1892 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1892 Presidential election year November 8 Republican Party (US)Benjamin Harrison (R) 53rd Democratic gain Grover Cleveland (D) 277 Benjamin Harrison (R) 145 James B. Weaver (P) 22 Democratic +3.0% 1892 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Harrison, blue denotes states won by Cleveland, and green denotes states won by Weaver. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. 29 of 88 seatsNot counting special elections. Democratic gain Democratic +4Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. 400px Results of the elections:#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#F48882 Republican hold #e3406f Silver Republican gain #288B37 Populist gain #000000 Legislature failed to elect All 356 voting members Democratic hold Republican +38 32 Populist +3 400px 1892 gubernatorial election results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold #288B37 Populist gain Elections were held on November 8, 1892, electing members to the 53rd United States Congress, taking place during the Third Party System. The Democrats retained the House and won control of the presidency and the Senate. Following the election, the Democrats controlled the presidency and a majority in both chambers of Congress for the first time since the 1858 elections. In the presidential election, the Republican President Benjamin Harrison was defeated by former Democratic President Grover Cleveland.1892 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1892 The American Presidency Project 25 June 2014 Cleveland won the popular vote by a margin of 3%, but won by a large margin in the electoral college. Populist James B. Weaver also carried five Western states and won a little over 8% of the vote. At the 1892 Republican National Convention, Harrison fended off a challenge from supporters of former Secretary of State James G. Blaine and Governor William McKinley of Ohio. At the 1892 Democratic National Convention, Cleveland defeated Senator David B. Hill from New York and Governor Horace Boies of Iowa on the first ballot. Harrison had previously defeated Cleveland in 1888, and Cleveland's win made him the first President to serve non-consecutive terms. Cleveland's win in the popular vote also made him the second person, after Andrew Jackson, to win the popular vote in three presidential elections. Reapportionment following the 1890 census added twenty four seats to the House. Republicans picked up several seats in the House, but Democrats continued to command a large majority in the chamber.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 In the Senate, Democrats made moderate gains to win a majority in the chamber for the first time since 1881.Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 See also 1892 United States presidential election 1892 United States House of Representatives elections 1892–93 United States Senate elections References Further reading Faulkner Harold U. Politics, Reform and Expansion, 1890–1900 1959 New York Harper Jensen Richard The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888–1896 1971 Chicago University of Chicago Press 0-226-39825-0 registration https://archive.org/details/winningofmidwest0000jens Josephson Matthew Matthew Josephson The Politicos: 1865–1896 1938 New York Harcourt, Brace and Co. Keller Morton Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America https://archive.org/details/affairsofstatepu0000kell registration 1977 Cambridge Belknap Press 0-674-00721-2 Kleppner Paul The Third Electoral System 1853–1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures https://archive.org/details/thirdelectoralsy0000klep registration 1979 Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 0-8078-1328-1 Knoles George H. The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1892 1942 Stanford Stanford University Press Morgan H. Wayne From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877–1896 1969 Syracuse Syracuse University Press Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1932) Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, the major resource on Cleveland. Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (1937). pp 169–244 History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Mckinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896 8 Rhodes James Ford James Ford Rhodes 1920 Macmillan New York Category:1892 elections in the United States 1892