1892 United States elections

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1892 United States elections
1890          1891         1892         1893          1894
Presidential election year
Election dayNovember 8
Incumbent president Benjamin Harrison (Republican)
Next Congress 53rd
Presidential election
Partisan controlDemocratic gain
Popular vote marginDemocratic +3.0%
Electoral vote
Grover Cleveland (D)277
Benjamin Harrison (R)145
James B. Weaver (P)22
ElectoralCollege1892.svg
1892 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Harrison, blue denotes states won by Cleveland, and green denotes states won by Weaver. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate.
Senate elections
Overall controlDemocratic gain
Seats contested29 of 88 seats [1]
Net seat changeDemocratic +4 [2]
1892-93 Senate Election Map.svg
Results of the elections:
     Democratic gain     Democratic hold
     Republican hold     Silver Republican gain
     Populist gain     Legislature failed to elect
House elections
Overall controlDemocratic hold
Seats contestedAll 356 voting members
Net seat changeRepublican +38 [2]
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested32
Net seat changePopulist +3
1892 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
1892 gubernatorial election results

     Democratic gain     Democratic hold
     Republican gain     Republican hold

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     Populist gain

The 1892 United States elections was held on November 8, electing member to the 53rd United States Congress, taking place during the Third Party System. Democrats retained the House and won control of the presidency and the Senate. Following the election, Democrats controlled the presidency and a majority in both chambers of Congress for the first time since the 1858 elections.

In the presidential election, Republican President Benjamin Harrison was defeated by former Democratic President Grover Cleveland. [3] Cleveland won the popular vote by a margin of three percent, but won by a large margin in the electoral college. Populist James B. Weaver also carried five Western states and won a little over eight percent of the vote. [3] At the 1892 Republican National Convention, Harrison fended off a challenge from supporters of former Secretary of State James G. Blaine and Governor William McKinley of Ohio. At the 1892 Democratic National Convention, Cleveland defeated Senator David B. Hill from New York and Governor Horace Boies of Iowa on the first ballot. Harrison had previously defeated Cleveland in 1888, and Cleveland's win made him the first President to serve non-consecutive terms. Cleveland's win in the popular vote also made him the second person, after Andrew Jackson, to win the popular vote in three presidential elections.

Reapportionment following the 1890 census added twenty four seats to the House. Republicans picked up several seats in the House, but Democrats continued to command a large majority in the chamber. [4]

In the Senate, Democrats made moderate gains to win a majority in the chamber for the first time since 1881. [5]

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References

  1. Not counting special elections.
  2. 1 2 Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account.
  3. 1 2 "1892 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  4. "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  5. "Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present". United States Senate. Retrieved 25 June 2014.

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