United States presidential election of 1872

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/United_States_presidential_election_of_1872
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date November 5, 1872
gptkbp:electoralVotesForMainOpponent 66
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label United States presidential election of 1872
gptkbp:incumbent gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:mainCandidate gptkb:Horace_Greeley
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:mapType Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Grant/Wilson, blue denotes those won by Greeley/Brown.
gptkbp:nextEdition gptkb:United_States_presidential_election_of_1876
gptkbp:notableEvent Horace Greeley died before the electoral votes were counted
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Democratic_Party
gptkb:Liberal_Republican_Party
gptkbp:popularVoteForMainOpponent 2,834,125
gptkbp:previousEdition gptkb:United_States_presidential_election_of_1868
gptkbp:troopContributingCountries 37
gptkbp:vicePresident Henry Wilson
gptkbp:vicePresidentialRunningMateOfMainOpponent gptkb:Benjamin_Gratz_Brown
gptkbp:voterTurnout 71.3%
gptkbp:votesForWinner 286
3,597,132
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkb:Ulysses_S._Grant
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:United_States_presidential_election_of_1876
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6