1892 United States presidential election in New York

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1892 United States presidential election in New York
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  1888 November 8, 1892 1896  
Turnout86.3% [1] Decrease2.svg 6.0 pp
  StephenGroverCleveland.jpg Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Indiana
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid
Electoral vote360
Popular vote654,868609,350
Percentage48.99%45.58%

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County Results

President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The 1892 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Contents

New York was won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate former Congressman and Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Cleveland and Stevenson defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and his running mate U.S. Ambassador to France Whitelaw Reid of Ohio.

Also running a significant campaign that year was the Populist Party candidate, Congressman James B. Weaver of Ohio with his running mate state attorney general James G. Field of Virginia, although Weaver's primarily Western-based campaign did not perform strongly in New York. Despite receiving 8.51% nationally and winning electoral votes from six states, Weaver finished in fifth place in New York State, with only 1.23 percent of the vote, behind fourth-place Socialist Labor candidate Simon Wing’s 1.34 percent.

Cleveland carried New York State with 48.99 percent of the vote to Harrison's 45.58 percent, a victory margin of 3.41 points. In a distant third came the Prohibition Party candidate John Bidwell with 2.86 percent.

New York weighed in for this election as less than one percentage point more Democratic than the national average.

The Democratic win of New York’s electoral votes marked a personal comeback for Grover Cleveland in his home state, as he had narrowly won the state in his initial 1884 presidential campaign, but a narrow defeat here in 1888 had cost him the 1888 presidential election, partially the result of strong opposition to Cleveland from the Tammany Hall machine which dominated New York politics at the time.

Cleveland’s relatively narrow statewide victory relied heavily on a strong margin of victory in New York City, receiving more than 60% of the vote in New York County along with victories in Kings County, Queens County, and Richmond County. Cleveland also won nearby Westchester County and Rockland County. Harrison fared better upstate, where he won most counties, although Cleveland carried several upstate counties including Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, and Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany.

Results

1892 United States presidential election in New York [2]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Grover Cleveland 654,86848.99%36
Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent)609,35045.58%0
Prohibition John Bidwell 38,1902.86%0
Socialist Labor Simon Wing 17,9561.34%0
People's James B. Weaver 16,4291.23%0
Totals1,336,793100.0%36

Results by county

CountyStephen Grover Cleveland [3]
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison [3]
Republican
John Bidwell [4]
Prohibition
Simon Wing [4]
Socialist Labor
James Baird Weaver [5]
People's
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %# %
Albany 18,99448.99%18,39847.46%6491.67%3660.94%3610.93%5961.54%38,768
Allegany 3,12828.73%5,67852.14%1,0429.57%920.84%9498.72%-2,550-23.42%10,889
Broome 6,04038.29%8,25952.36%1,0886.90%1661.05%2201.39%-2,219-14.07%15,773
Cattaraugus 5,75338.09%7,97352.78%7615.04%1390.92%4793.17%-2,220-14.70%15,105
Cayuga 5,99938.80%8,34153.95%7124.61%1440.93%2651.71%-2,342-15.15%15,461
Chautauqua 6,39732.20%11,59558.37%1,1125.60%1890.95%5732.88%-5,198-26.17%19,866
Chemung 4,66141.71%5,41048.41%5374.81%1671.49%4003.58%-749-6.70%11,175
Chenango 4,27340.56%5,37851.04%6956.60%680.65%1221.16%-1,105-10.49%10,536
Clinton 4,77347.03%5,13550.60%1121.10%600.59%690.68%-362-3.57%10,149
Columbia 5,86849.70%5,38445.60%3412.89%1100.93%1040.88%4844.10%11,807
Cortland 2,90737.67%4,13453.57%4886.32%630.82%1251.62%-1,227-15.90%7,717
Delaware 4,70638.90%6,42153.07%6885.69%1371.13%1471.21%-1,715-14.17%12,099
Dutchess 8,97846.05%9,37648.09%7133.66%2091.07%2191.12%-398-2.04%19,495
Erie 32,43147.41%32,34047.28%1,6012.34%8621.26%1,1691.71%910.13%68,403
Essex 2,71035.30%4,63660.39%1602.08%881.15%831.08%-1,926-25.09%7,677
Franklin 2,99933.93%5,49862.19%1992.25%650.74%790.89%-2,499-28.27%8,840
Fulton 4,29341.37%5,36851.72%5184.99%1030.99%960.93%-1,075-10.36%10,378
Genesee 3,25039.40%4,28951.99%4565.53%881.07%1662.01%-1,039-12.60%8,249
Greene 3,77145.89%3,91447.63%3073.74%1151.40%1101.34%-143-1.74%8,217
Hamilton 48047.11%45444.55%343.34%232.26%282.75%262.55%1,019
Herkimer 5,52644.37%6,21949.94%4253.41%1531.23%1311.05%-693-5.56%12,454
Jefferson 7,18139.57%9,85654.32%7804.30%1740.96%1550.85%-2,675-14.74%18,146
Kings 100,16056.78%70,50539.97%2,4721.40%2,7151.54%5330.30%29,65516.81%176,385
Lewis 3,36943.98%3,96551.76%2072.70%630.82%570.74%-596-7.78%7,661
Livingston 3,67239.18%4,88652.13%4394.68%750.80%3013.21%-1,214-12.95%9,373
Madison 4,05435.50%6,53357.20%5454.77%1201.05%1691.48%-2,479-21.71%11,421
Monroe 17,70642.68%21,32751.41%1,2132.92%5481.32%6941.67%-3,621-8.73%41,488
Montgomery 5,44546.00%5,72748.38%3823.23%1381.17%1451.22%-282-2.38%11,837
New York 175,26761.50%98,96734.73%2,4390.86%5,9452.09%2,3660.83%76,30026.77%284,984
Niagara 6,85047.12%6,66345.83%6774.66%1611.11%1861.28%1871.29%14,537
Oneida 13,55245.64%14,35948.36%1,0543.55%3561.20%3731.26%-807-2.72%29,694
Onondaga 14,90041.50%19,00852.94%1,1153.11%4451.24%4361.21%-4,108-11.44%35,904
Ontario 5,37642.62%6,31950.10%3903.09%1150.91%4143.28%-943-7.48%12,614
Orange 10,42145.80%11,08148.70%8103.56%2170.95%2250.99%-660-2.90%22,754
Orleans 3,06539.94%4,01352.29%4696.11%580.76%690.90%-948-12.35%7,674
Oswego 6,72937.93%10,01256.44%6183.48%1730.98%2071.17%-3,283-18.51%17,739
Otsego 6,40844.70%7,09549.49%6204.32%1120.78%1010.70%-687-4.79%14,336
Putnam 1,54942.92%1,84651.15%1363.77%350.97%431.19%-297-8.23%3,609
Queens 15,19554.15%11,70441.71%5101.82%4251.51%2260.81%3,49112.44%28,060
Rensselaer 14,87949.69%13,66645.64%8302.77%2770.93%2900.97%1,2134.05%29,942
Richmond 6,12257.00%4,09138.09%3142.92%1281.19%860.80%2,03118.91%10,741
Rockland 3,78953.42%2,90941.01%2703.81%600.85%650.92%88012.41%7,093
Saratoga 5,75540.40%7,38351.83%7435.22%1831.28%1801.26%-1,628-11.43%14,244
Schenectady 4,08150.66%3,48143.22%2843.53%1141.42%951.18%6007.45%8,055
Schoharie 4,53155.28%3,23639.48%3023.68%650.79%630.77%1,29515.80%8,197
Schuyler 1,48634.15%2,41055.39%2926.71%561.29%1072.46%-924-21.24%4,351
Seneca 3,19947.70%3,11246.40%2333.47%731.09%901.34%871.30%6,707
St. Lawrence 6,15629.98%13,17764.17%7653.73%1570.76%2801.36%-7,021-34.19%20,535
Steuben 8,30739.74%10,57750.61%1,1915.70%2211.06%6052.89%-2,270-10.86%20,901
Suffolk 6,27444.17%7,00149.29%6374.48%1511.06%1400.99%-727-5.12%14,203
Sullivan 3,56747.00%3,66448.28%2072.73%690.91%821.08%-97-1.28%7,589
Tioga 2,92337.92%4,22154.76%3985.16%680.88%981.27%-1,298-16.84%7,708
Tompkins 3,40438.62%4,71753.52%4835.48%810.92%1281.45%-1,313-14.90%8,813
Ulster 9,80848.04%9,45046.29%7153.50%2061.01%2361.16%3581.75%20,415
Warren 2,65539.03%3,64753.62%3194.69%670.99%1141.68%-992-14.58%6,802
Washington 3,73132.70%6,79459.54%5955.21%1291.13%1611.41%-3,063-26.84%11,410
Wayne 4,61837.77%6,84856.01%4813.93%1190.97%1611.32%-2,230-18.24%12,227
Westchester 16,08851.70%13,43643.18%9082.92%3391.09%3481.12%2,6528.52%31,119
Wyoming 2,94837.01%4,43055.61%3874.86%540.68%1471.85%-1,482-18.60%7,966
Yates 1,71131.33%3,01455.18%3225.90%571.04%3586.55%-1,303-23.86%5,462
Totals654,86848.99%609,33045.58%38,1902.86%17,9561.34%16,4291.23%45,5383.41%1,336,773

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