United States presidential election, 1888 | Wikipedia audio article
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United States presidential election, 1888


00:01:42 1 Nominations
00:01:51 1.1 Democratic Party nomination
00:03:12 1.2 Republican Party nomination
00:04:38 1.3 Prohibition Party nomination
00:04:55 1.3.1 Candidates gallery
00:05:28 1.4 Union Labor Party nomination
00:06:31 1.5 United Labor Party nomination
00:07:14 1.6 Greenback Party
00:08:43 1.7 American Party nomination
00:09:40 1.8 Equal Rights Party nomination
00:10:11 1.9 Industrial Reform Party nomination
00:10:46 2 General election campaign
00:10:56 2.1 Issues
00:12:46 2.2 Blocks of Five
00:14:19 2.3 Murchison letter
00:15:16 3 Election results
00:18:38 3.1 Geography of results
00:18:48 3.1.1 Cartographic gallery
00:18:56 3.2 Results by state
00:19:19 3.3 Close states
00:20:47 4 In popular culture
00:21:14 5 See also



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The United States presidential election of 1888 was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former Senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland of New York. It was the third of five U.S. presidential elections in which the winner did not win a plurality or majority of the national popular vote.
Cleveland, the first Democratic president since the American Civil War, was unanimously re-nominated at the 1888 Democratic National Convention. He was the first incumbent president to win re-nomination since Grant was nominated to a second term in 1872. Harrison, the grandson of former President William Henry Harrison, emerged as the Republican nominee on the eighth ballot of the 1888 Republican National Convention. He defeated other prominent party leaders such as Senator John Sherman and former Governor Russell Alger.
Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election, as Cleveland had proposed a dramatic reduction in tariffs, arguing that high tariffs were unfair to consumers. Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high. Cleveland's opposition to Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers. On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states, and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps.
Cleveland won a plurality of the popular vote, but Harrison won the election with a majority in the Electoral College. Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest, and narrowly carried the swing states of New York and Indiana.