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Election 1872 Results

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1872 presidential election in California

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) beat Horace Greeley (Democrat) in California in 1872, 56.0% to 42.7%, a margin of 13.3 points and 12,121 votes.

California voted 1.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+11.6.

The Republican hold continued from 1868, when Ulysses S. Grant also won.

Republicans led in 37 of the 50 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 13. The largest, San Francisco, cast 22,517 votes and went to the Republican by 1.0 point. The closest was Siskiyou, where 5 votes 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 51,181 56.0%
Horace Greeley Democratic 39,060 42.7%
All other candidates 1,146 1.3%
Total91,387

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
San Francisco 10,804 48.0% 11,022 48.9% 691 22,517 R+1.0
Sacramento 1,344 28.7% 3,341 71.3% 4,685 R+42.6
Santa Clara 1,528 41.2% 2,183 58.8% 3,711 R+17.7
Alameda 1,123 30.7% 2,529 69.2% 1 3,653 R+38.5
Solano 1,150 32.6% 2,376 67.4% 3,526 R+34.8
Nevada 1,315 39.6% 2,009 60.4% 3,324 R+20.9
Sonoma 1,465 46.6% 1,675 53.3% 1 3,141 R+6.7
San Joaquin 1,200 40.6% 1,758 59.4% 2,958 R+18.9
Los Angeles 1,124 46.4% 1,291 53.3% 7 2,422 R+6.9
El Dorado 1,000 43.6% 1,290 56.3% 3 2,293 R+12.6
Placer 767 35.5% 1,396 64.5% 2,163 R+29.1
Monterey 893 43.9% 1,139 56.0% 1 2,033 R+12.1
Butte 746 38.6% 1,185 61.3% 3 1,934 R+22.7
Yuba 779 40.6% 1,142 59.4% 1,921 R+18.9
Amador 701 41.8% 977 58.2% 1,678 R+16.4
Calaveras 687 43.4% 895 56.5% 1 1,583 R+13.1
Yolo 650 43.9% 830 56.1% 1,480 R+12.2
Tuolumne 664 45.4% 798 54.5% 1 1,463 R+9.2
Santa Cruz 430 29.8% 1,014 70.2% 1 1,445 R+40.4
Napa 505 36.3% 887 63.7% 1 1,393 R+27.4
Contra Costa 876 63.8% 454 33.1% 43 1,373 D+30.7
Humboldt 369 27.4% 978 72.6% 1 1,348 R+45.2
Siskiyou 649 48.3% 654 48.7% 41 1,344 R+0.4
Mendocino 663 50.3% 652 49.5% 2 1,317 D+0.8
Sierra 846 67.5% 369 29.4% 39 1,254 D+38.0
Santa Barbara 634 55.4% 475 41.5% 35 1,144 D+13.9
Stanislaus 424 38.1% 656 58.9% 34 1,114 R+20.8
Colusa 446 46.1% 491 50.8% 30 967 R+4.7
San Mateo 595 64.4% 300 32.5% 29 924 D+31.9
Tulare 361 41.1% 491 55.9% 27 879 R+14.8
San Diego 329 39.4% 505 60.5% 1 835 R+21.1
Marin 200 25.3% 592 74.7% 792 R+49.5
Shasta 258 32.7% 531 67.2% 1 790 R+34.6
Plumas 468 60.9% 276 35.9% 24 768 D+25.0
San Luis Obispo 294 39.1% 455 60.6% 2 751 R+21.4
Mariposa 365 48.9% 358 48.0% 23 746 D+0.9
Sutter 252 34.0% 488 65.9% 1 741 R+31.8
Trinity 316 49.5% 302 47.3% 20 638 D+2.2
Merced 240 37.8% 376 59.2% 19 635 R+21.4
Tehama 215 35.3% 394 64.7% 609 R+29.4
Lake 325 62.1% 198 37.9% 523 D+24.3
San Bernardino 173 35.3% 314 64.1% 3 490 R+28.8
Kern 160 35.2% 281 61.8% 14 455 R+26.6
Inyo 188 50.5% 173 46.5% 11 372 D+4.0
Fresno 102 29.5% 234 67.6% 10 346 R+38.2
Del Norte 155 51.5% 137 45.5% 9 301 D+6.0
Lassen 166 62.9% 90 34.1% 8 264 D+28.8
Mono 81 60.4% 49 36.6% 4 134 D+23.9
Alpine 35 28.5% 88 71.5% 123 R+43.1
Klamath (Ext) 0 0.0% 82 95.3% 4 86 R+95.3

Counties as they stood in 1872; 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.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5