Benjamin Harrison
Republican
Elected President
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
The
United States

United States presidential election of 1892 was the 27th
quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1892.
In a re-match of the closely contested 1888 presidential election,
former Democratic President
Grover Cleveland
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Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent
Republican President Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland's victory made him
the first and to date only person in American history to be elected to
a second, non-consecutive presidential term.
Though some Republicans opposed Harrison's re-nomination, Harrison
defeated
James G. Blaine

James G. Blaine and
William McKinley

William McKinley on the first
presidential ballot of the 1892 Republican National Convention.
Cleveland defeated challenges by
David B. Hill
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David B. Hill and
Horace Boies

Horace Boies on the
first presidential ballot of the 1892 Democratic National Convention,
becoming the first Democrat to win his party's presidential nomination
in three different elections. The new Populist Party, formed by groups
from The Grange, the Farmers' Alliances, and the Knights of Labor,
fielded a ticket led by former Congressman
James B. Weaver

James B. Weaver of Iowa.
The campaign centered mainly on economic issues, especially the
protectionist 1890 McKinley Tariff. Cleveland ran on a platform of
lowering the tariff, and he opposed the Republicans' 1890 voting
rights proposal. Cleveland was also a proponent of the gold standard,
while the Republicans and Populists both supported bimetalism.
Cleveland swept the
Solid South

Solid South and won several important swing
states, taking a majority of the electoral vote and a plurality of the
popular vote. Cleveland was the first person since
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson to
win a significant number of electoral votes in three different
elections, and only Jackson, Cleveland, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt have
won the popular vote in three different elections. Weaver won 8.5% of
the popular vote and carried several Western states, while John
Bidwell of the
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party won 2.2% of the popular vote. The
Democrats would not win another presidential election until 1912.
Contents
1 Nominations
1.1 Republican Party nomination
1.2 Democratic Party nomination
1.3 People's Party nomination
1.3.1 Candidates gallery
1.4
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party nomination
1.4.1 Candidates gallery
1.5 Socialist Labor Party Nomination
2 General election
2.1 Campaign
2.2 Results
2.3 Geography of results
2.3.1 Cartographic gallery
2.4 Results by state
2.5 Close states
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links
Nominations[edit]
Republican Party nomination[edit]
Main article: 1892 Republican National Convention
Republican Party Ticket, 1892
Benjamin Harrison
Whitelaw Reid
for President
for Vice President
23rd
President of the United States
(1889–1893)
28th
U.S. Ambassador to France
(1889–1892)
Campaign
Benjamin Harrison's administration was widely viewed as unsuccessful,
and as a result,
Thomas C. Platt

Thomas C. Platt (a political boss in New York) and
other disaffected party leaders mounted a dump-Harrison movement
coalescing around veteran candidate
James G. Blaine

James G. Blaine from Maine, a
favorite of Republican party regulars. Blaine had been the Republican
nominee in 1884 when he was beaten by Democrat Grover Cleveland.
Privately, Harrison did not want to be re-nominated for the
presidency, but he remained opposed to the nomination going to Blaine,
who he was convinced intended to run, and thought himself the only
candidate capable of preventing such an occurrence. Blaine, however,
did not want another fight for the nomination and a re-match against
Cleveland at the general election. His health had begun to fail, and
three of his children had recently died (Walker and Alice in 1890, and
Emmons in 1892). Blaine refused to run actively, but the cryptic
nature of his responses to a draft effort fueled speculation that he
was not averse to such a movement. For his part, Benjamin Harrison
curtly demanded that he either renounce his supporters or resign his
position as Secretary of State, with Blaine choosing the latter a
scant three days before the National Convention. A boom began to build
around the "draft Blaine" effort with supporters hoping to cause a
break towards their candidate.[2]
Senator
John Sherman

John Sherman from Ohio, who had been the leading candidate for
the nomination at the 1888 Republican Convention before Harrison
actually won it, was also brought up again as a possible challenger.
Like Blaine, however, he was averse to another bitter battle for the
nomination and "like the rebels down South, want to be let alone."
This inevitably turned attention to Ohio's Governor William McKinley,
who was indecisive as to his intentions in spite his ill feelings
toward Harrison and popularity among the Republican base. He was not
averse to receiving the nomination, but did not expect to win it
either. However, should Blaine and Harrison fail to attain the
nomination after a number of ballots, he felt he could be brought
forth as a harmony candidate. Despite the urging of Republican
powerbroker Mark Hanna, McKinley would not openly put himself out as a
potential candidate, afraid of offending Harrison and Blaine's
supporters, while also feeling that the coming elections would not
favor the Republicans.[3]
In any case, the president's forces had the nomination locked up by
the time delegates met in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 7–10,
1892. Richard Thomas from
Indiana

Indiana delivered Harrison's nominating
speech. Harrison was nominated on the first ballot with 535.17 votes
to 182.83 for Blaine, 182 for McKinley, and the rest scattered.
McKinley protested when the
Ohio

Ohio delegation threw its entire vote in
his name, despite not being formally nominated, but Joseph Foraker,
who headed the delegation, managed to silence him on a point of
order.[4] With the ballots counted, many observers were surprised at
the strength of the McKinley vote, which almost overtook Blaine.
Whitelaw Reid

Whitelaw Reid from New York, editor of the
New York Tribune

New York Tribune and recent
United States

United States Ambassador to France, was nominated for vice-president.
The incumbent Vice President, Levi Morton, was supported by many at
the convention, including Reid himself, but he did not wish to serve
another term.[4] Harrison also did not want to have Morton on the
ticket.
Democratic Party nomination[edit]
Main article: 1892 Democratic National Convention
Democratic Party Ticket, 1892
Grover Cleveland
Adlai Stevenson
for President
for Vice President
22nd
President of the United States
(1885–1889)
Former U.S. Representative
for Illinois's 13th
(1875–1877 & 1879–1881)
Campaign
By the beginning of 1892, many Americans were ready to return to
Cleveland's political policies. Although he was the clear frontrunner
for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was far from the
universal choice of the party's supporters; many, such as the
journalists
Henry Watterson

Henry Watterson and Charles Dana, thought that if he were
to attain the nomination, their party would lose in November, but
there were few capable of challenging him effectively. Though he had
remained relatively quiet on the issue of silver versus gold, often
deferring to bi-metallism, Senate Democrats in January 1891 voted for
free coinage of silver. Furious, he sent a letter to Ellery Anderson,
who headed the New York Reform Club, to condemn the party's apparent
drift towards inflation and agrarian control, the "dangerous and
reckless experiment of free, unlimited coinage of silver at our
mints." Advisors warned that such statements might alienate potential
supporters in the South and West and risk his chances for the
nomination, but Cleveland felt that being right on the issue was more
important than the nomination. After making his position clear,
Cleveland worked to focus his campaign on tariff reform, hoping that
the silver issue would dissipate.[5]
A challenger emerged in the form of David Hill, former Governor of and
incumbent Senator from New York. In favor of bi-metallism and tariff
reform, Hill hoped to make inroads with Cleveland's supporters while
appealing to those in the South and Midwest that were not keen on
nominating Cleveland for a third consecutive time. Hill had begun to
run for the position of president unofficially as early as 1890, and
he even offered former Postmaster General Donald Dickinson his support
for the vice-presidential nomination. He was not able to escape his
past association with Tammany Hall, however, which he supported along
machine politics, and the lack of confidence in his ability to defeat
Cleveland for the nomination kept Hill from attaining the support he
needed. By the time of the convention, Cleveland could count on the
support of majority of the state Democratic parties, though his native
New York remained pledged to Senator Hill.[6]
In a narrow first-ballot victory, Cleveland received 617.33 votes,
barely 10 more than needed, to 114 for Senator Hill from New York, 103
for Governor
Horace Boies

Horace Boies of Iowa, a populist and former Republican,
and the rest scattered. Although the Cleveland forces preferred Isaac
P. Gray from
Indiana

Indiana for vice-president, Cleveland directed his own
support to the convention favorite, Adlai E. Stevenson from
Illinois.[7] As a supporter of using paper greenbacks and free silver
to inflate the currency and alleviate economic distress in rural
districts, Stevenson balanced the ticket headed by Cleveland, who
supported hard-money and the gold standard. At the same time, it was
hoped that his nomination would represent a promise not to ignore
regulars, and so potentially get Hill and
Tammany Hall

Tammany Hall to support the
Democratic ticket to their fullest in the coming election.[8][9]
People's Party nomination[edit]
People's Party Ticket, 1892
James B. Weaver
James G. Field
for President
for Vice President
Former U.S. Representative
for Iowa's 6th
(1879–1881 & 1885–1889)
13th
Attorney General of Virginia
(1877–1882)
Campaign
Populist candidates:
James B. Weaver, former U.S. representative from Iowa
James H. Kyle, U.S. senator from South Dakota
Leonidas L. Polk, former representative from North Carolina
Walter Q. Gresham, Appellate judge from Indiana
Candidates gallery[edit]
James B. Weaver
from Iowa
Senator
James H. Kyle
from South Dakota
Leonidas L. Polk
from North Carolina
(Died June 11, 1892)
Appellate Judge
Walter Q. Gresham
from Indiana
(Declined to be Nominated)
Weaver/Field campaign poster
In 1891, the American farmers' alliances met with delegates from labor
and reform groups in Cincinnati, Ohio, to discuss the formation of a
new political party. They formed the People's Party, commonly known as
the "Populists," a year later in St. Louis, Missouri.
Leonidas L. Polk

Leonidas L. Polk was the initial frontrunner to the presidential
nomination. He had been instrumental in the party's formation and held
great appeal with its agrarian base, but he unexpectedly died while in
Washington, D.C., on June 11. Another candidate mentioned frequently
for the nomination was Walter Q. Gresham, an appellate judge who had
made a number of rulings against the railroads that made him a
favorite of some farmer and labor groups, and it was felt that his
rather dignified image would make the Populists appear as more than a
minor contender. Both Democrats and Republicans feared his nomination
for this reason, and while Gresham toyed with the idea, he ultimately
was not ready to make a complete break with the two parties, declining
petitions for his nomination right up to and during the Populist
Convention. Later he would endorse
Grover Cleveland
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Grover Cleveland for the
presidency.[10]
At the first Populist national convention in Omaha, Nebraska, in July
1892,
James B. Weaver

James B. Weaver from
Iowa

Iowa was nominated for president on the
first ballot, now lacking any serious opposition. While his nomination
brought with him significant campaigning experience from over several
decades, he also had a longer tract of history for which Republicans
and Democrats could criticize him, and he also alienated many
potential supporters in the South, having participated in Sherman's
March to the Sea.
James G. Field

James G. Field from
Virginia

Virginia was nominated for
vice-president to try and rectify this problem while also attaining
the regional balance often seen in Republican and Democratic
tickets.[11] I
Presidential Ballot
Vice Presidential Ballot
Ballot
1st
1st
James B. Weaver
995
James G. Field
733
James H. Kyle
265
Ben Stockton Terrell
554
Seymour F. Norton
1
Mann Page
1
Others
1
Source: US President – P Convention. Our Campaigns. (September 7,
2009). Source: US Vice President – P Convention. Our Campaigns.
(September 7, 2009).
The Populist platform called for nationalization of the telegraph,
telephone, and railroads, free coinage of silver, a graduated income
tax, and creation of postal savings banks.
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party nomination[edit]
Main article: 1892 Prohibition National Convention
Prohibition candidates:
John Bidwell, former U.S. representative from California
Gideon T. Stewart,
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party Chairman from Ohio
William Jennings Demorest, magazine publisher from New York
Candidates gallery[edit]
John Bidwell
from California
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party Chairman
Gideon T. Stewart
from Ohio
Magazine Publisher
William J. Demorest
from New York
National Prohibition Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1892.
The sixth
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party National Convention assembled in Music
Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio. There were 972 delegates present from all
states except Louisiana and South Carolina.
Two major stories about the convention loomed before it assembled. In
the first place, some members of the national committee sought to
merge the Prohibition and Populist Parties. While there appeared a
likelihood that the merger would materialize, it was clear that it was
not going to happen by the time that the convention convened.
Secondly, the southern states sent a number of black delegates.
Cincinnati

Cincinnati hotels refused to serve meals to blacks and whites at the
same time, and several hotels refused service to the black delegates
altogether.
The convention nominated
John Bidwell

John Bidwell from
California

California for president on
the first ballot. Prior to the convention, the race was thought to be
close between Bidwell and William Jennings Demorest, but the New York
delegation became irritated with Demorest and voted for Bidwell 73-7.
James B. Cranfill

James B. Cranfill from
Texas

Texas was nominated for vice-president on the
first ballot with 417 votes to 351 for
Joshua Levering from Maryland
and 45 for others.[12]
Presidential Ballot
Ballot
1st
John Bidwell
590
Gideon T. Stewart
179
William Jennings Demorest
139
H. Clay Bascom
3
Source: US President – P Convention. Our Campaigns. (May 9, 2010).
Socialist Labor Party Nomination[edit]
The first Socialist Labor Party National Convention assembled in New
York City and, despite running on a platform that called for the
abolition of the positions of president and vice-president, decided to
nominate candidates for those positions:
Simon Wing

Simon Wing from Massachusetts
for president and
Charles Matchett

Charles Matchett from New York for vice-president.
They were on the ballot in five states: Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.[13]
General election[edit]
Campaign[edit]
Main article:
Grover Cleveland
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Grover Cleveland Presidential campaign, 1892
Cleveland/Stevenson poster.
The tariff issue dominated this rather lackluster campaign. Harrison
defended the protectionist
McKinley Tariff

McKinley Tariff passed during his term. For
his part, Cleveland assured voters that he opposed absolute free trade
and would continue his campaign for a reduction in the tariff.
Cleveland also denounced the Lodge Bill, a voting rights bill that
sought to protect the rights of African American voters in the
South.[14]
William McKinley

William McKinley campaigned extensively for Harrison,
setting the stage for his own run four years later.
The campaign took a somber turn when, in October, First Lady Caroline
Harrison died. Despite the ill health that had plagued Mrs. Harrison
since her youth and had worsened in the last decade, she often
accompanied Mr. Harrison on official travels. On one such trip, to
California

California in the spring of 1891, she caught a cold. It quickly
deepened into her chest, and she was eventually diagnosed with
tuberculosis. A summer in the
Adirondack Mountains

Adirondack Mountains failed to restore
her to health. An invalid the last six months of her life, she died in
the White House on October 25, 1892, just two weeks before the
national election. As a result, all of the candidates ceased
campaigning.
Results[edit]
Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage for the winning
candidate. Shades of blue are for Cleveland (Democratic), shades of
red are for Harrison (Republican), and shades of green are for Weaver
(Populist).
The margin in the popular vote for Cleveland was 400,000, the largest
since Grant’s re-election in 1872.[15] The Democrats won the
presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1856.
President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the
popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election
bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the
electoral vote. Cleveland was the third of only five presidents to win
re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in
previous elections, although in the two prior such incidents — James
Madison in 1812 and
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson in 1832 — not all states held
popular elections. Ironically, Cleveland saw his popular support
decrease not only from his electoral win in 1884, but also from his
electoral loss in 1888. A similar vote decrease would happen again for
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944 and
Barack Obama

Barack Obama in 2012.
At the county level, the Democratic candidate fared much better than
the Republican candidate. The Republicans’ vote was not nearly as
widespread as the Democrats. In 1892, it was still a sectionally based
party mainly situated in the East, Midwest, and West and was barely
visible south of the Mason–Dixon line. In the South the party was
holding on in only a few counties. In
East Tennessee

East Tennessee and tidewater
Virginia, the vote at the county level showed some strength, but it
barely existed in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.[16]
In a continuation of its collapse there during the 1890 Congressional
elections, the Republican Party even struggled in its Midwestern
strongholds, where general electoral troubles from economic woes were
acutely exacerbated by the promotion of temperance laws and, in
Wisconsin and Illinois, the aggressive support of state politicians
for English-only compulsory education laws. Such policies, which
particularly in the case of the latter were associated with an
upwelling of nativist and anti-Catholic attitudes amongst their
supporters, resulted in the defection of large sections of immigrant
communities, especially Germans, to the Democratic Party. Cleveland
carried Wisconsin and
Illinois

Illinois with their 36 combined electoral votes,
a Democratic victory not seen in those states since 1852[17] and
1856[18] respectively, and which would not be repeated until Woodrow
Wilson’s election in 1912. While not as dramatic a loss as in 1890,
it would take until the next election cycle for more moderate
Republican leaders to pick up the pieces left by the reformist
crusaders and bring alienated immigrants back to the fold.[19]
Of the 2,683 counties making returns, Cleveland won in 1,389 (51.77%),
Harrison carried 1,017 (37.91%), while Weaver placed first in 276
(10.29%). One county (0.04%) split evenly between Cleveland and
Harrison.
Populist James B. Weaver, calling for free coinage of silver and an
inflationary monetary policy, received such strong support in the West
that he become the only third-party nominee between 1860 and 1912 to
carry a single state. The Democratic Party did not have a presidential
ticket on the ballot in the states of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, North
Dakota, or Wyoming, and Weaver won the first four of these states.[20]
Weaver also performed well in the South as he won counties in Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. Populists did best in
Alabama, where electoral chicanery probably carried the day for the
Democrats.[15]
The Prohibition ticket received 270,879, or 2.2% nationwide. It was
the largest total vote and highest percentage of the vote received by
any
Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party national ticket.
Wyoming, having attained statehood two years earlier, became the first
state to allow women to vote in a presidential election since 1804.
(Women in New Jersey had the right to vote under the state's original
constitution, but this right was rescinded in 1807.)
Wyoming was also one of six states (along with North Dakota, South
Dakota, Montana, Washington, and Idaho) participating in their first
presidential election. This was the most new states voting since the
first election.
The election witnessed many states splitting their electoral votes.
Electors from the state of Michigan were selected using the
congressional district method (the winner in each congressional
district wins one electoral vote, the winner of the state wins two
electoral votes). This resulted in a split between the Republican and
Democratic electors: nine for Harrison and five for Cleveland.[21] In
Oregon, the direct election of presidential electors combined with the
fact that one Weaver elector was endorsed by the Democratic Party and
elected as a Fusionist, resulted in a split between the Republican and
Populist electors: three for Harrison and one for Weaver.[21] In
California, the direct election of presidential electors combined with
the close race resulted in a split between the Republican and
Democratic electors: eight for Cleveland and one for Harrison.[21] In
Ohio, the direct election of presidential electors combined with the
close race resulted in a split between the Republican and Democratic
of electors: 22 for Harrison and one for Cleveland.[21] In North
Dakota, two electors from the Democratic-Populist Fusion ticket won
and one Republican Elector won. This created a split delegation of
electors: one for Weaver, one for Harrison, and one for Cleveland.[21]
This was the first occasion in which incumbent presidents were
defeated in two consecutive elections. This would not happen again
until 1980.
This was the last election in which the Democrats won
California

California until
1916 (although it voted against the Republicans by supporting the
Progressive Party in 1912), the last in which the Democrats won
Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, West
Virginia[22] and Wisconsin[17] until 1912, the last in which the
Democrats won a majority of electoral votes in Maryland until 1904,
and the last in which the Republicans won Montana until 1904. The
election was also the last in which the Democrats didn't win Colorado
and Nevada until 1904.
Presidential candidate
Party
Home state
Popular vote
Electoral
vote
Running mate
Count
Percentage
Vice-presidential candidate
Home state
Electoral vote
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
New York
5,553,898
46.02%
277
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
277
Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison (Incumbent)
Republican
Indiana
5,190,819
43.01%
145
Whitelaw Reid
New York
145
James B. Weaver
Populist
Iowa
1,026,595
8.51%
22
James G. Field
Virginia
22
John Bidwell
Prohibition
California
270,879
2.24%
0
James Cranfill
Texas
0
Simon Wing
Socialist Labor
Massachusetts
21,173
0.18%
0
Charles Matchett
New York
0
Other
4,673
0.04%
—
Other
—
Total
12,068,037
100%
444
444
Needed to win
223
223
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. "1892 Presidential Election
Results". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved
July 27, 2005.
Source (Electoral Vote): "Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".
National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved July 31,
2005.
Popular vote
Cleveland
46.02%
Harrison
43.01%
Weaver
8.51%
Bidwell
2.24%
Others
0.21%
Electoral vote
Cleveland
62.39%
Harrison
32.66%
Weaver
4.95%
Geography of results[edit]
Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage
of the vote
Cartographic gallery[edit]
Map of presidential election results by county
Map of Democratic presidential election results by county
Map of Republican presidential election results by county
Map of Populist presidential election results by county
Map of "Other" presidential election results by county
Cartogram

Cartogram of presidential election results by county
Cartogram

Cartogram of Democratic presidential election results by county
Cartogram

Cartogram of Republican presidential election results by county
Cartogram

Cartogram of Populist presidential election results by county
Cartogram

Cartogram of "other" presidential election results by county
Results by state[edit]
Source: Data from Walter Dean Burnham, Presidential ballots,
1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247-57.[23]
States won by Cleveland/Stevenson
States won by Harrison/Reid
States won by Weaver/Field
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
James Weaver
Populist
John Bidwell
Prohibition
Simon Wing
Socialist Labor
Margin
State Total
State
electoral
votes
#
%
electoral
votes
#
%
electoral
votes
#
%
electoral
votes
#
%
electoral
votes
#
%
electoral
votes
#
%
#
Alabama
11
138,135
59.40
11
9,184
3.95
-
84,984
36.55
-
240
0.10
-
-
-
-
53,151
22.86
232,543
AL
Arkansas
8
87,834
59.30
8
47,072
31.78
-
11,831
7.99
-
113
0.08
-
-
-
-
40,762
27.52
148,117
AR
California
9
118,174
43.83
8
118,027
43.78
1
25,311
9.39
-
8,096
3.00
-
-
-
-
147
0.05
269,609
CA
Colorado
4
-
-
-
38,620
41.13
-
53,584
57.07
4
1,687
1.80
-
-
-
-
-14,964
-15.94
93,891
CO
Connecticut
6
82,395
50.06
6
77,032
46.80
-
809
0.49
-
4,026
2.45
-
333
0.20
-
5,363
3.26
164,595
CT
Delaware
3
18,581
49.90
3
18,077
48.55
-
-
-
-
564
1.51
-
-
-
-
504
1.35
37,235
DE
Florida
4
30,153
85.01
4
-
-
-
4,843
13.65
-
475
1.34
-
-
-
-
25,310
71.35
35,471
FL
Georgia
13
129,446
58.01
13
48,408
21.70
-
41,939
18.80
-
988
0.44
-
-
-
-
81,038
36.32
223,126
GA
Idaho
3
-
-
-
8,599
44.31
-
10,520
54.21
3
288
1.48
-
-
-
-
-1,921
-9.90
19,407
ID
Illinois
24
426,281
48.79
24
399,288
45.70
-
22,207
2.54
-
25,871
2.96
-
-
-
-
26,993
3.09
873,647
IL
Indiana
15
262,740
47.46
15
255,615
46.17
-
22,208
4.01
-
13,050
2.36
-
-
-
-
7,125
1.29
553,613
IN
Iowa
13
196,367
44.31
-
219,795
49.60
13
20,595
4.65
-
6,402
1.44
-
-
-
-
-23,428
-5.29
443,159
IA
Kansas
10
-
-
-
157,241
48.40
-
163,111
50.20
10
4,553
1.40
-
-
-
-
-5,870
-1.81
324,905
KS
Kentucky
13
175,461
51.48
13
135,462
39.74
-
23,500
6.89
-
6,441
1.89
-
-
-
-
39,999
11.73
340,864
KY
Louisiana
8
87,926
76.53
8
26,963
23.47
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
60,963
53.06
114,889
LA
Maine
6
48,049
41.26
-
62,936
54.05
6
2,396
2.06
-
3,066
2.63
-
-
-
-
-14,887
-12.78
116,451
ME
Maryland
8
113,866
53.39
8
92,736
43.48
-
796
0.37
-
5,877
2.76
-
-
-
-
21,130
9.91
213,275
MD
Massachusetts
15
176,813
45.22
-
202,814
51.87
15
3,210
0.82
-
7,539
1.93
-
649
0.17
-
-26,001
-6.65
391,028
MA
Michigan
14
201,624
43.26
5
222,708
47.79
9
19,931
4.28
-
20,857
4.48
-
-
-
-
-21,084
-4.52
466,045
MI
Minnesota
9
100,920
37.76
-
122,823
45.96
9
29,313
10.97
-
14,182
5.31
-
-
-
-
-21,903
-8.20
267,238
MN
Mississippi
9
40,030
76.22
9
1,398
2.66
-
10,118
19.27
-
973
1.85
-
-
-
-
29,912
56.95
52,519
MS
Missouri
17
268,400
49.56
17
227,646
42.03
-
41,204
7.61
-
4,333
0.80
-
-
-
-
40,754
7.52
541,583
MO
Montana
3
17,690
39.79
-
18,871
42.44
3
7,338
16.50
-
562
1.26
-
-
-
-
-1,181
-2.66
44,461
MT
Nebraska
8
24,943
12.46
-
87,213
43.56
8
83,134
41.53
-
4,902
2.45
-
-
-
-
-4,079
-2.04
200,192
NE
Nevada
3
714
6.56
-
2,811
25.84
-
7,264
66.78
3
89
0.82
-
-
-
-
-4,453
-40.94
10,878
NV
New Hampshire
4
42,081
47.11
-
45,658
51.11
4
293
0.33
-
1,297
1.45
-
-
-
-
-3,577
-4.00
89,329
NH
New Jersey
10
171,066
50.67
10
156,101
46.24
-
985
0.29
-
8,134
2.41
-
1,337
0.40
-
14,965
4.43
337,623
NJ
New York
36
654,868
48.99
36
609,350
45.58
-
16,429
1.23
-
38,190
2.86
-
17,956
1.34
-
45,518
3.41
1,336,793
NY
North Carolina
11
132,951
47.44
11
100,346
35.80
-
44,336
15.82
-
2,637
0.94
-
-
-
-
32,605
11.63
280,270
NC
North Dakota
3
0
0.00
1
17,519
48.50
1
17,700
49.01
1
899
2.49
-
-
-
-
-181
-0.50
36,118
ND
Ohio
23
404,115
47.53
1
405,187
47.66
22
14,850
1.75
-
26,012
3.06
-
-
-
-
-1,072
-0.13
850,164
OH
Oregon
4
14,243
18.15
-
35,002
44.59
3
26,965
34.35
1
2,281
2.91
-
-
-
-
-8,037
-10.24
78,491
OR
Pennsylvania
32
452,264
45.09
-
516,011
51.45
32
8,714
0.87
-
25,123
2.50
-
898
0.09
-
-63,747
-6.36
1,003,010
PA
Rhode Island
4
24,336
45.75
-
26,975
50.71
4
228
0.43
-
1,654
3.11
-
-
-
-
-2,639
-4.96
53,196
RI
South Carolina
9
54,680
77.56
9
13,345
18.93
-
2,407
3.41
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
41,335
58.63
70,504
SC
South Dakota
4
9,081
12.88
-
34,888
49.48
4
26,544
37.64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-8,344
-11.83
70,513
SD
Tennessee
12
136,468
51.36
12
100,537
37.83
-
23,918
9.00
-
4,809
1.81
-
-
-
-
35,931
13.52
265,732
TN
Texas
15
239,148
56.65
15
81,144
19.22
-
99,688
23.61
-
2,165
0.51
-
-
-
-
139,460
33.04
422,145
TX
Vermont
4
16,325
29.26
-
37,992
68.09
4
44
0.08
-
1,424
2.55
-
-
-
-
-21,667
-38.83
55,796
VT
Virginia
12
164,136
56.17
12
113,098
38.70
-
12,275
4.20
-
2,729
0.93
-
-
-
-
51,038
17.46
292,238
VA
Washington
4
29,802
33.88
-
36,460
41.45
4
19,165
21.79
-
2,542
2.89
-
-
-
-
-6,658
-7.57
87,969
WA
West Virginia
6
84,467
49.37
6
80,292
46.93
-
4,167
2.44
-
2,153
1.26
-
-
-
-
4,175
2.44
171,079
WV
Wisconsin
12
177,325
47.72
12
171,101
46.05
-
10,019
2.70
-
13,136
3.54
-
-
-
-
6,224
1.68
371,581
WI
Wyoming
3
-
-
-
8,454
50.52
3
7,722
46.14
-
530
3.17
-
-
-
-
-732
-4.37
16,735
WY
TOTALS:
444
5,553,898
46.02
277
5,190,799
43.01
145
1,026,595
8.51
22
270,889
2.24
-
21,173
0.18
-
363,099
3.01
12,068,027
US
Close states[edit]
Margin of victory less than 5% (193 electoral votes):
California, 0.05%
Ohio, 0.13%
North Dakota, 0.50%
Indiana, 1.29%
Delaware, 1.35%
Wisconsin, 1.68%
Kansas, 1.81%
Nebraska, 2.04%
West Virginia, 2.44%
Montana, 2.66%
Illinois, 3.09%
Connecticut, 3.26%
New York, 3.41%
New Hampshire, 4.00%
Wyoming, 4.37%
New Jersey, 4.43%
Michigan, 4.52%
Rhode Island, 4.96%
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (101 electoral votes):
Iowa, 5.29%
Pennsylvania, 6.36%
Massachusetts, 6.65%
Missouri, 7.52%
Washington, 7.57%
Minnesota, 8.20%
Idaho, 9.90%
Maryland, 9.91%
See also[edit]
United States

United States House of Representatives elections, 1892
United States

United States Senate elections, 1892
American election campaigns in the 19th century
History of the
United States

United States (1865–1918)
History of the
United States

United States Democratic Party
History of the
United States

United States Republican Party
Second inauguration of Grover Cleveland
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Faulkner, Harold U. (1959). Politics, Reform and Expansion,
1890–1900. New York: Harper.
Jensen, Richard (1971). The Winning of the Midwest: Social and
Political Conflict, 1888–1896. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ISBN 0-226-39825-0.
Josephson, Matthew (1938). The Politicos: 1865–1896. New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Keller, Morton (1977). Affairs of State: Public Life in Late
Nineteenth Century America. Cambridge: Belknap Press.
ISBN 0-674-00721-2.
Kleppner, Paul (1979). The Third Electoral System 1853–1892:
Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina

North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-1328-1.
Knoles, George H. (1942). The Presidential Campaign and Election of
1892. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Morgan, H. Wayne (1969). From Hayes to McKinley: National Party
Politics, 1877–1896. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1932) Pulitzer
Prize-winning biography, the major resource on Cleveland.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. A History of the
United States

United States since the
Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (1937). pp 169-244
Rhodes, James Ford (1920). History of the
United States

United States from the
Compromise of 1850 to the Mckinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. 8. New
York: Macmillan.
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