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The1872 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 5, 1872, as part of the1872 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to represent the state in theElectoral College, which chose thepresident andvice president.
Texas voted for theLiberal Republican nomineeHorace Greeley, who received 57% of the vote. However, Greeley died before the electors could cast their votes for president and vice president. Since it was already clear long before Greeley's death that incumbentRepublican PresidentUlysses S. Grant had easily won re-election in any case, Texan electors (along with the electors of five other states) were effectively left free to vote for whoever they chose. All eight electors voted forThomas A. Hendricks.
This was the first presidential election since1860 that Texas participated in. It hadseceded from theUnited States in March 1861 and joined theConfederate States of America during theAmerican Civil War. It would not participate in the following elections in1864 and1868 and would not be readmitted into the Union until 1870.
This was the first presidential election in Texas in which theRepublican nominee was on the ballot. President Grant finished a respectable second with over 40% of the vote, which ultimately stood as the best performance for a Republican candidate for over half a century until RepublicanHerbert Hoover won the state in1928 as part of anti-Catholic surge against Democratic nomineeAl Smith.
This remains the only election in which Texas's electoral votes went to a Democrat while neighboringArkansas voted Republican.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Thomas A. Hendricks | – | – | 8 | |
| Liberal Republican | Horace Greeley | 66,546 | 57.07% | 0[a] | |
| Republican | Ulysses S. Grant (incumbent) | 47,468 | 40.71% | 0 | |
| Straight-Out Democrat | Charles O'Conor | 2,580 | 2.21% | 0 | |
| Total | 116,594 | 100.0% | 8 | ||
State and district results of the1872 United States presidential election | ||
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