men or color. This strategy contrasted strongly with later years, when Republicans could not stop black disfranchisement in the former Confederate states, since they had many new and secure votes in new states in the Western United States. Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): (a) Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia did not participate in the election of 1868 due to Reconstruction. In Florida, the state legislature cast its electoral vote for Grant by a vote of 40 to 9. Geography of results Cartographic gallery Results by state Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57. Close states Red font color denotes states won by Republican Ulysses S. Grant; blue denotes those won by Democrat Horatio Seymour. States where the margin of victory was under 1% (8 electoral votes) California 0.48% (520 votes) Oregon 0.74% (164 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 5% (93 electoral votes) New York 1.18% (9,995 votes) New Jersey 1.76% (2,870 votes) Alabama 2.50% (3,746 votes) Indiana 2.79% (9,572 votes) Connecticut 2.98% (2,944 votes) Pennsylvania 4.41% (28,898 votes) States where the margin of victory was under 10% (35 electoral votes) North Carolina 6.82% (12,380 votes) (tipping point state for a Grant victory) Arkansas 7.37% (3,034 votes) (tipping point state for a Seymour victory) Ohio 8.01% (41,546 votes) Statistics Counties with highest percent of vote (Republican) Hancock County, Tennessee 100.00% Monona County, Iowa 100.00% Ottawa County, Kansas 100.00% Jefferson County, Nebraska 100.00% McDowell County, West Virginia 100.00% Counties with highest percent of vote (Democratic) St. Landry Parish, Louisiana 100.00% Lafayette Parish, Louisiana 100.00% Jackson Parish, Louisiana 100.00% De Soto Parish, Louisiana 100.00% Franklin Parish, Louisiana 100.00% Counties with highest percent of vote (Other) DeKalb County, Alabama 0.70% Sullivan County, New Hampshire 0.11% Strafford County, New Hampshire 0.09% Carroll County, New Hampshire 0.02% See also American election campaigns in the 19th century First inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant History of the United States (1865–1918) History of the United States Democratic Party History of the United States Republican Party Reconstruction era Third Party System 1868–69 United States House of Representatives elections 1868–69 United States Senate elections Ohio idea Footnotes Notes Bibliography American Annual Cyclopedia ... 1868 (1869), online, highly detailed compendium of facts and primary sources Coleman, Charles Hubert. The election of 1868 : the Democratic effort to regain control (1933) online Gambill, Edward. Conservative Ordeal: Northern Democrats and Reconstruction,