President Elect

Ulysses Simpson
GRANT
Henry Wilson

Party: REPUBLICAN
Home State:

PR: IL; VP: MA
Electoral Votes: 286
Pop. Vote: 3,597,132 (55.6%)

Thomas Andrews
HENDRICKS
see below for Vice Presidential candidates

Party: DEMOCRATIC and
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: IL
Electoral Votes: 42

Benjamin Gratz
BROWN
see below for Vice Presidential candidates

Party: DEMOCRATIC and
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: MO
Electoral Votes: 18
Pop. Vote:

Charles Jones
JENKINS
see below for Vice Presidential candidates

Party: ---
Home State: GA
Electoral Votes: 2

David
DAVIS
see below for Vice Presidential candidates

Party: LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: IL
Electoral Votes: 1

Other Candidates
Straight-Out Democratic, Prohibition

Party: SEVERAL
Electoral Votes: 0
Pop. Vote: 35,097 (0.5%)

Horace
GREELEY
see below for Vice Presidential candidates

Party: DEMOCRATIC and
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: NY
Electoral Votes: 3

Pop. Vote: 2,834,079 (43.9%)

Other Votes Not Counted

Electoral Votes: 14

Democratic/Liberal Republican Vice Presidential Candidates
see above for Presidential candidates
(see this

for VP electoral vote distribution)

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Party: DEMOCRATIC and
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: MO
VP Electoral Votes: 47
Pop. Vote: 2,834,079 (43.9%)

Alfred Holt Colquitt

Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: GA
VP Electoral Votes: 5

George Washington Julian

Party: LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: IN
VP Electoral Votes: 5

John McCauley Palmer

Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: IL
VP Electoral Votes: 3

Thomas E. Bramlette

Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: KY
VP Electoral Votes: 3

William Slocum Groesbeck

Party: DEMOCRATIC and
LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: OH
VP Electoral Votes: 1

Willis Benson Machen

Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: KY
VP Electoral Votes: 1

Nathaniel Prentiss Banks

Party: LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
Home State: MA
VP Electoral Votes: 1

Actual electoral votes - 352 (from all or part of 35 states)
Majority needed to win - 176
Total popular vote - 6,466,308

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Candidate Party Votes

Charles O'Conner (NY) /
Charles Francis Adams (MA) Straight-out Democratic 29,489

James Black (PA) /
John Russell (MI) Prohibition 5,608

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