The 1888 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1888. All contemporary 38 states were part of the

1888 United States presidential election The 1888 United States presidential election was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former Senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grove ...

. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the

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and

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. New York was won by the

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nominees, former Senator

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and his running mate former Congressman Levi P. Morton of New York. Harrison and Morton defeated the Democratic nominees, incumbent

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of New York and his running mate former Senator Allen G. Thurman of

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. Harrison narrowly carried New York State with a plurality of 49.28% of the vote to Cleveland's 48.19%, a victory margin of 1.09%. In a distant third came the Prohibition Party candidate Clinton B. Fisk with 2.29%. New York weighed in for this election as less than 2% more Republican than the national average. Cleveland's narrow defeat in his home state, losing its 36 electoral votes, ultimately cost him the 1888 election, despite the fact that Cleveland won the nationwide popular vote by nearly a point. Cleveland had narrowly won New York State four years earlier in his initial 1884 presidential campaign, but strong opposition to Cleveland from the corrupt

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machine, which held significant influence over New York's politics, helped to narrowly tip the state to Harrison in 1888. Had Cleveland instead won New York, he would have won reelection by seven electoral votes. Cleveland performed most strongly downstate in the

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area, where he won

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, Kings County, Queens County, and

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. Cleveland also won nearby

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and

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. Harrison, however, dominated in much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

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1888 New York (state) elections

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