1892 United States presidential election in Nebraska
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The 1892 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
Nebraska was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and his running mate Whitelaw Reid of New York. Harrison and Reid narrowly defeated the Populist nominees, James B. Weaver of Iowa and his running mate James G. Field of Virginia, with national winner and Democratic nominees Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson I a distant third and carrying only Thomas County by plurality.[1]
Alongside 1908, this is one of only two elections where Nebraska did not vote the same as neighboring Kansas,[a] and Weaver's is the best-ever third party performance in Nebraska presidential election history.
Results
| 1892 United States presidential election in Nebraska[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) | 87,213 | 43.56% | 8 | |
| People's | James Weaver | 83,134 | 41.53% | 0 | |
| Democratic | Grover Cleveland | 24,943 | 12.46% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | John Bidwell | 4,902 | 2.45% | 0 | |
| Totals | 200,192 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
Results by county
| County[3] | Benjamin Harrison Republican |
Stephen Grover Cleveland Democratic |
James Baird Weaver[4] Independent Populist |
John Bidwell[5] Prohibition |
Margin[b] | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 1,620 | 46.22% | 320 | 9.13% | 1,415 | 40.37% | 150 | 4.28% | 205 | 5.85% | 3,505 |
| Antelope | 825 | 39.87% | 175 | 8.46% | 973 | 47.03% | 96 | 4.64% | -148 | -7.15% | 2,069 |
| Banner | 197 | 47.58% | 29 | 7.00% | 183 | 44.20% | 5 | 1.21% | 14 | 3.38% | 414 |
| Blaine | 61 | 39.10% | 23 | 14.74% | 63 | 40.38% | 9 | 5.77% | -2 | -1.28% | 156 |
| Boone | 887 | 41.90% | 188 | 8.88% | 994 | 46.95% | 48 | 2.27% | -107 | -5.05% | 2,117 |
| Box Butte | 416 | 35.96% | 229 | 19.79% | 493 | 42.61% | 19 | 1.64% | -77 | -6.66% | 1,157 |
| Boyd | 528 | 44.44% | 184 | 15.49% | 464 | 39.06% | 12 | 1.01% | 64 | 5.39% | 1,188 |
| Brown | 363 | 46.84% | 74 | 9.55% | 329 | 42.45% | 9 | 1.16% | 34 | 4.39% | 775 |
| Buffalo | 1,864 | 42.80% | 377 | 8.66% | 2,043 | 46.91% | 71 | 1.63% | -179 | -4.11% | 4,355 |
| Burt | 1,332 | 54.12% | 178 | 7.23% | 876 | 35.60% | 75 | 3.05% | 456 | 18.53% | 2,461 |
| Butler | 1,099 | 36.31% | 441 | 14.57% | 1,428 | 47.18% | 59 | 1.95% | -329 | -10.87% | 3,027 |
| Cass | 2,173 | 47.44% | 723 | 15.78% | 1,600 | 34.93% | 85 | 1.86% | 573 | 12.51% | 4,581 |
| Cedar | 710 | 38.34% | 226 | 12.20% | 891 | 48.11% | 25 | 1.35% | -181 | -9.77% | 1,852 |
| Chase | 355 | 39.23% | 84 | 9.28% | 454 | 50.17% | 12 | 1.33% | -99 | -10.94% | 905 |
| Cherry | 499 | 43.13% | 152 | 13.14% | 484 | 41.83% | 22 | 1.90% | 15 | 1.30% | 1,157 |
| Cheyenne | 503 | 45.94% | 201 | 18.36% | 365 | 33.33% | 26 | 2.37% | 138 | 12.60% | 1,095 |
| Clay | 1,624 | 48.13% | 232 | 6.88% | 1,425 | 42.23% | 93 | 2.76% | 199 | 5.90% | 3,374 |
| Colfax | 612 | 32.28% | 589 | 31.07% | 662 | 34.92% | 33 | 1.74% | -50 | -2.64% | 1,896 |
| Cuming | 844 | 33.98% | 578 | 23.27% | 1,018 | 40.98% | 44 | 1.77% | -174 | -7.00% | 2,484 |
| Custer | 1,810 | 41.29% | 263 | 6.00% | 2,189 | 49.93% | 122 | 2.78% | -379 | -8.65% | 4,384 |
| Dakota | 394 | 33.50% | 170 | 14.46% | 602 | 51.19% | 10 | 0.85% | -208 | -17.69% | 1,176 |
| Dawes | 803 | 46.26% | 190 | 10.94% | 716 | 41.24% | 27 | 1.56% | 87 | 5.01% | 1,736 |
| Dawson | 1,188 | 48.23% | 182 | 7.39% | 1,067 | 43.32% | 26 | 1.06% | 121 | 4.91% | 2,463 |
| Deuel | 250 | 43.55% | 101 | 17.60% | 211 | 36.76% | 12 | 2.09% | 39 | 6.79% | 574 |
| Dixon | 665 | 38.71% | 339 | 19.73% | 634 | 36.90% | 80 | 4.66% | 31 | 1.80% | 1,718 |
| Dodge | 1,445 | 38.24% | 911 | 24.11% | 1,338 | 35.41% | 85 | 2.25% | 107 | 2.83% | 3,779 |
| Douglas | 10,702 | 48.27% | 2,904 | 13.10% | 8,322 | 37.53% | 244 | 1.10% | 2,380 | 10.73% | 22,172 |
| Dundy | 362 | 44.04% | 55 | 6.69% | 378 | 45.99% | 27 | 3.28% | -16 | -1.95% | 822 |
| Fillmore | 1,541 | 45.79% | 276 | 8.20% | 1,475 | 43.83% | 73 | 2.17% | 66 | 1.96% | 3,365 |
| Franklin | 597 | 38.07% | 88 | 5.61% | 854 | 54.46% | 29 | 1.85% | -257 | -16.39% | 1,568 |
| Frontier | 706 | 40.41% | 85 | 4.87% | 943 | 53.98% | 13 | 0.74% | -237 | -13.57% | 1,747 |
| Furnas | 905 | 42.59% | 104 | 4.89% | 1,086 | 51.11% | 30 | 1.41% | -181 | -8.52% | 2,125 |
| Gage | 3,323 | 52.13% | 880 | 13.81% | 1,969 | 30.89% | 202 | 3.17% | 1,354 | 21.24% | 6,374 |
| Garfield | 134 | 40.48% | 17 | 5.14% | 175 | 52.87% | 5 | 1.51% | -41 | -12.39% | 331 |
| Gosper | 358 | 36.79% | 85 | 8.74% | 521 | 53.55% | 9 | 0.92% | -163 | -16.75% | 973 |
| Grant | 49 | 43.75% | 11 | 9.82% | 50 | 44.64% | 2 | 1.79% | -1 | -0.89% | 112 |
| Greeley | 298 | 29.30% | 159 | 15.63% | 556 | 54.67% | 4 | 0.39% | -258 | -25.37% | 1,017 |
| Hall | 1,546 | 45.83% | 392 | 11.62% | 1,383 | 41.00% | 52 | 1.54% | 163 | 4.83% | 3,373 |
| Hamilton | 1,207 | 42.95% | 265 | 9.43% | 1,252 | 44.56% | 86 | 3.06% | -45 | -1.60% | 2,810 |
| Harlan | 568 | 36.88% | 101 | 6.56% | 800 | 51.95% | 71 | 4.61% | -232 | -15.06% | 1,540 |
| Hayes | 345 | 45.22% | 79 | 10.35% | 330 | 43.25% | 9 | 1.18% | 15 | 1.97% | 763 |
| Hitchcock | 495 | 39.98% | 76 | 6.14% | 654 | 52.83% | 13 | 1.05% | -159 | -12.84% | 1,238 |
| Holt | 1,002 | 39.70% | 233 | 9.23% | 1,220 | 48.34% | 69 | 2.73% | -218 | -8.64% | 2,524 |
| Hooker | 11 | 22.00% | 5 | 10.00% | 33 | 66.00% | 1 | 2.00% | -22 | -44.00% | 50 |
| Howard | 537 | 29.41% | 329 | 18.02% | 941 | 51.53% | 19 | 1.04% | -404 | -22.12% | 1,826 |
| Jefferson | 1,038 | 42.23% | 318 | 12.94% | 1,024 | 41.66% | 78 | 3.17% | 14 | 0.57% | 2,458 |
| Johnson | 1,150 | 48.73% | 234 | 9.92% | 907 | 38.43% | 69 | 2.92% | 243 | 10.30% | 2,360 |
| Kearney | 819 | 41.55% | 125 | 6.34% | 964 | 48.91% | 63 | 3.20% | -145 | -7.36% | 1,971 |
| Keith | 210 | 37.84% | 98 | 17.66% | 241 | 43.42% | 6 | 1.08% | -31 | -5.59% | 555 |
| Keya Paha | 203 | 30.53% | 80 | 12.03% | 374 | 56.24% | 8 | 1.20% | -171 | -25.71% | 665 |
| Kimball | 109 | 48.02% | 24 | 10.57% | 83 | 36.56% | 11 | 4.85% | 26 | 11.45% | 227 |
| Knox | 957 | 45.38% | 326 | 15.46% | 763 | 36.18% | 63 | 2.99% | 194 | 9.20% | 2,109 |
| Lancaster | 5,858 | 52.69% | 1,283 | 11.54% | 3,488 | 31.37% | 489 | 4.40% | 2,370 | 21.32% | 11,118 |
| Lincoln | 969 | 41.30% | 168 | 7.16% | 1,154 | 49.19% | 55 | 2.34% | -185 | -7.89% | 2,346 |
| Logan | 127 | 44.88% | 26 | 9.19% | 126 | 44.52% | 4 | 1.41% | 1 | 0.35% | 283 |
| Loup | 115 | 47.13% | 18 | 7.38% | 109 | 44.67% | 2 | 0.82% | 6 | 2.46% | 244 |
| Madison | 1,186 | 41.60% | 435 | 15.26% | 1,158 | 40.62% | 72 | 2.53% | 28 | 0.98% | 2,851 |
| McPherson | 30 | 41.10% | 13 | 17.81% | 28 | 38.36% | 2 | 2.74% | 2 | 2.74% | 73 |
| Merrick | 850 | 43.88% | 143 | 7.38% | 842 | 43.47% | 102 | 5.27% | 8 | 0.41% | 1,937 |
| Nance | 614 | 42.05% | 87 | 5.96% | 728 | 49.86% | 31 | 2.12% | -114 | -7.81% | 1,460 |
| Nemaha | 1,105 | 40.96% | 367 | 13.60% | 1,150 | 42.62% | 76 | 2.82% | -45 | -1.67% | 2,698 |
| Nuckolls | 990 | 39.89% | 159 | 6.41% | 1,288 | 51.89% | 45 | 1.81% | -298 | -12.01% | 2,482 |
| Otoe | 1,591 | 37.50% | 937 | 22.08% | 1,584 | 37.33% | 131 | 3.09% | 7 | 0.16% | 4,243 |
| Pawnee | 1,266 | 54.13% | 231 | 9.88% | 705 | 30.14% | 137 | 5.86% | 561 | 23.98% | 2,339 |
| Perkins | 328 | 35.50% | 89 | 9.63% | 492 | 53.25% | 15 | 1.62% | -164 | -17.75% | 924 |
| Phelps | 768 | 37.39% | 96 | 4.67% | 1,071 | 52.14% | 119 | 5.79% | -303 | -14.75% | 2,054 |
| Pierce | 396 | 33.70% | 257 | 21.87% | 508 | 43.23% | 14 | 1.19% | -112 | -9.53% | 1,175 |
| Platte | 897 | 31.16% | 665 | 23.10% | 1,267 | 44.01% | 50 | 1.74% | -370 | -12.85% | 2,879 |
| Polk | 733 | 34.16% | 126 | 5.87% | 1,187 | 55.31% | 100 | 4.66% | -454 | -21.16% | 2,146 |
| Red Willow | 807 | 43.13% | 159 | 8.50% | 871 | 46.55% | 34 | 1.82% | -64 | -3.42% | 1,871 |
| Richardson | 1,928 | 47.45% | 402 | 9.89% | 1,650 | 40.61% | 83 | 2.04% | 278 | 6.84% | 4,063 |
| Rock | 343 | 54.88% | 52 | 8.32% | 223 | 35.68% | 7 | 1.12% | 120 | 19.20% | 625 |
| Saline | 1,704 | 46.68% | 500 | 13.70% | 1,297 | 35.53% | 149 | 4.08% | 407 | 11.15% | 3,650 |
| Sarpy | 582 | 39.17% | 351 | 23.62% | 522 | 35.13% | 31 | 2.09% | 60 | 4.04% | 1,486 |
| Saunders | 1,416 | 34.40% | 559 | 13.58% | 1,965 | 47.74% | 176 | 4.28% | -549 | -13.34% | 4,116 |
| Scotts Bluff | 217 | 49.21% | 45 | 10.20% | 172 | 39.00% | 7 | 1.59% | 45 | 10.20% | 441 |
| Seward | 1,336 | 40.05% | 763 | 22.87% | 1,183 | 35.46% | 54 | 1.62% | 153 | 4.59% | 3,336 |
| Sheridan | 644 | 35.64% | 163 | 9.02% | 964 | 53.35% | 36 | 1.99% | -320 | -17.71% | 1,807 |
| Sherman | 453 | 36.86% | 122 | 9.93% | 636 | 51.75% | 18 | 1.46% | -183 | -14.89% | 1,229 |
| Sioux | 139 | 32.78% | 90 | 21.23% | 195 | 45.99% | 0 | 0.00% | -56 | -13.21% | 424 |
| Stanton | 381 | 36.78% | 242 | 23.36% | 402 | 38.80% | 11 | 1.06% | -21 | -2.03% | 1,036 |
| Thayer | 1,261 | 46.63% | 356 | 13.17% | 1,019 | 37.68% | 68 | 2.51% | 242 | 8.95% | 2,704 |
| Thomas | 35 | 37.23% | 36 | 38.30% | 22 | 23.40% | 1 | 1.06% | -1[c] | -1.06% | 94 |
| Thurston | 470 | 63.17% | 78 | 10.48% | 186 | 25.00% | 10 | 1.34% | 284 | 38.17% | 744 |
| Valley | 579 | 37.28% | 145 | 9.34% | 793 | 51.06% | 36 | 2.32% | -214 | -13.78% | 1,553 |
| Washington | 1,068 | 44.04% | 567 | 23.38% | 744 | 30.68% | 46 | 1.90% | 324 | 13.36% | 2,425 |
| Wayne | 676 | 43.67% | 271 | 17.51% | 576 | 37.21% | 25 | 1.61% | 100 | 6.46% | 1,548 |
| Webster | 1,023 | 44.97% | 169 | 7.43% | 1,040 | 45.71% | 43 | 1.89% | -17 | -0.75% | 2,275 |
| Wheeler | 122 | 39.87% | 29 | 9.48% | 150 | 49.02% | 5 | 1.63% | -28 | -9.15% | 306 |
| York | 1,917 | 51.44% | 219 | 5.88% | 1,484 | 39.82% | 107 | 2.87% | 433 | 11.62% | 3,727 |
| Totals | 87,163 | 43.54% | 24,926 | 12.45% | 83,194 | 41.56% | 4,902 | 2.45% | 3,969 | 1.98% | 200,185 |
Notes
- ^ In 2008, although John McCain carried both states, Democrat Barack Obama won Nebraska's second congressional district and won one electoral vote therefrom, whilst McCain won all Kansas votes and the remaining four Nebraska votes.
- ^ Because Weaver finished second behind Harrison and ahead of Cleveland in Nebraska as a whole, all margins given are Harrison vote minus Weaver vote and percentage margins Harrison percentage minus Weaver percentage unless otherwise stated for the county in question.
- ^ In this county where Harrison and Cleveland did finish in the first two places, margin given is Harrison vote minus Cleveland vote and percentage margin Harrison percentage minus Cleveland percentage.
References
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 250-251 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1892 Presidential General Election Results – Nebraska". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ 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)
