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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]
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
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)
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 ...
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 ...
In 1864, 17 electoral votes from Louisiana and Tennessee (received by Abraham Lincoln) were rejected due to issues relating to the American Civil War. In 1872 : 14 votes from Arkansas and Louisiana (received by Ulysses S. Grant) were rejected due to various irregularities, including allegations of electoral fraud.
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%