1868 United States presidential election in Indiana

1868 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Ulysses S. Grant Horatio Seymour Party Republican Democratic Home state Illinois New York Running mate Schuyler Colfax Francis Preston Blair Jr. Electoral vote 13 0 Popular vote 176,552 166,980 Percentage 51.4% 48.6%

County Results Grant   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Seymour   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%

President before election Andrew Johnson Democratic Elected President Ulysses S. Grant Republican

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1868, as part of the 1868 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the commanding general of the United States Army Ulysses S. Grant and the speaker of the United States House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax defeated the Democratic ticket of the former governor of New York Horatio Seymour and the former U.S. representative from Missouri's 1st congressional district Francis P. Blair Jr.. ^[1] Grant defeated Seymour in the national election with 214 electoral votes. ^[2]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 13 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the Electoral College rather than for president. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. ^[3] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 . ^[1]

1868 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Ulysses S. Grant Schuyler Colfax	176,552	51.39	2.13
	Democratic	Horatio Seymour Francis Preston Blair Jr.	166,980	48.61	2.13
Total votes			343,532	100.00

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. Burnham 1955, p. 249.
2. "1868 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
3. Dubin 2002, p. xi.

Bibliography

• "1868 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
• Burnham, Walter Dean (1955). Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN   978-0-7864-6422-7.