PaPres 1872

Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1872
County	Total Vote	Republican	Democratic	Plurality	Winner	Temperance	Pct Rep	Pct Dem
		Ulysses S. Grant	Horace Greeley			James Black
Pennsylvania	561629	349589	212040	137549	R	1632	62.25	37.75
Adams	5315	2735	2580	155	R		51.46	48.54
Allegheny	34901	25846	9055	16791	R		74.06	25.94
Armstrong	6375	4297	2078	2219	R		67.40	32.60
Beaver	5315	3517	1798	1719	R		66.17	33.83
Bedford	5066	2901	2165	736	R		57.26	42.74
Berks	17942	7741	10201	-2460	D		43.14	56.86
Blair	6434	4251	2183	2068	R		66.07	33.93
Bradford	11015	7452	3563	3889	R		67.65	32.35
Bucks	12358	6913	5445	1468	R		55.94	44.06
Butler	6549	4015	2534	1481	R		61.31	38.69
Cambria	5388	2841	2547	294	R		52.73	47.27
Cameron	894	554	340	214	R		61.97	38.03
Carbon	4398	2452	1946	506	R		55.75	44.25
Centre	5837	3142	2695	447	R		53.83	46.17
Chester	13051	9249	3802	5447	R		70.87	29.13
Clarion	4862	2558	2304	254	R		52.61	47.39
Clearfield	4299	1970	2329	-359	D		45.82	54.18
Clinton	3761	2003	1758	245	R		53.26	46.74
Columbia	5010	2009	3001	-992	D		40.10	59.90
Crawford	11825	6938	4887	2051	R		58.67	41.33
Cumberland	7452	3895	3557	338	R		52.27	47.73
Dauphin .	10285	6954	3331	3623	R		67.61	32.39
Delaware	5397	4231	1166	3065	R		78.40	21.60
Elk	1432	679	753	-74	D		47.42	52.58
Erie	11289	7502	3787	3715	R		66.45	33.55
Fayette	6544	3881	2663	1218	R		59.31	40.69
Franklin	7447	4301	3146	1155	R		57.75	42.25
Fulton	1544	737	807	-70	D		47.73	52.27
Forest	515	360	155	205	R		69.90	30.10
Greene	4681	1852	2829	-977	D		39.56	60.44
Huntingdon	4904	3099	1805	1294	R		63.19	36.81
Indiana	5652	4386	1266	3120	R		77.60	22.40
Jefferson	3409	2253	1156	1097	R		66.09	33.91
Juniata	2571	1306	1265	41	R		50.80	49.20
Lancaster	20005	14288	5717	8571	R		71.42	28.58
Lawrence	4374	3429	945	2484	R		78.40	21.60
Lebanon	6247	4171	2076	2095	R		66.77	33.23
Lehigh	10964	5342	5622	-280	D		48.72	51.28
Luzerne	23870	12966	10904	2062	R		54.32	45.68
Lycoming	8260	4423	3837	586	R		53.55	46.45
McKean	1658	1040	618	422	R		62.73	37.27
Mercer	8928	5517	3411	2106	R		61.79	38.21
Mifflin	2812	1685	1127	558	R		59.92	40.08
Monroe	2992	787	2205	-1418	D		26.30	73.70
Montgomery	13193	8080	5113	2967	R		61.24	38.76
Montour	2717	1384	1333	51	R		50.94	49.06
Northampton	10996	4841	6155	-1314	D		44.03	55.97
Northumberland	7627	4271	3356	915	R		56.00	44.00
Perry	4307	2563	1744	819	R		59.51	40.49
Philadelphia	92199	68792	23407	45385	R		74.61	25.39
Pike	1136	339	797	-458	D		29.84	70.16
Potter	2017	1463	554	909	R		72.53	27.47
Schuylkill	15640	8657	6983	1674	R		55.35	44.65
Snyder	2718	1803	915	888	R		66.34	33.66
Somerset	4878	3495	1383	2112	R		71.65	28.35
Sullivan	1011	440	571	-131	D		43.52	56.48
Susquehanna	7443	4536	2907	1629	R		60.94	39.06
Tioga	7507	5730	1777	3953	R		76.33	23.67
Union	2913	1997	916	1081	R		68.55	31.45
Venango	7766	4780	2986	1794	R		61.55	38.45
Warren	4628	3090	1538	1552	R		66.77	33.23
Washington	8357	5134	3223	1911	R		61.43	38.57
Wayne	4615	2463	2152	311	R		53.37	46.63
Westmoreland	10131	5412	4719	693	R		53.42	46.58
Wyoming	2951	1552	1399	153	R		52.59	47.41
York	13052	6299	6753	-454	D		48.26	51.74

Smull's Legislative Handbook, 1873, pp. 284-285.
Temperance Party county level returns not found.

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