Candidate

Horatio Seymour

Democratic

Elections

Won

Electoral votes, all elections

Years

1868

Record

Horatio Seymour: result of each presidential election
Year	Electoral votes	Popular vote	Result
1868	80 of 294	2,703,600 47.3%	Lost

Popular vote is the sum of the sourced state counts, shown only where every state that held a popular vote has one; sums from county returns (1868–1972) can run a few tenths of a point below national totals published elsewhere.

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 1868 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

SourceThe World Almanac for 1873 (Public domain in the United States: published before 1931, retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

Election by election

1868Democratic · Lost

States carried · 8 of 34

Closest states won

Oregonby 164 · 0.7 pts
New Yorkby 10,000 · 1.2 pts
New Jerseyby 2,880 · 1.8 pts

Closest states lost

CaliforniaGrant by 514 · 0.5 pts
IndianaGrant by 9,572 · 2.8 pts
AlabamaGrant by 4,280 · 2.9 pts

Margins computed for 33 of 34 states: those with a sourced popular vote that names Seymour.

SourceThe World Almanac for 1873 (Public domain in the United States: published before 1931, retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

From the National Archives

*The electoral votes of Georgia were contested and the Senate and the House of Representatives could not agree whether to accept – and count – them or not. Grant was the clear winner in either case.

National Archives, Electoral College results for 1868, archives.gov, read October 3, 2026. Quoted as published.

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