1893 United States gubernatorial elections

1893 United States gubernatorial elections

←  1892 November 7, 1893; April 5, 1893 (RI) 1894  →
5 governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic Republican Seats before 27 14 Seats after 25 16 Seat change 2 2 Seats up 3 2 Seats won 1 4   Third party   Party Populist Seats before 3 Seats after 3 Seat change Seats up 0 Seats won 0
Democratic gain     Democratic hold      Republican gain     Republican hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1893, in five states.

Virginia holds its gubernatorial elections in odd numbered years, every 4 years, following the United States presidential election year. Massachusetts and Rhode Island at this time held gubernatorial elections every year. They would abandon this practice in 1920 and 1912, respectively. Iowa and Ohio at this time held gubernatorial elections in every odd numbered year.

Results

State	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Iowa	Horace Boies	Democratic	Defeated, 42.00%	Frank D. Jackson (Republican) 49.74% J. M. Joseph (Populist) 5.77% Bennett Mitchell (Prohibition) 2.49% [1]
Massachusetts	William E. Russell	Democratic	Retired, Republican victory	Frederic T. Greenhalge (Republican) 52.77% John E. Russell (Democratic) 42.99% Louis Albert Banks (Prohibition) 2.34% George H. Cary (Populist) 1.34% Patrick F. O'Neil (Socialist Labor) 0.56% [2]
Ohio	William McKinley	Republican	Re-elected, 52.61%	Lawrence T. Neal (Democratic) 42.78% Gideon P. Macklin (Prohibition) 2.72% Edward J. Bracken (Populist) 1.89% [3] [4]
Rhode Island (held, 5 April 1893)	Daniel Russell Brown	Republican	No election, [a] 46.24%	David Sherman Baker Jr. (Democratic) 46.63% Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 6.92% Scattering 0.22% [10] [11] [12]
Virginia	Philip W. McKinney	Democratic	Term-limited, Democratic victory	Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (Democratic) 59.19% Edmund R. Cocke (Populist) 37.58% James R, Miller (Prohibition) 3.22% Scattering 0.01% [13] [14]

References

1. "IA Governor, 1893". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
2. "MA Governor, 1893". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
3. "OH Governor, 1893". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
4. The Journal of the Senate of the State of Ohio, for the Regular Session of the Seventy-First General Assembly commencing on Monday, January 1, 1894. Vol. XCI. Norwalk, Ohio: The Laning Ptg. Co., State Printers. 1894. p. 24.
5. Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 30. ISBN   1-56802-396-0.
6. DeSimone, Russell (November 2, 2018). "Rhode Island in the 1800s Failed to Elect a Governor in Eleven General Elections". smallstatebighistory.com. The Online Review of Rhode Island History. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
7. "With cool contempt". The morning call. San Francisco, CA. June 3, 1893. p. 1. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
8. "A "Majority" Muddle". The Salt Lake herald. Salt Lake City, UT. June 6, 1893. p. 4. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
9. "Abbreviated telegrams". Rock Island Daily Argus. Rock Island, IL. August 14, 1893. p. 4. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
10. "RI Governor, 1893". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
11. "Newsy notes". Virginia free press. Charleston, WV. April 12, 1893. p. 2. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
12. "Personal and political". The enterprise. Wellington, OH. April 12, 1893. p. 2. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
13. "VA Governor, 1893". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
14. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia: begun and held at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, on Wednesday, December 6, 1893, &c., &c. Richmond: J. H. O'Bannon, Superintendent of Public Printing. 1893. p. 60.

Notes

1. No candidate received a majority of the vote, and under the law the Legislature was required to elect the governor. However, the two houses refused to meet in Grand Committee and no choice was made. Governor Brown continued in office for the term. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

Bibliography

• Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Meckler Books. ISBN   0-930466-17-9.
• Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. ISBN   1-56802-396-0.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2014). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911: The Official Results by State and County. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-4722-0.
• The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1894. New York, NY: The Press Publishing Co. 1894.
• The Tribune Almanac for 1894. New York, NY: The Tribune Association. 1894.