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Grant won an easy re-election over Greeley, with a popular vote margin of 11.8% and 763,000 votes. Grant also won the electoral college with 286 electoral votes; while Greeley won 66 electoral votes, he died on November 29, 1872, twenty-four days after the election and before any of his pledged electors (from Texas, Missouri, Kentucky ...
The 1872 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 5, 1872, as part of the 1872 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to represent the state in the Electoral College , which chose the president and vice president .
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Texas, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1845, Texas has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the 1864 election during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the 1868 election, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
Red font color denotes states won by Republican Ulysses S. Grant; blue denotes those won by Democrat Horatio Seymour. States where the margin of victory was under 1% (8 electoral votes) California 0.48% (520 votes) Oregon 0.74% (164 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 5% (93 electoral votes) New York 1.18% (9,995 votes)
Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) Next Congress: 43rd: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican hold: Popular vote margin: Republican +11.8%: Electoral vote: Ulysses S. Grant (R) 286: Horace Greeley (LR/D) 66 [1] 1872 presidential election results. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Red denotes states won by ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Grant won the popular vote and an Electoral College landslide of 214 votes to Seymour's 80. [269] Seymour received a majority of white voters, but Grant was aided by 500,000 votes cast by black people, [ 270 ] winning him 52.7 percent of the popular vote. [ 271 ]
† Jackson received only 3 of Louisiana's 5 electoral votes in the 1824 election. ‡ Jackson received only 1 of Maine's 9 electoral votes in the 1828 election. ↑ Jackson received 1 of New York's 36 electoral votes in 1824 and 20 of 26 in 1828. ↓ Jackson received 7 of Maryland's 11 electoral votes in 1824 and 5 of 11 in 1828.