Who won Texas in the 1892 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Texas in 1892, winning its 15 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 1892?

Texas cast 15 electoral votes in the 1892 presidential election.

Did Texas vote for the national winner in 1892?

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

Gilded AgeTX · 15 EV

1892

Texas: Cleveland carries 15 EV.

Texas cast its 15 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) — Texas voted with the national winner this cycle.

Texas in 1892

The 1892 contest saw Texas line up behind Cleveland, delivering 15 electoral votes to the Democratic ticket. Texas ended up on the winning side — Grover Cleveland captured the White House that year.

It marked the 6th consecutive election in which Texas backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1872. Texas did not move alone — neighboring Arkansas and Louisiana broke the same way in 1892. Across the 44 presidential elections Texas 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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