Presidential election · 1872
1872 electoral map
Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) won the 1872 presidential election with 286 electoral votes to Horace Greeley's 0. Grant carried 31 of the 37 states that took part.
Winner
Ulysses S. Grant
286
Liberal Republican
Horace Greeley
0
official Electoral College count
RepublicanLiberal RepublicanNot a state yet / did not vote
Good to know
- Horace Greeley died after the election and before the electors met; his electors scattered their votes among other candidates.
- Some electoral votes were split within states, cast by faithless electors or not counted, so the coloured states do not add up exactly to the official totals shown here. Each state is coloured by the party that won most of its electors.
States won in 1872
Ulysses S. Grant· Republican
31 statesNew York 35Pennsylvania 29Ohio 22Illinois 21Indiana 15Massachusetts 13Iowa 11Michigan 11Virginia 11Alabama 10North Carolina 10Wisconsin 10New Jersey 9Louisiana 8Mississippi 8Maine 7South Carolina 7Arkansas 6California 6Connecticut 6Kansas 5Minnesota 5New Hampshire 5Vermont 5West Virginia 5Florida 4Rhode Island 4Delaware 3Nebraska 3Nevada 3Oregon 3
Horace Greeley· Liberal Republican
6 statesElectoral College in 1872
37 states held 366 electoral votes in 1872. The largest prize was New York with 35 electoral votes.
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Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): results by state, electors by state and year, and the 1872 election article.