How many votes did Victoria Woodhull receive in 1872?
There isn’t a satisfactory answer to that question. One of the reasons is that supposedly some of the election officials just laughed at the votes for her and threw them away. The votes for her do not appear to have been officially tallied. A search of the National Archives could answer with certainty whether the votes were counted or not.) According to some statistics, there were around 2,000 or so “scattering votes,” some of which may have been for her. One web site says there were 16,081 “other votes” cast in that election, or approximately .2% of the vote. Again, some of those could have been for her or any one of the other third party candidates.
