1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

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1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

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Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Indiana Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid Electoral vote 12 0 Popular vote 177,325 171,101 Percentage 47.72% 46.05%

County Results Cleveland   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80% Harrison   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%

President before election Benjamin Harrison Republican Elected President Grover Cleveland Democratic

The 1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1892, as part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Wisconsin voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Democratic Party candidate Grover Cleveland won Wisconsin with 47.72 percent of the popular vote, winning the state's twelve electoral votes. ^[1] As a result of his win, Cleveland became the first Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win Wisconsin. No Democrat would win Wisconsin again until Woodrow Wilson in 1912. This marked the first occasion in which Wisconsin voted for a different candidate than Iowa, a phenomenon that has only occurred five more times since — 1924, 1940, 1976, 2004, and 2020. Along with California, and Illinois, Wisconsin is one of the three states that Cleveland lost in both 1884 and 1888 but won in 1892.

Results

1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Grover Cleveland	177,325	47.72%	12
	Republican	Benjamin Harrison (incumbent)	171,101	46.05%	0
	Prohibition	John Bidwell	13,136	3.54%	0
	People's	James Weaver	10,019	2.7%	0
Totals			371,581	100.0%	12

Results by county

1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin by county ^{[2] [3] [4]}

County	Stephen Grover Cleveland Democratic		Benjamin Harrison Republican		John Bidwell Prohibition		James Baird Weaver People’s		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Adams	402	28.49%	972	68.89%	22	1.56%	15	1.06%	-570	-40.40%	1,411
Ashland	2,436	49.57%	2,283	46.46%	139	2.83%	56	1.14%	153	3.11%	4,914
Barron	767	24.20%	1,818	57.37%	194	6.12%	390	12.31%	-1,051	-33.17%	3,169
Bayfield	1,349	46.44%	1,467	50.50%	61	2.10%	28	0.96%	-118	-4.06%	2,905
Brown	3,653	54.26%	2,855	42.41%	180	2.67%	44	0.65%	798	11.85%	6,732
Buffalo	1,393	45.24%	1,523	49.46%	60	1.95%	103	3.35%	-130	-4.22%	3,079
Burnett	55	7.68%	406	56.70%	163	22.77%	92	12.85%	243 [lower-alpha 1]	33.94%	716
Calumet	1,863	64.67%	909	31.55%	26	0.90%	83	2.88%	954	33.11%	2,881
Chippewa	2,530	50.57%	1,975	39.48%	182	3.64%	316	6.32%	555	11.09%	5,003
Clark	1,711	43.23%	2,039	51.52%	161	4.07%	47	1.19%	-328	-8.29%	3,958
Columbia	2,957	43.95%	3,314	49.26%	409	6.08%	48	0.71%	-357	-5.31%	6,728
Crawford	1,615	46.68%	1,727	49.91%	39	1.13%	79	2.28%	-112	-3.24%	3,460
Dane	6,833	47.63%	6,445	44.93%	980	6.83%	88	0.61%	388	2.70%	14,346
Dodge	6,810	70.14%	2,653	27.33%	199	2.05%	47	0.48%	4,157	42.82%	9,709
Door	1,007	36.71%	1,596	58.18%	68	2.48%	72	2.62%	-589	-21.47%	2,743
Douglas	2,340	39.95%	2,967	50.66%	206	3.52%	344	5.87%	-627	-10.71%	5,857
Dunn	1,257	29.51%	2,169	50.93%	221	5.19%	612	14.37%	-912	-21.41%	4,259
Eau Claire	2,383	41.90%	2,719	47.80%	400	7.03%	186	3.27%	-336	-5.91%	5,688
Florence	195	29.50%	449	67.93%	12	1.82%	5	0.76%	-254	-38.43%	661
Fond du Lac	5,254	54.04%	4,129	42.47%	238	2.45%	101	1.04%	1,125	11.57%	9,722
Forest	228	48.41%	223	47.35%	14	2.97%	6	1.27%	5	1.06%	471
Grant	3,685	43.89%	4,217	50.23%	418	4.98%	76	0.91%	-532	-6.34%	8,396
Green	2,052	40.57%	2,329	46.05%	350	6.92%	327	6.47%	-277	-5.48%	5,058
Green Lake	1,810	53.92%	1,430	42.60%	97	2.89%	20	0.60%	380	11.32%	3,357
Iowa	2,336	46.77%	2,274	45.53%	356	7.13%	29	0.58%	62	1.24%	4,995
Jackson	1,160	33.36%	2,078	59.76%	209	6.01%	30	0.86%	-918	-26.40%	3,477
Jefferson	4,661	61.53%	2,679	35.37%	211	2.79%	24	0.32%	1,982	26.17%	7,575
Juneau	1,978	47.91%	1,945	47.11%	144	3.49%	62	1.50%	33	0.80%	4,129
Kenosha	1,928	52.95%	1,628	44.71%	69	1.90%	16	0.44%	300	8.24%	3,641
Kewaunee	2,046	78.84%	518	19.96%	7	0.27%	24	0.92%	1,528	58.88%	2,595
La Crosse	3,810	44.24%	3,693	42.88%	358	4.16%	752	8.73%	117	1.36%	8,613
Lafayette	2,286	46.25%	2,366	47.87%	209	4.23%	82	1.66%	-80	-1.62%	4,943
Langlade	1,289	58.64%	844	38.40%	48	2.18%	17	0.77%	445	20.25%	2,198
Lincoln	1,443	49.45%	997	34.17%	80	2.74%	398	13.64%	446	15.28%	2,918
Manitowoc	4,349	65.06%	2,249	33.64%	29	0.43%	58	0.87%	2,100	31.41%	6,685
Marathon	3,791	63.94%	1,959	33.04%	71	1.20%	108	1.82%	1,832	30.90%	5,929
Marinette	1,994	46.53%	1,837	42.87%	192	4.48%	262	6.11%	157	3.66%	4,285
Marquette	1,198	56.14%	877	41.10%	52	2.44%	7	0.33%	321	15.04%	2,134
Milwaukee	24,607	48.24%	24,602	48.23%	513	1.01%	1,286	2.52%	5	0.01%	51,008
Monroe	2,458	45.80%	2,530	47.14%	273	5.09%	106	1.98%	-72	-1.34%	5,367
Oconto	1,499	50.85%	1,279	43.39%	42	1.42%	128	4.34%	220	7.46%	2,948
Oneida	1,317	51.81%	1,149	45.20%	30	1.18%	46	1.81%	168	6.61%	2,542
Outagamie	4,545	59.72%	2,733	35.91%	224	2.94%	109	1.43%	1,812	23.81%	7,611
Ozaukee	2,094	74.71%	652	23.26%	8	0.29%	49	1.75%	1,442	51.44%	2,803
Pepin	539	36.01%	865	57.78%	83	5.54%	10	0.67%	-326	-21.78%	1,497
Pierce	1,210	30.14%	2,315	57.66%	300	7.47%	190	4.73%	-1,105	-27.52%	4,015
Polk	585	23.90%	1,477	60.33%	175	7.15%	211	8.62%	-892	-36.44%	2,448
Portage	2,570	50.21%	2,291	44.75%	214	4.18%	44	0.86%	279	5.45%	5,119
Price	876	41.87%	1,099	52.53%	84	4.02%	33	1.58%	-223	-10.66%	2,092
Racine	3,750	43.79%	3,956	46.19%	352	4.11%	506	5.91%	-206	-2.41%	8,564
Richland	1,670	38.05%	2,194	49.99%	231	5.26%	294	6.70%	-524	-11.94%	4,389
Rock	4,231	38.62%	6,052	55.24%	552	5.04%	121	1.10%	-1,821	-16.62%	10,956
Sauk	3,139	45.74%	3,277	47.76%	396	5.77%	50	0.73%	-138	-2.01%	6,862
Sawyer	328	41.89%	412	52.62%	37	4.73%	6	0.77%	-84	-10.73%	783
Shawano	2,040	55.36%	1,323	35.90%	49	1.33%	273	7.41%	717	19.46%	3,685
Sheboygan	5,126	56.74%	3,638	40.27%	98	1.08%	172	1.90%	1,488	16.47%	9,034
St. Croix	2,220	42.33%	2,467	47.04%	373	7.11%	184	3.51%	-247	-4.71%	5,244
Taylor	904	53.21%	734	43.20%	29	1.71%	32	1.88%	170	10.01%	1,699
Trempealeau	1,521	38.49%	2,116	53.54%	277	7.01%	38	0.96%	-595	-15.06%	3,952
Vernon	1,440	27.79%	3,106	59.95%	253	4.88%	382	7.37%	-1,666	-32.16%	5,181
Walworth	2,153	32.55%	3,871	58.52%	512	7.74%	79	1.19%	-1,718	-25.97%	6,615
Washburn	305	36.14%	488	57.82%	35	4.15%	16	1.90%	-183	-21.68%	844
Washington	2,624	60.27%	1,700	39.04%	22	0.51%	8	0.18%	924	21.22%	4,354
Waukesha	3,635	48.01%	3,600	47.54%	248	3.28%	89	1.18%	35	0.46%	7,572
Waupaca	2,186	36.83%	3,397	57.23%	306	5.15%	47	0.79%	-1,211	-20.40%	5,936
Waushara	786	25.74%	2,091	68.47%	141	4.62%	36	1.18%	-1,305	-42.73%	3,054
Winnebago	5,893	49.60%	5,354	45.06%	351	2.95%	284	2.39%	539	4.54%	11,882
Wood	2,220	54.29%	1,779	43.51%	54	1.32%	36	0.88%	441	10.79%	4,089
Totals	177,325	47.73%	171,105	46.06%	13,136	3.54%	9,919	2.67%	6,220	1.67%	371,485

Notes

1. In this county where Bidwell ran second ahead of Cleveland, margin given is Harrison vote minus Bidwell vote and percentage margin Harrison percentage minus Bidwell percentage.

References

1. "1892 Presidential General Election Results – Wisconsin" . Retrieved August 18, 2016.
2. "Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1892". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
3. "Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1892 John Bidwell". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
4. "Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1892 for James B. Weaver". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)