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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 ...
Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Mississippi voted for the Republican candidate, Ulysses S. Grant, over Liberal Republican candidate Horace Greeley. Grant won Mississippi by a margin of 26.96%. The state would not vote Republican again until 1964.
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 .
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 state voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.
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 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 ...
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%