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Election 1872 Results

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1872 presidential election in Illinois

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) beat Horace Greeley (Democrat) in Illinois in 1872, 56.3% to 43.0%, a margin of 13.3 points and 57,052 votes.

Illinois 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 67 of the 102 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 35. The largest, Cook, cast 50,364 votes and went to the Republican by 26.3 points. The closest was Cumberland, where 10 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Ulysses S. Grant won	Republican	241,936	56.3%
Horace Greeley	Democratic	184,884	43.0%
All other candidates		3,151	0.7%
Total		429,971

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Cook	18,548 36.8%	31,815 63.2%	1	50,364	R+26.3
McLean	5,726 60.1%	3,389 35.6%	416	9,531	D+24.5
Adams	5,072 53.5%	4,413 46.5%	4	9,489	D+6.9
La Salle	3,876 43.0%	5,127 56.9%	3	9,006	R+13.9
Sangamon	4,292 50.4%	4,216 49.5%	3	8,511	D+0.9
St. Clair	4,016 48.4%	4,283 51.6%	1	8,300	R+3.2
Peoria	3,883 51.1%	3,717 48.9%	5	7,605	D+2.2
Madison	3,492 48.4%	3,730 51.6%		7,222	R+3.3
Fulton	3,629 50.5%	3,558 49.5%	2	7,189	D+1.0
Will	2,877 40.2%	4,280 59.8%	4	7,161	R+19.6
Hancock	3,260 50.5%	3,192 49.5%	3	6,455	D+1.1
Kane	1,573 24.9%	4,732 75.0%	1	6,306	R+50.1
Macoupin	3,169 50.3%	3,131 49.7%		6,300	D+0.6
Knox	1,816 29.3%	4,384 70.7%	4	6,204	R+41.4
Champaign	1,906 33.2%	3,834 66.7%	4	5,744	R+33.6
Pike	2,770 50.8%	2,676 49.1%	5	5,451	D+1.7
McDonough	2,547 47.3%	2,842 52.7%	1	5,390	R+5.5
Henry	1,616 30.3%	3,713 69.6%	3	5,332	R+39.3
Morgan	2,392 46.1%	2,800 53.9%	2	5,194	R+7.9
Vermilion	1,672 32.8%	3,427 67.2%	2	5,101	R+34.4
Macon	2,288 45.0%	2,795 55.0%	1	5,084	R+10.0
Bureau	1,783 35.2%	3,285 64.8%	3	5,071	R+29.6
Coles	2,362 46.7%	2,690 53.2%	1	5,053	R+6.5
Livingston	1,850 36.9%	3,160 63.0%	9	5,019	R+26.1
Stephenson	2,080 41.8%	2,892 58.2%	1	4,973	R+16.3
Montgomery	2,173 43.9%	2,559 51.7%	215	4,947	R+7.8
Winnebago	1,030 21.0%	3,870 79.0%	1	4,901	R+57.9
Christian	2,580 53.1%	2,276 46.9%		4,856	D+6.3
Iroquois	1,724 35.5%	3,131 64.5%		4,855	R+29.0
Rock Island	1,790 37.7%	2,952 62.2%	2	4,744	R+24.5
Jo Daviess	1,912 41.1%	2,745 58.9%		4,657	R+17.9
Shelby	2,610 57.4%	1,932 42.5%	2	4,544	D+14.9
Whiteside	1,241 27.7%	3,244 72.3%	3	4,488	R+44.6
Edgar	2,136 47.8%	2,330 52.2%	1	4,467	R+4.3
Tazewell	2,049 46.0%	2,398 53.8%	10	4,457	R+7.8
Ogle	1,222 28.0%	3,145 72.0%	1	4,368	R+44.0
Marion	2,244 51.6%	2,101 48.4%		4,345	D+3.3
Logan	1,777 41.7%	2,485 58.3%	2	4,264	R+16.6
Warren	1,578 38.4%	2,534 61.6%	2	4,114	R+23.2
McHenry	1,058 26.4%	2,942 73.5%	1	4,001	R+47.1
Lee	1,225 30.8%	2,745 69.1%	5	3,975	R+38.2
Randolph	1,842 47.1%	1,896 48.5%	170	3,908	R+1.4
De Kalb	595 16.5%	3,016 83.5%	2	3,613	R+67.0
Kankakee	917 25.8%	2,633 74.2%		3,550	R+48.3
Greene	2,152 60.7%	1,393 39.3%	1	3,546	D+21.4
Jackson	1,819 51.9%	1,534 43.8%	153	3,506	D+8.1
Fayette	1,676 48.8%	1,755 51.2%		3,431	R+2.3
Clark	1,678 49.0%	1,741 50.9%	2	3,421	R+1.8
Wayne	1,630 49.7%	1,650 50.3%		3,280	R+0.6
Woodford	1,697 51.9%	1,570 48.0%	1	3,268	D+3.9
De Witt	1,474 45.6%	1,762 54.4%		3,236	R+8.9
Washington	1,708 55.0%	1,260 40.6%	135	3,103	D+14.4
Jefferson	1,727 55.9%	1,363 44.1%	2	3,092	D+11.8
Lake	804 26.0%	2,280 73.9%	3	3,087	R+47.8
Clinton	1,712 56.1%	1,340 43.9%		3,052	D+12.2
Clay	1,536 50.3%	1,382 45.3%	133	3,051	D+5.0
Mercer	1,028 33.7%	2,016 66.1%	4	3,048	R+32.4
Schuyler	1,545 51.5%	1,453 48.5%		2,998	D+3.1
White	1,722 58.1%	1,244 41.9%		2,966	D+16.1
Mason	1,503 51.6%	1,408 48.4%		2,911	D+3.3
Effingham	1,081 38.0%	1,644 57.7%	123	2,848	R+19.8
Richland	1,290 46.5%	1,365 49.2%	121	2,776	R+2.7
Williamson	1,305 47.3%	1,335 48.4%	120	2,760	R+1.1
Jersey	1,181 42.9%	1,454 52.8%	120	2,755	R+9.9
Union	844 31.0%	1,758 64.6%	118	2,720	R+33.6
Douglas	1,101 41.1%	1,575 58.8%	1	2,677	R+17.7
Marshall	1,116 41.8%	1,549 58.0%	4	2,669	R+16.2
Perry	1,459 55.6%	1,050 40.0%	114	2,623	D+15.6
Carroll	602 23.1%	2,000 76.9%		2,602	R+53.7
Du Page	683 28.6%	1,706 71.4%	1	2,390	R+42.8
Piatt	904 38.3%	1,456 61.7%	1	2,361	R+23.4
Bond	1,322 56.2%	926 39.4%	103	2,351	D+16.8
Grundy	702 30.3%	1,617 69.7%	1	2,320	R+39.4
Cass	1,131 49.2%	1,165 50.7%	3	2,299	R+1.5
Lawrence	1,087 47.4%	1,107 48.3%	100	2,294	R+0.9
Alexander	1,018 44.9%	1,251 55.1%		2,269	R+10.3
Cumberland	1,133 50.2%	1,123 49.7%	3	2,259	D+0.4
Saline	1,086 48.3%	1,063 47.3%	98	2,247	D+1.0
Crawford	1,060 47.3%	1,175 52.4%	8	2,243	R+5.1
Monroe	511 23.1%	1,608 72.6%	95	2,214	R+49.5
Moultrie	1,153 53.3%	1,011 46.7%	1	2,165	D+6.6
Hamilton	857 39.7%	1,208 56.0%	94	2,159	R+16.3
Brown	1,295 61.0%	826 38.9%	3	2,124	D+22.1
Gallatin	862 41.0%	1,147 54.6%	91	2,100	R+13.6
Menard	1,126 54.2%	950 45.7%	1	2,077	D+8.5
Kendall	1,580 77.3%	375 18.3%	90	2,045	D+58.9
Franklin	1,056 52.2%	968 47.8%		2,024	D+4.3
Henderson	778 38.9%	1,221 61.0%	2	2,001	R+22.1
Scott	1,050 52.6%	946 47.4%		1,996	D+5.2
Jasper	1,043 52.8%	932 47.2%	1	1,976	D+5.6
Boone	241 12.3%	1,719 87.7%		1,960	R+75.4
Stark	1,193 63.0%	617 32.6%	83	1,893	D+30.4
Pope	1,162 62.9%	605 32.7%	81	1,848	D+30.1
Ford	480 27.5%	1,263 72.3%	3	1,746	R+44.8
Johnson	1,123 64.4%	544 31.2%	76	1,743	D+33.2
Pulaski	680 39.0%	1,062 61.0%		1,742	R+21.9
Wabash	781 44.9%	884 50.8%	76	1,741	R+5.9
Massac	653 38.7%	1,033 61.2%	1	1,687	R+22.5
Edwards	403 31.3%	885 68.7%		1,288	R+37.4
Calhoun	417 39.6%	589 56.0%	46	1,052	R+16.3
Putnam	304 33.2%	611 66.7%	1	916	R+33.5
Hardin	418 46.1%	450 49.6%	39	907	R+3.5

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.

Illinois in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+10.9
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+17.0
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+17.1
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+16.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+25.1
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+10.3
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+12.0
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+17.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+14.2
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+2.1
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.9
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+7.9
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+2.0
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.5
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.9
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+18.9
1960	John F. Kennedy (D)	D+0.2
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+19.4
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.9
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+0.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+3.5
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+2.4
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+18.0
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+13.2
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+14.8
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+35.5
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+42.3
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+9.2
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+13.2
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+15.5
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+28.3
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+8.4
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+13.1
1892	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+3.1
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+3.0
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+3.7
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+6.5
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+13.3
1868	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+11.4

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