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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 ...
Ulysses S. Grant: Horace Greeley: Party Republican: Liberal Republican: Home state Illinois: New York: Running mate Henry Wilson: Benjamin Gratz Brown: Electoral vote 6: 0 Popular vote 51,181: 39,060 Percentage 56.00%: 42.74%
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 ...
Lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College. Ulysses S. Grant: 1872: Republican: 3,597,439 55.6% Winner (incumbent). William Howard Taft: 1912: Republican: 3,486,242 23.17% Third place (incumbent). Only post-Civil War election in which a candidate from one of the two major parties came in third place. Ulysses S. Grant: 1868: Republican ...
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)
The state voters chose 10 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. North Carolina was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts .
However, Greeley died prior to the Electoral College meeting, allowing Georgia's 11 electors to vote for the candidate of their choice: 6 voted for Greeley's running mate, B. Gratz Brown, and 2 for Charles Jenkins. [1] 3 electors attempted to vote for the deceased Greeley, but their votes were rejected after a House of Representatives ...
Ulysses S. Grant: Thomas A. Hendricks (Given electoral votes due to death of Greeley) Party Liberal Republican: Republican: Democratic: Home state New York: Illinois: Indiana: Running mate Benjamin G. Brown: Henry Wilson: Electoral vote 0 [a] 0 6 Popular vote 151,434: 119,196 Percentage 55.46%: 43.65%