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Republican Party candidateUlysses S. Grant won the 1868 presidential election defeating Democratic Party candidate Horatio Seymour. In the 1868 presidential election Ulysses S. Grant received 214 electoral votes and Horatio Seymour received 80 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Grant 3,013,650 and Seymour 2,708,744.

Incumbent PresidentUlysses S. Grant won reelection in the 1872 presidential election defeating Horace Greeley. In the 1872 presidential election Ulysses S. Grant received 286 of the 352 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Grant 3,598,235 and Greeley 2,834,761.

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In the election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant took 214 electoral votes.

In the election of 1872, he took 286 electoral votes.

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