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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1872 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
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 |
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Count |
Pct |
vote |
Vice-presidential candidate |
Home state |
Elect. vote |
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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 |
|
|
|
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Total |
64,67,678 |
100.00% |
352 |
|
|
|
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Needed to win |
177 |
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