1888 United States presidential election in Georgia

none June 2025 September 2023 1888 United States presidential election 1888 United States presidential election in Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) 1879 presidential Popular no 1884 United States presidential election in Georgia 1884 1888 11 6 1892 United States presidential election in Georgia 1892 x200px Grover Cleveland by Charles Milton Bell color change (3x4 cropped b&w).jpg Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) New York Allen G. Thurman 12 100,493 70.31% Benjamin Harrison (1888) (cropped3).jpg Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) Indiana Levi P. Morton 0 40,499 28.33% 1888 United States presidential election in Georgia results map by county.svg 250px County results Cleveland #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Harrison #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) Elected President Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) The 1888 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s.Mickey, Robert W.; Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972, p. 76 1400838789 This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and TownsPhillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 – and in presidential elections to a small number of counties where blacks were not fully disenfranchised. The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 022611435X This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulative poll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout declined steadily throughout the 1880s,Kousser, J. Morgan; The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910, p. 213 0-300-01973-4 unlike any other former Confederate state except South Carolina. Despite economic problems in the mountain counties due to deflation produced by the gold standard and large-scale government spending reductions by the “Redeemer” Democrats,Kousser; The Shaping of Southern Politics, pp. 17-18 voter turnout, especially for opposition parties, would maintain its poll tax-driven decline until the Populist movement, which did not affect the 1888 election. Consequently, Cleveland would gain five percent on his 1884 percentage in Georgia as opposition turnout fell by one-seventh. Results 1888 United States presidential election in GeorgiaDave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1888&fips=13&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1888 Presidential General Election Results – GeorgiaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Grover Cleveland (incumbent) 100,493 70.31% 12 Republican Benjamin Harrison 40,499 28.33% 0 Prohibition Clinton B. Fisk 1,808 1.26% 0 Union Labor Alson Streeter 136These Streeter votes were not separated by county but given only as a state-wide total. 0.10% 0 Results by county County Stephen Grover ClevelandGéoelections; Presidential election of 1888 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)Democratic Benjamin HarrisonRepublican Clinton Bowen FiskGéoelections; Popular Vote for Clinton Fisk (.xlsx file for €15)Prohibition Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Appling 531 70.33% 219 29.01% 5 0.66% 312 41.32% 755 Baker 346 88.95% 43 11.05% 0 0.00% 303 77.89% 389 Baldwin 403 59.18% 271 39.79% 7 1.03% 132 19.38% 681 Banks 807 78.27% 210 20.37% 14 1.36% 597 57.90% 1,031 Bartow 916 71.01% 290 22.48% 84 6.51% 626 48.53% 1,290 Berrien 721 97.96% 11 1.49% 4 0.54% 710 96.47% 736 Bibb 2,215 64.11% 1,121 32.45% 119 3.44% 1,094 31.66% 3,455 Brooks 828 58.27% 580 40.82% 13 0.91% 248 17.45% 1,421 Bryan 214 94.27% 12 5.29% 1 0.44% 202 88.99% 227 Bulloch 1,061 96.02% 42 3.80% 2 0.18% 1,019 92.22% 1,105 Burke 684 73.39% 248 26.61% 0 0.00% 436 46.78% 932 Butts 603 68.91% 245 28.00% 27 3.09% 358 40.91% 875 Calhoun 451 100.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 451 100.00% 451 Camden 188 36.86% 317 62.16% 5 0.98% -129 -25.29% 510 Campbell 778 70.73% 321 29.18% 1 0.09% 457 41.55% 1,100 Carroll 1,710 80.89% 349 16.51% 55 2.60% 1,361 64.38% 2,114 Catoosa 428 77.12% 106 19.10% 21 3.78% 322 58.02% 555 Charlton 113 65.32% 58 33.53% 2 1.16% 55 31.79% 173 Chatham 3,920 73.52% 1,355 25.41% 57 1.07% 2,565 48.11% 5,332 Chattahoochee 145 86.83% 22 13.17% 0 0.00% 123 73.65% 167 Chattooga 638 77.80% 180 21.95% 2 0.24% 458 55.85% 820 Cherokee 1,575 76.72% 459 22.36% 19 0.93% 1,116 54.36% 2,053 Clarke 801 54.60% 660 44.99% 6 0.41% 141 9.61% 1,467 Clay 554 65.80% 287 34.09% 1 0.12% 267 31.71% 842 Clayton 604 72.95% 224 27.05% 0 0.00% 380 45.89% 828 Clinch 435 78.52% 115 20.76% 4 0.72% 320 57.76% 554 Cobb 1,143 73.18% 391 25.03% 28 1.79% 752 48.14% 1,562 Coffee 294 72.06% 110 26.96% 4 0.98% 184 45.10% 408 Colquitt 255 97.70% 4 1.53% 2 0.77% 251 96.17% 261 Columbia 397 98.51% 0 0.00% 6 1.49% 391"FiskdHarrison" In this county where Fisk ran second ahead of Harrison, margin given is Cleveland vote minus Fisk vote and percentage margin Cleveland percentage minus Fisk percentage. 97.02% 403 Coweta 1,476 59.71% 990 40.05% 6 0.24% 486 19.66% 2,472 Crawford 442 94.24% 26 5.54% 1 0.21% 416 88.70% 469 Dade 465 83.48% 89 15.98% 3 0.54% 376 67.50% 557 Dawson 513 59.38% 340 39.35% 11 1.27% 173 20.02% 864 DeKalb 1,021 75.80% 313 23.24% 13 0.97% 708 52.56% 1,347 Decatur 1,287 72.75% 482 27.25% 0 0.00% 805 45.51% 1,769 Dodge 496 54.27% 406 44.42% 12 1.31% 90 9.85% 914 Dooly 787 67.04% 386 32.88% 1 0.09% 401 34.16% 1,174 Dougherty 815 78.21% 222 21.31% 5 0.48% 593 56.91% 1,042 Douglas 493 76.08% 151 23.30% 4 0.62% 342 52.78% 648 Early 467 61.85% 288 38.15% 0 0.00% 179 23.71% 755 Echols 150 75.76% 43 21.72% 5 2.53% 107 54.04% 198 Effingham 362 64.07% 189 33.45% 14 2.48% 173 30.62% 565 Elbert 774 95.67% 11 1.36% 24 2.97% 750"FiskdHarrison" 92.71% 809 Emanuel 658 95.50% 30 4.35% 1 0.15% 628 91.15% 689 Fannin 374 34.89% 692 64.55% 6 0.56% -318 -29.66% 1,072 Fayette 690 77.09% 204 22.79% 1 0.11% 486 54.30% 895 Floyd 1,145 65.50% 585 33.47% 18 1.03% 560 32.04% 1,748 Forsyth 1,579 87.72% 209 11.61% 12 0.67% 1,370 76.11% 1,800 Franklin 606 79.84% 121 15.94% 32 4.22% 485 63.90% 759 Fulton 2,750 53.43% 2,164 42.04% 233 4.53% 586 11.39% 5,147 Gilmer 556 49.60% 543 48.44% 22 1.96% 13 1.16% 1,121 Glascock 290 86.57% 45 13.43% 0 0.00% 245 73.13% 335 Glynn 601 49.59% 582 48.02% 29 2.39% 19 1.57% 1,212 Gordon 852 84.61% 119 11.82% 36 3.57% 733 72.79% 1,007 Greene 803 52.38% 714 46.58% 16 1.04% 89 5.81% 1,533 Gwinnett 2,004 90.56% 186 8.40% 23 1.04% 1,818 82.15% 2,213 Habersham 830 80.82% 188 18.31% 9 0.88% 642 62.51% 1,027 Hall 2,170 87.29% 274 11.02% 42 1.69% 1,896 76.27% 2,486 Hancock 596 77.00% 177 22.87% 1 0.13% 419 54.13% 774 Haralson 493 82.86% 93 15.63% 9 1.51% 400 67.23% 595 Harris 1,020 61.22% 633 38.00% 13 0.78% 387 23.23% 1,666 Hart 674 86.97% 80 10.32% 21 2.71% 594 76.65% 775 Heard 629 76.43% 188 22.84% 6 0.73% 441 53.58% 823 Henry 1,136 67.90% 512 30.60% 25 1.49% 624 37.30% 1,673 Houston 949 66.93% 466 32.86% 3 0.21% 483 34.06% 1,418 Irwin 245 88.77% 31 11.23% 0 0.00% 214 77.54% 276 Jackson 2,180 80.80% 506 18.75% 12 0.44% 1,674 62.05% 2,698 Jasper 588 76.86% 177 23.14% 0 0.00% 411 53.73% 765 Jefferson 816 85.80% 130 13.67% 5 0.53% 686 72.13% 951 Johnson 379 73.45% 124 24.03% 13 2.52% 255 49.42% 516 Jones 531 54.41% 443 45.39% 2 0.20% 88 9.02% 976 Laurens 839 78.41% 222 20.75% 9 0.84% 617 57.66% 1,070 Lee 178 30.48% 405 69.35% 1 0.17% -227 -38.87% 584 Liberty 477 39.75% 708 59.00% 15 1.25% -231 -19.25% 1,200 Lincoln 446 99.78% 0 0.00% 1 0.22% 445"FiskdHarrison" 99.55% 447 Lowndes 767 53.75% 643 45.06% 17 1.19% 124 8.69% 1,427 Lumpkin 440 57.14% 317 41.17% 13 1.69% 123 15.97% 770 Macon 683 68.03% 320 31.87% 1 0.10% 363 36.16% 1,004 Madison 583 80.19% 144 19.81% 0 0.00% 439 60.39% 727 Marion 543 85.11% 94 14.73% 1 0.16% 449 70.38% 638 McDuffie 389 99.23% 3 0.77% 0 0.00% 386 98.47% 392 McIntosh 192 22.20% 673 77.80% 0 0.00% -481 -55.61% 865 Meriwether 991 68.16% 452 31.09% 11 0.76% 539 37.07% 1,454 Miller 170 94.97% 9 5.03% 0 0.00% 161 89.94% 179 Milton 895 93.42% 56 5.85% 7 0.73% 839 87.58% 958 Mitchell 650 59.96% 433 39.94% 1 0.09% 217 20.02% 1,084 Monroe 1,420 75.25% 466 24.70% 1 0.05% 954 50.56% 1,887 Montgomery 480 71.54% 178 26.53% 13 1.94% 302 45.01% 671 Morgan 506 70.28% 210 29.17% 4 0.56% 296 41.11% 720 Murray 524 71.00% 199 26.96% 15 2.03% 325 44.04% 738 Muscogee 1,107 63.84% 611 35.24% 16 0.92% 496 28.60% 1,734 Newton 788 64.64% 398 32.65% 33 2.71% 390 31.99% 1,219 Oconee 380 70.76% 156 29.05% 1 0.19% 224 41.71% 537 Oglethorpe 550 98.92% 4 0.72% 2 0.36% 546 98.20% 556 Paulding 592 75.41% 185 23.57% 8 1.02% 407 51.85% 785 Pickens 368 31.78% 788 68.05% 2 0.17% -420 -36.27% 1,158 Pierce 366 64.66% 198 34.98% 2 0.35% 168 29.68% 566 Pike 1,030 64.82% 514 32.35% 45 2.83% 516 32.47% 1,589 Polk 587 55.17% 450 42.29% 27 2.54% 137 12.88% 1,064 Pulaski 1,107 78.68% 298 21.18% 2 0.14% 809 57.50% 1,407 Putnam 511 99.80% 0 0.00% 1 0.20% 510"FiskdHarrison" 99.61% 512 Quitman 327 72.67% 122 27.11% 1 0.22% 205 45.56% 450 Rabun 386 88.13% 43 9.82% 9 2.05% 343 78.31% 438 Randolph 594 63.19% 327 34.79% 19 2.02% 267 28.40% 940 Richmond 808 85.14% 113 11.91% 28 2.95% 695 73.23% 949 Rockdale 568 66.51% 280 32.79% 6 0.70% 288 33.72% 854 Schley 355 60.37% 233 39.63% 0 0.00% 122 20.75% 588 Screven 1,161 82.40% 243 17.25% 5 0.35% 918 65.15% 1,409 Spalding 1,039 68.94% 448 29.73% 20 1.33% 591 39.22% 1,507 Stewart 662 82.54% 139 17.33% 1 0.12% 523 65.21% 802 Sumter 940 58.93% 652 40.88% 3 0.19% 288 18.06% 1,595 Talbot 575 59.34% 389 40.14% 5 0.52% 186 19.20% 969 Taliaferro 391 65.71% 200 33.61% 4 0.67% 191 32.10% 595 Tattnall 534 83.70% 102 15.99% 2 0.31% 432 67.71% 638 Taylor 559 80.32% 123 17.67% 14 2.01% 436 62.64% 696 Telfair 493 64.95% 234 30.83% 32 4.22% 259 34.12% 759 Terrell 673 74.61% 228 25.28% 1 0.11% 445 49.33% 902 Thomas 1,465 63.15% 838 36.12% 17 0.73% 627 27.03% 2,320 Towns 275 49.64% 277 50.00% 2 0.36% -2 -0.36% 554 Troup 1,242 73.75% 435 25.83% 7 0.42% 807 47.92% 1,684 Twiggs 299 65.00% 157 34.13% 4 0.87% 142 30.87% 460 Union 547 55.36% 440 44.53% 1 0.10% 107 10.83% 988 Upson 977 73.85% 345 26.08% 1 0.08% 632 47.77% 1,323 Walker 718 72.53% 260 26.26% 12 1.21% 458 46.26% 990 Walton 767 74.98% 235 22.97% 21 2.05% 532 52.00% 1,023 Ware 369 64.51% 186 32.52% 17 2.97% 183 31.99% 572 Warren 545 84.10% 100 15.43% 3 0.46% 445 68.67% 648 Washington 1,351 69.78% 572 29.55% 13 0.67% 779 40.24% 1,936 Wayne 317 67.88% 137 29.34% 13 2.78% 180 38.54% 467 Webster 290 56.42% 224 43.58% 0 0.00% 66 12.84% 514 White 494 77.31% 139 21.75% 6 0.94% 355 55.56% 639 Whitfield 837 63.41% 421 31.89% 62 4.70% 416 31.52% 1,320 Wilcox 357 82.45% 73 16.86% 3 0.69% 284 65.59% 433 Wilkes 683 97.85% 0 0.00% 15 2.15% 668"FiskdHarrison" 95.70% 698 Wilkinson 339 82.48% 69 16.79% 3 0.73% 270 65.69% 411 Worth 547 72.26% 179 23.65% 31 4.10% 368 48.61% 757Totals100,49370.37%40,49928.36%1,8081.27%59,99442.01%142,800 See also United States presidential elections in Georgia Notes References 2 Georgia 1888 Category:1888 Georgia (U.S. state) elections