Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — Summary of the Presidential Election. [ARTICLE]

Summary of the Presidential Election.

On the 2d inst., tbe Electoral College of the several States met and oast their votes for President aud Vico President. The vote stood: FOR GRANT AND COLFAX.

Maine 7 New Hampshire 6 Vermont 6 Massachusetts 12 Rhode Island 4 Connecticut ft Pennsylvania 26 West Virginia t>( Ohio 0 21 1 Michigan 8 Indiana 13 Illinois 16 Wisconsiq 8

lowa ' 8 Minnesota $ i "Nebraska 3 Kansas 3 Missouri 11 Nevada 8 California 5 Tennessee 10 N. Carolina 9 S. Carolina 6 Florida 3 Alabama 8 Arkansas 5

Total, r . r • 217 FOR SEYMOUR AND BLAIR.

New York 33 New Jersey 7 Oregon 3 Keptpcky II

Georgia, 9 Louisiana 7 Delaware f Maryland 7

Total 80 Majority for Grant and Calfax 134 The popular vote was 5 Fpr Grant and Colfax 3,021,020 Eor Seymour and |Bair 716,475 Total vote polled 5,737,495 Mqj. for Grant sod Colfax 304,644