Who won Kentucky in the 1892 presidential election?

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

How many electoral votes did Kentucky have in 1892?

Kentucky cast 13 electoral votes in the 1892 presidential election.

Did Kentucky vote for the national winner in 1892?

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

Gilded AgeKY · 13 EV

1892

Kentucky: Cleveland carries 13 EV.

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

Reading the 1892 result in Kentucky

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

It marked the 8th consecutive election in which Kentucky backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1864. The region divided — Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois joined Kentucky for the Democratic ticket, while Ohio did not. Across the 59 presidential elections Kentucky has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (28 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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