1892 United States presidential election in Alabama
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The 1892 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
Alabama was won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. However, Weaver performed well in the South as he won counties in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Texas. Populists did best in Alabama, where electoral chicanery probably carried the day for the Democrats.[1]
Campaign
Weaver won sixteen counties, five were in the Black Belt while the remainder were white counties.[2]
Results
| 1892 United States presidential election in Alabama[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Grover Cleveland | 138,135 | 59.40% | 11 | |
| People's | James B. Weaver | 84,984 | 36.55% | 0 | |
| Republican | Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) | 9,184 | 3.95% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | John Bidwell | 240 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Totals | 232,543 | 100.00% | 11 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
Results by county
| County | Grover Cleveland[4] Democratic |
Benjamin Harrison[4] Republican |
James B. Weaver[5] People's |
John Bidwell[6] Prohibition |
Margin[a] | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Autauga | 926 | 47.24% | 81 | 4.13% | 951 | 48.52% | 2 | 0.10% | −25 | −1.28% | 1,960 |
| Baldwin | 912 | 65.99% | 382 | 27.64% | 86 | 6.22% | 2 | 0.14% | 826[b] | 59.77% | 1,382 |
| Barbour | 4,315 | 77.40% | 19 | 0.34% | 1,241 | 22.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,074 | 55.14% | 5,575 |
| Bibb | 1,152 | 48.32% | 22 | 0.92% | 1,204 | 50.50% | 6 | 0.25% | −52 | −2.18% | 2,384 |
| Blount | 1,944 | 58.80% | 58 | 1.75% | 1,304 | 39.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 640 | 19.36% | 3,306 |
| Bullock | 1,844 | 54.20% | 75 | 2.20% | 1,483 | 43.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 361 | 10.61% | 3,402 |
| Butler | 1,313 | 39.99% | 253 | 7.71% | 1,717 | 52.30% | 0 | 0.00% | −404 | −12.31% | 3,283 |
| Calhoun | 3,249 | 63.91% | 218 | 4.29% | 1,613 | 31.73% | 4 | 0.08% | 1,636 | 32.18% | 5,084 |
| Chambers | 2,321 | 55.98% | 108 | 2.60% | 1,717 | 41.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 604 | 14.57% | 4,146 |
| Cherokee | 1,709 | 54.24% | 139 | 4.41% | 1,301 | 41.29% | 2 | 0.06% | 408 | 12.95% | 3,151 |
| Chilton | 648 | 38.78% | 121 | 7.24% | 902 | 53.98% | 0 | 0.00% | −254 | −15.20% | 1,671 |
| Choctaw | 864 | 41.58% | 216 | 10.39% | 998 | 48.03% | 0 | 0.00% | −134 | −6.45% | 2,078 |
| Clarke | 1,561 | 52.49% | 371 | 12.47% | 1,042 | 35.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 519 | 17.45% | 2,974 |
| Clay | 1,161 | 50.24% | 47 | 2.03% | 1,103 | 47.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 58 | 2.51% | 2,311 |
| Cleburne | 1,045 | 59.58% | 47 | 2.68% | 659 | 37.57% | 3 | 0.17% | 386 | 22.01% | 1,754 |
| Coffee | 992 | 51.06% | 47 | 2.42% | 899 | 46.27% | 5 | 0.26% | 93 | 4.79% | 1,943 |
| Colbert | 1,960 | 56.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,510 | 43.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 450 | 12.97% | 3,470 |
| Conecuh | 877 | 35.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,628 | 64.99% | 0 | 0.00% | −751 | −29.98% | 2,505 |
| Coosa | 954 | 40.49% | 107 | 4.54% | 1,295 | 54.97% | 0 | 0.00% | −341 | −14.47% | 2,356 |
| Covington | 840 | 59.57% | 7 | 0.50% | 562 | 39.86% | 1 | 0.07% | 278 | 19.72% | 1,410 |
| Crenshaw | 1,320 | 49.87% | 49 | 1.85% | 1,278 | 48.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 42 | 1.59% | 2,647 |
| Cullman | 1,066 | 50.69% | 6 | 0.29% | 1,023 | 48.64% | 8 | 0.38% | 43 | 2.04% | 2,103 |
| Dale | 1,460 | 56.48% | 15 | 0.58% | 1,109 | 42.90% | 1 | 0.04% | 351 | 13.58% | 2,585 |
| Dallas | 7,339 | 78.80% | 1,028 | 11.04% | 947 | 10.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,392[b] | 68.63% | 9,314 |
| DeKalb | 1,868 | 61.01% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,187 | 38.77% | 2 | 0.07% | 681 | 22.24% | 3,062 |
| Elmore | 1,258 | 32.68% | 84 | 2.18% | 2,506 | 65.11% | 1 | 0.03% | −1,248 | −32.42% | 3,849 |
| Escambia | 1,110 | 62.05% | 21 | 1.17% | 657 | 36.72% | 1 | 0.06% | 453 | 25.32% | 1,789 |
| Etowah | 2,225 | 58.85% | 269 | 7.11% | 1,266 | 33.48% | 21 | 0.56% | 959 | 25.36% | 3,781 |
| Fayette | 728 | 42.37% | 158 | 9.20% | 822 | 47.85% | 10 | 0.58% | −94 | −5.47% | 1,718 |
| Franklin | 1,290 | 67.12% | 23 | 1.20% | 609 | 31.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 681 | 35.43% | 1,922 |
| Geneva | 797 | 52.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 715 | 47.19% | 3 | 0.20% | 82 | 5.41% | 1,515 |
| Greene | 2,129 | 71.09% | 355 | 11.85% | 511 | 17.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,618 | 54.02% | 2,995 |
| Hale | 3,350 | 78.03% | 121 | 2.82% | 822 | 19.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,528 | 58.89% | 4,293 |
| Henry | 2,712 | 66.80% | 133 | 3.28% | 1,215 | 29.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,497 | 36.87% | 4,060 |
| Jackson | 3,044 | 65.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,633 | 34.88% | 5 | 0.11% | 1,411 | 30.14% | 4,682 |
| Jefferson | 10,055 | 65.70% | 296 | 1.93% | 4,884 | 31.91% | 69 | 0.45% | 5,171 | 33.79% | 15,304 |
| Lamar | 1,458 | 70.20% | 31 | 1.49% | 587 | 28.26% | 1 | 0.05% | 871 | 41.94% | 2,077 |
| Lauderdale | 2,352 | 64.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,289 | 35.36% | 4 | 0.11% | 1,063 | 29.16% | 3,645 |
| Lawrence | 1,516 | 43.48% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,961 | 56.24% | 7 | 0.20% | −445 | −12.76% | 3,487 |
| Lee | 2,760 | 61.99% | 318 | 7.14% | 1,374 | 30.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,386 | 31.13% | 4,452 |
| Limestone | 1,447 | 43.40% | 18 | 0.54% | 1,858 | 55.73% | 11 | 0.33% | −411 | −12.33% | 3,334 |
| Lowndes | 3,238 | 75.25% | 349 | 8.11% | 716 | 16.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,522 | 58.61% | 4,303 |
| Macon | 200 | 21.81% | 13 | 1.42% | 704 | 76.77% | 0 | 0.00% | −504 | −54.96% | 917 |
| Madison | 3,046 | 45.72% | 3 | 0.05% | 3,607 | 54.13% | 7 | 0.11% | −561 | −8.42% | 6,663 |
| Marengo | 2,847 | 53.94% | 233 | 4.41% | 2,198 | 41.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 649 | 12.30% | 5,278 |
| Marion | 1,207 | 71.46% | 7 | 0.41% | 472 | 27.95% | 3 | 0.18% | 735 | 43.52% | 1,689 |
| Marshall | 1,521 | 57.90% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,103 | 41.99% | 2 | 0.08% | 418 | 15.91% | 2,627 |
| Mobile | 4,680 | 66.33% | 397 | 5.63% | 1,979 | 28.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,701 | 38.28% | 7,056 |
| Monroe | 1,850 | 72.35% | 8 | 0.31% | 699 | 27.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,151 | 45.01% | 2,557 |
| Montgomery | 3,702 | 57.02% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,784 | 42.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 918 | 14.14% | 6,493 |
| Morgan | 2,160 | 50.07% | 3 | 0.07% | 2,125 | 49.26% | 26 | 0.60% | 35 | 0.81% | 4,314 |
| Perry | 3,452 | 81.26% | 48 | 1.13% | 748 | 17.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,704 | 63.65% | 4,248 |
| Pickens | 1,919 | 63.59% | 83 | 2.75% | 1,009 | 33.43% | 7 | 0.23% | 910 | 30.15% | 3,018 |
| Pike | 2,298 | 60.55% | 42 | 1.11% | 1,455 | 38.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 843 | 22.21% | 3,795 |
| Randolph | 1,196 | 46.59% | 126 | 4.91% | 1,245 | 48.50% | 0 | 0.00% | −49 | −1.91% | 2,567 |
| Russell | 2,150 | 58.65% | 10 | 0.27% | 1,506 | 41.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 644 | 17.57% | 3,666 |
| Shelby | 1,755 | 48.00% | 307 | 8.40% | 1,593 | 43.57% | 1 | 0.03% | 162 | 4.43% | 3,656 |
| St. Clair | 1,079 | 41.03% | 78 | 2.97% | 1,469 | 55.86% | 4 | 0.15% | −390 | −14.83% | 2,630 |
| Sumter | 3,185 | 79.11% | 781 | 19.40% | 60 | 1.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,125[b] | 77.62% | 4,026 |
| Talladega | 2,638 | 49.46% | 108 | 2.02% | 2,577 | 48.31% | 11 | 0.21% | 61 | 1.14% | 5,334 |
| Tallapoosa | 2,470 | 57.94% | 306 | 7.18% | 1,487 | 34.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 983 | 23.06% | 4,263 |
| Tuscaloosa | 2,212 | 51.85% | 708 | 16.60% | 1,342 | 31.46% | 4 | 0.09% | 870 | 20.39% | 4,266 |
| Walker | 1,583 | 51.68% | 4 | 0.13% | 1,472 | 48.06% | 4 | 0.13% | 111 | 3.62% | 3,063 |
| Washington | 663 | 80.95% | 94 | 11.48% | 60 | 7.33% | 2 | 0.24% | 603[b] | 73.63% | 819 |
| Wilcox | 4,687 | 86.25% | 215 | 3.96% | 532 | 9.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,155 | 76.46% | 5,434 |
| Winston | 526 | 47.99% | 2 | 0.18% | 568 | 51.82% | 0 | 0.00% | −42 | −3.83% | 1,096 |
| Totals | 138,135 | 59.40% | 9,184 | 3.95% | 84,978 | 36.54% | 240 | 0.10% | 53,157 | 22.86% | 232,537 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Because Cleveland and Weaver ran in the top two places in Alabama as a whole, margins given are Cleveland vote minus Weaver vote and Cleveland percentage minus Weaver percentage unless states otherwise.
- ^ a b c d In this county where Harrison did run second ahead of Weaver, margin given is Cleveland vote minus Harrison vote and percentage margin Cleveland percentage minus Harrison percentage.
References
- ^ Charles W. Calhoun (ed.), The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006; p. 295.
- ^ Knoles 1971, p. 241.
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Alabama
- ^ a b Géoelections; Presidential election of 1892 Popular Vote (xlsx file for €15)
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for John Bidwell (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for James B. Weaver (.xlsx file for €15)
Works cited
- Knoles, George (1971). The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1892. Stanford University Press. ISBN 040450969X.
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