1868 United States presidential election in Indiana
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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]
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November 3, 1868
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| Turnout | 92.5%[1]  9.6 pp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 County Results
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General election
Summary
Indiana chose 13 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.[4] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836â1892.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Ulysses S. Grant Schuyler Colfax |
176,552 | 51.39 |  2.13 | |
| Democratic | Horatio Seymour Francis Preston Blair Jr. |
166,980 | 48.61 | 2.13 | |
| Total votes | 343,532 | 100.00 | |||
