1888 United States presidential election in Texas

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1888 United States presidential election in Texas
Flag of Texas.svg
  1884 November 6, 1888 1892  
Turnout22.27% of the total population Increase2.svg 2.09 pp [1]
  StephenGroverCleveland.jpg Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg AlsonStreeter.png
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Alson Streeter
Party Democratic Republican Labor
Home state New York Indiana Illinois
Running mate Allen Thurman Levi P. Morton Charles E. Cunningham
Electoral vote1300
Popular vote234,88388,42229,459
Percentage65.70%24.73%8.24%

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County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

The 1888 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. [2]

Contents

Texas was won by the incumbent President Grover Cleveland (DNew York), running with the former Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Allen G. Thurman, with 65.70% of the popular vote, against former Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York, with 24.73% of the vote and former Illinois state representative Alson Streeter (LIllinois), running with Charles E. Cunningham, with 8.24% of the vote. [2]

The Prohibition Party ran brigadier general Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks and received 1.33% of the vote.

Campaign

Members of the Knights of Labor and former members of the Greenback Party attended a convention in Waco on July 5, 1887, and formed an affiliate of the Union Labor Party. Around 300 delegates, mostly members of the Farmers' Alliance, from seventy counties attended a convention on May 15, 1888, to consider possible electoral campaigns. The delegates appointed Mayor H.S. Broiles as a one-man executive committee and he called for a Nonpartisan Convention to be held on July 2–3. The Nonpartisan Convention created a platform and slate of candidates. The ULP endorsed these candidates and platform and William R. Lamb, the chair of the Nonpartisan Convention, was given a seat on the ULP executive committee. [3]

Results

1888 United States presidential election in Texas [2]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Grover Cleveland of New York (incumbent) Allen G. Thurman of Ohio 234,88365.70%13100.00%
Republican Benjamin Harrison of Indiana Levi P. Morton of New York 88,42224.73%00.00%
Labor Alson Streeter of Illinois Charles E. Cunningham of Arkansas 29,4598.24%00.00%
Prohibition Clinton B. Fisk of New Jersey John A. Brooks of Missouri 4,7491.33%00.00%
Total357,513100.00%13100.00%

The electors in Texas for Grover Cleveland were as follows, according to an October 27, 1888 edition of The Lampasas Leader: State at large- A. W. Terrell, J. W. Bailey 1st District- A. T. McKinney 2nd District- E. C. Dickinson 3rd District- R. C. DeGrafenried 4th District- Howard Templeton 5th District- J. H. Cobb 6th District- J. S. Woods 7th District- G. A. Levi 8th District- W. S. Fly 9th District- W. H. Richardson 10th District- J. H. McLeary 11th District- W. H. Cowan

See also

References

  1. "1888 Presidential Election Results Texas Total Population Turnout".
  2. 1 2 3 "1888 Presidential Election Results Texas".
  3. Hild 2015, p. 32-33.

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