1892 United States presidential election in New York

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1892 United States presidential election in New York

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Turnout86.3%[1] Decrease 6.0 pp
 
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Indiana
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid
Electoral vote 36 0
Popular vote 654,868 609,350
Percentage 48.99% 45.58%

County Results

President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The 1892 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

New York was won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate former Congressman and Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Cleveland and Stevenson defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and his running mate U.S. Ambassador to France Whitelaw Reid of Ohio.

Also running a significant campaign that year was the Populist Party candidate, Congressman James B. Weaver of Ohio with his running mate state attorney general James G. Field of Virginia, although Weaver's primarily Western-based campaign did not perform strongly in New York. Despite receiving 8.51% nationally and winning electoral votes from six states, Weaver finished in fifth place in New York State, with only 1.23 percent of the vote, behind fourth-place Socialist Labor candidate Simon Wing’s 1.34 percent.

Cleveland carried New York State with 48.99 percent of the vote to Harrison's 45.58 percent, a victory margin of 3.41 points. In a distant third came the Prohibition Party candidate John Bidwell with 2.86 percent.

New York weighed in for this election as less than one percentage point more Democratic than the national average.

The Democratic win of New York’s electoral votes marked a personal comeback for Grover Cleveland in his home state, as he had narrowly won the state in his initial 1884 presidential campaign, but a narrow defeat here in 1888 had cost him the 1888 presidential election, partially the result of strong opposition to Cleveland from the Tammany Hall machine which dominated New York politics at the time.

Cleveland’s relatively narrow statewide victory relied heavily on a strong margin of victory in New York City, receiving more than 60% of the vote in New York County along with victories in Kings County, Queens County, and Richmond County. Cleveland also won nearby Westchester County and Rockland County. Harrison fared better upstate, where he won most counties, although Cleveland carried several upstate counties including Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, and Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany.

Results

1892 United States presidential election in New York[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Grover Cleveland 654,868 48.99% 36
Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) 609,350 45.58% 0
Prohibition John Bidwell 38,190 2.86% 0
Socialist Labor Simon Wing 17,956 1.34% 0
People's James B. Weaver 16,429 1.23% 0
Totals 1,336,793 100.0% 36

Results by county

County Stephen Grover Cleveland[3]
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison[3]
Republican
John Bidwell[4]
Prohibition
Simon Wing[4]
Socialist Labor
James Baird Weaver[5]
People's
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Albany 18,994 48.99% 18,398 47.46% 649 1.67% 366 0.94% 361 0.93% 596 1.54% 38,768
Allegany 3,128 28.73% 5,678 52.14% 1,042 9.57% 92 0.84% 949 8.72% -2,550 -23.42% 10,889
Broome 6,040 38.29% 8,259 52.36% 1,088 6.90% 166 1.05% 220 1.39% -2,219 -14.07% 15,773
Cattaraugus 5,753 38.09% 7,973 52.78% 761 5.04% 139 0.92% 479 3.17% -2,220 -14.70% 15,105
Cayuga 5,999 38.80% 8,341 53.95% 712 4.61% 144 0.93% 265 1.71% -2,342 -15.15% 15,461
Chautauqua 6,397 32.20% 11,595 58.37% 1,112 5.60% 189 0.95% 573 2.88% -5,198 -26.17% 19,866
Chemung 4,661 41.71% 5,410 48.41% 537 4.81% 167 1.49% 400 3.58% -749 -6.70% 11,175
Chenango 4,273 40.56% 5,378 51.04% 695 6.60% 68 0.65% 122 1.16% -1,105 -10.49% 10,536
Clinton 4,773 47.03% 5,135 50.60% 112 1.10% 60 0.59% 69 0.68% -362 -3.57% 10,149
Columbia 5,868 49.70% 5,384 45.60% 341 2.89% 110 0.93% 104 0.88% 484 4.10% 11,807
Cortland 2,907 37.67% 4,134 53.57% 488 6.32% 63 0.82% 125 1.62% -1,227 -15.90% 7,717
Delaware 4,706 38.90% 6,421 53.07% 688 5.69% 137 1.13% 147 1.21% -1,715 -14.17% 12,099
Dutchess 8,978 46.05% 9,376 48.09% 713 3.66% 209 1.07% 219 1.12% -398 -2.04% 19,495
Erie 32,431 47.41% 32,340 47.28% 1,601 2.34% 862 1.26% 1,169 1.71% 91 0.13% 68,403
Essex 2,710 35.30% 4,636 60.39% 160 2.08% 88 1.15% 83 1.08% -1,926 -25.09% 7,677
Franklin 2,999 33.93% 5,498 62.19% 199 2.25% 65 0.74% 79 0.89% -2,499 -28.27% 8,840
Fulton 4,293 41.37% 5,368 51.72% 518 4.99% 103 0.99% 96 0.93% -1,075 -10.36% 10,378
Genesee 3,250 39.40% 4,289 51.99% 456 5.53% 88 1.07% 166 2.01% -1,039 -12.60% 8,249
Greene 3,771 45.89% 3,914 47.63% 307 3.74% 115 1.40% 110 1.34% -143 -1.74% 8,217
Hamilton 480 47.11% 454 44.55% 34 3.34% 23 2.26% 28 2.75% 26 2.55% 1,019
Herkimer 5,526 44.37% 6,219 49.94% 425 3.41% 153 1.23% 131 1.05% -693 -5.56% 12,454
Jefferson 7,181 39.57% 9,856 54.32% 780 4.30% 174 0.96% 155 0.85% -2,675 -14.74% 18,146
Kings
100,160 56.78% 70,505 39.97% 2,472 1.40% 2,715 1.54% 533 0.30% 29,655 16.81% 176,385
Lewis 3,369 43.98% 3,965 51.76% 207 2.70% 63 0.82% 57 0.74% -596 -7.78% 7,661
Livingston 3,672 39.18% 4,886 52.13% 439 4.68% 75 0.80% 301 3.21% -1,214 -12.95% 9,373
Madison 4,054 35.50% 6,533 57.20% 545 4.77% 120 1.05% 169 1.48% -2,479 -21.71% 11,421
Monroe 17,706 42.68% 21,327 51.41% 1,213 2.92% 548 1.32% 694 1.67% -3,621 -8.73% 41,488
Montgomery 5,445 46.00% 5,727 48.38% 382 3.23% 138 1.17% 145 1.22% -282 -2.38% 11,837
New York
175,267 61.50% 98,967 34.73% 2,439 0.86% 5,945 2.09% 2,366 0.83% 76,300 26.77% 284,984
Niagara 6,850 47.12% 6,663 45.83% 677 4.66% 161 1.11% 186 1.28% 187 1.29% 14,537
Oneida 13,552 45.64% 14,359 48.36% 1,054 3.55% 356 1.20% 373 1.26% -807 -2.72% 29,694
Onondaga 14,900 41.50% 19,008 52.94% 1,115 3.11% 445 1.24% 436 1.21% -4,108 -11.44% 35,904
Ontario 5,376 42.62% 6,319 50.10% 390 3.09% 115 0.91% 414 3.28% -943 -7.48% 12,614
Orange 10,421 45.80% 11,081 48.70% 810 3.56% 217 0.95% 225 0.99% -660 -2.90% 22,754
Orleans 3,065 39.94% 4,013 52.29% 469 6.11% 58 0.76% 69 0.90% -948 -12.35% 7,674
Oswego 6,729 37.93% 10,012 56.44% 618 3.48% 173 0.98% 207 1.17% -3,283 -18.51% 17,739
Otsego 6,408 44.70% 7,095 49.49% 620 4.32% 112 0.78% 101 0.70% -687 -4.79% 14,336
Putnam 1,549 42.92% 1,846 51.15% 136 3.77% 35 0.97% 43 1.19% -297 -8.23% 3,609
Queens
15,195 54.15% 11,704 41.71% 510 1.82% 425 1.51% 226 0.81% 3,491 12.44% 28,060
Rensselaer 14,879 49.69% 13,666 45.64% 830 2.77% 277 0.93% 290 0.97% 1,213 4.05% 29,942
Richmond
6,122 57.00% 4,091 38.09% 314 2.92% 128 1.19% 86 0.80% 2,031 18.91% 10,741
Rockland 3,789 53.42% 2,909 41.01% 270 3.81% 60 0.85% 65 0.92% 880 12.41% 7,093
Saratoga 5,755 40.40% 7,383 51.83% 743 5.22% 183 1.28% 180 1.26% -1,628 -11.43% 14,244
Schenectady 4,081 50.66% 3,481 43.22% 284 3.53% 114 1.42% 95 1.18% 600 7.45% 8,055
Schoharie 4,531 55.28% 3,236 39.48% 302 3.68% 65 0.79% 63 0.77% 1,295 15.80% 8,197
Schuyler 1,486 34.15% 2,410 55.39% 292 6.71% 56 1.29% 107 2.46% -924 -21.24% 4,351
Seneca 3,199 47.70% 3,112 46.40% 233 3.47% 73 1.09% 90 1.34% 87 1.30% 6,707
St. Lawrence 6,156 29.98% 13,177 64.17% 765 3.73% 157 0.76% 280 1.36% -7,021 -34.19% 20,535
Steuben 8,307 39.74% 10,577 50.61% 1,191 5.70% 221 1.06% 605 2.89% -2,270 -10.86% 20,901
Suffolk 6,274 44.17% 7,001 49.29% 637 4.48% 151 1.06% 140 0.99% -727 -5.12% 14,203
Sullivan 3,567 47.00% 3,664 48.28% 207 2.73% 69 0.91% 82 1.08% -97 -1.28% 7,589
Tioga 2,923 37.92% 4,221 54.76% 398 5.16% 68 0.88% 98 1.27% -1,298 -16.84% 7,708
Tompkins 3,404 38.62% 4,717 53.52% 483 5.48% 81 0.92% 128 1.45% -1,313 -14.90% 8,813
Ulster 9,808 48.04% 9,450 46.29% 715 3.50% 206 1.01% 236 1.16% 358 1.75% 20,415
Warren 2,655 39.03% 3,647 53.62% 319 4.69% 67 0.99% 114 1.68% -992 -14.58% 6,802
Washington 3,731 32.70% 6,794 59.54% 595 5.21% 129 1.13% 161 1.41% -3,063 -26.84% 11,410
Wayne 4,618 37.77% 6,848 56.01% 481 3.93% 119 0.97% 161 1.32% -2,230 -18.24% 12,227
Westchester 16,088 51.70% 13,436 43.18% 908 2.92% 339 1.09% 348 1.12% 2,652 8.52% 31,119
Wyoming 2,948 37.01% 4,430 55.61% 387 4.86% 54 0.68% 147 1.85% -1,482 -18.60% 7,966
Yates 1,711 31.33% 3,014 55.18% 322 5.90% 57 1.04% 358 6.55% -1,303 -23.86% 5,462
Totals 654,868 48.99% 609,330 45.58% 38,190 2.86% 17,956 1.34% 16,429 1.23% 45,538 3.41% 1,336,773

See also

References

  1. ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
  2. ^ "1892 Presidential Election Results — New York". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "1892 Presidential Election Popular Vote". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
  4. ^ a b "Popular Vote for John Bidwell". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
  5. ^ "Popular Vote for James B. Weaver". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)