Presidential election in the United States 1888

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26th presidential election
November 6, 1888
			Republican Party
			Benjamin Harrison / Levi P. Morton
			electors					233
			be right				5,443,892
									47.8%
			Democratic Party
			Grover Cleveland / Allen Thurman
			electors					168
			be right				5,534,488
									48.6%
Election results by state
20 states   Harrison / Morton						18 states   Cleveland / Thurman
President of the United States
Pre-election Grover Cleveland Democratic Party						Elected Benjamin Harrison Republican Party

The presidential election in the United States of 1888 was held on November 6, 1888 instead. President Grover Cleveland received the greater number of votes. However, Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison won 233 electoral votes as opposed to 168 Cleveland got. So Harrison had made the choice.

Twelve years earlier, in the election of 1876 , exactly the same case had occurred in that the president did not receive a majority of the people, but was only elected by a majority of electors. It was not until 112 years later in the elections in 2000 that something comparable happened again .

Result

Results in the counties : In counties colored blue , Democrat Grover Cleveland won , in counties colored red Benjamin Harrison received the majority of the votes. In counties colored green , Alson Streeter received a relative majority of the votes. The darker the color, the stronger the lead.

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Grover Cleveland	democrat	5,534,488	48.63%	168
Benjamin Harrison	republican	5,443,892	47.80%	233
Clinton B. Fisk	Prohibitionist	249.810	2.20%	0
Alson Streeter	laboratory	146.602	1.31%	0
Other		8,540	0.06%	0
total		11,383,341	100%	401

In the election, incumbent Cleveland could get about 90,000 more votes than his Republican rival Benjamin Harrison. Even so, Harrison managed to get a majority on the electoral body, especially since he won New York State by about 15,000 votes. Previously, the Democrats won New York in the 1884 election.

The candidates Clinton B. Fisk from the Prohibition Party and Alson Streeter from the Union Labor Party also managed to achieve notable results. However, both candidates were unable to decide states for themselves and thus remained without a vote in the electoral body.

Results in the states

The following table lists the results of the three top-voting candidates (in percent) in each state.

Country	Cleveland	Harrison	Fisk	electors
Alabama	67.0	32.7	0.3	10
Arkansas	54.8	38.0	0.4	8th
Colorado	40.8	55.2	2.3	3
Connecticut	48.7	48.4	2.8	6th
Delaware	55.2	43.5	1.3	3
Florida	59.5	39.9	0.6	4th
Georgia	70.3	28.3	1.3	12
Illinois	46.6	49.5	2.9	22nd
Indiana	48.6	49.1	1.8	15th
Iowa	44.5	52.4	0.9	13
California	46.8	49.7	2.4	8th
Kansas	31.0	55.2	2.1	8th
Kentucky	53.3	45.0	1.3	13
Louisiana	73.4	26.5	0.1	8th
Maine	39.4	57.5	2.1	6th
Maryland	50.3	47.4	2.3	8th
Massachusetts	44.0	53.4	2.5	14th
Michigan	44.9	49.7	4.4	13
Minnesota	39.7	54.1	5.8	7th
Mississippi	73.8	26.0	0.2	9
Missouri	50.2	45.3	0.2	16
Nebraska	39.8	53.5	4.7	5
Nevada	41.9	57.7	0.3	3
New Hampshire	47.8	50.3	1.8	4th
New Jersey	49.9	47.5	2.6	9
new York	48.2	49.3	2.3	36
North Carolina	51.8	47.2	1.0	11
Ohio	47.2	49.5	2.9	23
Oregon	42.9	53.8	2.7	3
Pennsylvania	44.8	52.7	2.1	30th
Rhode Island	43.0	53.9	3.1	4th
South carolina	82.3	17.2	0.0	9
Tennessee	52.3	45.8	2.0	12
Texas	65.7	24.7	1.3	13
Vermont	25.7	69.1	2.2	4th
Virginia	50.0	49.5	0.5	12
West Virginia	49.4	49.0	0.7	6th
Wisconsin	43.8	49.8	4.0	11
total	48.6	47.8	2.2	401

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 239-247 (= Chapter 28: Benjamin Harrison's Election. ).

Web links

Commons : US Presidential Election 1880  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

• Result of the 1888 presidential election