split within the Republican Party that resulted in a third party of Liberal Republicans nominating Horace Greeley to oppose Grant, which action caused the Democratic Party to cancel its convention, support Greeley as well, and not nominate a candidate of its own.

On November 29, 1872, after the popular vote was counted, but before the Electoral College cast its votes, Greeley died. As a result, electors previously committed to Greeley voted for four different candidates for president and eight different candidates for vice-president.

Presidential candidate

Party

Home state

Popular vote

Electoral

Running mate

Count

Pct

vote

Vice-presidential candidate

Home state

Elect. vote

Ulysses S. Grant(Incumbent)

Republican

Ohio

35,98,235

55.60%

286

Henry Wilson

Massachusetts

286

Thomas A. Hendricks

Democratic

Indiana

 

 

42

 

 

42

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Liberal Republican/Democratic

Missouri

 

 

18

 

 

18

Horace Greeley

Liberal Republican/Democratic

New York

 

 

3

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Missouri

3

Charles J. Jenkins

Democratic

Georgia

 

 

2

 

 

2

David Davis

Liberal Republican

Illinois

 

 

1

 

 

1

Charles O'Conor

Bourbon Democratic

New York

18,602

0.30%

0

John Quincy Adams II

Massachusetts

0

James Black

Prohibition

Pennsylvania

5,607

0.10%

0

John Russell

Michigan

0

Other

10,473

0.20%

0

 

 

 

Total

64,67,678

100.00%

352

 

 

 

Needed to win

177