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.

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 six states, Weaver finished in fifth place in New York State, with only 1.23 percent of the vote, behind fourth-place Socialist Labor candidate Simon Wing’s 1.34 percent.

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

Results by county County Grover ClevelandDemocratic Benjamin HarrisonRepublican John BidwellProhibition Simon WingSocialist Labor James B. WeaverPopulist Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % # % 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 51.67% 13,456 43.21% 908 2.92% 339 1.09% 348 1.12% 2,632 8.45% 31,139 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% 5,462Totals654,86848.99%609,35045.58%38,1902.86%17,9561.34%16,4291.23%45,5183.41%1,336,793

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Columbia Erie Hamilton Niagara Rensselaer Schenectady Ulster

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Chemung Greene

See also United States presidential elections in New York

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