1892 United States presidential election in Tennessee

none June 2025 September 2023 1892 United States presidential election 1892 United States presidential election in Tennessee Tennessee presidential no 1888 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1888 1896 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1896 November 8, 1892 x160px StephenGroverCleveland.jpg Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) New York Adlai Stevenson I 12 136,468 51.36% Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) Indiana Whitelaw Reid 0 100,537 37.83% James B. Weaver 1892 (cropped).jpg James B. Weaver Populist Party (United States) Iowa James G. Field 0 23,918 9.00% 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% President Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) Proposed flag of Tennessee (1861).svg The 1892 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. State voters chose twelve electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee's white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and WayneWright, John K.; ‘Voting Habits in the United States: A Note on Two Maps’; Geographical Review, vol. 22, no. 4 (October 1932), pp. 666-672 voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.Key (Jr.), Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York, 1949), pp. 282-283 Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state's secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction.Lyons, William; Scheb (II), John M. and Stair Billy; Government and Politics in Tennessee, pp. 183-184 1572331410 After the state's white landowning class re-established its rule in the early 1870s, black and Unionist white combined to forge adequate support for the GOP to produce a competitive political system for two decades,Kousser, J. Morgan; The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910, p. 104 0-300-01973-4 although during this era the Republicans could only capture statewide offices when the Democratic Party was divided on this issue of payment of state debt. White Democrats in West Tennessee were always aiming to eliminate black political influence, which they first attempted to do by election fraud in the middle 1880s and did so much more successfully at the end of the decade by instituting in counties with significant black populations a secret ballot that prevented illiterates voting,Kousser; The Shaping of Southern Politics, p. 110 and a poll tax throughout the state.Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics, p. 118 At the time of the next presidential election, third-time Democratic nominee Grover Cleveland was extremely concerned with the lack of loyalty to the gold standard by Tennessee Democrats and the growing influence of the James B. Weaver-led Populist Party over the state, especially after Governor John P. Buchanan joined the Populists and ran for re-election under that party's bannerSclup, Leonard; ‘Conservative Counterattack: Adlai E. Stevenson and the Compromise of 1892 with Democrats in Tennessee and the South’; Tennessee Historical Quarterly; Vol. 53, No. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 114-129 However, the strong emphasis by Cleveland and running mate Adlai Stevenson I on opposing the Lodge Force Bill and on reducing tariffs was able to minimise defections to the Populists or the GOP – which with large Unionist areas was even with incomplete black disenfranchisement more viable than in any other ex-Confederate state. Stevenson's extensive tour of Tennessee and his campaign against the Populists ensured that the state was won comfortably against incumbent president and Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, whose vote total declined by thirty-eight thousand or over a quarter due to the loss of black voters. Results 1892 United States presidential election in TennesseeDave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=47&year=1892&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1892 Presidential General Election Results – TennesseePartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Grover Cleveland 136,468 51.36% 12 Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) 100,537 37.83% 0 People's James B. Weaver 23,918 9.00% 0 Prohibition John Bidwell 4,809 1.81% 0 Totals 265,732 100.00% 12 Voter turnout — Results by county 1892 United States presidential election in Tennessee by countyGéoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1892.htm Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1892 (.xlsx file for €15)Géoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1892weav.htm Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1892 for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)Géoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1892bidw.htm Popular Vote for John Bidwell (.xlsx file for €15)CountyGrover ClevelandDemocraticBenjamin HarrisonRepublicanJames B. WeaverPopulistJohn BidwellProhibitionMarginTotal votescast # % # % # % # % # % Anderson 607 30.40% 1,365 68.35% 23 1.15% 2 0.10% -758 -37.96% 1,997 Bedford 2,154 56.55% 1,470 38.59% 115 3.02% 70 1.84% 684 17.96% 3,809 Benton 1,001 55.46% 563 31.19% 241 13.35% 0 0.00% 438 24.27% 1,805 Bledsoe 505 40.76% 720 58.11% 12 0.97% 2 0.16% -215 -17.35% 1,239 Blount 821 28.36% 1,933 66.77% 64 2.21% 77 2.66% -1,112 -38.41% 2,895 Bradley 871 34.63% 1,522 60.52% 68 2.70% 54 2.15% -651 -25.88% 2,515 Campbell 513 24.19% 1,561 73.60% 42 1.98% 5 0.24% -1,048 -49.41% 2,121 Cannon 1,092 65.27% 514 30.72% 63 3.77% 4 0.24% 578 34.55% 1,673 Carroll 1,636 38.11% 2,051 47.78% 552 12.86% 54 1.26% -415 -9.67% 4,293 Carter 478 19.56% 1,877 76.80% 89 3.64% 0 0.00% -1,399 -57.24% 2,444 Cheatham 732 47.32% 242 15.64% 554 35.81% 19 1.23% 178"WeaverdHarrison" In this county where Weaver ran second ahead of Harrison, margin given is Cleveland vote minus Weaver vote and percentage margin Cleveland percentage minus Weaver percentage. 11.51% 1,547 Chester 738 49.13% 480 31.96% 267 17.78% 17 1.13% 258 17.18% 1,502 Claiborne 986 38.26% 1,437 55.76% 144 5.59% 10 0.39% -451 -17.50% 2,577 Clay 743 58.87% 391 30.98% 96 7.61% 32 2.54% 352 27.89% 1,262 Cocke 874 31.96% 1,831 66.95% 22 0.80% 8 0.29% -957 -34.99% 2,735 Coffee 1,415 64.14% 414 18.77% 297 13.46% 80 3.63% 1,001 45.38% 2,206 Crockett 1,271 53.14% 830 34.70% 261 10.91% 30 1.25% 441 18.44% 2,392 Cumberland 330 33.54% 632 64.23% 16 1.63% 6 0.61% -302 -30.69% 984 Davidson 8,480 69.14% 2,993 24.40% 394 3.21% 398 3.25% 5,487 44.74% 12,265 DeKalb 1,377 48.21% 1,283 44.92% 129 4.52% 67 2.35% 94 3.29% 2,856 Decatur 860 53.35% 667 41.38% 85 5.27% 0 0.00% 193 11.97% 1,612 Dickson 1,385 62.73% 494 22.37% 312 14.13% 17 0.77% 891 40.35% 2,208 Dyer 1,848 62.01% 487 16.34% 599 20.10% 46 1.54% 1,249"WeaverdHarrison" 41.91% 2,980 Fayette 2,167 71.71% 660 21.84% 191 6.32% 4 0.13% 1,507 49.87% 3,022 Fentress 223 24.86% 525 58.53% 149 16.61% 0 0.00% -302 -33.67% 897 Franklin 1,896 60.27% 577 18.34% 596 18.94% 77 2.45% 1,300"WeaverdHarrison" 41.32% 3,146 Gibson 3,085 55.90% 1,299 23.54% 924 16.74% 211 3.82% 1,786 32.36% 5,519 Giles 2,722 53.86% 1,551 30.69% 685 13.55% 96 1.90% 1,171 23.17% 5,054 Grainger 882 37.07% 1,342 56.41% 154 6.47% 1 0.04% -460 -19.34% 2,379 Greene 2,299 42.94% 2,745 51.27% 100 1.87% 210 3.92% -446 -8.33% 5,354 Grundy 779 73.56% 236 22.29% 26 2.46% 18 1.70% 543 51.27% 1,059 Hamblen 913 41.03% 1,164 52.31% 105 4.72% 43 1.93% -251 -11.28% 2,225 Hamilton 3,762 51.25% 3,196 43.54% 156 2.13% 226 3.08% 566 7.71% 7,340 Hancock 421 27.37% 971 63.13% 140 9.10% 6 0.39% -550 -35.76% 1,538 Hardeman 1,940 59.93% 789 24.37% 508 15.69% 0 0.00% 1,151 35.56% 3,237 Hardin 1,126 39.49% 1,537 53.91% 146 5.12% 42 1.47% -411 -14.42% 2,851 Hawkins 1,710 46.98% 1,847 50.74% 75 2.06% 8 0.22% -137 -3.76% 3,640 Haywood 1,676 65.52% 662 25.88% 220 8.60% 0 0.00% 1,014 39.64% 2,558 Henderson 1,044 40.48% 1,535 59.52% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -491 -19.04% 2,579 Henry 2,206 59.35% 963 25.91% 516 13.88% 32 0.86% 1,243 33.44% 3,717 Hickman 1,179 57.51% 554 27.02% 301 14.68% 16 0.78% 625 30.49% 2,050 Houston 704 69.98% 206 20.48% 83 8.25% 13 1.29% 498 49.50% 1,006 Humphreys 1,178 64.65% 243 13.34% 366 20.09% 35 1.92% 812"WeaverdHarrison" 44.57% 1,822 Jackson 1,382 63.19% 457 20.90% 346 15.82% 2 0.09% 925 42.30% 2,187 James 263 32.35% 518 63.71% 28 3.44% 4 0.49% -255 -31.37% 813 Jefferson 764 25.32% 2,058 68.21% 186 6.17% 9 0.30% -1,294 -42.89% 3,017 Johnson 209 14.91% 1,100 78.46% 13 0.93% 80 5.71% -891 -63.55% 1,402 Knox 3,987 46.82% 4,182 49.11% 140 1.64% 207 2.43% -195 -2.29% 8,516 Lake 468 90.35% 6 1.16% 32 6.18% 12 2.32% 436"WeaverdHarrison" 84.17% 518 Lauderdale 1,218 42.26% 967 33.55% 690 23.94% 7 0.24% 251 8.71% 2,882 Lawrence 1,231 58.23% 758 35.86% 86 4.07% 39 1.84% 473 22.37% 2,114 Lewis 231 63.81% 95 26.24% 34 9.39% 2 0.55% 136 37.57% 362 Lincoln 2,429 59.83% 590 14.53% 806 19.85% 235 5.79% 1,623"WeaverdHarrison" 39.98% 4,060 Loudon 491 31.04% 1,037 65.55% 10 0.63% 44 2.78% -546 -34.51% 1,582 Macon 648 35.31% 1,036 56.46% 151 8.23% 0 0.00% -388 -21.14% 1,835 Madison 2,569 64.65% 900 22.65% 468 11.78% 37 0.93% 1,669 42.00% 3,974 Marion 1,201 44.32% 1,457 53.76% 47 1.73% 5 0.18% -256 -9.45% 2,710 Marshall 2,185 64.36% 685 20.18% 402 11.84% 123 3.62% 1,500 44.18% 3,395 Maury 3,191 64.08% 1,357 27.25% 313 6.29% 119 2.39% 1,834 36.83% 4,980 McMinn 1,336 40.08% 1,842 55.27% 92 2.76% 63 1.89% -506 -15.18% 3,333 McNairy 1,132 41.28% 1,143 41.68% 458 16.70% 9 0.33% -11 -0.40% 2,742 Meigs 564 44.76% 561 44.52% 124 9.84% 11 0.87% 3 0.24% 1,260 Monroe 1,367 46.21% 1,414 47.80% 167 5.65% 10 0.34% -47 -1.59% 2,958 Montgomery 2,405 44.25% 1,927 35.46% 983 18.09% 120 2.21% 478 8.79% 5,435 Moore 717 69.75% 62 6.03% 213 20.72% 36 3.50% 504"WeaverdHarrison" 49.03% 1,028 Morgan 302 28.93% 681 65.23% 37 3.54% 24 2.30% -379 -36.30% 1,044 Obion 2,694 59.56% 771 17.05% 987 21.82% 71 1.57% 1,707"WeaverdHarrison" 37.74% 4,523 Overton 1,287 64.54% 586 29.39% 114 5.72% 7 0.35% 701 35.16% 1,994 Perry 710 61.69% 371 32.23% 68 5.91% 2 0.17% 339 29.45% 1,151 Pickett 398 47.78% 427 51.26% 0 0.00% 8 0.96% -29 -3.48% 833 Polk 656 46.59% 694 49.29% 58 4.12% 0 0.00% -38 -2.70% 1,408 Putnam 1,089 53.04% 682 33.22% 267 13.01% 15 0.73% 407 19.82% 2,053 Rhea 1,099 47.11% 1,163 49.85% 49 2.10% 22 0.94% -64 -2.74% 2,333 Roane 804 26.46% 1,795 59.08% 178 5.86% 261 8.59% -991 -32.62% 3,038 Robertson 1,938 53.04% 879 24.06% 604 16.53% 233 6.38% 1,059 28.98% 3,654 Rutherford 2,211 54.51% 1,210 29.83% 593 14.62% 42 1.04% 1,001 24.68% 4,056 Scott 156 10.86% 1,198 83.43% 76 5.29% 6 0.42% -1,042 -72.56% 1,436 Sequatchie 376 64.83% 189 32.59% 15 2.59% 0 0.00% 187 32.24% 580 Sevier 461 15.38% 2,463 82.18% 44 1.47% 29 0.97% -2,002 -66.80% 2,997 Shelby 6,307 81.67% 1,110 14.37% 277 3.59% 29 0.38% 5,197 67.29% 7,723 Smith 1,598 53.00% 847 28.09% 535 17.74% 35 1.16% 751 24.91% 3,015 Stewart 1,251 62.33% 387 19.28% 348 17.34% 21 1.05% 864 43.05% 2,007 Sullivan 2,281 58.17% 1,304 33.26% 239 6.10% 97 2.47% 977 24.92% 3,921 Sumner 2,121 58.74% 677 18.75% 775 21.46% 38 1.05% 1,346"WeaverdHarrison" 37.27% 3,611 Tipton 2,199 62.33% 690 19.56% 639 18.11% 0 0.00% 1,509 42.77% 3,528 Trousdale 622 64.06% 240 24.72% 106 10.92% 3 0.31% 382 39.34% 971 Unicoi 87 14.77% 500 84.89% 2 0.34% 0 0.00% -413 -70.12% 589 Union 457 23.99% 1,368 71.81% 79 4.15% 1 0.05% -911 -47.82% 1,905 Van Buren 360 73.17% 89 18.09% 36 7.32% 7 1.42% 271 55.08% 492 Warren 1,568 59.98% 633 24.22% 367 14.04% 46 1.76% 935 35.77% 2,614 Washington 1,722 43.20% 2,056 51.58% 44 1.10% 164 4.11% -334 -8.38% 3,986 Wayne 661 34.99% 1,156 61.20% 55 2.91% 17 0.90% -495 -26.20% 1,889 Weakley 2,648 53.15% 1,644 33.00% 578 11.60% 112 2.25% 1,004 20.15% 4,982 White 1,273 56.15% 539 23.78% 399 17.60% 56 2.47% 734 32.38% 2,267 Williamson 1,992 64.86% 575 18.72% 353 11.49% 151 4.92% 1,417 46.14% 3,071 Wilson 2,523 61.72% 1,142 27.94% 321 7.85% 102 2.50% 1,381 33.78% 4,088Totals136,46851.35%100,57737.84%23,9189.00%4,8091.81%35.89113.50%265,772 See also United States presidential elections in Tennessee 1892 Tennessee gubernatorial election Notes References 2 Tennessee 1892 Category:1892 Tennessee elections