1872 United States presidential election in Indiana

1872 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Ulysses S. Grant Horace Greeley Party Republican Liberal Republican Alliance Democratic Home state Illinois New York Running mate Henry Wilson Benjamin Gratz Brown Electoral vote 15 0 Popular vote 186,147 163,632 Percentage 53.0% 46.6%

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

President before election Ulysses S. Grant Republican Elected President Ulysses S. Grant Republican

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 5, 1872, as part of the 1872 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant and the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts Henry Wilson defeated the Liberal Republican and Democratic ticket of the editor of the New-York Tribune and former U.S. representative from New York's 6th congressional district Horace Greeley and the governor of Missouri Benjamin Gratz Brown. Grant defeated Greeley in the national election with 286 electoral votes. ^[1]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 15 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. ^[2] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 , including 1,417 votes for Charles O'Conor listed in the appendix which cannot be tabulated by county. ^[3] Svend Petersen's later study includes these votes while reporting similar totals to Burnham for Grant and Greeley. ^[4]

1872 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Ulysses S. Grant Henry Wilson	186,147	53.00	1.61
	Liberal Republican	Horace Greeley Benjamin Gratz Brown	163,623	46.59	2.02
	Straight-Out Democratic	Charles O'Conor John Quincy Adams II	1,417	0.40	0.40
Total votes			351,187	100.00

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. Petersen 1963, p. 43.
2. Dubin 2002, p. xi.
3. Burnham 1955, pp. 249, 909.
4. Petersen 1963, p. 43–44.

Bibliography

• 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.
• Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN   62-21786.