Who won the 1872 presidential election?

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) won the 1872 presidential election with 286 electoral votes and 55.5% of the popular vote.

What was the Electoral College result in 1872?

The 1872 Electoral College result was 0 Democratic to 286 Republican with 66 electoral votes won by other candidates (352 total electoral votes, 176 needed to win).

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1872

Presidential Election · 1872

Elected President

Ulysses S. Grant

Republicandefeating Horace Greeley

Greeley

Electoral

Votes

176 to win

286

Grant

Hendricks

Brown

Jenkins

Davis

Greeley (rejected)

0 EV66 EV176 needed to win286 EV

Popular Vote

Grant(REP)55.5%

Greeley(DEM)44.1%

candidates(OTH)0.3%

National margin:R+11.4%

6,497,361 total votes cast

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Greeley: 6 states · 0 EV|Grant: 31 states · 300 EV|IND: 0 states · 63 EV

	State	EV	Cum. EV ▲	Greeley %	Votes	Grant %	Votes	Margin	Swing
▶	Vermont	5	5	20.9%	10,927	79.2%	41,481	R+58.3	↓ R+1.2
▶	South Carolina	7	12	23.8%	22,683	75.8%	72,290	R+52.0	↓ R+36.1
▶	Rhode Island	4	16	28.1%	5,329	71.9%	13,665	R+43.9	↓ R+10.5
▶	Nebraska	3	19	29.4%	7,591	70.6%	18,255	R+41.3	↓ R+13.5
▶	Massachusetts	13	32	30.7%	59,195	69.3%	133,455	R+38.5	↑ D+1.0
▶	Maine	7	39	32.1%	29,097	67.9%	61,426	R+35.7	↓ R+10.9
▶	Kansas	5	44	33.5%	32,700	66.5%	65,047	R+33.1	↑ D+4.6
▶	Michigan	11	55	35.5%	78,551	62.7%	138,758	R+27.2	↓ R+13.2
▶	Mississippi	8	63	36.7%	46,514	63.3%	80,312	R+26.6	—
▶	Pennsylvania	29	92	37.8%	212,041	62.3%	349,589	R+24.5	↓ R+20.1
▶	Iowa	11	103	37.7%	81,636	60.8%	131,566	R+23.1	↑ D+0.8
▶	Minnesota	5	108	38.7%	35,299	61.3%	56,000	R+22.7	↓ R+1.2
▶	Oregon	3	111	41.2%	8,289	58.8%	11,818	R+17.6	↓ R+18.3
▶	North Carolina	10	121	42.5%	70,130	57.4%	94,772	R+14.9	↓ R+8.1
▶	Nevada	3	124	42.6%	6,236	57.4%	8,413	R+14.9	↓ R+4.1
▶	Illinois	21	145	43.0%	184,884	56.3%	241,936	R+13.3	↓ R+1.9
▶	California	6	151	42.7%	39,060	56.0%	51,181	R+13.3	↓ R+12.7
▶	Louisiana	8	159	44.6%	56,647	55.4%	70,211	R+10.7	↓ R+53.4
▶	Wisconsin	10	169	45.4%	87,243	54.6%	105,012	R+9.2	↑ D+3.3
▶	New Jersey	9	178	45.5%	76,456	54.5%	91,656	R+9.0	↓ R+10.8
▶	New Hampshire	5	183	46.1%	31,738	53.9%	37,168	R+7.9	↑ D+2.6
▶	Ohio	22	205	46.1%	244,321	53.2%	281,852	R+7.1	↑ D+0.9
▶	Florida	4	209	46.5%	15,427	53.5%	17,762	R+7.0	—
▶	Alabama	10	219	46.7%	78,843	53.3%	89,994	R+6.6	↓ R+3.5
▶	New York	35	254	46.8%	387,282	53.2%	440,738	R+6.5	↓ R+7.6
▶	Indiana	15	269	46.8%	163,632	53.2%	186,147	R+6.4	↓ R+3.6
▶	Connecticut	6	275	47.6%	45,685	52.4%	50,307	R+4.8	↓ R+1.8
▶	West Virginia	5	280	47.3%	29,532	51.7%	32,320	R+4.5	↑ D+13.2
▶	Delaware	3	283	46.8%	10,205	51.0%	11,129	R+4.2	↓ R+22.2
▶	Arkansas	6	289	48.1%	37,624	51.9%	40,569	R+3.8	↑ D+3.6
▶	Virginia	11	300	49.5%	91,647	50.5%	93,463	R+1.0	—
▶	Texas	8*	8*	57.1%	66,546	40.7%	47,468	D+16.4	—
▶	Missouri	15*	23*	56.0%	151,434	44.0%	119,196	D+11.9	↑ D+25.8
▶	Georgia	11*	34*	55.0%	76,356	45.0%	62,550	D+9.9	↓ R+18.6
▶	Kentucky	12*	46*	52.2%	99,995	46.3%	88,766	D+5.9	↓ R+43.5
▶	Tennessee	12*	58*	52.5%	94,233	47.5%	85,266	D+5.0	↑ D+41.9
▶	Maryland	8*	66*	51.7%	92,381	48.3%	86,282	D+3.4	↓ R+32.6

Margin = (Dem votes − Rep votes) ÷ total votes × 100. Swing = current margin − 1868 margin. Cum. EV orders each winning ticket's states from largest win to closest win and accumulates the official EV awarded in each state, so the closest state is that candidate's final cumulative total.Other % shown when > 5% of total votes.

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