Ulysses S. Grant Republican Ulysses S. Grant Republican Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: Pre-consolidation: Post-consolidation: The 1872 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1872.

New York was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and his running mate Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.

Grant and Wilson defeated the Liberal Republican and Democratic nominees, former Congressman Horace Greeley of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown of Missouri.

Grant carried New York State with 53.23% of the vote to Greeley's 46.77%, a victory margin of 6.46%.

New York weighed in for this election as slightly more than 5% more Democratic/Liberal Republican than the national average.