1872 U.S. House election results

277 races · 277 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every U.S. House 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.

Alabama

1872 U.S. House results in Alabama
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Alexander White R	89,480 votes · +285 over Charles C Sheates
District 1	Frederick Bromberg R	15,607 votes · +2,433 over Turner
District 2	James Rapier R	19,397 votes · +3,176 over Oates
District 3	Charles Pelham R	14,957 votes · +586 over William A Handley
District 4	Charles Hayes R	20,333 votes · +5,212 over J Q Smith
District 5	John Caldwell R	10,544 votes · +4,251 over Campbell
District 6	Joseph Sloss R	9,288 votes · +4,695 over Parrish

Arkansas

1872 U.S. House results in Arkansas
District	Winner	Result
At-large	William Hynes R	40,023 votes · +437 over J M Bradley
District 1	L C Gause D	11,591 votes · +1,738 over Asa Hodges
District 2	M L Bell D	13,758 votes · +1,474 over Oliver Snyder
District 3	Thomas Gunter D	12,298 votes · +2,867 over William Wilshire

California

1872 U.S. House results in California
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Charles Clayton R	11,938 votes · +1,055 over William A Piper
District 2	Horace Page R	13,803 votes · +987 over Herbert L Coggins
District 3	John Luttrell R	14,032 votes · +922 over J M Coghlan
District 4	Sherman Houghton R	10,396 votes · +1,366 over E J C Kewen

Delaware

1872 U.S. House results in Delaware
District	Winner	Result
At-large	James Lofland R	11,377 votes · +362 over Wright

Florida

1872 U.S. House results in Florida
District	Winner	Result
At-large	William Purman R	17,537 votes · +34 over Josiah Walls

Georgia

1872 U.S. House results in Georgia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Morgan Rawls R	8,319 votes · +1,340 over Andrew Sloan
District 2	Richard Whiteley R	9,616 votes · +86 over Wright
District 3	Philip Cook R	6,147 votes · +1,657 over J F Brown
District 4	Henry Harris R	10,319 votes · +1,853 over Marion Bethune
District 5	James Freeman R	10,910 votes · +279 over T R Glenn
District 6	James Blount R	9,993 votes · +3,797 over G L Anderson
District 7	Pierce Young R	8,067 votes · +3,624 over Dever
District 8	Wright R	9,697 votes · +3,467 over Philip Clayton
District 9	Hiram Bell R	7,437 votes · +3,112 over Darrell

Illinois

1872 U.S. House results in Illinois
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Rice R	12,870 votes · +5,635 over Lusien B Otis
District 2	Jasper Ward R	12,182 votes · +3,309 over William Preston Harrison
District 3	Charles Farwell R	9,202 votes · +4,240 over John Valcoulon Lemoyne
District 4	Stephen Hurlbut R	15,532 votes · +10,398 over Seymour G Bronson
District 5	Horatio Burchard R	14,036 votes · +6,498 over James Dinsmoor
District 6	John Hawley R	13,123 votes · +5,907 over Calvin Truesdale
District 7	Franklin Corwin R	12,404 votes · +4,111 over Samuel J Parks
District 8	Greenbury Fort R	13,401 votes · +5,097 over John C Barnes
District 9	Granville Barrere R	12,600 votes · +1,801 over Nicholas E Worthington
District 10	William Ray R	12,962 votes · +1,065 over W H Neece
District 11	Robert Knapp R	13,818 votes · +2,879 over James Matthews
District 12	James Robinson R	13,234 votes · +923 over M N Chamberlin
District 13	John McNulta R	13,490 votes · +2,640 over William H Moore
District 14	Joseph Cannon R	15,161 votes · +3,756 over John Nelson
District 15	John Eden R	14,653 votes · +2,355 over George Hunt
District 16	James Martin R	12,266 votes · +250 over Silas L Bryan
District 17	William Morrison R	13,215 votes · +1,899 over John B Hay
District 18	Isaac Clements R	12,999 votes · +1,521 over James M Wall
District 19	Samuel Marshall R	13,297 votes · +2,015 over Green B Raum

Indiana

1872 U.S. House results in Indiana
District	Winner	Result
At-large	William Williams R	376,989 votes · +188,325 over Godlove Orth
District 1	William Niblack R	19,259 votes · +132 over Heilman
District 2	Simeon Wolfe R	19,336 votes · +5,684 over Voyles
District 3	William Holman R	16,367 votes · +1,328 over William Herod
District 4	Jeremiah Wilson R	14,499 votes · +380 over Hy C Gooding
District 5	John Coburn R	18,794 votes · +793 over McNutt
District 6	Morton Hunter R	18,792 votes · +657 over Voorhees
District 7	Thomas Cason R	17,927 votes · +197 over Mahlon D Manson
District 8	James Tyner R	19,737 votes · +2,939 over Isaac F Whiteside
District 9	John E Neff R	17,082 votes · +24 over John Shanks
District 10	Henry Sayler R	17,334 votes · +2,185 over Clifford H Long
District 11	Jasper Packard R	16,813 votes · +985 over William Hendricks

Iowa

1872 U.S. House results in Iowa
District	Winner	Result
District 1	George McCrary R	15,149 votes · +4,188 over James M Shelby
District 2	Aylett Cotton R	12,521 votes · +175 over William E Leffuigwell
District 3	William Donnan R	13,654 votes · +1,880 over John T Stoneman
District 4	Henry Pratt R	15,615 votes · +11,041 over A T Lusch
District 5	James Wilson R	15,531 votes · +8,097 over J P Irish
District 6	William Loughridge R	14,638 votes · +2,935 over Henry H Trimble
District 7	John Kasson R	14,909 votes · +7,206 over A F Palmer
District 8	James McDill R	12,675 votes · +5,676 over W W Merritt
District 9	Jackson Orr R	12,402 votes · +6,250 over John F Duncomb

Kansas

1872 U.S. House results in Kansas
District	Winner	Result
At-large	David Lowe R	67,400 votes · +286 over William Phillips

Kentucky

1872 U.S. House results in Kentucky
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Edward Crossland D	10,276 votes · +7,766 over S F J Trabue
District 2	John Brown D	10,878 votes · +10,421 over John W Langley
District 3	Charles Milliken D	8,796 votes · +3,943 over J S Golladay
District 4	William Read D	8,221 votes · +7,673 over Hobson
District 5	Elisha Standiford D	11,179 votes · +6,126 over W P Boone
District 6	William Arthur D	11,424 votes · +4,860 over Herbert E Myers
District 7	James Beck D	13,978 votes · +7,656 over S F J Trabue
District 8	Milton Durham D	10,736 votes · +673 over Robert Bradley
District 9	George Adams D	9,683 votes · +1,484 over A T Woods
District 10	John Young D	9,075 votes · +190 over Thomas E Burns

Louisiana

1872 U.S. House results in Louisiana
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Pinckney B S Pinchback R	68,947 votes · +9,817 over George Sheridan
District 1	Jacob Sypher R	12,300 votes · +75 over Effingham Lawrence
District 2	Lionel Sheldon R	17,068 votes · +1,615 over Randall L Gibson
District 3	Chester Darrall R	14,396 votes · +6,672 over J B Price
District 4	Samuel Peters R	13,787 votes · +6,035 over J S Davidson
District 5	Frank Morey R	14,060 votes · +5,463 over G W McCraney

Maine

1872 U.S. House results in Maine
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Burleigh R	15,485 votes · +2,269 over W H Clifford
District 2	William Frye R	13,540 votes · +4,178 over A Garcelon
District 3	James Blaine R	15,084 votes · +3,518 over Lang
District 4	Samuel Hersey R	13,804 votes · +5,098 over William Emery
District 5	Eugene Hale R	14,181 votes · +2,881 over Elijah P Pike

Maryland

1872 U.S. House results in Maryland
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Ephraim Wilson R	12,464 votes · +638 over Spence
District 2	Stevenson Archer R	10,591 votes · +288 over Hancock
District 3	Richard A Obrien R	9,670 votes · +1,324 over Edward Turner
District 4	Thomas Swann R	12,148 votes · +1,262 over Griswold
District 5	William Albert R	11,405 votes · +1,105 over Merrick
District 6	Lloyd Lowndes R	14,258 votes · +1,713 over Ritchie

Massachusetts

1872 U.S. House results in Massachusetts
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James Buffinton R	12,448 votes · +9,839 over Noel A Day
District 2	Benjamin Harris R	13,752 votes · +8,662 over Edward Avery
District 3	William Whiting R	8,931 votes · +3,792 over Francis D Cobb
District 4	Samuel Hooper R	8,715 votes · +2,453 over Morse
District 5	Daniel Gooch R	12,472 votes · +4,433 over Nathaniel P Banks
District 6	Benjamin Butler R	11,881 votes · +6,144 over Charles P Thompson
District 7	Ebenezer Hoar R	11,742 votes · +5,753 over John K Tarbox
District 8	John Williams R	11,929 votes · +6,100 over Bentley Wirt Warren
District 9	George Hoar R	12,696 votes · +7,684 over George F Verry
District 10	Alvah Crocker R	14,919 votes · +10,331 over Rufus H Bond
District 11	Henry Dawes R	12,260 votes · +5,333 over Harry Arnold

Michigan

1872 U.S. House results in Michigan
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Moses Field R	11,703 votes · +1,860 over Bagg
District 2	Henry Waldron R	17,427 votes · +6,905 over Mahan
District 3	George Willard R	17,822 votes · +7,547 over Parkhurst
District 4	Julius Burrows R	16,717 votes · +5,266 over John M Potter
District 5	Wilder Foster R	17,353 votes · +8,609 over McReynolds
District 6	Josiah Begole R	19,486 votes · +5,492 over Baldwin
District 7	Omar Conger R	12,037 votes · +4,247 over Ora I Richardson
District 8	Nathan Bradley R	11,333 votes · +3,338 over George W Wisner
District 9	Jay Hubbell R	11,951 votes · +6,405 over Ely

Minnesota

1872 U.S. House results in Minnesota
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Mark Dunnell R	20,806 votes · +9,905 over M S Wilkinson
District 2	Horace Strait R	15,712 votes · +4,044 over Graham
District 3	John Averill R	19,663 votes · +6,951 over G L Becker

Mississippi

1872 U.S. House results in Mississippi
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Lucius Lamar R	9,679 votes · +4,725 over Flournoy
District 2	Albert Howe R	14,831 votes · +6,615 over James L Alcorn
District 3	Henry Barry R	15,047 votes · +8,607 over Bolding
District 4	Jason Niles R	15,795 votes
District 5	George McKee R	14,817 votes · +6,744 over Shelby
District 6	John Lynch R	15,101 votes · +6,592 over Cassidy

Missouri

1872 U.S. House results in Missouri
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Edwin Stanard R	5,271 votes · +142 over Grosvenor
District 2	Erastus Wells R	8,268 votes · +2,461 over Bryton
District 3	William Stone R	5,197 votes · +338 over Hilton
District 4	Robert Hatcher R	13,340 votes · +8,746 over Ward
District 5	Richard Bland R	9,974 votes · +1,154 over Seay
District 6	Harrison Havens R	13,156 votes · +578 over McAffee
District 7	Thomas Crittenden R	16,341 votes · +1,571 over Burdett
District 8	Abram Comingo R	13,235 votes · +5,918 over Twichell
District 9	Isaac Parker R	12,136 votes · +83 over Pike
District 10	Ira Hyde R	13,953 votes · +1,635 over Mansur
District 11	Clarke R	17,341 votes · +9,061 over Demotte
District 12	John Glover R	13,006 votes · +2,334 over Benjamin
District 13	Aylett Buckner R	16,249 votes · +8,539 over Flagg

Nebraska

1872 U.S. House results in Nebraska
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Crounse R	17,124 votes · +6,712 over William P Warner

Nevada

1872 U.S. House results in Nevada
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Charles Kendall D	7,847 votes · +701 over C C Goodwin

New Jersey

1872 U.S. House results in New Jersey
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John W Hazleton R	15,312 votes · +6,364 over Clute
District 2	Samuel Dobbins R	14,192 votes · +2,405 over Forker
District 3	Amos Clark R	14,794 votes · +2,176 over Patterson
District 4	Robert Hamilton R	13,458 votes · +2,464 over Potts
District 5	William Phelps R	12,701 votes · +2,715 over Woodruff
District 6	Marcus Ward R	16,061 votes · +5,658 over Randall
District 7	Isaac Scudder R	10,377 votes · +1,269 over Warren Taylor

New York

1872 U.S. House results in New York
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Lyman Tremain R	438,396 votes · +37,599 over Samuel S Cox
District 1	Henry Scudder R	13,877 votes · +2,080 over Covert
District 2	John Schumaker R	13,345 votes · +4,967 over Andrew J Perry
District 3	Stewart Woodford R	15,177 votes · +3,671 over Alphens Goodrich
District 4	Philip Crooke R	11,012 votes · +810 over Colahan
District 5	William Roberts R	20,281 votes · +14,925 over William D Stewart
District 6	James Brooks R	16,645 votes · +11,640 over James Dunn
District 7	Thomas Creamer R	10,012 votes · +1,733 over Conrad Geib
District 8	John Lawson R	13,305 votes · +3,910 over Walter C Shaw
District 9	David Mellish R	7,841 votes · +773 over Hardy
District 10	Fernando Wood R	10,526 votes · +885 over Norman A Darling
District 11	Clarkson Potter R	15,204 votes · +1,025 over Flagg
District 12	Saintjohn R	11,842 votes · +524 over Elliot W Horton
District 13	John Whitehouse R	14,859 votes · +927 over Ketchim
District 14	William C Dewitt R	12,031 votes · +17 over Thomas Maxwell
District 15	Eli Perry R	18,676 votes · +1,138 over Percy D Adams
District 16	James Smart R	17,835 votes · +4,483 over Robert H Thayer
District 17	Robert Hale R	11,025 votes · +2,851 over Heaton
District 18	William Wheeler R	14,725 votes · +8,160 over Thomas Cantwell
District 19	Henry Hathorn R	17,762 votes · +3,006 over O Richard Judson
District 20	David Wilbur R	17,368 votes · +2,197 over Stephen Perry Sturges
District 21	Clinton Merriam R	17,337 votes · +4,117 over T Clinton Brockway
District 22	Ellis Roberts R	13,284 votes · +2,803 over Arthur O Sherman
District 23	William Lansing R	15,410 votes · +4,569 over Foster
District 24	Rodolphus Duell R	15,457 votes · +2,168 over Hiscock
District 25	Clinton MacDougall R	16,486 votes · +4,161 over Mark Graves
District 26	William Lamport R	12,886 votes · +3,156 over Elmer S White
District 27	Thomas Platt R	16,603 votes · +3,197 over Alphens Goodrich
District 28	Horace Smith R	18,738 votes · +4,476 over Hayt
District 29	Freeman Clarke R	16,342 votes · +3,872 over Gordon
District 30	George Hoskins R	13,233 votes · +3,634 over Southworth
District 31	Lyman Bass R	17,929 votes · +5,116 over Williams
District 32	Walter Sessions R	12,922 votes · +3,349 over Ambrose S Murray

North Carolina

1872 U.S. House results in North Carolina
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Clinton Cobb R	13,522 votes · +1,421 over Thomas C Carter
District 2	Charles Thomas R	20,072 votes · +8,445 over Claude Kitchen
District 3	Alfred Waddell D	14,286 votes · +1,438 over Neil McKay
District 4	William Smith R	13,879 votes · +732 over Louis G Rogers
District 5	James Leach D	10,755 votes · +258 over Thomas Settle
District 6	Thomas Ashe D	12,700 votes · +2,139 over Oliver H Dockery
District 7	William Robbins D	10,072 votes · +1,613 over David M Furches
District 8	Robert Vance D	11,038 votes · +2,185 over W W Candler

Ohio

1872 U.S. House results in Ohio
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Milton Sayler D	12,474 votes · +3,569 over Benjamin Eggleston
District 2	Henry Banning D	11,034 votes · +1,502 over E T Hayes
District 3	John Smith R	14,929 votes · +1,229 over John W Sohn
District 4	Lewis Gunckel R	16,604 votes · +1,927 over J J Winans
District 5	Charles Lamison D	15,530 votes · +5,306 over Samuel Lybrand
District 6	Isaac Sherwood R	13,471 votes · +1,065 over Frank H Hurd
District 7	Lawrence NealU	13,388 votes · +1,282 over T B Wilson
District 8	William Lawrence R	14,748 votes · +4,043 over J J Musson
District 9	James Robinson R	13,573 votes · +427 over William H H Morgan
District 10	Charles Foster R	14,997 votes · +726 over John Sloane
District 11	Hezekiah Bundy R	13,267 votes · +2,907 over Samuel A Nash
District 12	Hugh Jewett D	15,613 votes · +4,677 over Charles B Taylor
District 13	Milton Southard D	15,109 votes · +2,471 over Ben Marsh
District 14	John Berry D	13,668 votes · +3,743 over Douglass
District 15	William Sprague R	12,987 votes · +991 over Wm N Hudson
District 16	Lorenzo Danford R	14,350 votes · +3,298 over C L Poorman
District 17	Laurin Woodworth R	15,368 votes · +2,262 over Oliver Brown
District 18	James Monroe R	14,662 votes · +4,364 over N S Townshend
District 19	James A. Garfield R	19,189 votes · +10,935 over Phebe T Sutliff
District 20	Richard Parsons R	13,101 votes · +2,724 over George H Chamberlain

Oregon

1872 U.S. House results in Oregon
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Joseph G Wilson R	13,168 votes · +851 over John Burnett

Pennsylvania

1872 U.S. House results in Pennsylvania
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Charles Albright R	360,546 votes · +2,533 over Glenni Scofield
District 1	Samuel Randall R	10,133 votes · +1,288 over Houst
District 2	Charles Oneill R	17,253 votes · +7,525 over Walter E Morris
District 3	Mahlon Meyers R	15,429 votes · +4,899 over Vogelbach
District 4	William Kelley R	20,955 votes · +7,654 over William C Mitchell
District 5	Alfred Harmer R	14,743 votes · +2,703 over Thomas W Phillips
District 6	James Biery R	13,906 votes · +2,506 over Witte
District 7	Washington Townsend R	14,011 votes · +5,192 over J Henry Taylor
District 8	Hiester Clymer R	13,854 votes · +6,071 over Millhol
District 9	Abraham Smith R	14,501 votes · +5,975 over Hugh M North Jr.
District 10	John Killinger R	14,419 votes · +3,370 over Rielly
District 11	John Storm R	16,808 votes · +6,239 over Charles M Howell
District 12	Lazarus Shoemaker R	17,551 votes · +740 over Woodward
District 13	James Strawbridge R	13,079 votes · +836 over Frank B Rhodes
District 14	John Packer R	17,545 votes · +4,059 over Rutherford
District 15	John Magee R	15,358 votes · +1,826 over Sponsler
District 16	John Cessna R	14,383 votes · +1,316 over Mahlon Meyers
District 17	Robert Speer R	12,011 votes · +589 over Abraham A Barker
District 18	Sobieski Ross R	17,041 votes · +2,414 over Andrew Sherwood
District 19	Carlton Curtis R	17,742 votes · +1,504 over Elisha Kent Kane
District 20	Hiram Richmond R	20,704 votes · +2,077 over Griffith
District 21	Alexander Taylor R	13,980 votes · +691 over Foster
District 22	A S Hartranft R	25,771 votes · +14,841 over W S Greely King
District 23	Ebenezer McJunkin R	17,431 votes · +6,125 over Thomas Johnston
District 24	William Moore R	14,195 votes · +1,026 over Thos Jefferson McClelland

Rhode Island

1872 U.S. House results in Rhode Island
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Benjamin Eames R	8,977 votes · +5,839 over Thomas Davis
District 2	James Pendleton R	4,310 votes · +1,805 over Browne

South Carolina

1872 U.S. House results in South Carolina
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Richard Cain R	68,825 votes · +42,431 over J Johnson
District 1	Joseph Rainey R	19,765 votes
District 2	Alonzo Ransier R	20,061 votes · +13,512 over William Gurney
District 3	Robert Elliott R	21,627 votes · +20,533 over W H McCaw
District 4	Alexander Wallace R	14,590 votes · +1,711 over Matthew J Perry

Tennessee

1872 U.S. House results in Tennessee
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Horace Maynard R	80,825 votes · +15,637 over Richard Cheatham
District 1	Roderick Butler R	10,289 votes · +2,440 over William B Carter
District 2	Jacob Thornburgh R	10,015 votes · +4,612 over Alford Caldwell
District 3	William Crutchfield R	10,041 votes · +1,081 over Key
District 4	John Bright R	12,585 votes · +7,143 over Steele
District 5	Horace Harrison R	10,033 votes · +1,902 over Gellad
District 6	Washington Whitthorne R	9,058 votes · +2,209 over Gibbs
District 7	John Atkins R	11,411 votes · +3,677 over Murray
District 8	David Nunn R	7,580 votes · +1,613 over Campbell
District 9	Barbour Lewis R	13,784 votes · +3,243 over Haynes

Texas

1872 U.S. House results in Texas
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Sam Evans R	47,096 votes
District 1	William S Herdon D	13,417 votes · +4,637 over J P Smith
District 2	William McLean D	15,924 votes · +10,307 over F W Minor
District 3	De Giddings D	20,464 votes · +1,177 over Sam Evans
District 4	John Hancock D	18,172 votes · +6,891 over W O Hutchinson

Vermont

1872 U.S. House results in Vermont
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Charles Willard R	14,061 votes · +10,443 over Heaton
District 2	Luke Poland R	11,070 votes · +8,141 over Steele
District 3	George Hendee R	11,473 votes · +8,291 over Adams

Virginia

1872 U.S. House results in Virginia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James Sener R	10,685 votes · +373 over E M Braxton
District 2	James Platt R	15,554 votes · +5,215 over Fitzhugh Lee
District 3	John Smith R	13,082 votes · +568 over John S Wise
District 4	William Stowell R	15,393 votes · +7,325 over P W McKinney
District 5	Alexander Davis R	9,175 votes · +200 over Christopher Thomas
District 6	Thomas WhiteheadC	11,401 votes · +622 over Jno R Johnson
District 7	John HarrisC	10,894 votes · +4,156 over C T O Ferrall
District 8	Eppa HuntonC	11,782 votes · +2,604 over Edward Daniels
District 9	Rees BowenC	10,352 votes · +5,048 over Edward Hughes

West Virginia

1872 U.S. House results in West Virginia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	William L Wilson D	8,054 votes · +737 over John Davis
District 2	John Hagans R	3,441 votes · +3,054 over Alexander R Boteler
District 3	Frank Hereford D	11,417 votes · +8,648 over H I Walker

Wisconsin

1872 U.S. House results in Wisconsin
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Charles Williams R	15,666 votes · +6,286 over Sloan
District 2	Gerry Hazelton R	13,408 votes · +1,624 over Henry Smith
District 3	Joel Barber R	13,745 votes · +3,865 over Warden
District 4	Alexander Mitchell D	13,281 votes · +6,161 over Winkler
District 5	Charles Eldredge D	15,587 votes · +3,080 over Baetz
District 6	Philetus Sawyer R	15,803 votes · +3,445 over Lindsley
District 7	Jeremiah Rusk R	16,183 votes · +7,636 over Marston
District 8	Alexander McDill R	10,711 votes · +3,473 over Carson