1892 United States presidential election

The **1892 United States presidential election** was the 27th presidential election in the United States. It happened on November 8, 1892. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate and former President of the United States, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president, Benjamin Harrison, and the third-party candidate James B. Weaver, a former Congressman from Iowa, who ran as a member of the Populist Party.

### Democratic Party

|style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"|Grover Cleveland|style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"|Adlai Stevenson I|
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|colspan="30" style="background:#f1f1f1;"|<big>**1892 Democratic Party ticket**</big>|||
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#### Presidential

- Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States from New York <small>(1885-1889) _(Nominee)_</small>
- David B. Hill, U.S. senator from New York <small>(1885-1889)</small>
- Horace Boies, U.S. senator from Iowa <small>(1890-1894)</small>

#### Vice-Presidential

- Adlai E. Stevenson, former Congressman from Illinois <small>(1875-1877; 1879-1881) _(Vice-Presidential Nominee)_</small>
- Isaac P. Gray, 18th and 20th Governor of Indiana <small>(1880-1881; 1885-1889)</small>
- Allen B. Morse, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court <small>(1885-1892)</small>
- John L. Mitchell, Congressman from Wisconsin <small>(1891-1893)</small>

### Republican Party

|style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#E81B23; width:200px;"|Benjamin Harrison|style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#E81B23; width:200px;"|Whitelaw Reid|
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|colspan="30" style="background:#f1f1f1;"|<big>**1892 Republican Party ticket**</big>|||
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- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from Indiana <small>(1889-1893) _(Nominee)_</small>
- William McKinley, 39th Governor of Ohio <small>(1892-1896) _(Draft Effort)_</small>
- James G. Blaine, 31st United States Secretary of State from Maine <small>(1881; 1889-1892) _(1884 Nominee) (Draft Effort)_</small>
- John Sherman, U.S. senator of Ohio <small>(1861-1877; 1881-1897) _(Draft Effort)_</small>

### Populist Party

|style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#008000; width:200px;"|James B. Weaver|style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#008000; width:200px;"|James G. Field|
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|colspan="30" style="background:#f1f1f1;"|<big>**1892 People's Party ticket**</big>|||
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|U.S. Representative for IA-06 <small>(1879–1881 & 1885–1889)</small>|13th Attorney General of Virginia <small>(1877–1882)</small>|||
- James B. Weaver, former Congressman from Iowa <small>(1879-1881; 1885-1889) _(Nominee)_</small>
- James H. Kyle, U.S. senator of South Dakota <small>(1891-1901)</small>
- Leonidas L. Polk, former North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture <small>(1877-1880) (Co-Founder of Populist Party) _(Died on June 11, 1892)_</small>
- Walter Q. Gresham, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit <small>(1891-1893)</small>

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 1892 United States presidential election
- **country**: United States
- **type**: presidential
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 1888 United States presidential election
- **previous year**: 1888
- **next election**: 1896 United States presidential election
- **next year**: 1896
- **votes for election**: 444 members of the Electoral College (United States), Electoral College
- **needed votes**: 223 electoral
- **turnout**: 75.8%  4.7 percentage point, pp
- **election date**: November 8, 1892
- **image1**: Sarony, Napoleon, (Stephen) Grover Cleveland cropped.jpg
- **image size**: x160px
- **nominee1**: **Grover Cleveland**
- **party1**: Democratic Party (United States)
- **home state1**: New York (state), New York
- **running mate1**: **Adlai Stevenson I**
- **electoral vote1**: **277**
- **states carried1**: **23**
- **popular vote1**: **5,556,918**
- **percentage1**: **46.0%**
- **image2**: Benjamin Harrison (official Presidential portrait, 1895) crop1.jpg
- **nominee2**: Benjamin Harrison
- **party2**: Republican Party (United States)
- **home state2**: Indiana
- **running mate2**: Whitelaw Reid
- **electoral vote2**: 145
- **states carried2**: 16
- **popular vote2**: 5,176,108
- **percentage2**: 43.0%
- **image3**: James B. Weaver 1892 (cropped).jpg
- **nominee3**: James B. Weaver
- **party3**: People's Party (United States), Populist
- **home state3**: Iowa
- **running mate3**: James G. Field
- **electoral vote3**: 13
- **states carried3**: 5
- **popular vote3**: 1,041,028
- **percentage3**: 8.5%
- **map image**: File:ElectoralCollege1892.svg
- **map size**: 350px
- **map caption**: Presidential election results map. <span style="color:red;">Red</span> denotes states won by Harrison/Reid, <span style="color:blue;">blue</span> denotes those won by Cleveland/Stevenson, <span style="color:green;">green</span> denotes Wisconsin, the state won by Weaver/Field Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
- **title**: President
- **before election**: Benjamin Harrison
- **before party**: Republican Party (United States)
- **after election**: Grover Cleveland
- **after party**: Democratic Party (United States)