1872 United States presidential election | Wikipedia audio article
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1872 United States presidential election


00:01:59 1 Nominations
00:02:08 1.1 Republican Party nomination
00:02:42 1.2 The opposition fusion nominations
00:02:59 1.2.1 Liberal Republican Party nomination
00:03:34 1.2.2 Democratic Party nomination
00:05:55 1.3 Other nominations
00:06:04 1.3.1 Labor Reform Party
00:07:48 1.3.2 Straight-Out Democratic Party
00:08:30 2 General election
00:08:39 2.1 Campaign
00:09:48 2.1.1 Women's suffrage
00:11:42 2.2 Results and disputed votes
00:13:58 2.3 Results
00:15:04 2.4 Geography of results
00:15:13 2.4.1 Cartographic gallery
00:15:22 2.5 Results by state
00:15:44 2.6 Close states
00:17:20 2.6.1 Breakdown by ticket
00:17:50 3 Demise of the Liberal Republicans
00:18:45 4 See also



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The United States presidential election of 1872 was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. Despite a split in the Republican Party, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant defeated Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley. The election is notable for being the only presidential election in which a major party nominee died during the election process.
Grant was unanimously re-nominated at the 1872 Republican National Convention, but his intra-party opponents organized the Liberal Republican Party and held their own convention. The 1872 Liberal Republican convention nominated Greeley, a New York newspaper publisher, and wrote a platform calling for civil service reform and an end to Reconstruction. Democratic Party leaders believed that their only hope of defeating Grant was to unite around Greeley, and the 1872 Democratic National Convention nominated the Liberal Republican ticket.
Despite the union between the Liberal Republicans and Democrats, Greeley proved to be an ineffective campaigner and Grant remained widely popular. Grant decisively won re-election, carrying 31 of the 37 states, including several Southern states that would not again vote Republican until the 20th century. Grant would be the last incumbent to win a second term until William McKinley's victory in the 1900 presidential election, and his popular vote margin of 11.8% was the largest margin between 1852 and 1904.
On November 29, 1872, after the popular vote was counted, but before the Electoral College cast its votes, Greeley died. As a result, electors previously committed to Greeley voted for four different candidates for president and eight different candidates for vice president. It was the last instance until the 2016 presidential election in which more than one presidential elector voted for a candidate to whom they were not pledged.