Presidential election in the United States 1892

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27th presidential election
November 8, 1892
			Democratic Party
			Grover Cleveland / Adlai Stevenson
			electors					277
			be right				5,556,918
									46.0%
			Republican Party
			Benjamin Harrison / Whitelaw Reid
			electors					145
			be right				5.176.108
									43.0%
			Populist party
			James Weaver / James Field
			electors					22nd
			be right				1,041,028
									8.5%
Election results by state
23 states   Cleveland / Stevenson						16 states   Harrison / Reid
5 states   Weaver / Field
President of the United States
Before the election Benjamin Harrison Republican Party						Elected Grover Cleveland Democratic Party

The 1892 presidential election in the United States took place on November 8, 1892 . The New York Grover Cleveland tried to become president again after losing to Benjamin Harrison four years earlier . Harrison ran again; his running mate as a candidate for the vice presidency was Whitelaw Reid , succeeding Levi P. Morton .

Cleveland, which had already received more votes (but no more electors) than Harrison in 1888, now won both the popular election and the - decisive - electoral vote . He was the first Democrat who by his party in three consecutive elections nominated was. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt surpassed him, as he was nominated four times between 1932 and 1944.

By James B. Weaver , a third candidate for the stepped People's Party on. It won majority in five states and received 22 electoral votes in Electoral College .

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. 248-256 (= Chapter 29: Grover Cleveland's Reelection. ).

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