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1872 United States presidential election in Ohio Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican: Ulysses S. Grant (incumbent) 281,852: 53.24%: 22: Liberal Republican: Horace Greeley: 244,321 46.15% 0 Prohibition: James Black: 2,100 0.40% 0 Straight-Out Democratic: Charles O'Conor: 1,163 0.22% 0 Totals: 529,436: 100.0%: 22
State voters chose 21 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ohio was won by the Republican Party candidate, Ohio native and General Ulysses S. Grant, who won the state with 54.00% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, Horatio Seymour, garnered 46.00% of the popular vote. [1]
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)
Ohio gets 17 votes in the Electoral College. What happens if there’s an Electoral College tie? In the unlikely event that there is a 269 to 269 tie in the Electoral College, a complicated ...
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 ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Ohio, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1803, Ohio has participated in every U.S. presidential election. For most of its statehood from the Twentieth century on, Ohio has been considered a swing state , being won by either the Democratic or Republican candidates ...
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's birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Grant's father Jesse Root Grant was a Whig Party supporter and a fervent abolitionist. [3] Jesse and Hannah Simpson were married on June 24, 1821, and their first child, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born on April 27, 1822. [4] The name Ulysses was drawn from ballots placed in a hat.