Who won Mississippi in the 1892 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Mississippi in 1892, winning its 9 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 1892?

Mississippi cast 9 electoral votes in the 1892 presidential election.

Did Mississippi vote for the national winner in 1892?

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

Gilded AgeMS · 9 EV

1892

Mississippi: Cleveland carries 9 EV.

Mississippi cast its 9 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) — Mississippi voted with the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Mississippi, 1892

In 1892, Mississippi awarded its 9 electoral votes to Cleveland of the Democratic party. Mississippi ended up on the winning side — Grover Cleveland captured the White House that year.

It marked the 5th consecutive election in which Mississippi backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Mississippi did not move alone — neighboring Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama broke the same way in 1892. Across the 51 presidential elections Mississippi has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 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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