A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1868, as part of the 1868 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the commanding general of the United States Army Ulysses S. Grant and the speaker of the United States House of Representatives Schuyler Colfax defeated the Democratic ticket of the former governor of New York Horatio Seymour and the former U.S. representative from Missouri's 1st congressional district Francis P. Blair Jr..[2] Grant defeated Seymour in the national election with 214 electoral votes.[3]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 13 electors in a statewide general election. Nineteenth-century presidential elections used a form of block voting that allowed voters to modify the electoral list nominated by a political party before submitting their ballots. Because voters elected each member of the Electoral College individually, electors nominated by the same party often received differing numbers of votes as a consequence of voter rolloff, split-ticket voting, or electoral fusion.[4] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892.[2]

1868 United States presidential election in Indiana[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Ulysses S. Grant
Schuyler Colfax 		176,552 51.39 Decrease 2.13
Democratic Horatio Seymour
Francis Preston Blair Jr.		 166,980 48.61 Increase 2.13
Total votes 343,532 100.00

See also

References

  1. ↑ Madison 1986, p. 330.
  2. 1 2 3 Burnham 1955, p. 249.
  3. ↑ "1868 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
  4. ↑ Dubin 2002, p. xi.

Bibliography


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868_United_States_presidential_election_in_Indiana