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The American Political Almanac
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The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
✓ Won
Grover Cleveland
Democrat
Grover Cleveland
277
Electoral votes
46.0% · 5,571,328
President · Reconstruction & the Gilded Age

1892

Cleveland def. Harrison, 277–145
vote totals summed from county returns
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
Benjamin Harrison
145
Electoral votes
43.0% · 5,204,151
James B. Weaver
Populist
James B. Weaver
8.5% of the vote · 22 electoral votes
Electoral college — 223 to win (444 electors)277 D · 145 R · 22 other
Popular vote — a three-cornered race46.0% · 43.0% · other 11.0% · margin D+3.0

12,204,372 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 2 counties whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
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R+40D+40third party won

Grey states were carried by a third-party ticket — the two-party margin shading does not apply there.

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Kansas, Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1888 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

Drawing three thousand counties…

R+40D+40no returns

Who voted for whom? The survey record begins with the 1948 ANES — there is no comparable individual-level account of the 1892 electorate.

Notes on this election

  • Weaver's Populists carried five Western states — the strongest third-party EV showing between 1860 and 1912. Cleveland's non-consecutive comeback.