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1888 United States presidential election in Kentucky
The 1888 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 6, 1888. All contemporary thirty-eight states were part of the 1888 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose thirteen electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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County Results
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Background and vote
Ever since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones,[1] although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during the Third Party System at either presidential[2] or gubernatorial level.[3] What would become a long-lived partisan system[1] after the state was freed from the direct control of former Confederates would not be seriously affected by the first post-war insurgency movement – that of the Greenback Party at the tail end of the 1870s in the secessionist Jackson Purchase region.[3] Incumbent president Grover Cleveland lost four points on his 1884 performance, but still carried the state comfortably against GOP nominee Benjamin Harrison.
As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last occasion when a Democratic presidential candidate passed thirty percent in rock-ribbed Unionist and Republican Clinton County.
Results
| Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grover Cleveland | Allen G. Thurman | Democratic | 13[4] | 183,830 | 53.30% |
| Benjamin Harrison | Levi P. Morton | Republican | 0 | 155,138 | 44.98% |
| Clinton B. Fisk | John A. Brooks | Prohibition | 0 | 5,223 | 1.51% |
| Alson Streeter | Charles E. Cunningham | Union Labor | 0 | 677 | 0.20% |
Results by county
| County | Stephen Grover Cleveland[5] Democratic | Benjamin Harrison[5] Republican | Clinton Bowen Fisk[6] Prohibition | Alson Jenness Streeter[6] Union Labor | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 1,128 | 46.12% | 1,283 | 52.45% | 35 | 1.43% | 0 | 0.00% | -155 | -6.34% | 2,446 |
| Allen | 1,527 | 52.69% | 1,326 | 45.76% | 45 | 1.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 201 | 6.94% | 2,898 |
| Anderson | 1,235 | 60.69% | 742 | 36.46% | 58 | 2.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 493 | 24.23% | 2,035 |
| Ballard | 961 | 74.27% | 321 | 24.81% | 12 | 0.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 640 | 49.46% | 1,294 |
| Barren | 2,749 | 59.49% | 1,791 | 38.76% | 81 | 1.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 958 | 20.73% | 4,621 |
| Bath | 1,545 | 52.43% | 1,362 | 46.22% | 37 | 1.26% | 3 | 0.10% | 183 | 6.21% | 2,947 |
| Bell | 279 | 23.10% | 928 | 76.82% | 1 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | -649 | -53.73% | 1,208 |
| Boone | 2,116 | 76.42% | 635 | 22.93% | 18 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,481 | 53.49% | 2,769 |
| Bourbon | 1,990 | 48.75% | 2,052 | 50.27% | 40 | 0.98% | 0 | 0.00% | -62 | -1.52% | 4,082 |
| Boyd | 1,302 | 45.68% | 1,531 | 53.72% | 17 | 0.60% | 0 | 0.00% | -229 | -8.04% | 2,850 |
| Boyle | 1,399 | 49.56% | 1,367 | 48.42% | 57 | 2.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 32 | 1.13% | 2,823 |
| Bracken | 1,702 | 59.70% | 1,066 | 37.39% | 83 | 2.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 636 | 22.31% | 2,851 |
| Breathitt | 636 | 54.92% | 505 | 43.61% | 17 | 1.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 131 | 11.31% | 1,158 |
| Breckinridge | 1,826 | 50.61% | 1,769 | 49.03% | 13 | 0.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 57 | 1.58% | 3,608 |
| Bullitt | 996 | 68.78% | 429 | 29.63% | 23 | 1.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 567 | 39.16% | 1,448 |
| Butler | 973 | 36.20% | 1,637 | 60.90% | 78 | 2.90% | 0 | 0.00% | -664 | -24.70% | 2,688 |
| Caldwell | 1,098 | 49.82% | 1,080 | 49.00% | 26 | 1.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 0.82% | 2,204 |
| Calloway | 995 | 72.21% | 340 | 24.67% | 22 | 1.60% | 21 | 1.52% | 655 | 47.53% | 1,378 |
| Campbell | 4,160 | 49.71% | 4,141 | 49.48% | 41 | 0.49% | 27 | 0.32% | 19 | 0.23% | 8,369 |
| Carlisle | 848 | 74.00% | 271 | 23.65% | 27 | 2.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 577 | 50.35% | 1,146 |
| Carroll | 1,632 | 70.10% | 623 | 26.76% | 69 | 2.96% | 4 | 0.17% | 1,009 | 43.34% | 2,328 |
| Carter | 1,373 | 43.14% | 1,773 | 55.70% | 37 | 1.16% | 0 | 0.00% | -400 | -12.57% | 3,183 |
| Casey | 1,125 | 47.07% | 1,204 | 50.38% | 61 | 2.55% | 0 | 0.00% | -79 | -3.31% | 2,390 |
| Christian | 2,247 | 37.74% | 3,481 | 58.46% | 104 | 1.75% | 122 | 2.05% | -1,234 | -20.73% | 5,954 |
| Clark | 1,835 | 54.68% | 1,467 | 43.71% | 54 | 1.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 368 | 10.97% | 3,356 |
| Clay | 652 | 31.91% | 1,390 | 68.04% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | -738 | -36.12% | 2,043 |
| Clinton | 409 | 30.84% | 903 | 68.10% | 14 | 1.06% | 0 | 0.00% | -494 | -37.25% | 1,326 |
| Crittenden | 1,175 | 45.83% | 1,357 | 52.93% | 18 | 0.70% | 14 | 0.55% | -182 | -7.10% | 2,564 |
| Cumberland | 677 | 39.92% | 1,016 | 59.91% | 3 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | -339 | -19.99% | 1,696 |
| Daviess | 3,818 | 62.44% | 2,238 | 36.60% | 59 | 0.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,580 | 25.84% | 6,115 |
| Edmonson | 762 | 49.54% | 764 | 49.67% | 12 | 0.78% | 0 | 0.00% | -2 | -0.13% | 1,538 |
| Elliott | 1,090 | 71.71% | 426 | 28.03% | 4 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 664 | 43.68% | 1,520 |
| Estill | 835 | 47.39% | 917 | 52.04% | 10 | 0.57% | 0 | 0.00% | -82 | -4.65% | 1,762 |
| Fayette | 3,435 | 50.08% | 3,301 | 48.13% | 122 | 1.78% | 1 | 0.01% | 134 | 1.95% | 6,859 |
| Fleming | 1,813 | 50.01% | 1,711 | 47.20% | 101 | 2.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 102 | 2.81% | 3,625 |
| Floyd | 1,122 | 61.68% | 690 | 37.93% | 7 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 432 | 23.75% | 1,819 |
| Franklin | 2,334 | 61.55% | 1,429 | 37.68% | 26 | 0.69% | 3 | 0.08% | 905 | 23.87% | 3,792 |
| Fulton | 933 | 71.44% | 333 | 25.50% | 38 | 2.91% | 2 | 0.15% | 600 | 45.94% | 1,306 |
| Gallatin | 821 | 70.78% | 313 | 26.98% | 25 | 2.16% | 1 | 0.09% | 508 | 43.79% | 1,160 |
| Garrard | 1,124 | 47.15% | 1,220 | 51.17% | 38 | 1.59% | 2 | 0.08% | -96 | -4.03% | 2,384 |
| Grant | 1,604 | 57.45% | 1,126 | 40.33% | 62 | 2.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 478 | 17.12% | 2,792 |
| Graves | 2,432 | 65.94% | 1,182 | 32.05% | 60 | 1.63% | 14 | 0.38% | 1,250 | 33.89% | 3,688 |
| Grayson | 1,461 | 48.19% | 1,513 | 49.90% | 56 | 1.85% | 2 | 0.07% | -52 | -1.72% | 3,032 |
| Green | 1,047 | 46.16% | 1,181 | 52.07% | 17 | 0.75% | 23 | 1.01% | -134 | -5.91% | 2,268 |
| Greenup | 1,236 | 47.58% | 1,360 | 52.35% | 2 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | -124 | -4.77% | 2,598 |
| Hancock | 900 | 49.70% | 881 | 48.65% | 12 | 0.66% | 18 | 0.99% | 19 | 1.05% | 1,811 |
| Hardin | 2,175 | 59.23% | 1,421 | 38.70% | 73 | 1.99% | 3 | 0.08% | 754 | 20.53% | 3,672 |
| Harlan | 211 | 19.81% | 837 | 78.59% | 17 | 1.60% | 0 | 0.00% | -626 | -58.78% | 1,065 |
| Harrison | 2,133 | 58.86% | 1,327 | 36.62% | 164 | 4.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 806 | 22.24% | 3,624 |
| Hart | 1,635 | 51.14% | 1,506 | 47.11% | 56 | 1.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 129 | 4.04% | 3,197 |
| Henderson | 3,043 | 53.92% | 2,413 | 42.75% | 170 | 3.01% | 18 | 0.32% | 630 | 11.16% | 5,644 |
| Henry | 1,964 | 59.70% | 1,184 | 35.99% | 140 | 4.26% | 2 | 0.06% | 780 | 23.71% | 3,290 |
| Hickman | 1,053 | 69.60% | 383 | 25.31% | 60 | 3.97% | 17 | 1.12% | 670 | 44.28% | 1,513 |
| Hopkins | 1,882 | 50.82% | 1,569 | 42.37% | 163 | 4.40% | 89 | 2.40% | 313 | 8.45% | 3,703 |
| Jackson | 231 | 18.19% | 1,019 | 80.24% | 20 | 1.57% | 0 | 0.00% | -788 | -62.05% | 1,270 |
| Jefferson | 17,535 | 57.32% | 12,863 | 42.05% | 170 | 0.56% | 23 | 0.08% | 4,672 | 15.27% | 30,591 |
| Jessamine | 1,310 | 52.82% | 1,110 | 44.76% | 60 | 2.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 200 | 8.06% | 2,480 |
| Johnson | 854 | 38.26% | 1,357 | 60.80% | 21 | 0.94% | 0 | 0.00% | -503 | -22.54% | 2,232 |
| Kenton | 5,879 | 58.84% | 3,994 | 39.98% | 38 | 0.38% | 80 | 0.80% | 1,885 | 18.87% | 9,991 |
| Knott | 468 | 73.93% | 164 | 25.91% | 1 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 304 | 48.03% | 633 |
| Knox | 646 | 31.07% | 1,424 | 68.49% | 9 | 0.43% | 0 | 0.00% | -778 | -37.42% | 2,079 |
| Larue | 1,002 | 57.32% | 724 | 41.42% | 22 | 1.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 278 | 15.90% | 1,748 |
| Laurel | 975 | 40.54% | 1,384 | 57.55% | 38 | 1.58% | 8 | 0.33% | -409 | -17.01% | 2,405 |
| Lawrence | 1,655 | 49.04% | 1,714 | 50.79% | 6 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | -59 | -1.75% | 3,375 |
| Lee | 432 | 45.57% | 514 | 54.22% | 2 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | -82 | -8.65% | 948 |
| Leslie | 66 | 9.09% | 660 | 90.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -594 | -81.82% | 726 |
| Letcher | 281 | 31.15% | 616 | 68.29% | 5 | 0.55% | 0 | 0.00% | -335 | -37.14% | 902 |
| Lewis | 1,379 | 41.83% | 1,880 | 57.02% | 38 | 1.15% | 0 | 0.00% | -501 | -15.20% | 3,297 |
| Lincoln | 1,612 | 51.29% | 1,322 | 42.06% | 209 | 6.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 290 | 9.23% | 3,143 |
| Livingston | 997 | 65.42% | 514 | 33.73% | 12 | 0.79% | 1 | 0.07% | 483 | 31.69% | 1,524 |
| Logan | 3,010 | 56.77% | 2,248 | 42.40% | 18 | 0.34% | 26 | 0.49% | 762 | 14.37% | 5,302 |
| Lyon | 640 | 51.12% | 573 | 45.77% | 38 | 3.04% | 1 | 0.08% | 67 | 5.35% | 1,252 |
| Madison | 2,406 | 50.04% | 2,343 | 48.73% | 59 | 1.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 63 | 1.31% | 4,808 |
| Magoffin | 660 | 43.19% | 865 | 56.61% | 2 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.07% | -205 | -13.42% | 1,528 |
| Marion | 1,599 | 60.71% | 1,008 | 38.27% | 27 | 1.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 591 | 22.44% | 2,634 |
| Marshall | 998 | 71.75% | 364 | 26.17% | 24 | 1.73% | 5 | 0.36% | 634 | 45.58% | 1,391 |
| Martin | 218 | 29.30% | 525 | 70.56% | 1 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | -307 | -41.26% | 744 |
| Mason | 2,778 | 54.72% | 2,265 | 44.61% | 34 | 0.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 513 | 10.10% | 5,077 |
| McCracken | 1,812 | 52.89% | 1,535 | 44.80% | 78 | 2.28% | 1 | 0.03% | 277 | 8.09% | 3,426 |
| McLean | 972 | 55.13% | 742 | 42.09% | 45 | 2.55% | 4 | 0.23% | 230 | 13.05% | 1,763 |
| Meade | 1,348 | 69.27% | 593 | 30.47% | 5 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 755 | 38.80% | 1,946 |
| Menifee | 569 | 69.90% | 229 | 28.13% | 15 | 1.84% | 1 | 0.12% | 340 | 41.77% | 814 |
| Mercer | 1,711 | 53.47% | 1,361 | 42.53% | 125 | 3.91% | 3 | 0.09% | 350 | 10.94% | 3,200 |
| Metcalfe | 896 | 45.53% | 1,033 | 52.49% | 23 | 1.17% | 16 | 0.81% | -137 | -6.96% | 1,968 |
| Monroe | 837 | 38.70% | 1,311 | 60.61% | 10 | 0.46% | 5 | 0.23% | -474 | -21.91% | 2,163 |
| Montgomery | 1,531 | 55.31% | 1,202 | 43.42% | 35 | 1.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 329 | 11.89% | 2,768 |
| Morgan | 1,342 | 65.95% | 683 | 33.56% | 10 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 659 | 32.38% | 2,035 |
| Muhlenberg | 1,768 | 48.65% | 1,817 | 50.00% | 22 | 0.61% | 27 | 0.74% | -49 | -1.35% | 3,634 |
| Nelson | 1,876 | 62.08% | 1,102 | 36.47% | 44 | 1.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 774 | 25.61% | 3,022 |
| Nicholas | 1,475 | 57.82% | 933 | 36.57% | 143 | 5.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 542 | 21.25% | 2,551 |
| Ohio | 2,066 | 49.06% | 2,100 | 49.87% | 21 | 0.50% | 24 | 0.57% | -34 | -0.81% | 4,211 |
| Oldham | 826 | 61.78% | 460 | 34.41% | 46 | 3.44% | 5 | 0.37% | 366 | 27.37% | 1,337 |
| Owen | 2,922 | 74.75% | 834 | 21.34% | 152 | 3.89% | 1 | 0.03% | 2,088 | 53.42% | 3,909 |
| Owsley | 248 | 26.11% | 699 | 73.58% | 3 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | -451 | -47.47% | 950 |
| Pendleton | 1,945 | 56.92% | 1,417 | 41.47% | 55 | 1.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 528 | 15.45% | 3,417 |
| Perry | 296 | 29.69% | 699 | 70.11% | 2 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | -403 | -40.42% | 997 |
| Pike | 1,249 | 49.54% | 1,266 | 50.22% | 6 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -17 | -0.67% | 2,521 |
| Powell | 441 | 51.82% | 403 | 47.36% | 7 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 38 | 4.47% | 851 |
| Pulaski | 1,752 | 36.33% | 2,924 | 60.64% | 144 | 2.99% | 2 | 0.04% | -1,172 | -24.31% | 4,822 |
| Robertson | 657 | 64.35% | 346 | 33.89% | 18 | 1.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 311 | 30.46% | 1,021 |
| Rockcastle | 777 | 41.57% | 1,050 | 56.18% | 42 | 2.25% | 0 | 0.00% | -273 | -14.61% | 1,869 |
| Rowan | 384 | 48.06% | 412 | 51.56% | 3 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | -28 | -3.50% | 799 |
| Russell | 697 | 45.80% | 804 | 52.83% | 21 | 1.38% | 0 | 0.00% | -107 | -7.03% | 1,522 |
| Scott | 2,037 | 55.14% | 1,531 | 41.45% | 126 | 3.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 506 | 13.70% | 3,694 |
| Shelby | 2,219 | 60.18% | 1,436 | 38.95% | 21 | 0.57% | 11 | 0.30% | 783 | 21.24% | 3,687 |
| Simpson | 1,525 | 62.42% | 859 | 35.16% | 58 | 2.37% | 1 | 0.04% | 666 | 27.26% | 2,443 |
| Spencer | 998 | 70.08% | 399 | 28.02% | 27 | 1.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 599 | 42.06% | 1,424 |
| Taylor | 1,059 | 55.33% | 792 | 41.38% | 63 | 3.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 267 | 13.95% | 1,914 |
| Todd | 1,622 | 50.45% | 1,555 | 48.37% | 38 | 1.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 67 | 2.08% | 3,215 |
| Trigg | 928 | 46.40% | 978 | 48.90% | 94 | 4.70% | 0 | 0.00% | -50 | -2.50% | 2,000 |
| Trimble | 1,195 | 81.57% | 247 | 16.86% | 23 | 1.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 948 | 64.71% | 1,465 |
| Union | 2,244 | 69.00% | 955 | 29.37% | 18 | 0.55% | 35 | 1.08% | 1,289 | 39.64% | 3,252 |
| Warren | 3,587 | 57.15% | 2,590 | 41.27% | 98 | 1.56% | 1 | 0.02% | 997 | 15.89% | 6,276 |
| Washington | 1,328 | 49.00% | 1,365 | 50.37% | 17 | 0.63% | 0 | 0.00% | -37 | -1.37% | 2,710 |
| Wayne | 1,108 | 49.40% | 1,107 | 49.35% | 28 | 1.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.04% | 2,243 |
| Webster | 1,626 | 60.58% | 1,034 | 38.52% | 16 | 0.60% | 8 | 0.30% | 592 | 22.06% | 2,684 |
| Whitley | 681 | 23.35% | 2,202 | 75.49% | 33 | 1.13% | 1 | 0.03% | -1,521 | -52.14% | 2,917 |
| Wolfe | 805 | 63.74% | 444 | 35.15% | 14 | 1.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 361 | 28.58% | 1,263 |
| Woodford | 1,387 | 52.58% | 1,217 | 46.13% | 34 | 1.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 170 | 6.44% | 2,638 |
| Totals | 183,830 | 53.31% | 155,131 | 44.98% | 5,223 | 1.51% | 677 | 0.20% | 28,699 | 8.32% | 344,861 |
Notes
References
- ^ a b Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 350 ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
- ^ a b Brown, Thomas J.; ‘The Roots of Bluegrass Insurgency: An Analysis of the Populist Movement in Kentucky’; The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Summer 1980), pp. 219-242
- ^ "1888 Presidential General Election Results – Kentucky". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ a b Géoelections; Presidential election of 1888 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ a b Géoelections; Popular Vote for Clinton Fisk (.xlsx file for €15)