1892 United States presidential election in Nevada

none June 2025 September 2023 1892 United States presidential election 1892 United States presidential election in Nevada Nevada 1905 presidential no 1888 United States presidential election in Nevada 1888 1896 United States presidential election in Nevada 1896 November 8, 1892 x160px James B. Weaver 1892 (cropped).jpg James B. Weaver Populist Party (United States) Silver Party Iowa James G. Field 3 7,264 66.78% Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) Indiana Whitelaw Reid 0 2,811 25.84% StephenGroverCleveland.jpg Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) New York Adlai Stevenson I 0 714 6.56% 1892 United States presidential election in Nevada results map by county.svg x275px County results Weaver #73d873 50–60% #42ca42 60–70% #30a630 70–80% #217821 80–90% #165016 90–100% Harrison #f2b3be 40–50% President Benjamin Harrison Republican Party (United States) Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) The 1892 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Nevada was won by the Populist nominees, James B. Weaver of Iowa and his running mate James G. Field of Virginia. Weaver and Field defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and his running mate Whitelaw Reid of New York. The state constituted the Populist Party's highest margin of victory in the election. The state would not vote against a winning Democrat again until 1976. Campaign The Nevada Democratic Party passed a resolution at its convention on May 26, 1892, stating that it would not support the party's presidential nominee if the convention did not select a free silver candidate. A majority of the party supported People's nominee James B. Weaver while a minority ran electors pledged to Grover Cleveland.Knoles 1971 182-183 On June 24, the Silver Party of Nevada was formed at a convention in Reno. The party passed a free silver platform and selected presidential electors that were to give their votes to a free silver candidate. On September 15, the party voted to have its Nevada presidential electors support the Populists.Knoles 1971 182 The Nevada Republican Party held a convention on August 30, to select its presidential electors. Party chair Enoch Strother and 49 delegates left the convention after a caucus showed free silver delegates held a majority. These delegates nominated electors pledged to Harrison while the 85 silver delegates endorsed the Silver Party's electors.Knoles 1971 182 Results + General Election ResultsNevada State Archives, Abstract of the votes cast at the General Election held in the State of Nevada on the eighth day of November AD 1892 for Presidential ElectorsParty Pledged to Elector Votes People's Party James B. Weaver C. C. Powning7,264 People's Party James B. Weaver M. S. Bonnifield7,255 People's Party James B. Weaver Thomas Wren7,226 Republican Party Benjamin Harrison A. C. Cleveland2,811 Republican Party Benjamin Harrison D. L. Bliss2,811 Republican Party Benjamin Harrison J. R. Farrell2,788 Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Joseph R. Ryan714 Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Theodore Winters703 Democratic Party Grover Cleveland B. F. Reilly689 Prohibition Party John Bidwell Charles F. Moore89 Prohibition Party John Bidwell Abram Banta86 Prohibition Party John Bidwell William Wilson86Votes castBased on totals for highest elector on each ticket 10,878 Results by county James B. WeaverPeople's Benjamin HarrisonRepublican Grover ClevelandDemocratic John BidwellProhibition MarginBecause Weaver and Harrison and ran in the top two places in Nevada and in every county within the state, all margins given are Weaver vote minus Harrison vote and Weaver percentage minus Harrison percentage. Total votes castBased on highest elector on each ticket County # % # % # % # % # %Churchill12967.54%5729.84%42.09%10.52%7237.70%191Douglas15739.75%19649.62%369.11%61.52%-39-9.87%395Elko89276.57%21818.71%494.21%60.52%67457.85%1,165Esmeralda39478.96%8416.83%193.81%20.40%31062.12%499Eureka70691.33%486.21%101.29%91.16%65885.12%773Humboldt71489.25%546.75%273.38%50.63%66082.50%800Lander43783.40%529.92%305.73%50.95%38573.47%524Lincoln41376.48%9918.33%264.81%20.37%31458.15%540Lyon40367.73%15225.55%366.05%40.67%25142.18%595Nye23891.19%145.36%72.68%20.77%22485.82%261Ormsby40647.10%41748.38%313.60%80.93%-11-1.28%862Storey1,18953.78%81937.04%1968.86%70.32%37016.73%2,211Washoe83451.23%53032.56%23514.43%291.78%30418.67%1,628White Pine35281.11%7116.36%81.84%30.69%28164.75%434Totals7,26466.78%2,81125.84%7146.56%890.82%4,45340.94%10,878 Counties that flipped from Republican to Populist Churchill Elko Esmeralda Eureka Humboldt Lander Lincoln Lyon Nye Storey Washoe White Pine See also United States presidential elections in Nevada Notes References Works cited Knoles George The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1892 Stanford University Press 1971 https://archive.org/details/presidentialcamp0000knol 040450969X Nevada 1892 Category:1892 Nevada elections