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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 (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 ...
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 ]
Voters chose 29 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania voted for the Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant, over the Liberal Republican candidate, Horace Greeley. Grant won Pennsylvania by a margin of 24.42%.
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 ...
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)
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 ...
With 69.20% of the popular vote, Massachusetts would be Grant's fifth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, South Carolina, Rhode Island and Nebraska. [ 2 ] This is the last election in which Brighton , Charlestown , and West Roxbury voted in, as all three were annexed by the city of Boston in 1873.