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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 29: 0 Popular vote 349,589: 212,041 Percentage 62.07%: 37.65%
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.
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 ...
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%
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: Benjamin Gratz Brown (Given electoral votes due to death of Greeley) Party Liberal Republican: Republican: Liberal Republican: Home state New York: Illinois: Missouri: Running mate Benjamin G. Brown: Henry Wilson: Electoral vote 0 (+3 rejected) [a] 0 6 : Popular vote 76,356: 62,550 Percentage 54.97%: 45.03%
The table below is a list of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin. It is sorted to display elections by their presidential term/year of election, name, margin by percentage in popular vote, popular vote, margin in popular vote by number, and the runner up in the Electoral College.