1872 United States presidential election in Maryland

November 5, 1872


Nominee	Horace Greeley	Ulysses S. Grant
Party	Liberal Republican	Republican
Home state	New York	Illinois
Running mate	Benjamin G. Brown	Henry Wilson
Electoral vote	0^[a]	0
Popular vote	67,687	66,760
Percentage	50.34%	49.66%

County Results

Greeley

50-60%

Grant

50-60%

60–70%

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Republican

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The 1872 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 5, 1872. All contemporary 37 states were part of the 1872 United States presidential election. The state voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Maryland was won by the Liberal Republican and Democratic nominees, former Congressman Horace Greeley of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri. Greely and Brown defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.

Greeley won the state by a narrow margin of 0.68%. However, he died prior to the Electoral College meeting, allowing for Maryland's eight electors to vote for the candidate of their choice.^[1]

In this election, Maryland voted 12.49% more Democratic than the nation at-large.^[2]

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Results

1872 United States presidential election in Maryland^[3]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Count	%	Count	%
	Liberal Republican	Horace Greeley of New York	Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri	67,687	50.34%	0^[a]	0.00%
	Democratic	Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana	N/A of N/A		0.00%	8	100.00%
	Republican	Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois	Henry Wilson of Massachusetts	66,760	49.66%	0	0.00%
Total				134,447	100.00%	8	100.00%

Results by county


County	Horace Greeley Liberal Republican		Ulysses S. Grant Republican		Other		Margin		Total Votes Cast ^[4]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total Votes Cast ^[4]
Allegany	2695	44.95%	3301	55.05%	0	0.00%	-606	-10.11%	5996
Anne Arundel	2249	46.90%	2546	53.10%	0	0.00%	-297	-6.19%	4795
Baltimore (City)	24694	55.85%	19522	44.15%	0	0.00%	5172	11.70%	44216
Baltimore (County)	4173	52.51%	3774	47.49%	0	0.00%	399	5.02%	7947
Calvert	692	39.27%	1070	60.73%	0	0.00%	-378	-21.45%	1762
Caroline	1036	48.32%	1108	51.68%	0	0.00%	-72	3.36%	2144
Carroll	2505	49.19%	2587	50.81%	0	0.00%	-82	-1.61%	5092
Cecil	2103	45.23%	2547	54.77%	0	0.00%	-444	9.55%	4650
Charles	1200	43.00%	1591	57.00%	0	0.00%	-391	-14.01%	2791
Dorchester	1755	48.66%	1852	51.34%	0	0.00%	-97	-2.69%	3607
Frederick	4065	43.94%	5186	56.06%	0	0.00%	-1121	-12.12%	9251
Harford	1955	48.01%	2177	51.99%	0	0.00%	-162	-3.98%	4072
Howard	1196	47.74%	1309	52.26%	0	0.00%	-113	-4.51%	2505
Kent	1623	49.47%	1658	50.53%	0	0.00%	-35	-1.07%	3281
Montgomery	2121	52.11%	1949	47.89%	0	0.00%	172	4.23%	4070
Prince George's	1631	41.87%	2264	58.13%	0	0.00%	-633	-16.25%	3895
Queen Anne's	1804	52.17%	1654	47.83%	0	0.00%	150	4.34%	3458
St. Mary's	1139	42.28%	1536	57.02%	19	0.71%	-397	-14.74%	2694
Somerset	1122	40.99%	1615	50.91%	0	0.00%	-493	-18.01%	2737
Talbot	1521	47.77%	1663	52.23%	0	0.00%	-142	-4.46%	3184
Washington	3204	46.38%	3664	53.04%	40	0.58%	-460	-6.66%	6908
Wicomico	1470	57.62%	1081	42.38%	0	0.00%	389	15.25%	2551
Worcester	1734	59.79%	1166	40.21%	0	0.00%	568	19.59%	2900
Total	67687	50.34%	66760	49.66%	59				134447

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Liberal Republican

Notes

^ ^a ^b Greeley died after the election, but prior to the Electoral College meeting, and was thus ineligible for the office of President. Greeley had won 8 pledged electors, of which all cast their votes for other Democrats.

References

^ "American presidential election, 1872". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
^ "1872 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland".
^ "County Project (WIP)". Google Docs. Retrieved November 1, 2022.

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(← 1868) 1872 United States presidential election (1876 →)

Republican Party
(Convention)

Nominees	President: Ulysses S. Grant (incumbent) Vice President: Henry Wilson

Liberal Republican Party
▌Democratic Party (Convention)

Nominees	President: Horace Greeley Vice President: B. Gratz Brown
Other candidates	Liberal Republican: Charles F. Adams Lyman Trumbull B. Gratz Brown David Davis Andrew Curtin Salmon P. Chase Democratic: Jeremiah S. Black James A. Bayard William S. Groesbeck

Third-party and independent candidates
Labor Reform Party	Nominee: David Davis VP nominee: Joel Parker Other candidates: Charles O'Conor (declined nomination)
People's (Equal Rights) Party	Nominee: Victoria Woodhull VP nominee: Frederick Douglass
Prohibition Party	Convention Nominee: James Black VP nominee: John Russell

Other 1872 elections: House
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Attorney General	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Comptroller	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
County Executive	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
County offices	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
See also: Political party strength in Maryland

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