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Election 1868 Results

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1868 presidential election in Iowa

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) beat Horatio Seymour (Democrat) in Iowa in 1868, 61.9% to 38.1%, a margin of 23.8 points and 46,359 votes.

Iowa voted 18.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+5.3.

Republicans led in 91 of the 97 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, Dubuque, cast 6,724 votes and went to the Democrat by 21.7 points. The closest was Sioux, where 1 vote separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ulysses S. Grant won Republican 120,399 61.9%
Horatio Seymour Democratic 74,040 38.1%
Total194,439

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Dubuque 4,091 60.8% 2,633 39.2% 6,724 D+21.7
Lee 3,191 51.0% 3,060 49.0% 6,251 D+2.1
Clinton 2,292 41.1% 3,283 58.9% 5,575 R+17.8
Scott 1,763 32.8% 3,612 67.2% 5,375 R+34.4
Linn 1,642 31.1% 3,630 68.9% 5,272 R+37.7
Clayton 1,952 41.2% 2,783 58.8% 4,735 R+17.6
Polk 1,694 36.8% 2,913 63.2% 4,607 R+26.5
Des Moines 1,958 43.2% 2,572 56.8% 4,530 R+13.6
Marion 2,182 49.0% 2,268 51.0% 4,450 R+1.9
Johnson 2,050 48.0% 2,221 52.0% 4,271 R+4.0
Jackson 2,117 50.9% 2,040 49.1% 4,157 D+1.9
Mahaska 1,511 36.3% 2,646 63.7% 4,157 R+27.3
Muscatine 1,576 38.3% 2,539 61.7% 4,115 R+23.4
Jasper 1,232 30.6% 2,799 69.4% 4,031 R+38.9
Wapello 1,821 46.2% 2,119 53.8% 3,940 R+7.6
Cedar 1,381 35.9% 2,470 64.1% 3,851 R+28.3
Henry 1,044 27.1% 2,802 72.9% 3,846 R+45.7
Benton 1,172 31.2% 2,587 68.8% 3,759 R+37.6
Jones 1,277 34.6% 2,410 65.4% 3,687 R+30.7
Washington 1,323 36.4% 2,314 63.6% 3,637 R+27.2
Van Buren 1,606 44.2% 2,026 55.8% 3,632 R+11.6
Keokuk 1,503 43.7% 1,938 56.3% 3,441 R+12.6
Black Hawk 841 24.6% 2,580 75.4% 3,421 R+50.8
Winneshiek 1,092 32.2% 2,300 67.8% 3,392 R+35.6
Jefferson 1,309 40.9% 1,895 59.1% 3,204 R+18.3
Fayette 1,051 33.1% 2,124 66.9% 3,175 R+33.8
Delaware 1,021 33.4% 2,034 66.6% 3,055 R+33.2
Marshall 611 20.7% 2,339 79.3% 2,950 R+58.6
Allamakee 1,403 47.6% 1,543 52.4% 2,946 R+4.8
Davis 1,410 48.1% 1,520 51.9% 2,930 R+3.8
Warren 933 32.4% 1,946 67.6% 2,879 R+35.2
Buchanan 926 33.1% 1,872 66.9% 2,798 R+33.8
Appanoose 1,236 44.9% 1,519 55.1% 2,755 R+10.3
Tama 805 30.2% 1,862 69.8% 2,667 R+39.6
Iowa 1,164 43.9% 1,490 56.1% 2,654 R+12.3
Poweshiek 791 31.9% 1,686 68.1% 2,477 R+36.1
Madison 944 38.5% 1,506 61.5% 2,450 R+22.9
Louisa 761 32.2% 1,599 67.8% 2,360 R+35.5
Boone 995 42.2% 1,362 57.8% 2,357 R+15.6
Monroe 913 41.4% 1,290 58.6% 2,203 R+17.1
Pottawattamie 1,042 48.2% 1,121 51.8% 2,163 R+3.7
Hardin 535 25.2% 1,586 74.8% 2,121 R+49.6
Fremont 1,082 52.5% 977 47.5% 2,059 D+5.1
Decatur 1,018 49.9% 1,024 50.1% 2,042 R+0.3
Bremer 538 26.8% 1,470 73.2% 2,008 R+46.4
Dallas 590 32.0% 1,254 68.0% 1,844 R+36.0
Wayne 739 41.8% 1,031 58.2% 1,770 R+16.5
Lucas 683 40.8% 992 59.2% 1,675 R+18.4
Harrison 732 44.0% 932 56.0% 1,664 R+12.0
Floyd 400 24.5% 1,233 75.5% 1,633 R+51.0
Butler 424 27.5% 1,118 72.5% 1,542 R+45.0
Chickasaw 520 34.3% 996 65.7% 1,516 R+31.4
Clarke 426 28.6% 1,062 71.4% 1,488 R+42.7
Story 423 28.6% 1,058 71.4% 1,481 R+42.9
Mitchell 293 19.9% 1,177 80.1% 1,470 R+60.1
Page 474 33.6% 936 66.4% 1,410 R+32.8
Mills 551 39.6% 842 60.4% 1,393 R+20.9
Webster 549 42.7% 736 57.3% 1,285 R+14.6
Howard 380 36.1% 674 63.9% 1,054 R+27.9
Taylor 321 30.9% 717 69.1% 1,038 R+38.2
Guthrie 412 43.0% 547 57.0% 959 R+14.1
Union 352 41.9% 488 58.1% 840 R+16.2
Hamilton 167 20.7% 638 79.3% 805 R+58.5
Ringgold 257 33.1% 519 66.9% 776 R+33.8
Woodbury 323 42.9% 430 57.1% 753 R+14.2
Cass 248 37.1% 420 62.9% 668 R+25.7
Greene 231 35.3% 423 64.7% 654 R+29.4
Grundy 75 12.4% 530 87.6% 605 R+75.2
Franklin 78 13.1% 516 86.9% 594 R+73.7
Adams 166 28.0% 427 72.0% 593 R+44.0
Montgomery 225 38.7% 357 61.3% 582 R+22.7
Cerro Gordo 73 14.2% 441 85.8% 514 R+71.6
Adair 139 30.8% 313 69.2% 452 R+38.5
Monona 0 0.0% 372 100.0% 372 R+100.0
Kossuth 30 8.3% 332 91.7% 362 R+83.4
Humboldt 80 22.8% 271 77.2% 351 R+54.4
Crawford 138 42.3% 188 57.7% 326 R+15.3
Wright 61 20.2% 241 79.8% 302 R+59.6
Worth 41 13.7% 259 86.3% 300 R+72.7
Shelby 129 45.7% 153 54.3% 282 R+8.5
Carroll 82 34.5% 156 65.5% 238 R+31.1
Audubon 101 50.0% 101 50.0% 202 level
Sac 45 25.4% 132 74.6% 177 R+49.2
Winnebago 16 9.0% 161 91.0% 177 R+81.9
Calhoun 67 39.2% 104 60.8% 171 R+21.6
Emmet 28 17.1% 136 82.9% 164 R+65.9
Dickinson 10 7.6% 121 92.4% 131 R+84.7
Plymouth 23 19.5% 95 80.5% 118 R+61.0
Hancock 24 21.2% 89 78.8% 113 R+57.5
Pocahontas 19 17.0% 93 83.0% 112 R+66.1
Palo Alto 62 59.6% 42 40.4% 104 D+19.2
Clay 4 5.0% 76 95.0% 80 R+90.0
Cherokee 15 19.0% 64 81.0% 79 R+62.0
Buena Vista 4 6.6% 57 93.4% 61 R+86.9
Ida 5 17.9% 23 82.1% 28 R+64.3
O'Brien 1 9.1% 10 90.9% 11 R+81.8
Sioux 5 45.5% 6 54.5% 11 R+9.1

Counties as they stood in 1868; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Iowa in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+13.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+8.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+9.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+0.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+0.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+6.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+10.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+12.7
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.0
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+24.0
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+28.2
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+2.7
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.5
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+4.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+17.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+24.2
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+38.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+45.4
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+12.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+13.3
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+15.0
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+32.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+18.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+12.6
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+5.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+7.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+5.2
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+24.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+20.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+23.1
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+23.8