1872 Presidential General Election Results

Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote Ulysses Grant Henry Wilson Republican 3,597,439 55.58% 286 81.3% Horace Greeley B. Gratz Brown Democratic 2,833,710 43.78% 66 18.8% Charles O'Conor John Q. Adams, II Straight-Out Democrat 23,054 0.36% 0 0.0% Other (+) - - 17,780 0.27% 0 0.0% Total 6,471,983 352 Map Key  > 40%  > 50%  > 60%  > 70% Turnout Maps   Data and Statistics: Popular Vote State-Level Data (Table) Popular Vote State-Level Data (Graphs) Electoral Vote State-Level Data Election 1872 Statistics Compare National Data by Year (Table) Compare National Data by Year (Graphs) Compare National Maps by Year National JavaCompare! Data Sources for Popular Vote Election Tools for 1872 Electoral College Calculator for 1872 Blog Interactive Map Widget Code for This Contest (uselectionatlas.org Weblogs) Results for an Individual State: AlabamaArkansas California Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Election Notes: Horace Greely died on Nov 29, 1872. His electoral votes were cast for: 42 votes for Thomas Hendricks, 18 votes for B. Gratz Brown, 2 votes for Charles Jenkins, 1 vote for David Davis. Three Greeley electoral votes from Georgia were not counted. The Democratic Vice Presidential Electoral Votes were split amongst eight Vice Presidential candidates. Click on Elect Vote button above for details. 14 Grant electoral votes from Arkansas and Louisiana were not counted