1892 United States presidential election in Kentucky

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1892 United States presidential election in Kentucky
  1888 November 8, 1892 1896  
  StephenGroverCleveland.png Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg James B. Weaver 1892 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver
Party Democratic Republican People’s
Home state New York Indiana Iowa
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid James G. Field
Electoral vote1300
Popular vote175,461135,46223,500
Percentage51.48%39.74%6.89%

Kentucky Presidential Election Results 1892.svg
County Results

President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The 1892 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Contents

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]

However, at the beginning of the 1890s, the state was hit by a crisis in its farming sector, which was especially severe in its most secessionist region – the historically slaveholding and dark-tobacco-growing Jackson Purchase which was badly affected by changes in taste amongst the nation's smokers. [3] That region had been the centre of Greenback revolt over a decade previously, and a continuation of the trends meant that the “Kentucky Alliance” was formed in 1887. During the state's 1891 Constitutional Convention, the Alliance made a number of demands on taxation and labor reform, and sent to the state legislature thirteen men, mostly from the Purchase and Western Coal Field.

The Populist threat, however, would be dissipated by the work of Democratic vice presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson I, whose campaign in the state emphasized the potential impact of the Lodge Force Bill and high tariffs upon the South, [4] and sought to achieve a degree of reconciliation between sections greater than existed in 1890. His extensive tour of the state and warning that a vote for Weaver would be a vote for Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison meant that third-time Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland – whose stance in favor of the gold standard was unpopular in the South – would carry the state by almost the same margin as in 1888. [4]

Results

1892 United States presidential election in Kentucky [5]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Grover Cleveland 175,46151.48%13
Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent)135,46239.74%0
People's James Weaver 23,5006.89%0
Prohibition John Bidwell 6,4411.89%0
Totals340,864100.00%13
Voter turnout

Results by county

CountyStephen Grover Cleveland [6]
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison [6]
Republican
James Baird Weaver [7]
People's
John Bidwell [8]
Prohibition
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Adair 1,02443.17%1,11947.18%2088.77%210.89%-95-4.01%2,372
Allen 1,11646.75%98941.43%25710.77%251.05%1275.32%2,387
Anderson 1,14258.06%74938.08%201.02%562.85%39319.98%1,967
Ballard 91064.04%27719.49%22115.55%130.91%63344.55%1,421
Barren 2,06151.43%1,36934.17%52413.08%531.32%69217.27%4,007
Bath 1,44353.92%1,14842.90%511.91%341.27%29511.02%2,676
Bell 69339.67%1,01958.33%201.14%150.86%-326-18.66%1,747
Boone 2,00977.39%54520.99%100.39%321.23%1,46456.39%2,596
Bourbon 2,21655.86%1,65741.77%150.38%791.99%55914.09%3,967
Boyd 1,53749.20%1,52648.85%250.80%361.15%110.35%3,124
Boyle 1,24950.10%1,14445.89%481.93%522.09%1054.21%2,493
Bracken 1,47255.74%99637.71%1114.20%622.35%47618.02%2,641
Breathitt 97762.87%56636.42%60.39%50.32%41126.45%1,554
Breckinridge 1,49745.75%1,16735.67%57617.60%320.98%33010.09%3,272
Bullitt 86260.75%39828.05%14310.08%161.13%46432.70%1,419
Butler 71529.61%1,32754.95%33013.66%431.78%-612-25.34%2,415
Caldwell 96039.59%1,12646.43%28111.59%582.39%-166-6.85%2,425
Calloway 1,58165.01%37915.58%43918.05%331.36%1,142 [lower-alpha 1] 46.96%2,432
Campbell 4,30250.79%3,95946.74%1121.32%971.15%3434.05%8,470
Carlisle 81157.19%22315.73%34824.54%362.54%463 [lower-alpha 1] 32.65%1,418
Carroll 1,57471.81%54224.73%30.14%733.33%1,03247.08%2,192
Carter 98341.13%1,31955.19%612.55%271.13%-336-14.06%2,390
Casey 1,03944.04%1,22351.84%200.85%773.26%-184-7.80%2,359
Christian 2,32440.01%2,86849.38%5108.78%1061.83%-544-9.37%5,808
Clark 1,95853.98%1,59944.09%330.91%371.02%3599.90%3,627
Clay 40129.97%86064.28%604.48%171.27%-459-34.30%1,338
Clinton 25026.91%58963.40%838.93%70.75%-339-36.49%929
Crittenden 1,11842.61%1,31250.00%1455.53%491.87%-194-7.39%2,624
Cumberland 58439.17%88059.02%80.54%191.27%-296-19.85%1,491
Daviess 3,43150.87%1,63824.29%1,60223.75%731.08%1,79326.59%6,744
Edmonson 49139.37%61849.56%1199.54%191.52%-127-10.18%1,247
Elliott 1,07968.73%45328.85%362.29%20.13%62639.87%1,570
Estill 69042.20%75245.99%17710.83%160.98%-62-3.79%1,635
Fayette 3,75357.42%2,43137.19%1011.55%2513.84%1,32220.23%6,536
Fleming 1,78750.42%1,56744.22%922.60%982.77%2206.21%3,544
Floyd 1,14162.32%63434.63%422.29%140.76%50727.69%1,831
Franklin 2,18659.65%1,23133.59%1634.45%852.32%95526.06%3,665
Fulton 1,15770.25%38323.25%744.49%332.00%77446.99%1,647
Gallatin 73773.77%23723.72%50.50%202.00%50050.05%999
Garrard 1,12648.16%1,15549.40%100.43%472.01%-29-1.24%2,338
Grant 1,59157.50%1,03437.37%762.75%662.39%55720.13%2,767
Graves 2,56357.22%1,02822.95%83218.58%561.25%1,53534.27%4,479
Grayson 1,25139.69%1,17337.21%70122.24%270.86%782.47%3,152
Green 58531.22%73939.43%53528.55%150.80%-154-8.22%1,874
Greenup 1,10948.43%1,14349.91%160.70%220.96%-34-1.48%2,290
Hancock 78645.57%60735.19%31818.43%140.81%17910.38%1,725
Hardin 1,90954.31%1,07530.58%49013.94%411.17%83423.73%3,515
Harlan 23124.32%67470.95%343.58%111.16%-443-46.63%950
Harrison 2,17259.28%1,27334.74%110.30%2085.68%89924.54%3,664
Hart 1,41447.18%1,03434.50%50916.98%401.33%38012.68%2,997
Henderson 2,27844.83%1,74634.36%97119.11%861.69%53210.47%5,081
Henry 1,79358.25%1,01933.11%1605.20%1063.44%77425.15%3,078
Hickman 1,15561.05%46024.31%22712.00%502.64%69536.73%1,892
Hopkins 2,01445.98%1,72639.41%55512.67%851.94%2886.58%4,380
Jackson 18817.55%86881.05%80.75%70.65%-680-63.49%1,071
Jefferson 20,91959.29%13,45438.13%3581.01%5511.56%7,46521.16%35,282
Jessamine 1,04248.33%92242.76%150.70%1778.21%1205.57%2,156
Johnson 78535.33%1,34060.31%723.24%251.13%-555-24.98%2,222
Kenton 5,68659.57%3,49436.61%1551.62%2102.20%2,19222.96%9,545
Knott 56670.49%23629.39%00.00%10.12%33041.10%803
Knox 66832.15%1,30562.80%874.19%180.87%-637-30.65%2,078
Larue 79746.97%56833.47%28516.79%472.77%22913.49%1,697
Laurel 83241.25%1,08053.54%733.62%321.59%-248-12.30%2,017
Lawrence 1,72453.51%1,44544.85%331.02%200.62%2798.66%3,222
Lee 50746.64%56551.98%121.10%30.28%-58-5.34%1,087
Leslie 7612.54%52887.13%10.17%10.17%-452-74.59%606
Letcher 27434.68%51364.94%20.25%10.13%-239-30.25%790
Lewis 1,04436.39%1,53153.36%2518.75%431.50%-487-16.97%2,869
Lincoln 1,47351.06%1,17540.73%421.46%1956.76%29810.33%2,885
Livingston 92855.57%55032.93%17510.48%171.02%37822.63%1,670
Logan 2,19147.77%1,76338.43%59212.91%410.89%4289.33%4,587
Lyon 72752.42%49935.98%1319.44%302.16%22816.44%1,387
Madison 2,56551.04%2,31246.01%300.60%1182.35%2535.03%5,025
Magoffin 66041.59%84453.18%734.60%100.63%-184-11.59%1,587
Marion 1,45157.06%95437.51%1084.25%301.18%49719.54%2,543
Marshall 1,08154.02%36017.99%53726.84%231.15%544 [lower-alpha 1] 27.19%2,001
Martin 22931.94%47566.25%70.98%60.84%-246-34.31%717
Mason 2,58655.04%2,00142.59%460.98%651.38%58512.45%4,698
McCracken 1,73551.09%1,19535.19%36610.78%1002.94%54015.90%3,396
McLean 86947.07%53428.93%40722.05%361.95%33518.15%1,846
Meade 1,17165.35%41623.21%18910.55%160.89%75542.13%1,792
Menifee 47558.79%25831.93%627.67%131.61%21726.86%808
Mercer 1,56252.73%1,18540.01%762.57%1394.69%37712.73%2,962
Metcalfe 49530.11%75645.99%38223.24%110.67%-261-15.88%1,644
Monroe 63131.19%1,12555.61%25612.65%110.54%-494-24.42%2,023
Montgomery 1,50757.61%1,04139.79%180.69%501.91%46617.81%2,616
Morgan 1,12555.45%62030.56%27913.75%50.25%50524.89%2,029
Muhlenberg 1,42141.93%1,68849.81%2437.17%371.09%-267-7.88%3,389
Nelson 1,85860.76%1,02533.52%1514.94%240.78%83327.24%3,058
Nicholas 1,31254.90%80833.81%451.88%2259.41%50421.09%2,390
Ohio 1,66439.04%1,58137.10%97322.83%441.03%831.95%4,262
Oldham 78362.64%36529.20%624.96%403.20%41833.44%1,250
Owen 2,57969.93%74820.28%1774.80%1844.99%1,83149.65%3,688
Owsley 22925.19%66072.61%192.09%10.11%-431-47.41%909
Pendleton 1,41944.76%1,01431.99%65820.76%792.49%40512.78%3,170
Perry 34637.77%56061.14%80.87%20.22%-214-23.36%916
Pike 1,53452.99%1,33346.04%70.24%210.73%2016.94%2,895
Powell 58054.61%44642.00%302.82%60.56%13412.62%1,062
Pulaski 1,75338.28%2,45753.66%2395.22%1302.84%-704-15.37%4,579
Robertson 56753.64%43841.44%171.61%353.31%12912.20%1,057
Rockcastle 68440.00%96656.49%60.35%543.16%-282-16.49%1,710
Rowan 56247.95%56448.12%312.65%151.28%-2-0.17%1,172
Russell 64643.89%76551.97%523.53%90.61%-119-8.08%1,472
Scott 1,99959.12%1,20135.52%90.27%1725.09%79823.60%3,381
Shelby 2,12261.10%1,16933.66%1424.09%401.15%95327.44%3,473
Simpson 1,16655.29%72534.38%1718.11%472.23%44120.91%2,109
Spencer 84868.28%31625.44%584.67%201.61%53242.83%1,242
Taylor 65339.94%63038.53%32619.94%261.59%231.41%1,635
Todd 1,58749.81%1,40644.13%1344.21%591.85%1815.68%3,186
Trigg 1,08846.86%81435.06%39617.05%241.03%27411.80%2,322
Trimble 1,14978.00%26417.92%181.22%422.85%88560.08%1,473
Union 2,27566.95%77722.87%3189.36%280.82%1,49844.08%3,398
Warren 2,86754.02%2,05338.68%2524.75%1352.54%81415.34%5,307
Washington 1,19347.89%1,03541.55%2389.55%251.00%1586.34%2,491
Wayne 93145.59%98648.29%1055.14%200.98%-55-2.69%2,042
Webster 1,27843.10%83928.30%82427.79%240.81%43914.81%2,965
Whitley 61925.61%1,73471.74%271.12%371.53%-1,115-46.13%2,417
Wolfe 65857.42%38633.68%827.16%201.75%27223.73%1,146
Woodford 1,28951.91%1,09744.18%301.21%672.70%1927.73%2,483
Totals175,46551.48%135,46739.74%23,5006.89%6,4391.89%39,99811.73%340,871

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 In this county where Harrison ran third behind both Cleveland and Weaver, margin given is Cleveland vote minus Weaver vote and percentage margin Cleveland percentage minus Weaver percentage.

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