1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

The 1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1892, as part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Wisconsin voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1892 United States presidential election in Wisconsin

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Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Indiana
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid
Electoral vote 12 0
Popular vote 177,335 170,846
Percentage 47.75% 46.01%

County Results

President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Democratic Party candidate Grover Cleveland won Wisconsin with 47.75% of the popular vote, winning the state's twelve electoral votes.[1] This was the closest presidential election in Wisconsin to that point and would retain that distinction until 1976

As a result of his win, Cleveland became the first Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win Wisconsin. No Democrat would win Wisconsin again until Woodrow Wilson in 1912. This marked the first occasion in which Wisconsin voted for a different candidate than Iowa, a phenomenon that has only occurred five more times since — 1924, 1940, 1976, 2004, and 2020. Along with California, and Illinois, Wisconsin is one of the three states that Cleveland lost in both 1884 and 1888 but won in 1892.

Cleveland was the first Democrat to ever win Forest County, Green Lake County, Juneau County, Kenosha County, Marinette County, and Oconto County. He was also the first Democrat since Pierce in 1852 to carry La Crosse County, Portage County, and Winnebago County. Many of the counties that Cleveland won in this election would not vote Democratic again until 1912. However, Juneau County, Marinette County, Oconto County, and Oneida County would not vote for a Democrat again until 1932.

This was the first of only three elections in which Adams County has backed the statewide loser.[a] After this election, Portage County remained the only original county from statehood to have backed the winner in every election, a streak that would last until 1916.

Results

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General Election Results[2][b]
Party Pledged to Elector Votes
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Gustav Wollaeger 177,335
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Robert J. MacBride 177,314
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Andrew Jensen 177,307
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Henry B. Schwin 177,293
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Ferdinand T. Yahr 177,291
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Michael Johnson 177,283
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland John Montgomery Smith 177,282
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland John Black 177,281
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland James J. Hogan 177,221
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland William F. Cirkel 177,180
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Lewis S. Bailey 177,171
Democratic Party Grover Cleveland John Wattawa 177,053
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Ole Larson 170,846
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison John Pritzlaff 170,791
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison John F. Bruss 170,786
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Frederick W. Coon 170,765
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Samuel W. Reese 170,745
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Eli Hawks 170,741
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Robert L. D. Potter 170,740
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Christian S. Otjen 170,726
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Tosten I. Gilbert 170,717
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Edward H. Winchester 170,684
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison William H. Hatton 170,677
Republican Party Benjamin Harrison Jerome F. Coe 170,525
Prohibition Party John Bidwell Sofas C. Miller 13,132
Prohibition Party John Bidwell James N. Crawford 13,124
Prohibition Party John Bidwell Warren C. Jones 13,120
Prohibition Party John Bidwell James S. Thompson 13,118
Prohibition Party John Bidwell William Drake 13,117
Prohibition Party John Bidwell John C. Plumb 13,117
Prohibition Party John Bidwell Thorvild K. Thorvildson 13,116
Prohibition Party John Bidwell Jacob O. Lindham 13,113
Prohibition Party John Bidwell W. W. Link 13,113
Prohibition Party John Bidwell John H. Peoberthy 13,113
Prohibition Party John Bidwell Norman H. Brokaw 13,109
Prohibition Party John Bidwell Oliver H. Crowl 13,104
People's Party James B. Weaver Peter Haan 9,909
People's Party James B. Weaver Nathan E. Moody 9,829
People's Party James B. Weaver Nelson E. Allen 9,825
People's Party James B. Weaver William Schwartz 9,818
People's Party James B. Weaver Samuel Smith 9,816
People's Party James B. Weaver George C. Chaffee 9,813
People's Party James B. Weaver James W. Godfrey 9,813
People's Party James B. Weaver William Campbell 9,810
People's Party James B. Weaver Anson B. Severence 9,803
People's Party James B. Weaver George W. Jackson 9,801
People's Party James B. Weaver Ernest Pagel 9,799
People's Party James B. Weaver Llewellyn Sutliff 9,791
Write-in Scattering 2
Blank 127
Votes cast[c] 371,351

Results by county

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County[2] Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
John Bidwell
Prohibition
James B. Weaver
Populist
Margin Total votes cast[d]
# % # % # % # % # %
Adams 402 28.49% 972 68.89% 22 1.56% 15 1.06% -570 -40.40% 1,411
Ashland 2,436 49.75% 2,265 46.26% 139 2.84% 56 1.14% 171 3.49% 4,896
Barron 767 24.20% 1,818 57.35% 194 6.12% 390 12.30% -1,051 -33.15% 3,170[e]
Bayfield 1,349 46.44% 1,467 50.50% 61 2.10% 28 0.96% -118 -4.06% 2,905
Brown 3,653 54.26% 2,855 42.41% 180 2.67% 44 0.65% 798 11.85% 6,732
Buffalo 1,393 45.24% 1,523 49.46% 60 1.95% 103 3.35% -130 -4.22% 3,079
Burnett 55 7.68% 406 56.70% 163 22.77% 92 12.85% -243[f] -33.93% 716
Calumet 1,863 64.67% 909 31.55% 26 0.90% 83 2.88% 954 33.11% 2,881
Chippewa 2,530 50.57% 1,975 39.48% 182 3.64% 316 6.32% 555 11.09% 5,003
Clark 1,711 43.23% 2,039 51.52% 161 4.07% 47 1.19% -328 -8.29% 3,958
Columbia 2,957 43.96% 3,313 49.25% 409 6.08% 48 0.71% -356 -5.29% 6,727
Crawford 1,615 46.68% 1,727 49.91% 39 1.13% 79 2.28% -112 -3.24% 3,460
Dane 6,833 47.62% 6,445 44.92% 980 6.83% 88 0.61% 388 2.70% 14,348[g]
Dodge 6,820 70.23% 2,645 27.24% 199 2.05% 47 0.48% 4,175 42.99% 9,711
Door 1,007 36.71% 1,596 58.18% 68 2.48% 72 2.62% -589 -21.47% 2,743
Douglas 2,340 40.02% 2,967 50.74% 206 3.52% 334 5.71% -627 -10.72% 5,847
Dunn 1,257 29.51% 2,169 50.93% 221 5.19% 612 14.37% -912 -21.41% 4,259
Eau Claire 2,383 41.90% 2,719 47.80% 400 7.03% 186 3.27% -336 -5.91% 5,688
Florence 195 29.50% 449 67.93% 12 1.82% 5 0.76% -254 -38.43% 661
Fond du Lac 5,254 54.03% 4,131 42.48% 239 2.46% 101 1.04% 1,123 11.55% 9,725
Forest 228 48.41% 223 47.35% 14 2.97% 6 1.27% 5 1.06% 471
Grant 3,685 43.89% 4,217 50.23% 418 4.98% 76 0.91% -532 -6.34% 8,396
Green 2,052 40.57% 2,329 46.05% 350 6.92% 327 6.47% -277 -5.48% 5,058
Green Lake 1,810 53.92% 1,430 42.60% 97 2.89% 20 0.60% 380 11.32% 3,357
Iowa 2,336 46.76% 2,275 45.54% 356 7.13% 29 0.58% 61 1.22% 4,996
Jackson 1,160 33.36% 2,078 59.76% 209 6.01% 30 0.86% -918 -26.40% 3,477
Jefferson 4,661 61.53% 2,679 35.37% 211 2.79% 24 0.32% 1,982 26.17% 7,575
Juneau 1,978 47.91% 1,945 47.11% 144 3.49% 62 1.50% 33 0.80% 4,129
Kenosha 1,928 51.28% 1,628 43.30% 69 1.84% 16 0.43% 300 7.98% 3,760[h]
Kewaunee 2,046 78.81% 518 19.95% 7 0.27% 24 0.92% 1,528 58.86% 2,596[i]
La Crosse 3,810 44.24% 3,693 42.88% 358 4.16% 752 8.73% 117 1.36% 8,613
Lafayette 2,286 46.25% 2,366 47.87% 209 4.23% 82 1.66% -80 -1.62% 4,943
Langlade 1,289 58.62% 845 38.43% 48 2.18% 17 0.77% 444 20.19% 2,199
Lincoln 1,443 49.45% 997 34.17% 80 2.74% 398 13.64% 446 15.28% 2,918
Manitowoc 4,349 64.79% 2,276 33.91% 29 0.43% 58 0.86% 2,073 30.88% 6,712
Marathon 3,791 63.94% 1,959 33.04% 71 1.20% 108 1.82% 1,832 30.90% 5,929
Marinette 1,994 46.52% 1,837 42.86% 192 4.48% 263 6.14% 157 3.66% 4,286
Marquette 1,198 56.14% 877 41.10% 52 2.44% 7 0.33% 321 15.04% 2,134
Milwaukee 24,606 48.49% 24,343 47.97% 507 1.00% 1,286 2.53% 263 0.52% 50,742
Monroe 2,458 45.80% 2,530 47.14% 273 5.09% 106 1.98% -72 -1.34% 5,367
Oconto 1,499 50.92% 1,275 43.31% 42 1.43% 128 4.35% 224 7.61% 2,944
Oneida 1,317 51.81% 1,149 45.20% 30 1.18% 46 1.81% 168 6.61% 2,542
Outagamie 4,545 59.72% 2,733 35.91% 224 2.94% 109 1.43% 1,812 23.81% 7,611
Ozaukee 2,094 74.71% 652 23.26% 8 0.29% 49 1.75% 1,442 51.44% 2,803
Pepin 539 36.01% 865 57.78% 83 5.54% 10 0.67% -326 -21.78% 1,497
Pierce 1,210 30.14% 2,315 57.66% 300 7.47% 190 4.73% -1,105 -27.52% 4,015
Polk 585 23.90% 1,477 60.33% 175 7.15% 211 8.62% -892 -36.44% 2,448
Portage 2,570 50.21% 2,291 44.75% 214 4.18% 44 0.86% 279 5.45% 5,119
Price 876 41.87% 1,099 52.53% 84 4.02% 33 1.58% -223 -10.66% 2,092
Racine 3,750 43.79% 3,956 46.19% 352 4.11% 506 5.91% -206 -2.41% 8,564
Richland 1,670 38.05% 2,194 49.99% 231 5.26% 294 6.70% -524 -11.94% 4,389
Rock 4,231 38.62% 6,052 55.24% 552 5.04% 121 1.10% -1,821 -16.62% 10,956
Sauk 3,139 45.74% 3,277 47.76% 396 5.77% 50 0.73% -138 -2.01% 6,862
Sawyer 328 41.84% 413 52.68% 37 4.72% 6 0.77% -85 -10.84% 784
Shawano 2,040 55.37% 1,322 35.88% 49 1.33% 273 7.41% 718 19.49% 3,684
Sheboygan 5,126 56.74% 3,638 40.27% 98 1.08% 172 1.90% 1,488 16.47% 9,034
St. Croix 2,220 42.33% 2,467 47.04% 373 7.11% 184 3.51% -247 -4.71% 5,244
Taylor 904 53.21% 734 43.20% 29 1.71% 32 1.88% 170 10.01% 1,699
Trempealeau 1,521 38.49% 2,116 53.54% 277 7.01% 38 0.96% -595 -15.06% 3,952
Vernon 1,440 27.79% 3,106 59.95% 253 4.88% 382 7.37% -1,666 -32.16% 5,181
Walworth 2,153 32.55% 3,871 58.52% 512 7.74% 79 1.19% -1,718 -25.97% 6,615
Washburn 305 36.14% 488 57.82% 35 4.15% 16 1.90% -183 -21.68% 844
Washington 2,624 60.25% 1,700 39.04% 23 0.53% 8 0.18% 924 21.22% 4,355
Waukesha 3,635 47.97% 3,600 47.51% 248 3.27% 89 1.17% 35 0.46% 7,578[j]
Waupaca 2,186 36.83% 3,397 57.23% 306 5.15% 47 0.79% -1,211 -20.40% 5,936
Waushara 787 25.76% 2,091 68.45% 141 4.62% 36 1.18% -1,304 -42.68% 3,055
Winnebago 5,893 49.60% 5,354 45.06% 351 2.95% 283 2.38% 539 4.54% 11,881
Wood 2,220 54.29% 1,779 43.51% 54 1.32% 36 0.88% 441 10.79% 4,089
Total 177,335 47.75% 170,846 46.01% 13,132 3.54% 9,909 2.67% 6,489 1.75% 371,351

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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Notes

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  1. ^ The other two are 1912 and 2020. All three elections saw a Democrat winning the state but a Republican carrying Adams County.
  2. ^ The 1893 Blue Book gives the totals as Cleveland 177,325; Harrison 171,101; Bidwell 13,136; Weaver 10,019; and no Scattering. Based on the Board of Canvassers report, these totals are simply incorrect; no elector on any ticket received those numbers of votes. Indeed, the Blue Book is an unreliable source for Wisconsin election data from about 1890 to 1920 and its figures frequently differ from the figures listed in the Board of Canvassers reports.
  3. ^ Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket
  4. ^ Based on highest elector on each ticket
  5. ^ Includes 1 Blank vote
  6. ^ Harrison's margin over Bidwell
  7. ^ Includes 2 Blank votes
  8. ^ Includes 119 Blank votes
  9. ^ Includes 1 Scattering vote
  10. ^ Includes 1 Scattering vote and 5 Blank votes

References

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  1. ^ "1892 Presidential General Election Results – Wisconsin". Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Wisconsin Historical Society, Tabular Statement of the votes given for electors of President and Vice President of the United States at the general election held in the several towns, wards, villages, and election districts in the several counties of the State of Wisconsin on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday being the 8th day of November A.D. 1892