1872 United States presidential election in Indiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1872 United States presidential election in Indiana United States 1867 presidential no 1868 United States presidential election in Indiana 1868 1876 United States presidential election in Indiana 1876 November 5, 1872 85.3%Madison 1986 330 7.2 pp 200x200px File:Ulysses S Grant by Brady c1870-restored (3x4 crop).jpg Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) Illinois Henry Wilson 15 186,147 53.00% File:Horace Greeley restored (cropped2).jpg Horace Greeley Liberal Republican Party (United States) Democratic Party (United States) New York B. Gratz Brown 0 163,632 46.59% 1872 United States presidential election in Indiana results map by county.svg 300px County results Grant #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #D40000 70–80% Greeley #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% President Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) Ulysses S. Grant Republican Party (United States) 1872 United States presidential election 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 B. Gratz Brown. Grant defeated Greeley in the national election with 286 electoral votes.Petersen 1963 43 General election Summary Indiana chose 15 electors in a statewide general election. Nineteenth-century presidential elections used a form of block voting that allowed voters to modify the electoral list nominated by a political party before submitting their ballots. Because voters elected each member of the Electoral College individually, electors nominated by the same party often received differing numbers of votes as a consequence of voter rolloff, split-ticket voting, or electoral fusion.Petersen 1963 vii–ix 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.Burnham 1955 249, 909 Svend Petersen's later study includes these votes while reporting similar totals to Burnham for Grant and Greeley.Petersen 1963 43–44 1872 United States presidential election in IndianaBurnham 1955 249, 909 Republican Party (United States) Ulysses S. GrantHenry Wilson 186,147 53.00 1.61 Liberal Republican Party (United States) Horace GreeleyB. Gratz Brown 163,623 46.59 2.02 Straight-Out Democratic Party Charles O'ConorJohn Quincy Adams II 1,417 0.40 0.40 351,187 100.00 See also United States presidential elections in Indiana References Bibliography Burnham Walter Dean Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 1955 Johns Hopkins Press Baltimore https://archive.org/details/presidentialball00burn Madison James H. The Indiana Way: A State History 1986 Indiana University Press Bloomington https://archive.org/details/indianawaystate00madi Petersen Svend A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections 1963 Frederick Ungar Publishing Company New York 62-21786 https://archive.org/details/statisticalhisto00pete Indiana 1872 Category:1872 Indiana elections