1892 United States presidential election

The 1892 United States presidential election was the 27th presidential election in the United States. It happened on November 8, 1892. Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate and former President of the United States, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president, Benjamin Harrison, and the third-party candidate James B. Weaver, a former Congressman from Iowa, who ran as a member of the Populist Party.

1892 United States presidential election

November 8, 1892
444 members of the Electoral College 223 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	75.8% 11px 4.7 pp
File:Sarony, Napoleon, (Stephen) Grover Cleveland cropped.jpg File:Benjamin Harrison (official Presidential portrait, 1895) crop1.jpg File:James B. Weaver 1892 (cropped).jpg Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver Party Democratic Republican Populist Home state New York Indiana Iowa Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid James G. Field Electoral vote 277 145 13 States carried 23 16 5 Popular vote 5,556,918 5,176,108 1,041,028 Percentage 46.0% 43.0% 8.5%
350px Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Harrison/Reid, blue denotes those won by Cleveland/Stevenson, green denotes Wisconsin, the state won by Weaver/Field Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election Benjamin Harrison Republican Elected President Grover Cleveland Democratic

Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States) 1892 Democratic Party ticket
Grover Cleveland	Adlai Stevenson
for President	for Vice President
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22nd President of the United States (1885–1889)	First Assistant United States Postmaster General (1885–1889)
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Presidential

• Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States from New York (1885-1889) (Nominee)
• David B. Hill, U.S. senator from New York (1885-1889)
• Horace Boies, U.S. senator from Iowa (1890-1894)

Vice-Presidential

• Adlai E. Stevenson, former Congressman from Illinois (1875-1877; 1879-1881) (Vice-Presidential Nominee)
• Isaac P. Gray, 18th and 20th Governor of Indiana (1880-1881; 1885-1889)
• Allen B. Morse, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1885-1892)
• John L. Mitchell, Congressman from Wisconsin (1891-1893)

Republican Party

Republican Party (United States) 1892 Republican Party ticket
Benjamin Harrison	Whitelaw Reid
for President	for Vice President
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• Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States from Indiana (1889-1893) (Nominee)
• William McKinley, 39th Governor of Ohio (1892-1896) (Draft Effort)
• James G. Blaine, 31st United States Secretary of State from Maine (1881; 1889-1892) (1884 Nominee) (Draft Effort)
• John Sherman, U.S. senator of Ohio (1861-1877; 1881-1897) (Draft Effort)

Populist Party

85x85px 1892 People's Party ticket
James B. Weaver	James G. Field
for President	for Vice President
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U.S. Representative for IA-06 (1879–1881 & 1885–1889)	13th Attorney General of Virginia (1877–1882)

• James B. Weaver, former Congressman from Iowa (1879-1881; 1885-1889) (Nominee)
• James H. Kyle, U.S. senator of South Dakota (1891-1901)
• Leonidas L. Polk, former North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture (1877-1880) (Co-Founder of Populist Party) (Died on June 11, 1892)
• Walter Q. Gresham, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1891-1893)

1892 United States Presidential Election Media

• Democratic Disc.svg

  Democratic Party (United States)

• Adlai Stevenson I by Saroney c1892-crop.jpg

  U.S. Vice President Adlai Stevenson (1893-1897).

• Republican Disc.svg

  Republican Party (United States)

• Benjamin Harrison, head and shoulders bw photo, 1896.jpg

  Benjamin Harrison, former President of the United States.

• Benjamin Harrison, head and shoulders bw photo, 1896.jpg

  Benjamin Harrison, the incumbent president in 1892, whose term expired at noon on March 4, 1893.

• People's Party logo.svg

  Logo of the People's Party (from 1892 presidential campaign button)