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Under the Illinois Constitution of 1870, the state representatives were elected by cumulative voting, with each voter distributing three votes among the available candidates. The Illinois House of Representatives as elected in 1872 thus contained 153 members, three from each of the state's 51 districts.
Presidential election year: Election day: November 5: Incumbent president: Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) Next Congress: 43rd: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican hold: Popular vote margin: Republican +11.8%: Electoral vote: Ulysses S. Grant (R) 286: Horace Greeley (LR/D) 66 [1] 1872 presidential election results.
All contemporary 37 states were part of the 1872 United States presidential election. The state voters chose 21 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Illinois was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.
In the lead-up to the 1872 presidential election, state-level affiliates of the party formed and saw limited success. [8] One of its major victories was forming a majority coalition with the Democratic Party in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1871 in which William Gove, one of its members, was elected Speaker of the House.
The 1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1872, and April 7, 1873. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 43rd United States Congress convened on December 1, 1873.
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The 1872 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on 5 November 1872 in order to elect the lieutenant governor of Illinois. Republican nominee and incumbent member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 3rd district John Lourie Beveridge defeated Democratic nominee John C. Black and Independent Democrat Daniel S. Storr.