1892 United States presidential election

President of the United States

**November 8, 1892**

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## Overview

**Nominee**
**Grover Cleveland**
Benjamin Harrison

**Political party**
Democratic
Republican

**State**
New York
Indiana

**Running mate**
**Adlai Stevenson I**
Whitelaw Reid

**Electoral vote**
**277**
145

**Popular vote**
**5,556,918**
5,176,108

**Percentage**
**46.0%**
43.0%

**Nominee**
James B. Weaver
John Bidwell

**Political party**
Populist
Prohibition

**State**
Iowa
California

**Running mate**
James G. Field
James B. Cranfill

**Electoral vote**
22
0

**Popular vote**
1,041,028
270,879

**Percentage**
8.5%
2.2%

## Results

Blue denotes states won by Cleveland/Stevenson, red denotes those won by Harrison/Reid, and green denotes those won by Weaver/Field

### Elected President

Benjamin Harrison
Republican
Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The **1892 United States presidential election** was the 27th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1892. In a rematch of the closely contested 1888 presidential election, former Democratic President Grover Cleveland defeated incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison. The Populist Party nominated James B. Weaver, and the Prohibition Party nominated John Bidwell. Cleveland's victory made him the first person in American history to be elected to a non-consecutive second presidential term. It was also the first time incumbents were defeated in consecutive elections. Additionally, this election was the second time an elected president lost the popular vote twice, the first being John Quincy Adams in the 1820s. This was not repeated until Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020.

## Results

The margin in the popular vote for Cleveland was 400,000, the largest since Ulysses S. Grant's re-election in 1872. The Democrats won the presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1856. President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote.

At the county level, Cleveland fared much better than Harrison. The Republicans' vote was not nearly as widespread as the Democrats'. It was still a sectionally based party mainly situated in the East, Midwest, and West and was barely visible south of the Mason–Dixon line. In the South, the party was holding on in only a few counties. In East Tennessee and tidewater Virginia, the vote at the county level showed some strength, but it barely existed in Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas.

The election witnessed many states splitting their electoral votes. Electors from Michigan were selected using the congressional district method (the winner in each congressional district wins one electoral vote, the winner of the state wins two electoral votes). This resulted in a split between the Republican and Democratic electors: nine for Harrison and five for Cleveland. In Oregon, the direct election of presidential electors combined with the fact that one Weaver elector was endorsed by the Democratic Party and elected as a Fusionist, resulted in a split between the Republican and Populist electors: three for Harrison and one for Weaver. In California, the direct election of presidential electors combined with the close race resulted in a split between the Republican and Democratic electors: eight for Cleveland and one for Harrison. In Ohio, the direct election of presidential electors combined with the close race resulted in a split between the Republican and Democratic electors: 22 for Harrison and one for Cleveland. In North Dakota, two electors from the Democratic-Populist Fusion ticket won and one Republican Elector won. This created a split delegation of electors: one for Weaver, one for Harrison, and one for Cleveland.