1868 United States presidential election in Maryland

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1868 United States presidential election in Maryland

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Nominee Horatio Seymour Ulysses S. Grant
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Illinois
Running mate Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Schuyler Colfax
Electoral vote 7 0
Popular vote 62,357 30,438
Percentage 67.20% 32.80%

County Results

President before election

Andrew Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Ulysses S. Grant
Republican

The 1868 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1868, as part of the 1868 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Maryland voted for the Democratic nominee, Horatio Seymour over the Republican nominee, Ulysses S. Grant. Seymour won the state by a margin of 34.4%.

In this election, Maryland voted 39.72% more Democratic than the nation at-large.[1]

With 67.2% of the popular vote, Maryland would be Seymour's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Kentucky and Louisiana.[2] To date this is the best performance by a Democrat in Maryland history.

This was the first presidential election that Wicomico County was able to vote in.

Results

1868 United States presidential election in Maryland[3]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Horatio Seymour of New York Francis Preston Blair, Jr. of Missouri 62,357 67.20% 7 100.00%
Republican Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois Schuyler Colfax of Indiana 30,438 32.80% 0 0.00%
Total 92,795 100.00% 7 100.00%

Results by county

County Horatio Seymour

Democratic

Ulysses S. Grant

Republican

Margin Total

Votes

Cast [4]

# % # % # %
Allegany 2721 52.85% 2428 47.15% 293 5.69% 5149
Anne Arundel 1670 82.92% 344 17.08% 1326 65.84% 2014
Baltimore (City) 21702 70.45% 9103 29.55% 12599 40.90% 30805
Baltimore (County) 4377 65.21% 2335 34.79% 2042 30.42% 6712
Calvert 625 90.32% 67 9.68% 558 80.64% 692
Caroline 2607 53.13% 2300 46.87% 307 6.26% 4907
Carroll 907 65.68% 474 34.32% 433 31.35% 1381
Cecil 2481 59.13% 1715 40.87% 766 18.26% 4196
Charles 1136 97.01% 35 2.99% 1101 94.02% 1171
Dorchester 1415 74.83% 476 25.17% 939 49.66% 1891
Frederick 3813 49.64% 3869 50.36% -56 -0.73% 7682
Harford 2313 66.31% 1175 33.69% 1138 32.63% 3488
Howard 1012 67.38% 490 32.62% 522 34.75% 1502
Kent 1332 83.35% 266 16.65% 1066 66.71% 1598
Montgomery 1745 81.39% 399 18.61% 1346 62.78% 2144
Prince George's 1664 91.03% 164 8.97% 1500 82.06% 1828
Queen Anne's 1552 84.95% 275 15.05% 1277 69.90% 1827
St. Mary's 1182 96.81% 39 3.19% 1143 93.61% 1221
Somerset 989 70.14% 421 29.86% 568 40.28% 1410
Talbot 1252 77.81% 357 22.19% 895 55.62% 1609
Washington 3114 50.47% 3056 49.53% 58 0.94% 6170
Wicomico 1464 77.67% 421 22.33% 1043 55.33% 1885
Worcester 1319 85.21% 229 14.79% 1090 70.41% 1548
Total 62357 67.20% 30438 32.80% 31919 34.40% 92795

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  2. ^ "1868 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. ^ "1868 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland".
  4. ^ "County Project (WIP)". Google Docs. Retrieved November 1, 2022.