1892 United States presidential election in Mississippi
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The 1892 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
This election arguably marked the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi, with voter turnout plunging by over half following the introduction of poll taxes in the state two years prior.
Mississippi was won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. However, Weaver performed well in the South as he won counties in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. Weaver's win in Chickasaw County was the last time a Democrat lost any county in Mississippi in a statewide election until Herbert Hoover won the Pine Belt counties of Pearl River, Stone[a] and George[b] in 1928.[1]
Results
1892 United States presidential election in Mississippi[2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Grover Cleveland | 40,030 | 76.22% | 9 | |
People's | James Weaver | 10,118 | 19.27% | 0 | |
Republican | Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) | 1,398 | 2.66% | 0 | |
Prohibition | John Bidwell | 973 | 1.85% | 0 | |
Totals | 52,519 | 100.00% | 9 | ||
Voter turnout | — |
Results by county
County | Stephen Grover Cleveland[3] Democratic |
Benjamin Harrison[3] Republican |
James Baird Weaver[4] People's |
John Bidwell[5] Prohibition |
Margin[c] | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 474 | 81.72% | 82 | 14.14% | 14 | 2.41% | 10 | 1.72% | 392[d] | 67.59% | 580 |
Alcorn | 690 | 89.38% | 52 | 6.74% | 20 | 2.59% | 10 | 1.30% | 638[d] | 82.64% | 772 |
Amite | 576 | 74.51% | 9 | 1.16% | 180 | 23.29% | 8 | 1.03% | 396 | 51.23% | 773 |
Attala | 756 | 58.29% | 13 | 1.00% | 515 | 39.71% | 13 | 1.00% | 241 | 18.58% | 1,297 |
Benton | 423 | 78.04% | 62 | 11.44% | 37 | 6.83% | 20 | 3.69% | 361[d] | 66.61% | 542 |
Bolivar | 234 | 79.32% | 25 | 8.47% | 23 | 7.80% | 13 | 4.41% | 209[d] | 70.85% | 295 |
Calhoun | 613 | 67.21% | 5 | 0.55% | 285 | 31.25% | 9 | 0.99% | 328 | 35.96% | 912 |
Carroll | 624 | 59.77% | 22 | 2.11% | 377 | 36.11% | 21 | 2.01% | 247 | 23.66% | 1,044 |
Chickasaw | 332 | 42.56% | 73 | 9.36% | 368 | 47.18% | 7 | 0.90% | -36 | -4.62% | 780 |
Choctaw | 389 | 52.93% | 19 | 2.59% | 312 | 42.45% | 15 | 2.04% | 77 | 10.48% | 735 |
Claiborne | 425 | 87.63% | 7 | 1.44% | 43 | 8.87% | 10 | 2.06% | 382 | 78.76% | 485 |
Clarke | 628 | 83.29% | 2 | 0.27% | 108 | 14.32% | 16 | 2.12% | 520 | 68.97% | 754 |
Clay | 523 | 84.49% | 6 | 0.97% | 89 | 14.38% | 1 | 0.16% | 434 | 70.11% | 619 |
Coahoma | 272 | 79.77% | 33 | 9.68% | 36 | 10.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 236 | 69.21% | 341 |
Copiah | 1,041 | 65.31% | 17 | 1.07% | 494 | 30.99% | 42 | 2.63% | 547 | 34.32% | 1,594 |
Covington | 238 | 82.07% | 9 | 3.10% | 36 | 12.41% | 7 | 2.41% | 202 | 69.66% | 290 |
De Soto | 478 | 77.85% | 18 | 2.93% | 98 | 15.96% | 20 | 3.26% | 380 | 61.89% | 614 |
Franklin | 314 | 60.97% | 10 | 1.94% | 178 | 34.56% | 13 | 2.52% | 136 | 26.41% | 515 |
Greene | 181 | 89.60% | 9 | 4.46% | 12 | 5.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 169 | 83.66% | 202 |
Grenada | 400 | 88.50% | 2 | 0.44% | 47 | 10.40% | 3 | 0.66% | 353 | 78.10% | 452 |
Hancock | 256 | 89.82% | 11 | 3.86% | 11 | 3.86% | 7 | 2.46% | 245 | 85.96% | 285 |
Harrison | 360 | 85.11% | 10 | 2.36% | 39 | 9.22% | 14 | 3.31% | 321 | 75.89% | 423 |
Hinds | 1,216 | 86.00% | 68 | 4.81% | 92 | 6.51% | 38 | 2.69% | 1,124 | 79.49% | 1,414 |
Holmes | 641 | 74.36% | 23 | 2.67% | 176 | 20.42% | 22 | 2.55% | 465 | 53.94% | 862 |
Issaquena | 119 | 82.07% | 25 | 17.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.69% | 94[d] | 64.83% | 145 |
Itawamba | 794 | 70.64% | 16 | 1.42% | 297 | 26.42% | 17 | 1.51% | 497 | 44.22% | 1,124 |
Jackson | 453 | 90.06% | 16 | 3.18% | 20 | 3.98% | 14 | 2.78% | 433 | 86.08% | 503 |
Jasper | 675 | 90.48% | 3 | 0.40% | 64 | 8.58% | 4 | 0.54% | 611 | 81.90% | 746 |
Jefferson | 413 | 93.02% | 20 | 4.50% | 7 | 1.58% | 4 | 0.90% | 393[d] | 88.51% | 444 |
Jones | 390 | 78.16% | 8 | 1.60% | 91 | 18.24% | 10 | 2.00% | 299 | 59.92% | 499 |
Kemper | 651 | 73.73% | 27 | 3.06% | 198 | 22.42% | 7 | 0.79% | 453 | 51.30% | 883 |
Lafayette | 866 | 79.45% | 48 | 4.40% | 156 | 14.31% | 20 | 1.83% | 710 | 65.14% | 1,090 |
Lauderdale | 1,366 | 77.09% | 24 | 1.35% | 356 | 20.09% | 26 | 1.47% | 1,010 | 57.00% | 1,772 |
Lawrence | 386 | 66.55% | 36 | 6.21% | 145 | 25.00% | 13 | 2.24% | 241 | 41.55% | 580 |
Leake | 708 | 65.01% | 15 | 1.38% | 346 | 31.77% | 20 | 1.84% | 362 | 33.24% | 1,089 |
Lee | 749 | 67.48% | 7 | 0.63% | 348 | 31.35% | 6 | 0.54% | 401 | 36.13% | 1,110 |
Leflore | 339 | 97.41% | 3 | 0.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 1.72% | 336[d] | 96.55% | 348 |
Lincoln | 454 | 66.08% | 36 | 5.24% | 137 | 19.94% | 60 | 8.73% | 317 | 46.14% | 687 |
Lowndes | 666 | 95.83% | 4 | 0.58% | 18 | 2.59% | 7 | 1.01% | 648 | 93.24% | 695 |
Madison | 695 | 93.79% | 8 | 1.08% | 32 | 4.32% | 6 | 0.81% | 663 | 89.47% | 741 |
Marion | 263 | 74.29% | 2 | 0.56% | 88 | 24.86% | 1 | 0.28% | 175 | 49.44% | 354 |
Marshall | 1,097 | 85.97% | 22 | 1.72% | 120 | 9.40% | 37 | 2.90% | 977 | 76.57% | 1,276 |
Monroe | 1,073 | 85.36% | 24 | 1.91% | 132 | 10.50% | 28 | 2.23% | 941 | 74.86% | 1,257 |
Montgomery | 674 | 80.14% | 7 | 0.83% | 146 | 17.36% | 14 | 1.66% | 528 | 62.78% | 841 |
Neshoba | 589 | 71.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 239 | 28.83% | 1 | 0.12% | 350 | 42.22% | 829 |
Newton | 758 | 84.13% | 3 | 0.33% | 126 | 13.98% | 14 | 1.55% | 632 | 70.14% | 901 |
Noxubee | 492 | 91.28% | 2 | 0.37% | 44 | 8.16% | 1 | 0.19% | 448 | 83.12% | 539 |
Oktibbeha | 595 | 94.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 25 | 3.97% | 9 | 1.43% | 570 | 90.62% | 629 |
Panola | 624 | 67.97% | 24 | 2.61% | 248 | 27.02% | 22 | 2.40% | 376 | 40.96% | 918 |
Pearl River | 137 | 95.80% | 2 | 1.40% | 3 | 2.10% | 1 | 0.70% | 134 | 93.71% | 143 |
Perry | 202 | 84.87% | 1 | 0.42% | 28 | 11.76% | 7 | 2.94% | 174 | 73.11% | 238 |
Pike | 744 | 83.50% | 35 | 3.93% | 101 | 11.34% | 11 | 1.23% | 643 | 72.17% | 891 |
Pontotoc | 461 | 50.00% | 9 | 0.98% | 437 | 47.40% | 15 | 1.63% | 24 | 2.60% | 922 |
Prentiss | 633 | 67.48% | 51 | 5.44% | 246 | 26.23% | 8 | 0.85% | 387 | 41.26% | 938 |
Quitman | 71 | 75.53% | 14 | 14.89% | 3 | 3.19% | 6 | 6.38% | 57[d] | 60.64% | 94 |
Rankin | 748 | 83.11% | 55 | 6.11% | 75 | 8.33% | 22 | 2.44% | 673 | 74.78% | 900 |
Scott | 487 | 77.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 138 | 21.94% | 4 | 0.64% | 349 | 55.48% | 629 |
Sharkey | 135 | 84.38% | 13 | 8.13% | 7 | 4.38% | 5 | 3.13% | 122[d] | 76.25% | 160 |
Simpson | 332 | 67.89% | 4 | 0.82% | 149 | 30.47% | 4 | 0.82% | 183 | 37.42% | 489 |
Smith | 547 | 79.39% | 12 | 1.74% | 113 | 16.40% | 17 | 2.47% | 434 | 62.99% | 689 |
Sunflower | 213 | 97.26% | 3 | 1.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 1.37% | 210[d] | 95.89% | 219 |
Tallahatchie | 425 | 84.49% | 8 | 1.59% | 61 | 12.13% | 9 | 1.79% | 364 | 72.37% | 503 |
Tate | 801 | 73.49% | 28 | 2.57% | 248 | 22.75% | 13 | 1.19% | 553 | 50.73% | 1,090 |
Tippah | 755 | 72.46% | 85 | 8.16% | 194 | 18.62% | 8 | 0.77% | 561 | 53.84% | 1,042 |
Tishomingo | 612 | 82.15% | 58 | 7.79% | 63 | 8.46% | 12 | 1.61% | 549 | 73.69% | 745 |
Tunica | 124 | 82.67% | 13 | 8.67% | 9 | 6.00% | 4 | 2.67% | 111[d] | 74.00% | 150 |
Union | 721 | 61.36% | 14 | 1.19% | 420 | 35.74% | 20 | 1.70% | 301 | 25.62% | 1,175 |
Warren | 631 | 88.87% | 28 | 3.94% | 37 | 5.21% | 14 | 1.97% | 594 | 83.66% | 710 |
Washington | 600 | 94.94% | 20 | 3.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 12 | 1.90% | 580[d] | 91.77% | 632 |
Wayne | 390 | 87.05% | 6 | 1.34% | 48 | 10.71% | 4 | 0.89% | 342 | 76.34% | 448 |
Webster | 414 | 50.43% | 16 | 1.95% | 383 | 46.65% | 8 | 0.97% | 31 | 3.78% | 821 |
Wilkinson | 258 | 93.48% | 6 | 2.17% | 8 | 2.90% | 4 | 1.45% | 250 | 90.58% | 276 |
Winston | 357 | 59.80% | 4 | 0.67% | 225 | 37.69% | 11 | 1.84% | 132 | 22.11% | 597 |
Yalobusha | 715 | 75.03% | 12 | 1.26% | 210 | 22.04% | 16 | 1.68% | 505 | 52.99% | 953 |
Yazoo | 738 | 86.42% | 3 | 0.35% | 111 | 13.00% | 2 | 0.23% | 627 | 73.42% | 854 |
Totals | 40,224 | 76.06% | 1,467 | 2.77% | 10,290 | 19.46% | 907 | 1.71% | 29,934 | 56.60% | 52,888 |
Notes
- ^ At the time of the 1892 election, Stone County was the northern part of Harrison County.
- ^ At the time of the 1892 election, what has been since 1910 George County was the northern part of Jackson County and the southern part of Greene County.
- ^ Because Cleveland and Weaver ran in the top two places in Mississippi as a whole, margins given are Cleveland vote minus Weaver vote and Cleveland percentage minus Weaver percentage unless states otherwise.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l In this county where Harrison did run second ahead of Weaver, margin given is Cleveland vote minus Harrison vote and percentage margin Cleveland percentage minus Harrison percentage.
References
- ^ Menendez; Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 233-236 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Mississippi
- ^ a b Géoelections; Presidential election of 1892 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for John Bidwell (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)