1892 United States presidential election in New York

The 1892 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

1892 United States presidential election in New York

November 8, 1892
Turnout	86.3%[1] 6.0 pp
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Indiana Running mate Adlai E. Stevenson Whitelaw Reid Electoral vote 36 0 Popular vote 654,868 609,350 Percentage 48.99% 45.58%
County Results Cleveland   40-50%   50-60%   60-70% Harrison   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%
President before election Benjamin Harrison Republican Elected President Grover Cleveland Democratic

New York was won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate former Congressman and Assistant Postmaster General Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Cleveland and Stevenson defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and his running mate U.S. Ambassador to France Whitelaw Reid of Ohio.

Also running a significant campaign that year was the Populist Party candidate, Congressman James B. Weaver of Ohio with his running mate state attorney general James G. Field of Virginia, although Weaver's primarily Western-based campaign did not perform strongly in New York. Despite receiving 8.51% nationally and winning electoral votes from 6 states, Weaver finished in fifth place in New York State, with only 1.23% of the vote, behind fourth-place Socialist Labor candidate Simon Wing’s 1.34%.

Cleveland carried New York State with 48.99% of the vote to Harrison's 45.58%, a victory margin of 3.41%. In a distant third came the Prohibition Party candidate John Bidwell with 2.86%.

New York weighed in for this election as less than one percentage point more Democratic than the national average.

The Democratic win of New York’s electoral votes marked a personal comeback for Grover Cleveland in his home state, as he had narrowly won the state in his initial 1884 presidential campaign, but a narrow defeat here in 1888 had cost him the 1888 presidential election, partially the result of strong opposition to Cleveland from the Tammany Hall machine which dominated New York politics at the time.

Cleveland’s relatively narrow statewide victory relied heavily on a strong margin of victory in New York City, receiving more than 60% of the vote in New York County along with victories in Kings County, Queens County, and Richmond County. Cleveland also won nearby Westchester County and Rockland County. Harrison fared better upstate, where he won most counties, although Cleveland carried several upstate counties including Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, and Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany.

Results

1892 United States presidential election in New York[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Grover Cleveland	654,868	48.99%	36
	Republican	Benjamin Harrison	609,350	45.58%	0
	Prohibition	John Bidwell	38,190	2.86%	0
	Socialist Labor	Simon Wing	17,956	1.34%	0
	People's	James B. Weaver	16,429	1.23%	0
Totals			1,336,793	100.0%	36

Results by county

	Stephen Grover Cleveland[3] Democratic		Benjamin Harrison[3] Republican		John Bidwell[4] Prohibition		Simon Wing[4] Socialist Labor		James Baird Weaver[5] People’s		Margin		Total votes cast
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#
Albany	18,994	48.99%	18,398	47.46%	649	1.67%	366	0.94%	361	0.93%	596	1.54%	38,768
Allegany	3,128	28.73%	5,678	52.14%	1,042	9.57%	92	0.84%	949	8.72%	-2,550	-23.42%	10,889
Broome	6,040	38.29%	8,259	52.36%	1,088	6.90%	166	1.05%	220	1.39%	-2,219	-14.07%	15,773
Cattaraugus	5,753	38.09%	7,973	52.78%	761	5.04%	139	0.92%	479	3.17%	-2,220	-14.70%	15,105
Cayuga	5,999	38.80%	8,341	53.95%	712	4.61%	144	0.93%	265	1.71%	-2,342	-15.15%	15,461
Chautauqua	6,397	32.20%	11,595	58.37%	1,112	5.60%	189	0.95%	573	2.88%	-5,198	-26.17%	19,866
Chemung	4,661	41.71%	5,410	48.41%	537	4.81%	167	1.49%	400	3.58%	-749	-6.70%	11,175
Chenango	4,273	40.56%	5,378	51.04%	695	6.60%	68	0.65%	122	1.16%	-1,105	-10.49%	10,536
Clinton	4,773	47.03%	5,135	50.60%	112	1.10%	60	0.59%	69	0.68%	-362	-3.57%	10,149
Columbia	5,868	49.70%	5,384	45.60%	341	2.89%	110	0.93%	104	0.88%	484	4.10%	11,807
Cortland	2,907	37.67%	4,134	53.57%	488	6.32%	63	0.82%	125	1.62%	-1,227	-15.90%	7,717
Delaware	4,706	38.90%	6,421	53.07%	688	5.69%	137	1.13%	147	1.21%	-1,715	-14.17%	12,099
Dutchess	8,978	46.05%	9,376	48.09%	713	3.66%	209	1.07%	219	1.12%	-398	-2.04%	19,495
Erie	32,431	47.41%	32,340	47.28%	1,601	2.34%	862	1.26%	1,169	1.71%	91	0.13%	68,403
Essex	2,710	35.30%	4,636	60.39%	160	2.08%	88	1.15%	83	1.08%	-1,926	-25.09%	7,677
Franklin	2,999	33.93%	5,498	62.19%	199	2.25%	65	0.74%	79	0.89%	-2,499	-28.27%	8,840
Fulton	4,293	41.37%	5,368	51.72%	518	4.99%	103	0.99%	96	0.93%	-1,075	-10.36%	10,378
Genesee	3,250	39.40%	4,289	51.99%	456	5.53%	88	1.07%	166	2.01%	-1,039	-12.60%	8,249
Greene	3,771	45.89%	3,914	47.63%	307	3.74%	115	1.40%	110	1.34%	-143	-1.74%	8,217
Hamilton	480	47.11%	454	44.55%	34	3.34%	23	2.26%	28	2.75%	26	2.55%	1,019
Herkimer	5,526	44.37%	6,219	49.94%	425	3.41%	153	1.23%	131	1.05%	-693	-5.56%	12,454
Jefferson	7,181	39.57%	9,856	54.32%	780	4.30%	174	0.96%	155	0.85%	-2,675	-14.74%	18,146
Kings	100,160	56.78%	70,505	39.97%	2,472	1.40%	2,715	1.54%	533	0.30%	29,655	16.81%	176,385
Lewis	3,369	43.98%	3,965	51.76%	207	2.70%	63	0.82%	57	0.74%	-596	-7.78%	7,661
Livingston	3,672	39.18%	4,886	52.13%	439	4.68%	75	0.80%	301	3.21%	-1,214	-12.95%	9,373
Madison	4,054	35.50%	6,533	57.20%	545	4.77%	120	1.05%	169	1.48%	-2,479	-21.71%	11,421
Monroe	17,706	42.68%	21,327	51.41%	1,213	2.92%	548	1.32%	694	1.67%	-3,621	-8.73%	41,488
Montgomery	5,445	46.00%	5,727	48.38%	382	3.23%	138	1.17%	145	1.22%	-282	-2.38%	11,837
New York	175,267	61.50%	98,967	34.73%	2,439	0.86%	5,945	2.09%	2,366	0.83%	76,300	26.77%	284,984
Niagara	6,850	47.12%	6,663	45.83%	677	4.66%	161	1.11%	186	1.28%	187	1.29%	14,537
Oneida	13,552	45.64%	14,359	48.36%	1,054	3.55%	356	1.20%	373	1.26%	-807	-2.72%	29,694
Onondaga	14,900	41.50%	19,008	52.94%	1,115	3.11%	445	1.24%	436	1.21%	-4,108	-11.44%	35,904
Ontario	5,376	42.62%	6,319	50.10%	390	3.09%	115	0.91%	414	3.28%	-943	-7.48%	12,614
Orange	10,421	45.80%	11,081	48.70%	810	3.56%	217	0.95%	225	0.99%	-660	-2.90%	22,754
Orleans	3,065	39.94%	4,013	52.29%	469	6.11%	58	0.76%	69	0.90%	-948	-12.35%	7,674
Oswego	6,729	37.93%	10,012	56.44%	618	3.48%	173	0.98%	207	1.17%	-3,283	-18.51%	17,739
Otsego	6,408	44.70%	7,095	49.49%	620	4.32%	112	0.78%	101	0.70%	-687	-4.79%	14,336
Putnam	1,549	42.92%	1,846	51.15%	136	3.77%	35	0.97%	43	1.19%	-297	-8.23%	3,609
Queens	15,195	54.15%	11,704	41.71%	510	1.82%	425	1.51%	226	0.81%	3,491	12.44%	28,060
Rensselaer	14,879	49.69%	13,666	45.64%	830	2.77%	277	0.93%	290	0.97%	1,213	4.05%	29,942
Richmond	6,122	57.00%	4,091	38.09%	314	2.92%	128	1.19%	86	0.80%	2,031	18.91%	10,741
Rockland	3,789	53.42%	2,909	41.01%	270	3.81%	60	0.85%	65	0.92%	880	12.41%	7,093
Saratoga	5,755	40.40%	7,383	51.83%	743	5.22%	183	1.28%	180	1.26%	-1,628	-11.43%	14,244
Schenectady	4,081	50.66%	3,481	43.22%	284	3.53%	114	1.42%	95	1.18%	600	7.45%	8,055
Schoharie	4,531	55.28%	3,236	39.48%	302	3.68%	65	0.79%	63	0.77%	1,295	15.80%	8,197
Schuyler	1,486	34.15%	2,410	55.39%	292	6.71%	56	1.29%	107	2.46%	-924	-21.24%	4,351
Seneca	3,199	47.70%	3,112	46.40%	233	3.47%	73	1.09%	90	1.34%	87	1.30%	6,707
St. Lawrence	6,156	29.98%	13,177	64.17%	765	3.73%	157	0.76%	280	1.36%	-7,021	-34.19%	20,535
Steuben	8,307	39.74%	10,577	50.61%	1,191	5.70%	221	1.06%	605	2.89%	-2,270	-10.86%	20,901
Suffolk	6,274	44.17%	7,001	49.29%	637	4.48%	151	1.06%	140	0.99%	-727	-5.12%	14,203
Sullivan	3,567	47.00%	3,664	48.28%	207	2.73%	69	0.91%	82	1.08%	-97	-1.28%	7,589
Tioga	2,923	37.92%	4,221	54.76%	398	5.16%	68	0.88%	98	1.27%	-1,298	-16.84%	7,708
Tompkins	3,404	38.62%	4,717	53.52%	483	5.48%	81	0.92%	128	1.45%	-1,313	-14.90%	8,813
Ulster	9,808	48.04%	9,450	46.29%	715	3.50%	206	1.01%	236	1.16%	358	1.75%	20,415
Warren	2,655	39.03%	3,647	53.62%	319	4.69%	67	0.99%	114	1.68%	-992	-14.58%	6,802
Washington	3,731	32.70%	6,794	59.54%	595	5.21%	129	1.13%	161	1.41%	-3,063	-26.84%	11,410
Wayne	4,618	37.77%	6,848	56.01%	481	3.93%	119	0.97%	161	1.32%	-2,230	-18.24%	12,227
Westchester	16,088	51.70%	13,436	43.18%	908	2.92%	339	1.09%	348	1.12%	2,652	8.52%	31,119
Wyoming	2,948	37.01%	4,430	55.61%	387	4.86%	54	0.68%	147	1.85%	-1,482	-18.60%	7,966
Yates	1,711	31.33%	3,014	55.18%	322	5.90%	57	1.04%	358	6.55%	-1,303	-23.86%	5,462
Totals	654,868	48.99%	609,330	45.58%	38,190	2.86%	17,956	1.34%	16,429	1.23%	45,538	3.41%	1,336,773

See also

• United States presidential elections in New York
• Grover Cleveland's second term as President of the United States

References

1. Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
2. "1892 Presidential Election Results - New York". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
3. Géoelections; 1892 Presidential Election Popular Vote (xlsx file for €15)
4. Géoelections; Popular Vote for John Bidwell (xlsx file for €15)
5. Géoelections; Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (xlsx file for €15)