1892_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas Knowpia

The 1892 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Texas voters chose 15 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Texas was won by the Democratic nominees, Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois.

Although Harrison received less than 20% of the statewide vote, as of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time Starr County has voted for a Republican presidential candidate,^[1]^[2] the longest unbroken Democratic voting streak in the country.^[a]

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1892 United States presidential election in Texas^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Grover Cleveland	239,148	56.65%	15
	People's	James Weaver	99,688	23.61%	0
	Republican	Benjamin Harrison (incumbent)	81,144	19.22%	0
	Prohibition	John Bidwell	2,165	0.51%	0
Totals			422,145	100.00%	15
Voter turnout					—

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^ Neighboring Brooks County and Jim Hogg County (as well as Menominee County, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia) have never voted Republican but were only created – partially from the 1892 boundaries of Starr County – in 1911 and 1913 respectively. (the two non-Texas county equivalents were created much later, in the 1960s) The only county outside South Texas to have voted Democratic at every election back to and including 1920 is North Carolina’s Northampton County, which last voted Republican in 1896.

References edit

^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 309–319 ISBN 0786422173
^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Texas

[3] Neighboring Brooks County and Jim Hogg County (as well as Menominee County, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia) have never voted Republican but were only created – partially from the 1892 boundaries of Starr County – in 1911 and 1913 respectively. (the two non-Texas county equivalents were created much later, in the 1960s) The only county outside South Texas to have voted Democratic at every election back to and including 1920 is North Carolina’s Northampton County, which last voted Republican in 1896.

[how-1] Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

[2] Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 309–319 ISBN 0786422173

[4] Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Texas

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