1872 Governor election results

22 races · 22 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every Governor contest in the 1872 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

1872 Governor results by state
State	Winner	Result
Alabama	David P. Lewis R	89,868 votes · +8,497 over Thomas H. Herndon
Arkansas	Elisha Baxter R	41,775 votes · +2,866 over Joseph Brooks
Connecticut	Marshall Jewell R	46,563 votes · +2,001 over Richard D. Hubbard
Florida	Ossian B. Hart R	17,603 votes · +1,599 over William D. Bloxham
Georgia	James Milton Smith D	104,256 votes · +58,444 over Dawson A. Walker
Illinois	Richard J Oglesby R	237,774 votes · +40,690 over Gustavus Koerner
Indiana	Thomas A. Hendricks D	189,424 votes · +1,148 over Thomas M. Browne
Kansas	Thomas A. Osborn R	66,715 votes · +32,017 over Thaddeus H. Walker
Louisiana	William Pitt Kellogg R	72,890 votes · +17,641 over John McEnery
Maine	Sidney Perham R	71,883 votes · +16,540 over Charles P. Kimball
Massachusetts	William B. Washburn R	133,900 votes · +74,274 over Francis W Bird
Michigan	John J. Bagley R	137,606 votes · +56,645 over Austin Blair
Missouri	Silas Woodson D	156,767 votes · +34,878 over John B. Henderson
Nebraska	Robert W. Furnas R	16,543 votes · +5,316 over Henry C. Lett
New Hampshire	Ezekiel A. Straw R	38,751 votes · +2,167 over James A. Weston
New York	John Adams Dix R	445,801 votes · +53,451 over Francis Kernan
North Carolina	Tod Robinson Caldwell R	98,630 votes · +1,899 over Augustus Summerfield Merrimon
Pennsylvania	John F. Hartranft R	353,287 votes · +35,587 over Charles R Buckalew
Rhode Island	Seth Padelford R	9,463 votes · +1,155 over Olney Arnold
South Carolina	Franklin J. Moses Jr.R	69,838 votes · +33,305 over Reuben Tomlinson
Vermont	Julius Converse R	41,946 votes · +25,333 over Abraham B. Gardner
West Virginia	John J. JacobI	42,888 votes · +2,583 over Johnson N. Camden