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Madison County, presidential election of 1868

Madison County

52.04%Ulysses S. Grant (R), the most votes3,232Votes counted for president

Every election in Madison County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1868

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What this is

Madison County counted 3,232 votes for president across 2 candidates in 1868. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ulysses S. GrantRepublican1,68252.04%
Horatio SeymourDemocratic1,55047.96%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) with 54%, an 8.0-point margin over Horatio Seymour. The country elected Ulysses S. Grant.
Against the state
Madison County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+4.1 against Ohio's R+8.0: 3.9 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 46th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1864
From 1864 to 1868 the county's lean moved 13.8 points toward the Democrats, from R+17.9 to R+4.1.
Matched
Madison County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.

Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1868 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1868 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1868-11-03 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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