Who won Tennessee in the 1892 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Tennessee in 1892, winning its 12 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Tennessee have in 1892?

Tennessee cast 12 electoral votes in the 1892 presidential election.

Did Tennessee vote for the national winner in 1892?

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

Gilded AgeTN · 12 EV

1892

Tennessee: Cleveland carries 12 EV.

Tennessee cast its 12 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) — Tennessee voted with the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1892 result in Tennessee

Tennessee backed Cleveland (Democratic) in the 1892 presidential election, casting 12 electoral votes for the ticket. Tennessee ended up on the winning side — Grover Cleveland captured the White House that year.

It marked the 6th consecutive election in which Tennessee backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1872. Tennessee did not move alone — neighboring Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri broke the same way in 1892. Across the 57 presidential elections Tennessee has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (24 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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