1888 United States presidential election in Texas

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1888 United States presidential election in Texas

← 1884 November 6, 1888 1892 →
Turnout22.27% of the total population Increase 2.09 pp[1]
 
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Alson Streeter
Party Democratic Republican Labor
Home state New York Indiana Illinois
Running mate Allen Thurman Levi P. Morton Charles E. Cunningham
Electoral vote 13 0 0
Popular vote 234,883 88,422 29,459
Percentage 65.70% 24.73% 8.24%

County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

The 1888 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]

Texas was won by the incumbent President Grover Cleveland (DNew York), running with the former Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Allen G. Thurman, with 65.70% of the popular vote, against former Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York, with 24.73% of the vote and former Illinois state representative Alson Streeter (LIllinois), running with Charles E. Cunningham, with 8.24% of the vote.[2]

The Prohibition Party ran brigadier general Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks and received 1.33% of the vote.

Campaign

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Members of the Knights of Labor and former members of the Greenback Party attended a convention in Waco on July 5, 1887, and formed an affiliate of the Union Labor Party. Around 300 delegates, mostly members of the Farmers' Alliance, from seventy counties attended a convention on May 15, 1888, to consider possible electoral campaigns. The delegates appointed Mayor H.S. Broiles as a one-man executive committee and he called for a Nonpartisan Convention to be held on July 2–3. The Nonpartisan Convention created a platform and slate of candidates. The ULP endorsed these candidates and platform and William R. Lamb, the chair of the Nonpartisan Convention, was given a seat on the ULP executive committee.[3]

Results

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1888 United States presidential election in Texas[2]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Grover Cleveland of New York (incumbent) Allen G. Thurman of Ohio 234,883 65.70% 13 100.00%
Republican Benjamin Harrison of Indiana Levi P. Morton of New York 88,422 24.73% 0 0.00%
Labor Alson Streeter of Illinois Charles E. Cunningham of Arkansas 29,459 8.24% 0 0.00%
Prohibition Clinton B. Fisk of New Jersey John A. Brooks of Missouri 4,749 1.33% 0 0.00%
Total 357,513 100.00% 13 100.00%

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "1888 Presidential Election Results Texas Total Population Turnout".
  2. ^ a b c "1888 Presidential Election Results Texas".
  3. ^ Hild 2015, p. 32-33.

Works cited

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