1868 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Turnout	92.5%[1] 9.6pp
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

Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 3, 1868, as part of the1868 United States presidential election. TheRepublican ticket of thecommanding general of the United States ArmyUlysses S. Grant and thespeaker of the United States House of RepresentativesSchuyler Colfax defeated theDemocratic ticket of the formergovernor of New YorkHoratio Seymour and the formerU.S. representative fromMissouri's 1st congressional districtFrancis P. Blair Jr..^[2] Grant defeated Seymour in the national election with 214electoral votes.^[3]

Indiana chose 13 electors on a statewidegeneral ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. 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.^[4] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated byWalter Dean Burnham in his influential study,Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892.^[2]

1868 United States presidential election in Indiana^[2]

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

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

• "1868 Electoral College Results".National Archives. RetrievedNovember 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.
• Madison, James H. (1986).The Indiana Way: A State History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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