I'm doing another pointless excercise, this time to see which candidate won the state of a majority of tems each election. EV totals reflect number of teams in that state; actual winners are bolded.
1872:
Grant: 8Greeley: 1Two teams in Washington not counted.
1876:
Hayes: 4Tilden: 41880:
Garfield: 8Hancock: 01884:
Blaine: 18Cleveland: 13Chicago-Pittsburgh arbitrarily assigned to Illinois. Two teams in Washington not counted.
1888:
Harrison: 11Cleveland: 4One team in Washington not counted.
1892:
Cleveland: 6Harrison: 5One team in Washington not counted.
1896:
McKinley: 10Bryan: 1One team in Washington not counted.