1888 United States presidential election in Kentucky

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1888 United States presidential election in Kentucky
  1884 November 6, 1888 1892  
  StephenGroverCleveland.jpg Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Indiana
Running mate Allen Thurman Levi P. Morton
Electoral vote130
Popular vote183,830155,138
Percentage53.30%44.98%

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County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

The 1888 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 6, 1888. All contemporary thirty-eight states were part of the 1888 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Ever since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, [1] although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during the Third Party System at either presidential [2] or gubernatorial level. [3] What would become a long-lived partisan system [1] after the state was freed from the direct control of former Confederates would not be seriously affected by the first post-war insurgency movement – that of the Greenback Party at the tail end of the 1870s in the secessionist Jackson Purchase region. [3] Incumbent president Grover Cleveland lost four points on his 1884 performance, but still carried the state comfortably against GOP nominee Benjamin Harrison.

Contents

As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last occasion when a Democratic presidential candidate passed thirty percent in rock-ribbed Unionist and Republican Clinton County.

Results

Presidential Candidate Running Mate PartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)
Grover Cleveland Allen G. Thurman Democratic 13 [4] 183,83053.30%
Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton Republican 0155,13844.98%
Clinton B. Fisk John A. Brooks Prohibition 05,2231.51%
Alson Streeter Charles E. Cunningham Union Labor 06770.20%

Results by county

CountyStephen Grover Cleveland [5]
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison [5]
Republican
Clinton Bowen Fisk [6]
Prohibition
Alson Jenness Streeter [6]
Union Labor
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Adair 1,12846.12%1,28352.45%351.43%00.00%-155-6.34%2,446
Allen 1,52752.69%1,32645.76%451.55%00.00%2016.94%2,898
Anderson 1,23560.69%74236.46%582.85%00.00%49324.23%2,035
Ballard 96174.27%32124.81%120.93%00.00%64049.46%1,294
Barren 2,74959.49%1,79138.76%811.75%00.00%95820.73%4,621
Bath 1,54552.43%1,36246.22%371.26%30.10%1836.21%2,947
Bell 27923.10%92876.82%10.08%00.00%-649-53.73%1,208
Boone 2,11676.42%63522.93%180.65%00.00%1,48153.49%2,769
Bourbon 1,99048.75%2,05250.27%400.98%00.00%-62-1.52%4,082
Boyd 1,30245.68%1,53153.72%170.60%00.00%-229-8.04%2,850
Boyle 1,39949.56%1,36748.42%572.02%00.00%321.13%2,823
Bracken 1,70259.70%1,06637.39%832.91%00.00%63622.31%2,851
Breathitt 63654.92%50543.61%171.47%00.00%13111.31%1,158
Breckinridge 1,82650.61%1,76949.03%130.36%00.00%571.58%3,608
Bullitt 99668.78%42929.63%231.59%00.00%56739.16%1,448
Butler 97336.20%1,63760.90%782.90%00.00%-664-24.70%2,688
Caldwell 1,09849.82%1,08049.00%261.18%00.00%180.82%2,204
Calloway 99572.21%34024.67%221.60%211.52%65547.53%1,378
Campbell 4,16049.71%4,14149.48%410.49%270.32%190.23%8,369
Carlisle 84874.00%27123.65%272.36%00.00%57750.35%1,146
Carroll 1,63270.10%62326.76%692.96%40.17%1,00943.34%2,328
Carter 1,37343.14%1,77355.70%371.16%00.00%-400-12.57%3,183
Casey 1,12547.07%1,20450.38%612.55%00.00%-79-3.31%2,390
Christian 2,24737.74%3,48158.46%1041.75%1222.05%-1,234-20.73%5,954
Clark 1,83554.68%1,46743.71%541.61%00.00%36810.97%3,356
Clay 65231.91%1,39068.04%10.05%00.00%-738-36.12%2,043
Clinton 40930.84%90368.10%141.06%00.00%-494-37.25%1,326
Crittenden 1,17545.83%1,35752.93%180.70%140.55%-182-7.10%2,564
Cumberland 67739.92%1,01659.91%30.18%00.00%-339-19.99%1,696
Daviess 3,81862.44%2,23836.60%590.96%00.00%1,58025.84%6,115
Edmonson 76249.54%76449.67%120.78%00.00%-2-0.13%1,538
Elliott 1,09071.71%42628.03%40.26%00.00%66443.68%1,520
Estill 83547.39%91752.04%100.57%00.00%-82-4.65%1,762
Fayette 3,43550.08%3,30148.13%1221.78%10.01%1341.95%6,859
Fleming 1,81350.01%1,71147.20%1012.79%00.00%1022.81%3,625
Floyd 1,12261.68%69037.93%70.38%00.00%43223.75%1,819
Franklin 2,33461.55%1,42937.68%260.69%30.08%90523.87%3,792
Fulton 93371.44%33325.50%382.91%20.15%60045.94%1,306
Gallatin 82170.78%31326.98%252.16%10.09%50843.79%1,160
Garrard 1,12447.15%1,22051.17%381.59%20.08%-96-4.03%2,384
Grant 1,60457.45%1,12640.33%622.22%00.00%47817.12%2,792
Graves 2,43265.94%1,18232.05%601.63%140.38%1,25033.89%3,688
Grayson 1,46148.19%1,51349.90%561.85%20.07%-52-1.72%3,032
Green 1,04746.16%1,18152.07%170.75%231.01%-134-5.91%2,268
Greenup 1,23647.58%1,36052.35%20.08%00.00%-124-4.77%2,598
Hancock 90049.70%88148.65%120.66%180.99%191.05%1,811
Hardin 2,17559.23%1,42138.70%731.99%30.08%75420.53%3,672
Harlan 21119.81%83778.59%171.60%00.00%-626-58.78%1,065
Harrison 2,13358.86%1,32736.62%1644.53%00.00%80622.24%3,624
Hart 1,63551.14%1,50647.11%561.75%00.00%1294.04%3,197
Henderson 3,04353.92%2,41342.75%1703.01%180.32%63011.16%5,644
Henry 1,96459.70%1,18435.99%1404.26%20.06%78023.71%3,290
Hickman 1,05369.60%38325.31%603.97%171.12%67044.28%1,513
Hopkins 1,88250.82%1,56942.37%1634.40%892.40%3138.45%3,703
Jackson 23118.19%1,01980.24%201.57%00.00%-788-62.05%1,270
Jefferson 17,53557.32%12,86342.05%1700.56%230.08%4,67215.27%30,591
Jessamine 1,31052.82%1,11044.76%602.42%00.00%2008.06%2,480
Johnson 85438.26%1,35760.80%210.94%00.00%-503-22.54%2,232
Kenton 5,87958.84%3,99439.98%380.38%800.80%1,88518.87%9,991
Knott 46873.93%16425.91%10.16%00.00%30448.03%633
Knox 64631.07%1,42468.49%90.43%00.00%-778-37.42%2,079
Larue 1,00257.32%72441.42%221.26%00.00%27815.90%1,748
Laurel 97540.54%1,38457.55%381.58%80.33%-409-17.01%2,405
Lawrence 1,65549.04%1,71450.79%60.18%00.00%-59-1.75%3,375
Lee 43245.57%51454.22%20.21%00.00%-82-8.65%948
Leslie 669.09%66090.91%00.00%00.00%-594-81.82%726
Letcher 28131.15%61668.29%50.55%00.00%-335-37.14%902
Lewis 1,37941.83%1,88057.02%381.15%00.00%-501-15.20%3,297
Lincoln 1,61251.29%1,32242.06%2096.65%00.00%2909.23%3,143
Livingston 99765.42%51433.73%120.79%10.07%48331.69%1,524
Logan 3,01056.77%2,24842.40%180.34%260.49%76214.37%5,302
Lyon 64051.12%57345.77%383.04%10.08%675.35%1,252
Madison 2,40650.04%2,34348.73%591.23%00.00%631.31%4,808
Magoffin 66043.19%86556.61%20.13%10.07%-205-13.42%1,528
Marion 1,59960.71%1,00838.27%271.03%00.00%59122.44%2,634
Marshall 99871.75%36426.17%241.73%50.36%63445.58%1,391
Martin 21829.30%52570.56%10.13%00.00%-307-41.26%744
Mason 2,77854.72%2,26544.61%340.67%00.00%51310.10%5,077
McCracken 1,81252.89%1,53544.80%782.28%10.03%2778.09%3,426
McLean 97255.13%74242.09%452.55%40.23%23013.05%1,763
Meade 1,34869.27%59330.47%50.26%00.00%75538.80%1,946
Menifee 56969.90%22928.13%151.84%10.12%34041.77%814
Mercer 1,71153.47%1,36142.53%1253.91%30.09%35010.94%3,200
Metcalfe 89645.53%1,03352.49%231.17%160.81%-137-6.96%1,968
Monroe 83738.70%1,31160.61%100.46%50.23%-474-21.91%2,163
Montgomery 1,53155.31%1,20243.42%351.26%00.00%32911.89%2,768
Morgan 1,34265.95%68333.56%100.49%00.00%65932.38%2,035
Muhlenberg 1,76848.65%1,81750.00%220.61%270.74%-49-1.35%3,634
Nelson 1,87662.08%1,10236.47%441.46%00.00%77425.61%3,022
Nicholas 1,47557.82%93336.57%1435.61%00.00%54221.25%2,551
Ohio 2,06649.06%2,10049.87%210.50%240.57%-34-0.81%4,211
Oldham 82661.78%46034.41%463.44%50.37%36627.37%1,337
Owen 2,92274.75%83421.34%1523.89%10.03%2,08853.42%3,909
Owsley 24826.11%69973.58%30.32%00.00%-451-47.47%950
Pendleton 1,94556.92%1,41741.47%551.61%00.00%52815.45%3,417
Perry 29629.69%69970.11%20.20%00.00%-403-40.42%997
Pike 1,24949.54%1,26650.22%60.24%00.00%-17-0.67%2,521
Powell 44151.82%40347.36%70.82%00.00%384.47%851
Pulaski 1,75236.33%2,92460.64%1442.99%20.04%-1,172-24.31%4,822
Robertson 65764.35%34633.89%181.76%00.00%31130.46%1,021
Rockcastle 77741.57%1,05056.18%422.25%00.00%-273-14.61%1,869
Rowan 38448.06%41251.56%30.38%00.00%-28-3.50%799
Russell 69745.80%80452.83%211.38%00.00%-107-7.03%1,522
Scott 2,03755.14%1,53141.45%1263.41%00.00%50613.70%3,694
Shelby 2,21960.18%1,43638.95%210.57%110.30%78321.24%3,687
Simpson 1,52562.42%85935.16%582.37%10.04%66627.26%2,443
Spencer 99870.08%39928.02%271.90%00.00%59942.06%1,424
Taylor 1,05955.33%79241.38%633.29%00.00%26713.95%1,914
Todd 1,62250.45%1,55548.37%381.18%00.00%672.08%3,215
Trigg 92846.40%97848.90%944.70%00.00%-50-2.50%2,000
Trimble 1,19581.57%24716.86%231.57%00.00%94864.71%1,465
Union 2,24469.00%95529.37%180.55%351.08%1,28939.64%3,252
Warren 3,58757.15%2,59041.27%981.56%10.02%99715.89%6,276
Washington 1,32849.00%1,36550.37%170.63%00.00%-37-1.37%2,710
Wayne 1,10849.40%1,10749.35%281.25%00.00%10.04%2,243
Webster 1,62660.58%1,03438.52%160.60%80.30%59222.06%2,684
Whitley 68123.35%2,20275.49%331.13%10.03%-1,521-52.14%2,917
Wolfe 80563.74%44435.15%141.11%00.00%36128.58%1,263
Woodford 1,38752.58%1,21746.13%341.29%00.00%1706.44%2,638
Totals183,83053.31%155,13144.98%5,2231.51%6770.20%28,6998.32%344,861

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