1888 United States presidential election in Texas

none June 2025 September 2023 1888 United States presidential election 1888 United States presidential election in Texas Texas 1888 presidential no 1884 United States presidential election in Texas 1884 1892 United States presidential election in Texas 1892 November 6, 1888 22.27% of the total population 2.09 pp1888 Presidential Election Results Texas Total Population Turnout https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3976 Grover Cleveland by Charles Milton Bell color change (3x4 cropped b&w).jpg x160px Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) New York Allen G. Thurman 13 234,883 65.70% Benjamin Harrison (1888) (cropped3).jpg Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) Indiana Levi P. Morton 0 88,422 24.73% AlsonStreeter.png Alson Streeter Union Labor Party Illinois Charles E. Cunningham 0 29,459 8.24% 1888 United States presidential election in Texas results map by county.svg 350px County results Cleveland #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Harrison #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Streeter #c6e9af 40–50% President Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) The 1888 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.1888 Presidential Election Results Texas https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1888&off=0&elect=0&fips=48&f=0 Texas was won by the incumbent President Grover Cleveland (D–New York), running with the former Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Allen G. Thurman, with 65.70% of the popular vote, against former Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York, with 24.73% of the vote and former Illinois state representative Alson Streeter (UL–Illinois), running with Charles E. Cunningham, with 8.24% of the vote. The Prohibition Party ran brigadier general Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks and received 1.33% of the vote. Campaign Members of the Knights of Labor and former members of the Greenback Party attended a convention in Waco on July 5, 1887, and formed an affiliate of the Union Labor Party. Around 300 delegates, mostly members of the Farmers' Alliance, from seventy counties attended a convention on May 15, 1888, to consider possible electoral campaigns. The delegates appointed Mayor H.S. Broiles as a one-man executive committee and he called for a Nonpartisan Convention to be held on July 2–3. The Nonpartisan Convention created a platform and slate of candidates. The ULP endorsed these candidates and platform and William R. Lamb, the chair of the Nonpartisan Convention, was given a seat on the ULP executive committee.Hild 2015 32-33 Results 1888 United States presidential election in Texas Democratic Party (United States) Grover Cleveland New York (incumbent) Allen G. Thurman Ohio 234,883 65.70% 13 100.00% Republican Party (United States) Benjamin Harrison Indiana Levi P. Morton New York 88,422 24.73% 0 0.00% Union Labor Party Alson Streeter Illinois Charles E. Cunningham Arkansas 29,459 8.24% 0 0.00% Prohibition Party Clinton B. Fisk New Jersey John A. Brooks Missouri 4,749 1.33% 0 0.00% 357,513 100.00% 13 100.00% The electors in Texas for Grover Cleveland were as follows, according to an October 27, 1888 edition of The Lampasas Leader: State at large- A. W. Terrell, J. W. Bailey 1st District- A. T. McKinney 2nd District- E. C. Dickinson 3rd District- R. C. DeGrafenried 4th District- Howard Templeton 5th District- J. H. Cobb 6th District- J. S. Woods 7th District- G. A. Levi 8th District- W. S. Fly 9th District- W. H. Richardson 10th District- J. H. McLeary 11th District- W. H. Cowan See also United States presidential elections in Texas References Works cited Hild Matthew The Knights of Labor and the Third-Party Movement in Texas, 1886–1896 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association 2015 119 1 24–43 10.2307/447112 24388910 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24388910 subscription Texas 1888 Category:1888 Texas elections