1872 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Turnout	85.3%[1] 7.2pp
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

Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 5, 1872, as part of the1872 United States presidential election. TheRepublican ticket of the incumbentpresidentUlysses S. Grant and the juniorU.S. senator fromMassachusettsHenry Wilson defeated theLiberal Republican andDemocratic ticket of the editor of theNew-York Tribune and formerU.S. representative fromNew York's 6th congressional districtHorace Greeley and thegovernor of MissouriBenjamin Gratz Brown. Grant defeated Greeley in the national election with 286electoral votes.^[2]

Indiana chose 15 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.^[3] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated byWalter Dean Burnham in his influential study,Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892, including 1,417 votes forCharles O'Conor listed in the appendix which cannot be tabulated by county.^[4]Svend Petersen's later study includes these votes while reporting similar totals to Burnham for Grant and Greeley.^[5]

1872 United States presidential election in Indiana^[4]

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

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

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

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