Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Ulysses S. Grant | Republican | Illinois | 3,598,235 | 55.6% | 286 | Henry Wilson | Massachusetts | 286 |
| Horace Greeley | Democratic/Liberal Republican | New York | 2,834,761 | 43.8% | 3(b) | Benjamin Gratz Brown | Missouri | 3(b) |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | Democratic | Indiana | —(a) | — | 42 | —(c) | 42 | |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | National Union Party | Missouri | —(a) | — | 18 | —(c) | 18 | |
| Charles J. Jenkins | Democratic | Georgia | —(a) | — | 2 | —(c) | 2 | |
| David Davis | Liberal Republican | Illinois | —(a) | — | 1 | —(c) | 1 | |
| Charles O'Conor | Bourbon Democratic | New York | 18,602 | 0.3% | 0 | Charles Francis Adams, Jr. | Massachusetts | 0 |
| James Black | Prohibition | Pennsylvania | 5,607 | 0.1% | 0 | John Russell | Michigan | 0 |
| Other | 10,473 | 0.2% | 0 | |||||
| Total | 6,467,678 | 100.0% | 352(d) | |||||
| Needed to win | 177(d) | |||||||
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1872 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (July 27, 2005).
Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (July 31, 2005).
(a) These candidates received votes from Electors who were pledged to Horace Greeley.
(b) Horace Greeley received three electoral votes for president, but these votes were disqualified.
(c) See Breakdown by ticket below.
(d) The 14 electoral votes from Arkansas and Louisiana were not counted, and are not included in this count. If these electoral votes were included, there would be 366 electoral votes total, and 184 would be needed to win.
| Vice Presidential Candidate | Party | State | Electoral Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Wilson | Republican | Massachusetts | 286 |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown | National Union Party | Missouri | 47 |
| Alfred H. Colquitt | Democratic | Georgia | 5 |
| George Washington Julian | Liberal Republican | Indiana | 5 |
| Thomas E. Bramlette | Democratic | Kentucky | 3 |
| John M. Palmer | Democratic | Illinois | 3 |
| Nathaniel P. Banks | Liberal Republican | Massachusetts | 1 |
| William S. Groesbeck | Democratic/Liberal Republican | Ohio | 1 |
| Willis Benson Machen | Democratic | Kentucky | 1 |
| Charles Francis Adams, Sr. | Bourbon Democratic | Massachusetts | 0 |
| John Russell | Prohibition | Michigan | 0 |
| Total | 352 | ||
| Needed to win | 177 | ||
Source: Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (July 31, 2005).
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Results explicitly indicating the percentage for the Republican candidate in each county.
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Results explicitly indicating the percentage for the Liberal Republican candidate in each county.
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Results explicitly indicating the percentage for "other" candidate(s) in each county.
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