1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Louisiana Pelican Flag 1861.svg
  1888 November 8, 1892 1896  
  StephenGroverCleveland.png Benjamin Harrison 1896.jpg
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Indiana
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid
Electoral vote80
Popular vote87,92626,963
Percentage76.53%23.47%

Louisiana Presidential Election Results 1892.svg
Parish Results

President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The 1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Contents

Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political system [1] in which the dominant Bourbon planter class used the newly enfranchised blacks to protect their power against potentially threatening poor whites. [2] Outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black voting [3] — intimidation would soon drastically reduce the number of black voters or, alternatively, count them for Democrats hostile to their interests. [4]

By the 1890s the Louisiana Republican Party was deeply divided between the establishment “black and tans” and an insurgent “lily white” faction led by Acadian sugar planters. [5] At the same time, there were major splits amongst the state’s white electorate, [4] formerly solidly Democratic because the Pelican State completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. [6] The major parties would be challenged in the predominantly white hill parishes by the rise of the Populist Party due to declining conditions for farmers. [7] Both the Populists and the earlier Greenback Party — who shared key leaders like James B. Weaver — would eventually be supported by the state Republican Party, [8] but only after a five-way 1892 gubernatorial race won by “Anti-Lottery Democrat” Murphy J. Foster. This support would mean that Weaver would be absent from Louisiana’s presidential ballot later in the year, and the state would be won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Although Cleveland won Louisiana by a landslide 53.06 percentage point margin, Populist support helped the Republicans carry several previously unanimously Democratic northern hill parishes. [7] However, this would prove the last time the Republicans won any parish in the state outside Acadiana until 1952, and the last time a parish outside Acadiana voted against the Democrats until 1948. [9]

Results

1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana [10]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Grover Cleveland 87,92676.53%8
Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent)26,96323.47%0
Totals114,889100.00%8
Voter turnout

Results by parish

1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish [11]
ParishStephen Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %
Acadia 25869.35%11430.65%14438.71%372
Ascension 2,09990.91%2109.09%1,88981.81%2,309
Assumption 1,27663.51%73336.49%54327.03%2,009
Avoyelles 1,69693.14%1256.86%1,57186.27%1,821
Bienville 1,62078.53%44321.47%1,17757.05%2,063
Bossier 2,91497.88%632.12%2,85195.77%2,977
Caddo 2,25290.55%2359.45%2,01781.10%2,487
Calcasieu 1,08961.98%66838.02%42123.96%1,757
Caldwell 67074.12%23425.88%43648.23%904
Cameron 18497.35%52.65%17994.71%189
Catahoula 1,08171.12%43928.88%64242.24%1,520
Claiborne 1,44455.30%1,16744.70%27710.61%2,611
Concordia 3,59399.09%330.91%3,56098.18%3,626
De Soto 1,59884.51%29315.49%1,30569.01%1,891
East Baton Rouge 1,37268.19%64031.81%73236.38%2,012
East Carroll 1,28997.36%352.64%1,25494.71%1,324
East Feliciana 1,35593.38%966.62%1,25986.77%1,451
Franklin 79696.84%263.16%77093.67%822
Grant 20628.41%51971.59%-313-43.17%725
Iberia 57697.79%132.21%56395.59%589
Iberville 1,60970.88%66129.12%94841.76%2,270
Jackson 39656.41%30643.59%9012.82%702
Jefferson 1,27584.44%23515.56%1,04068.87%1,510
Lafayette 664100.00%00.00%664100.00%664
Lafourche 2,92293.59%2006.41%2,72287.19%3,122
Lincoln 69539.29%1,07460.71%-379-21.42%1,769
Livingston 33359.68%22540.32%10819.35%558
Madison 3,43399.51%170.49%3,41699.01%3,450
Morehouse 1,17693.48%826.52%1,09486.96%1,258
Natchitoches 1,14068.80%51731.20%62337.60%1,657
Orleans 19,23475.73%6,16524.27%13,06951.45%25,399
Ouachita 2,70191.03%2668.97%2,43582.07%2,967
Plaquemines 92744.89%1,13855.11%-211-10.22%2,065
Pointe Coupee 89373.44%32326.56%57046.88%1,216
Rapides 3,44688.07%46711.93%2,97976.13%3,913
Red River 92774.34%32025.66%60748.68%1,247
Richland 88299.55%40.45%87899.10%886
Sabine 50939.98%76460.02%-255-20.03%1,273
Saint Bernard 44969.61%19630.39%25339.22%645
Saint Charles 34532.89%70467.11%-359-34.22%1,049
Saint Helena 30679.90%7720.10%22959.79%383
Saint James 57542.22%78757.78%-212-15.57%1,362
Saint John the Baptist 50331.03%1,11868.97%-615-37.94%1,621
Saint Landry 1,13655.28%91944.72%21710.56%2,055
Saint Martin 49197.42%132.58%47894.84%504
Saint Mary 1,31182.19%28417.81%1,02764.39%1,595
Saint Tammany 50167.70%23932.30%26235.41%740
Tangipahoa 78685.62%13214.38%65471.24%918
Tensas 2,35191.69%2138.31%2,13883.39%2,564
Terrebonne 1,21067.64%57932.36%63135.27%1,789
Union 1,21659.26%83640.74%38018.52%2,052
Vermilion 31658.74%22241.26%9417.47%538
Vernon 36151.28%34348.72%182.56%704
Washington 39973.62%14326.38%25647.23%542
Webster 1,44183.34%28816.66%1,15366.69%1,729
West Baton Rouge 1,48786.76%22713.24%1,26073.51%1,714
West Carroll 40899.76%10.24%40799.51%409
West Feliciana 1,593100.00%00.00%1,593100.00%1,593
Winn 21121.14%78778.86%-576-57.72%998
Totals87,92676.53%26,96323.47%60,96353.06%114,889

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