1872 United States presidential election in Indiana|
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| Turnout | 85.3% 7.2 pp |
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County Results
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Grant
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
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Greeley
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 5, 1872, as part of the 1872 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant and the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts Henry Wilson defeated the Liberal Republican and Democratic ticket of the editor of the New-York Tribune and former U.S. representative from New York's 6th congressional district Horace Greeley and the governor of Missouri B. Gratz Brown. Grant defeated Greeley in the national election with 286 electoral votes.