The 1888 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Mississippi voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland won the state by a margin of 47.81%.
Results
edit1888 United States presidential election in Mississippi[1] | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
Count | % | Count | % | |||||
Democratic | Grover Cleveland of New York (incumbent) | Allen Granberry Thurman of Ohio | 85,451 | 73.80% | 9 | 100.00% | ||
Republican | Benjamin Harrison of Indiana | Levi Parsons Morton of New York | 30,095 | 25.99% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Prohibition | Clinton Bowen Fisk of New Jersey | John Anderson Brooks of Missouri | 240 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Total | 115,786 | 100.00% | 9 | 100.00% |
Results by county
editCounty | Stephen Grover Cleveland[2] Democratic |
Benjamin Harrison[2] Republican |
Clinton Bowen Fisk[3] Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 793 | 28.59% | 1,981 | 71.41% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,188 | -42.83% | 2,774 |
Alcorn | 1,094 | 70.85% | 447 | 28.95% | 3 | 0.19% | 647 | 41.90% | 1,544 |
Amite | 1,399 | 78.73% | 375 | 21.10% | 3 | 0.17% | 1,024 | 57.63% | 1,777 |
Attala | 1,924 | 67.49% | 927 | 32.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 997 | 34.97% | 2,851 |
Benton | 814 | 62.91% | 479 | 37.02% | 1 | 0.08% | 335 | 25.89% | 1,294 |
Bolivar | 907 | 34.45% | 1,726 | 65.55% | 0 | 0.00% | -819 | -31.11% | 2,633 |
Calhoun | 1,163 | 91.14% | 108 | 8.46% | 5 | 0.39% | 1,055 | 82.68% | 1,276 |
Carroll | 1,052 | 94.27% | 60 | 5.38% | 4 | 0.36% | 992 | 88.89% | 1,116 |
Chickasaw | 1,264 | 74.44% | 432 | 25.44% | 2 | 0.12% | 832 | 49.00% | 1,698 |
Choctaw | 743 | 99.60% | 3 | 0.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 740 | 99.20% | 746 |
Claiborne | 599 | 97.72% | 14 | 2.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 585 | 95.43% | 613 |
Clarke | 1,510 | 74.83% | 496 | 24.58% | 12 | 0.59% | 1,014 | 50.25% | 2,018 |
Clay | 1,508 | 86.57% | 234 | 13.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,274 | 73.13% | 1,742 |
Coahoma | 612 | 27.78% | 1,591 | 72.22% | 0 | 0.00% | -979 | -44.44% | 2,203 |
Copiah | 2,207 | 82.72% | 461 | 17.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,746 | 65.44% | 2,668 |
Covington | 638 | 99.38% | 4 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 634 | 98.75% | 642 |
De Soto | 2,083 | 68.45% | 960 | 31.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,123 | 36.90% | 3,043 |
Franklin | 776 | 78.54% | 203 | 20.55% | 9 | 0.91% | 573 | 58.00% | 988 |
Greene | 381 | 85.81% | 63 | 14.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 318 | 71.62% | 444 |
Grenada | 708 | 73.67% | 253 | 26.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 455 | 47.35% | 961 |
Hancock | 725 | 67.69% | 313 | 29.23% | 33 | 3.08% | 412 | 38.47% | 1,071 |
Harrison | 850 | 62.96% | 478 | 35.41% | 22 | 1.63% | 372 | 27.56% | 1,350 |
Hinds | 2,201 | 69.45% | 956 | 30.17% | 12 | 0.38% | 1,245 | 39.29% | 3,169 |
Holmes | 1,664 | 69.83% | 717 | 30.09% | 2 | 0.08% | 947 | 39.74% | 2,383 |
Issaquena | 487 | 46.16% | 568 | 53.84% | 0 | 0.00% | -81 | -7.68% | 1,055 |
Itawamba | 1,360 | 96.45% | 50 | 3.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,310 | 92.91% | 1,410 |
Jackson | 833 | 57.17% | 616 | 42.28% | 8 | 0.55% | 217 | 14.89% | 1,457 |
Jasper | 1,045 | 62.95% | 611 | 36.81% | 4 | 0.24% | 434 | 26.14% | 1,660 |
Jefferson | 683 | 65.30% | 363 | 34.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 320 | 30.59% | 1,046 |
Jones | 671 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 671 | 100.00% | 671 |
Kemper | 1,213 | 78.87% | 325 | 21.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 888 | 57.74% | 1,538 |
Lafayette | 1,687 | 77.60% | 487 | 22.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,200 | 55.20% | 2,174 |
Lauderdale | 2,150 | 86.17% | 332 | 13.31% | 13 | 0.52% | 1,818 | 72.87% | 2,495 |
Lawrence | 836 | 99.52% | 2 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.24% | 834 | 99.29% | 840 |
Leake | 1,200 | 85.17% | 209 | 14.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 991 | 70.33% | 1,409 |
Lee | 1,508 | 98.24% | 27 | 1.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,481 | 96.48% | 1,535 |
Leflore | 825 | 99.64% | 1 | 0.12% | 2 | 0.24% | 823[a] | 99.40% | 828 |
Lincoln | 1,097 | 63.48% | 631 | 36.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 466 | 26.97% | 1,728 |
Lowndes | 1,122 | 98.33% | 17 | 1.49% | 2 | 0.18% | 1,105 | 96.84% | 1,141 |
Madison | 2,032 | 85.49% | 344 | 14.47% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,688 | 71.01% | 2,377 |
Marion | 826 | 98.80% | 5 | 0.60% | 5 | 0.60% | 821 | 98.21% | 836 |
Marshall | 2,264 | 61.45% | 1,420 | 38.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 844 | 22.91% | 3,684 |
Monroe | 2,962 | 87.76% | 413 | 12.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,549 | 75.53% | 3,375 |
Montgomery | 989 | 89.34% | 118 | 10.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 871 | 78.68% | 1,107 |
Neshoba | 884 | 99.66% | 3 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 881 | 99.32% | 887 |
Newton | 1,875 | 93.24% | 135 | 6.71% | 1 | 0.05% | 1,740 | 86.52% | 2,011 |
Noxubee | 846 | 100.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 846 | 100.00% | 846 |
Oktibbeha | 1,342 | 76.60% | 399 | 22.77% | 11 | 0.63% | 943 | 53.82% | 1,752 |
Panola | 1,650 | 59.55% | 1,121 | 40.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 529 | 19.09% | 2,771 |
Perry | 547 | 91.47% | 17 | 2.84% | 34 | 5.69% | 513[a] | 85.79% | 598 |
Pike | 1,518 | 71.98% | 585 | 27.74% | 6 | 0.28% | 933 | 44.24% | 2,109 |
Pontotoc | 967 | 65.34% | 509 | 34.39% | 4 | 0.27% | 458 | 30.95% | 1,480 |
Prentiss | 1,231 | 81.42% | 281 | 18.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 950 | 62.83% | 1,512 |
Quitman | 105 | 38.60% | 167 | 61.40% | 0 | 0.00% | -62 | -22.79% | 272 |
Rankin | 1,545 | 75.40% | 504 | 24.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,041 | 50.81% | 2,049 |
Scott | 1,056 | 90.03% | 112 | 9.55% | 5 | 0.43% | 944 | 80.48% | 1,173 |
Sharkey | 228 | 27.44% | 599 | 72.08% | 4 | 0.48% | -371 | -44.65% | 831 |
Simpson | 750 | 79.45% | 193 | 20.44% | 1 | 0.11% | 557 | 59.00% | 944 |
Smith | 1,082 | 99.63% | 2 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.18% | 1,080 | 99.45% | 1,086 |
Sunflower | 365 | 96.31% | 14 | 3.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 351 | 92.61% | 379 |
Tallahatchie | 1,021 | 97.33% | 28 | 2.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 993 | 94.66% | 1,049 |
Tate | 1,931 | 81.55% | 437 | 18.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,494 | 63.09% | 2,368 |
Tippah | 1,301 | 72.89% | 483 | 27.06% | 1 | 0.06% | 818 | 45.83% | 1,785 |
Tishomingo | 810 | 84.46% | 144 | 15.02% | 5 | 0.52% | 666 | 69.45% | 959 |
Tunica | 509 | 34.74% | 956 | 65.26% | 0 | 0.00% | -447 | -30.51% | 1,465 |
Union | 1,409 | 77.85% | 397 | 21.93% | 4 | 0.22% | 1,012 | 55.91% | 1,810 |
Warren | 2,364 | 71.16% | 958 | 28.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,406 | 42.32% | 3,322 |
Washington | 1,850 | 58.16% | 1,322 | 41.56% | 9 | 0.28% | 528 | 16.60% | 3,181 |
Wayne | 690 | 58.08% | 494 | 41.58% | 4 | 0.34% | 196 | 16.50% | 1,188 |
Webster | 725 | 81.64% | 161 | 18.13% | 2 | 0.23% | 564 | 63.51% | 888 |
Wilkinson | 495 | 93.05% | 37 | 6.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 458 | 86.09% | 532 |
Winston | 708 | 99.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.28% | 706[a] | 99.44% | 710 |
Yalobusha | 1,046 | 83.21% | 211 | 16.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 835 | 66.43% | 1,257 |
Yazoo | 1,196 | 99.42% | 7 | 0.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,189 | 98.84% | 1,203 |
Totals | 85,451 | 73.80% | 30,096 | 25.99% | 240 | 0.21% | 55,355 | 47.81% | 115,787 |
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ "1888 Presidential General Election Results - Mississippi". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ a b "Presidential election of 1888 Popular Vote". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ "Popular Vote for Clinton Fisk". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)