1888 United States presidential election in Georgia
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The 1888 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s.[1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns[2] – and in presidential elections to a small number of counties where blacks were not fully disenfranchised. The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.[3] This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulative poll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout declined steadily throughout the 1880s,[4] unlike any other former Confederate state except South Carolina.
Despite economic problems in the mountain counties due to
Results
1888 United States presidential election in Georgia[6] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Grover Cleveland (incumbent) | 100,493 | 70.31% | 12 | |
Republican | Benjamin Harrison | 40,499 | 28.33% | 0 | |
Prohibition | Clinton Fisk
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1,808 | 1.26% | 0 | |
Union Labor | Alson Streeter | 136[a] | 0.10% | 0 |
Results by county
County | Stephen Grover Cleveland[7] Democratic |
Benjamin Harrison[7] Republican |
Clinton Bowen Fisk[8] Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Appling | 531 | 70.33% | 219 | 29.01% | 5 | 0.66% | 312 | 41.32% | 755 |
Baker | 346 | 88.95% | 43 | 11.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 303 | 77.89% | 389 |
Baldwin | 403 | 59.18% | 271 | 39.79% | 7 | 1.03% | 132 | 19.38% | 681 |
Banks | 807 | 78.27% | 210 | 20.37% | 14 | 1.36% | 597 | 57.90% | 1,031 |
Bartow | 916 | 71.01% | 290 | 22.48% | 84 | 6.51% | 626 | 48.53% | 1,290 |
Berrien | 721 | 97.96% | 11 | 1.49% | 4 | 0.54% | 710 | 96.47% | 736 |
Bibb | 2,215 | 64.11% | 1,121 | 32.45% | 119 | 3.44% | 1,094 | 31.66% | 3,455 |
Brooks | 828 | 58.27% | 580 | 40.82% | 13 | 0.91% | 248 | 17.45% | 1,421 |
Bryan | 214 | 94.27% | 12 | 5.29% | 1 | 0.44% | 202 | 88.99% | 227 |
Bulloch | 1,061 | 96.02% | 42 | 3.80% | 2 | 0.18% | 1,019 | 92.22% | 1,105 |
Burke | 684 | 73.39% | 248 | 26.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 436 | 46.78% | 932 |
Butts | 603 | 68.91% | 245 | 28.00% | 27 | 3.09% | 358 | 40.91% | 875 |
Calhoun | 451 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 451 | 100.00% | 451 |
Camden | 188 | 36.86% | 317 | 62.16% | 5 | 0.98% | -129 | -25.29% | 510 |
Campbell | 778 | 70.73% | 321 | 29.18% | 1 | 0.09% | 457 | 41.55% | 1,100 |
Carroll | 1,710 | 80.89% | 349 | 16.51% | 55 | 2.60% | 1,361 | 64.38% | 2,114 |
Catoosa | 428 | 77.12% | 106 | 19.10% | 21 | 3.78% | 322 | 58.02% | 555 |
Charlton | 113 | 65.32% | 58 | 33.53% | 2 | 1.16% | 55 | 31.79% | 173 |
Chatham | 3,920 | 73.52% | 1,355 | 25.41% | 57 | 1.07% | 2,565 | 48.11% | 5,332 |
Chattahoochee | 145 | 86.83% | 22 | 13.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 123 | 73.65% | 167 |
Chattooga | 638 | 77.80% | 180 | 21.95% | 2 | 0.24% | 458 | 55.85% | 820 |
Cherokee | 1,575 | 76.72% | 459 | 22.36% | 19 | 0.93% | 1,116 | 54.36% | 2,053 |
Clarke | 801 | 54.60% | 660 | 44.99% | 6 | 0.41% | 141 | 9.61% | 1,467 |
Clay | 554 | 65.80% | 287 | 34.09% | 1 | 0.12% | 267 | 31.71% | 842 |
Clayton | 604 | 72.95% | 224 | 27.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 380 | 45.89% | 828 |
Clinch | 435 | 78.52% | 115 | 20.76% | 4 | 0.72% | 320 | 57.76% | 554 |
Cobb | 1,143 | 73.18% | 391 | 25.03% | 28 | 1.79% | 752 | 48.14% | 1,562 |
Coffee | 294 | 72.06% | 110 | 26.96% | 4 | 0.98% | 184 | 45.10% | 408 |
Colquitt | 255 | 97.70% | 4 | 1.53% | 2 | 0.77% | 251 | 96.17% | 261 |
Columbia | 397 | 98.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 1.49% | 391[b] | 97.02% | 403 |
Coweta | 1,476 | 59.71% | 990 | 40.05% | 6 | 0.24% | 486 | 19.66% | 2,472 |
Crawford | 442 | 94.24% | 26 | 5.54% | 1 | 0.21% | 416 | 88.70% | 469 |
Dade | 465 | 83.48% | 89 | 15.98% | 3 | 0.54% | 376 | 67.50% | 557 |
Dawson | 513 | 59.38% | 340 | 39.35% | 11 | 1.27% | 173 | 20.02% | 864 |
DeKalb | 1,021 | 75.80% | 313 | 23.24% | 13 | 0.97% | 708 | 52.56% | 1,347 |
Decatur | 1,287 | 72.75% | 482 | 27.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 805 | 45.51% | 1,769 |
Dodge | 496 | 54.27% | 406 | 44.42% | 12 | 1.31% | 90 | 9.85% | 914 |
Dooly | 787 | 67.04% | 386 | 32.88% | 1 | 0.09% | 401 | 34.16% | 1,174 |
Dougherty | 815 | 78.21% | 222 | 21.31% | 5 | 0.48% | 593 | 56.91% | 1,042 |
Douglas | 493 | 76.08% | 151 | 23.30% | 4 | 0.62% | 342 | 52.78% | 648 |
Early | 467 | 61.85% | 288 | 38.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 179 | 23.71% | 755 |
Echols | 150 | 75.76% | 43 | 21.72% | 5 | 2.53% | 107 | 54.04% | 198 |
Effingham | 362 | 64.07% | 189 | 33.45% | 14 | 2.48% | 173 | 30.62% | 565 |
Elbert | 774 | 95.67% | 11 | 1.36% | 24 | 2.97% | 750[b] | 92.71% | 809 |
Emanuel | 658 | 95.50% | 30 | 4.35% | 1 | 0.15% | 628 | 91.15% | 689 |
Fannin | 374 | 34.89% | 692 | 64.55% | 6 | 0.56% | -318 | -29.66% | 1,072 |
Fayette | 690 | 77.09% | 204 | 22.79% | 1 | 0.11% | 486 | 54.30% | 895 |
Floyd | 1,145 | 65.50% | 585 | 33.47% | 18 | 1.03% | 560 | 32.04% | 1,748 |
Forsyth | 1,579 | 87.72% | 209 | 11.61% | 12 | 0.67% | 1,370 | 76.11% | 1,800 |
Franklin | 606 | 79.84% | 121 | 15.94% | 32 | 4.22% | 485 | 63.90% | 759 |
Fulton | 2,750 | 53.43% | 2,164 | 42.04% | 233 | 4.53% | 586 | 11.39% | 5,147 |
Gilmer | 556 | 49.60% | 543 | 48.44% | 22 | 1.96% | 13 | 1.16% | 1,121 |
Glascock | 290 | 86.57% | 45 | 13.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 245 | 73.13% | 335 |
Glynn | 601 | 49.59% | 582 | 48.02% | 29 | 2.39% | 19 | 1.57% | 1,212 |
Gordon | 852 | 84.61% | 119 | 11.82% | 36 | 3.57% | 733 | 72.79% | 1,007 |
Greene | 803 | 52.38% | 714 | 46.58% | 16 | 1.04% | 89 | 5.81% | 1,533 |
Gwinnett | 2,004 | 90.56% | 186 | 8.40% | 23 | 1.04% | 1,818 | 82.15% | 2,213 |
Habersham | 830 | 80.82% | 188 | 18.31% | 9 | 0.88% | 642 | 62.51% | 1,027 |
Hall | 2,170 | 87.29% | 274 | 11.02% | 42 | 1.69% | 1,896 | 76.27% | 2,486 |
Hancock | 596 | 77.00% | 177 | 22.87% | 1 | 0.13% | 419 | 54.13% | 774 |
Haralson | 493 | 82.86% | 93 | 15.63% | 9 | 1.51% | 400 | 67.23% | 595 |
Harris | 1,020 | 61.22% | 633 | 38.00% | 13 | 0.78% | 387 | 23.23% | 1,666 |
Hart | 674 | 86.97% | 80 | 10.32% | 21 | 2.71% | 594 | 76.65% | 775 |
Heard | 629 | 76.43% | 188 | 22.84% | 6 | 0.73% | 441 | 53.58% | 823 |
Henry | 1,136 | 67.90% | 512 | 30.60% | 25 | 1.49% | 624 | 37.30% | 1,673 |
Houston | 949 | 66.93% | 466 | 32.86% | 3 | 0.21% | 483 | 34.06% | 1,418 |
Irwin | 245 | 88.77% | 31 | 11.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 214 | 77.54% | 276 |
Jackson | 2,180 | 80.80% | 506 | 18.75% | 12 | 0.44% | 1,674 | 62.05% | 2,698 |
Jasper | 588 | 76.86% | 177 | 23.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 411 | 53.73% | 765 |
Jefferson | 816 | 85.80% | 130 | 13.67% | 5 | 0.53% | 686 | 72.13% | 951 |
Johnson | 379 | 73.45% | 124 | 24.03% | 13 | 2.52% | 255 | 49.42% | 516 |
Jones | 531 | 54.41% | 443 | 45.39% | 2 | 0.20% | 88 | 9.02% | 976 |
Laurens | 839 | 78.41% | 222 | 20.75% | 9 | 0.84% | 617 | 57.66% | 1,070 |
Lee | 178 | 30.48% | 405 | 69.35% | 1 | 0.17% | -227 | -38.87% | 584 |
Liberty | 477 | 39.75% | 708 | 59.00% | 15 | 1.25% | -231 | -19.25% | 1,200 |
Lincoln | 446 | 99.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.22% | 445[b] | 99.55% | 447 |
Lowndes | 767 | 53.75% | 643 | 45.06% | 17 | 1.19% | 124 | 8.69% | 1,427 |
Lumpkin | 440 | 57.14% | 317 | 41.17% | 13 | 1.69% | 123 | 15.97% | 770 |
Macon | 683 | 68.03% | 320 | 31.87% | 1 | 0.10% | 363 | 36.16% | 1,004 |
Madison | 583 | 80.19% | 144 | 19.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 439 | 60.39% | 727 |
Marion | 543 | 85.11% | 94 | 14.73% | 1 | 0.16% | 449 | 70.38% | 638 |
McDuffie | 389 | 99.23% | 3 | 0.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 386 | 98.47% | 392 |
McIntosh | 192 | 22.20% | 673 | 77.80% | 0 | 0.00% | -481 | -55.61% | 865 |
Meriwether | 991 | 68.16% | 452 | 31.09% | 11 | 0.76% | 539 | 37.07% | 1,454 |
Miller | 170 | 94.97% | 9 | 5.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 161 | 89.94% | 179 |
Milton | 895 | 93.42% | 56 | 5.85% | 7 | 0.73% | 839 | 87.58% | 958 |
Mitchell | 650 | 59.96% | 433 | 39.94% | 1 | 0.09% | 217 | 20.02% | 1,084 |
Monroe | 1,420 | 75.25% | 466 | 24.70% | 1 | 0.05% | 954 | 50.56% | 1,887 |
Montgomery | 480 | 71.54% | 178 | 26.53% | 13 | 1.94% | 302 | 45.01% | 671 |
Morgan | 506 | 70.28% | 210 | 29.17% | 4 | 0.56% | 296 | 41.11% | 720 |
Murray | 524 | 71.00% | 199 | 26.96% | 15 | 2.03% | 325 | 44.04% | 738 |
Muscogee | 1,107 | 63.84% | 611 | 35.24% | 16 | 0.92% | 496 | 28.60% | 1,734 |
Newton | 788 | 64.64% | 398 | 32.65% | 33 | 2.71% | 390 | 31.99% | 1,219 |
Oconee | 380 | 70.76% | 156 | 29.05% | 1 | 0.19% | 224 | 41.71% | 537 |
Oglethorpe | 550 | 98.92% | 4 | 0.72% | 2 | 0.36% | 546 | 98.20% | 556 |
Paulding | 592 | 75.41% | 185 | 23.57% | 8 | 1.02% | 407 | 51.85% | 785 |
Pickens | 368 | 31.78% | 788 | 68.05% | 2 | 0.17% | -420 | -36.27% | 1,158 |
Pierce | 366 | 64.66% | 198 | 34.98% | 2 | 0.35% | 168 | 29.68% | 566 |
Pike | 1,030 | 64.82% | 514 | 32.35% | 45 | 2.83% | 516 | 32.47% | 1,589 |
Polk | 587 | 55.17% | 450 | 42.29% | 27 | 2.54% | 137 | 12.88% | 1,064 |
Pulaski | 1,107 | 78.68% | 298 | 21.18% | 2 | 0.14% | 809 | 57.50% | 1,407 |
Putnam | 511 | 99.80% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.20% | 510[b] | 99.61% | 512 |
Quitman | 327 | 72.67% | 122 | 27.11% | 1 | 0.22% | 205 | 45.56% | 450 |
Rabun | 386 | 88.13% | 43 | 9.82% | 9 | 2.05% | 343 | 78.31% | 438 |
Randolph | 594 | 63.19% | 327 | 34.79% | 19 | 2.02% | 267 | 28.40% | 940 |
Richmond | 808 | 85.14% | 113 | 11.91% | 28 | 2.95% | 695 | 73.23% | 949 |
Rockdale | 568 | 66.51% | 280 | 32.79% | 6 | 0.70% | 288 | 33.72% | 854 |
Schley | 355 | 60.37% | 233 | 39.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 122 | 20.75% | 588 |
Screven | 1,161 | 82.40% | 243 | 17.25% | 5 | 0.35% | 918 | 65.15% | 1,409 |
Spalding | 1,039 | 68.94% | 448 | 29.73% | 20 | 1.33% | 591 | 39.22% | 1,507 |
Stewart | 662 | 82.54% | 139 | 17.33% | 1 | 0.12% | 523 | 65.21% | 802 |
Sumter | 940 | 58.93% | 652 | 40.88% | 3 | 0.19% | 288 | 18.06% | 1,595 |
Talbot | 575 | 59.34% | 389 | 40.14% | 5 | 0.52% | 186 | 19.20% | 969 |
Taliaferro | 391 | 65.71% | 200 | 33.61% | 4 | 0.67% | 191 | 32.10% | 595 |
Tattnall | 534 | 83.70% | 102 | 15.99% | 2 | 0.31% | 432 | 67.71% | 638 |
Taylor | 559 | 80.32% | 123 | 17.67% | 14 | 2.01% | 436 | 62.64% | 696 |
Telfair | 493 | 64.95% | 234 | 30.83% | 32 | 4.22% | 259 | 34.12% | 759 |
Terrell | 673 | 74.61% | 228 | 25.28% | 1 | 0.11% | 445 | 49.33% | 902 |
Thomas | 1,465 | 63.15% | 838 | 36.12% | 17 | 0.73% | 627 | 27.03% | 2,320 |
Towns | 275 | 49.64% | 277 | 50.00% | 2 | 0.36% | -2 | -0.36% | 554 |
Troup | 1,242 | 73.75% | 435 | 25.83% | 7 | 0.42% | 807 | 47.92% | 1,684 |
Twiggs | 299 | 65.00% | 157 | 34.13% | 4 | 0.87% | 142 | 30.87% | 460 |
Union | 547 | 55.36% | 440 | 44.53% | 1 | 0.10% | 107 | 10.83% | 988 |
Upson | 977 | 73.85% | 345 | 26.08% | 1 | 0.08% | 632 | 47.77% | 1,323 |
Walker | 718 | 72.53% | 260 | 26.26% | 12 | 1.21% | 458 | 46.26% | 990 |
Walton | 767 | 74.98% | 235 | 22.97% | 21 | 2.05% | 532 | 52.00% | 1,023 |
Ware | 369 | 64.51% | 186 | 32.52% | 17 | 2.97% | 183 | 31.99% | 572 |
Warren | 545 | 84.10% | 100 | 15.43% | 3 | 0.46% | 445 | 68.67% | 648 |
Washington | 1,351 | 69.78% | 572 | 29.55% | 13 | 0.67% | 779 | 40.24% | 1,936 |
Wayne | 317 | 67.88% | 137 | 29.34% | 13 | 2.78% | 180 | 38.54% | 467 |
Webster | 290 | 56.42% | 224 | 43.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 66 | 12.84% | 514 |
White | 494 | 77.31% | 139 | 21.75% | 6 | 0.94% | 355 | 55.56% | 639 |
Whitfield | 837 | 63.41% | 421 | 31.89% | 62 | 4.70% | 416 | 31.52% | 1,320 |
Wilcox | 357 | 82.45% | 73 | 16.86% | 3 | 0.69% | 284 | 65.59% | 433 |
Wilkes | 683 | 97.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 15 | 2.15% | 668[b] | 95.70% | 698 |
Wilkinson | 339 | 82.48% | 69 | 16.79% | 3 | 0.73% | 270 | 65.69% | 411 |
Worth | 547 | 72.26% | 179 | 23.65% | 31 | 4.10% | 368 | 48.61% | 757 |
Totals | 100,493 | 70.37% | 40,499 | 28.36% | 1,808 | 1.27% | 59,994 | 42.01% | 142,800 |
References
- ISBN 1400838789
- ISBN 9780691163246
- ISBN 022611435X
- ISBN 0-300-01973-4
- ^ Kousser; The Shaping of Southern Politics, pp. 17-18
- ^ "1888 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ a b Géoelections; Presidential election of 1888 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for Clinton Fisk (.xlsx file for €15)