Who won Georgia in the 1892 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Georgia in 1892, winning its 13 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Georgia have in 1892?

Georgia cast 13 electoral votes in the 1892 presidential election.

Did Georgia vote for the national winner in 1892?

Yes. Georgia backed Grover Cleveland, who won the presidency that year.

Gilded AgeGA · 13 EV

1892

Georgia: Cleveland carries 13 EV.

Georgia cast its 13 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) — Georgia voted with the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1892 result in Georgia

Georgia backed Cleveland (Democratic) in the 1892 presidential election, casting 13 electoral votes for the ticket. Georgia ended up on the winning side — Grover Cleveland captured the White House that year.

It marked the 7th consecutive election in which Georgia backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1868. Georgia did not move alone — neighboring Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina broke the same way in 1892. Across the 59 presidential elections Georgia has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (34 times). The vote fell within the Gilded Age — Industrialization, narrow margins, and patronage politics.

In the national count, Grover Cleveland took 277 of the 444 electoral votes, against Benjamin Harrison's 145. Grover Cleveland led the national popular vote with 46.02% of the ballots cast.

The 1892 national map

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