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Along the border, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware went overwhelmingly Democratic, in Kentucky’s case this being influenced by hostility towards [[Radical Reconstruction|the Radical Reconstructionists]], which had led to the state’s first postwar government being almost entirely composed of former Confederates.<ref>Henry; ''The Story of Reconstruction'', pp. 250-253</ref> No Democratic presidential candidate before or since has attained a higher percentage of the vote in the states of Kentucky<ref>Counting the Votes; [http://www.countingthevotes.com/kentucky Kentucky]</ref> or Maryland,<ref>Counting the Votes; [http://www.countingthevotes.com/maryland Maryland]</ref> where hostility towards black suffrage was very widespread.<ref>Bergeron, Paul H.; ''Andrew Johnson’s Civil War and Reconstruction''; pp. 105-111 {{ISBN|1572337486}}</ref> As for Delaware,<ref>Counting the Votes; [http://www.countingthevotes.com/delaware Delaware]</ref> only the Democratic tickets of [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]]/[[Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey]] in [[United States presidential election, 1964|1964]] (which was elected with the largest percentage of the popular vote since [[United States presidential election, 1824|1824]]) and [[Barack Obama|Obama]]/[[Joe Biden|Biden]] in [[United States presidential election in Delaware, 2008|2008]] (which had the first Delawarean on a national ticket) carried the state with a larger percentage of the vote.
Two [[border states (American Civil War)|border states]], Missouri and West Virginia, both of which were under Republican control, gave their electoral votes to Grant.<ref>Henry; ''The Story of Reconstruction''; p.</ref> Seymour narrowly carried his home state of New York, but Blair, largely because of the Radicals’ registry system, failed to carry Missouri. The ''Missouri Democrat'' exulted: “General Blair is beaten in his ward, his city, his county and his State.”<ref>''Frank Blair: Lincoln’s Conservative,'' William E. Parrish, pg. 259-260</ref> In West Virginia, former Confederates were temporarily forbidden from voting or holding public office. It is estimated that 15,000 to 25,000 white residents were disfranchised as a result.<ref>“A Brief History of African Americans in West Virginia,” West Virginia Culture {{cite web|url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/blachist.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=December 7, 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20132120194800/http://www.wvculture.org/history/blachist.html |archivedate=
Of the 1,708 counties making returns, Grant won in 991 (58.02%) while Seymour carried 713 (41.74%). Four counties (0.23%) split evenly between Grant and Seymour. Hence, the Democrats, even with all of the burdens of the war, still carried only 278 fewer counties than the triumphant Republicans. This cemented a solid party comeback at the grassroots level that had begun in local elections during 1867.<ref>Bergeron; ''Andrew Johnson’s Civil War and Reconstruction''; pp. 175-177</ref>
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