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Election 1872 Results

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1872 presidential election in Nebraska

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) beat Horace Greeley (Democrat) in Nebraska in 1872, 70.6% to 29.4%, a margin of 41.3 points and 10,664 votes.

Nebraska voted 29.6 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 44 of the 47 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Douglas, cast 2,779 votes and went to the Republican by 14.5 points. The closest was Cuming, where 4 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 18,255 70.6%
Horace Greeley Democratic 7,591 29.4%
Total25,846

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Douglas 1,188 42.7% 1,591 57.3% 2,779 R+14.5
Richardson 757 40.9% 1,092 59.1% 1,849 R+18.1
Cass 605 36.8% 1,041 63.2% 1,646 R+26.5
Lancaster 339 20.9% 1,284 79.1% 1,623 R+58.2
Otoe 651 42.1% 894 57.9% 1,545 R+15.7
Nemaha 459 32.9% 936 67.1% 1,395 R+34.2
Saunders 227 20.5% 879 79.5% 1,106 R+59.0
Dodge 407 42.4% 553 57.6% 960 R+15.2
Saline 215 23.4% 702 76.6% 917 R+53.1
Washington 250 28.6% 623 71.4% 873 R+42.7
Seward 138 17.8% 637 82.2% 775 R+64.4
Gage 131 17.4% 621 82.6% 752 R+65.2
Johnson 179 24.1% 564 75.9% 743 R+51.8
Pawnee 106 14.6% 619 85.4% 725 R+70.8
Cuming 299 50.3% 295 49.7% 594 D+0.7
York 96 17.9% 441 82.1% 537 R+64.2
Butler 44 9.0% 444 91.0% 488 R+82.0
Fillmore 45 9.8% 412 90.2% 457 R+80.3
Jefferson 84 18.6% 367 81.4% 451 R+62.7
Hall 116 26.1% 328 73.9% 444 R+47.7
Burt 100 22.6% 343 77.4% 443 R+54.9
Merrick 89 20.8% 339 79.2% 428 R+58.4
Sarpy 144 35.2% 265 64.8% 409 R+29.6
Platte 167 41.4% 236 58.6% 403 R+17.1
Dixon 93 26.9% 253 73.1% 346 R+46.2
Dakota 104 32.6% 215 67.4% 319 R+34.8
Colfax 95 29.9% 223 70.1% 318 R+40.3
Clay 31 10.8% 255 89.2% 286 R+78.3
Buffalo 33 13.5% 212 86.5% 245 R+73.1
Thayer 16 7.0% 212 93.0% 228 R+86.0
Lincoln 83 36.6% 144 63.4% 227 R+26.9
Webster 21 11.0% 170 89.0% 191 R+78.0
Polk 17 9.3% 166 90.7% 183 R+81.4
Cedar 94 54.7% 78 45.3% 172 D+9.3
Hamilton 16 11.5% 123 88.5% 139 R+77.0
Adams 9 6.8% 124 93.2% 133 R+86.5
Franklin 29 25.7% 84 74.3% 113 R+48.7
Antelope 8 8.3% 88 91.7% 96 R+83.3
Howard 10 10.9% 82 89.1% 92 R+78.3
Cheyenne 52 60.5% 34 39.5% 86 D+20.9
Harlan 7 9.7% 65 90.3% 72 R+80.6
Nuckolls 13 18.8% 56 81.2% 69 R+62.3
Boone 2 3.1% 63 96.9% 65 R+93.8
Kearney 6 12.8% 41 87.2% 47 R+74.5
Wayne 0 0.0% 33 100.0% 33 R+100.0
Dawson 10 37.0% 17 63.0% 27 R+25.9
Frontier 6 35.3% 11 64.7% 17 R+29.4

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.

Nebraska in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+20.5
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+19.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+25.0
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+21.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+14.9
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+33.2
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+29.0
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+18.7
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+17.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+21.0
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+41.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+39.5
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+20.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+41.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+5.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+31.0
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+8.3
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+17.2
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+27.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+27.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+17.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+33.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+14.3
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+22.0
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+37.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+3.2
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+5.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+31.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+13.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+16.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+30.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+29.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+41.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+27.7