1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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

Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political system in which the dominant Bourbon planter class used the newly enfranchised blacks to protect their power against potentially threatening poor whites. Outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black voting — intimidation would soon drastically reduce the number of black voters or, alternatively, count them for Democrats hostile to their interests.

By the 1890s the Louisiana Republican Party was deeply divided between the establishment “black and tans” and an insurgent “lily white” faction led by Acadian sugar planters. At the same time, there were major splits amongst the state's white electorate, formerly solidly Democratic because Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. The major parties would be challenged in the predominantly white hill parishes by the rise of the Populist Party due to declining conditions for farmers. Both the Populists and the earlier Greenback Party — who shared key leaders like James B. Weaver — would eventually be supported by the state Republican Party, but only after a five-way 1892 gubernatorial race won by “Anti-Lottery Democrat” Murphy J. Foster. This support would mean that Weaver would be absent from Louisiana's presidential ballot later in the year, and the state would be won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Although Cleveland won Louisiana by a landslide 53.06 percentage point margin, Populist support helped the Republicans carry several previously unanimously Democratic northern hill parishes. However, this would prove the last time the Republicans won any parish in the state outside Acadiana until 1952, and the last time a parish outside Acadiana voted against the Democrats until 1948.

Results 1892 United States presidential election in LouisianaDave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – LouisianaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Grover Cleveland 87,926 76.53% 8 Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) 26,963 23.47% 0 Totals 114,889 100.00% 8 Voter turnout —

Results by parish +1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish (.xlsx file for €15)ParishStephen Grover ClevelandDemocraticBenjamin HarrisonRepublicanMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % Acadia 258 69.35% 114 30.65% 144 38.71% 372 Ascension 2,099 90.91% 210 9.09% 1,889 81.81% 2,309 Assumption 1,276 63.51% 733 36.49% 543 27.03% 2,009 Avoyelles 1,696 93.14% 125 6.86% 1,571 86.27% 1,821 Bienville 1,620 78.53% 443 21.47% 1,177 57.05% 2,063 Bossier 2,914 97.88% 63 2.12% 2,851 95.77% 2,977 Caddo 2,252 90.55% 235 9.45% 2,017 81.10% 2,487 Calcasieu 1,089 61.98% 668 38.02% 421 23.96% 1,757 Caldwell 670 74.12% 234 25.88% 436 48.23% 904 Cameron 184 97.35% 5 2.65% 179 94.71% 189 Catahoula 1,081 71.12% 439 28.88% 642 42.24% 1,520 Claiborne 1,444 55.30% 1,167 44.70% 277 10.61% 2,611 Concordia 3,593 99.09% 33 0.91% 3,560 98.18% 3,626 De Soto 1,598 84.51% 293 15.49% 1,305 69.01% 1,891 East Baton Rouge 1,372 68.19% 640 31.81% 732 36.38% 2,012 East Carroll 1,289 97.36% 35 2.64% 1,254 94.71% 1,324 East Feliciana 1,355 93.38% 96 6.62% 1,259 86.77% 1,451 Franklin 796 96.84% 26 3.16% 770 93.67% 822 Grant 206 28.41% 519 71.59% -313 -43.17% 725 Iberia 576 97.79% 13 2.21% 563 95.59% 589 Iberville 1,609 70.88% 661 29.12% 948 41.76% 2,270 Jackson 396 56.41% 306 43.59% 90 12.82% 702 Jefferson 1,275 84.44% 235 15.56% 1,040 68.87% 1,510 Lafayette 664 100.00% 0 0.00% 664 100.00% 664 Lafourche 2,922 93.59% 200 6.41% 2,722 87.19% 3,122 Lincoln 695 39.29% 1,074 60.71% -379 -21.42% 1,769 Livingston 333 59.68% 225 40.32% 108 19.35% 558 Madison 3,433 99.51% 17 0.49% 3,416 99.01% 3,450 Morehouse 1,176 93.48% 82 6.52% 1,094 86.96% 1,258 Natchitoches 1,140 68.80% 517 31.20% 623 37.60% 1,657 Orleans 19,234 75.73% 6,165 24.27% 13,069 51.45% 25,399 Ouachita 2,701 91.03% 266 8.97% 2,435 82.07% 2,967 Plaquemines 927 44.89% 1,138 55.11% -211 -10.22% 2,065 Pointe Coupee 893 73.44% 323 26.56% 570 46.88% 1,216 Rapides 3,446 88.07% 467 11.93% 2,979 76.13% 3,913 Red River 927 74.34% 320 25.66% 607 48.68% 1,247 Richland 882 99.55% 4 0.45% 878 99.10% 886 Sabine 509 39.98% 764 60.02% -255 -20.03% 1,273 Saint Bernard 449 69.61% 196 30.39% 253 39.22% 645 Saint Charles 345 32.89% 704 67.11% -359 -34.22% 1,049 Saint Helena 306 79.90% 77 20.10% 229 59.79% 383 Saint James 575 42.22% 787 57.78% -212 -15.57% 1,362 Saint John the Baptist 503 31.03% 1,118 68.97% -615 -37.94% 1,621 Saint Landry 1,136 55.28% 919 44.72% 217 10.56% 2,055 Saint Martin 491 97.42% 13 2.58% 478 94.84% 504 Saint Mary 1,311 82.19% 284 17.81% 1,027 64.39% 1,595 Saint Tammany 501 67.70% 239 32.30% 262 35.41% 740 Tangipahoa 786 85.62% 132 14.38% 654 71.24% 918 Tensas 2,351 91.69% 213 8.31% 2,138 83.39% 2,564 Terrebonne 1,210 67.64% 579 32.36% 631 35.27% 1,789 Union 1,216 59.26% 836 40.74% 380 18.52% 2,052 Vermilion 316 58.74% 222 41.26% 94 17.47% 538 Vernon 361 51.28% 343 48.72% 18 2.56% 704 Washington 399 73.62% 143 26.38% 256 47.23% 542 Webster 1,441 83.34% 288 16.66% 1,153 66.69% 1,729 West Baton Rouge 1,487 86.76% 227 13.24% 1,260 73.51% 1,714 West Carroll 408 99.76% 1 0.24% 407 99.51% 409 West Feliciana 1,593 100.00% 0 0.00% 1,593 100.00% 1,593 Winn 211 21.14% 787 78.86% -576 -57.72% 998Totals87,92676.53%26,96323.47%60,96353.06%114,889

See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana

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