See main article: 1888 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1888 United States presidential election in Texas |
| Country: | Texas |
| Flag Year: | 1888 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1884 United States presidential election in Texas |
| Previous Year: | 1884 |
| Next Election: | 1892 United States presidential election in Texas |
| Next Year: | 1892 |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1888 |
| Turnout: | 22.27% of the total population 2.09 pp[1] |
| Image1: | StephenGroverCleveland.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Grover Cleveland |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York |
| Running Mate1: | Allen Thurman |
| Electoral Vote1: | 13 |
| Popular Vote1: | 234,883 |
| Percentage1: | 65.70% |
| Nominee2: | Benjamin Harrison |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Indiana |
| Running Mate2: | Levi P. Morton |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 88,422 |
| Percentage2: | 24.73% |
| Image3: | AlsonStreeter.png |
| Nominee3: | Alson Streeter |
| Party3: | Labor Party (United States, 19th century) |
| Home State3: | Illinois |
| Running Mate3: | Charles E. Cunningham |
| Electoral Vote3: | 0 |
| Popular Vote3: | 29,459 |
| Percentage3: | 8.24% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Grover Cleveland |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Benjamin Harrison |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1888 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]
Texas was won by the incumbent President Grover Cleveland (D–New York), running with the former Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Allen G. Thurman, with 65.70% of the popular vote, against former Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York, with 24.73% of the vote and former Illinois state representative Alson Streeter (L–Illinois), running with Charles E. Cunningham, with 8.24% of the vote.[2]
The Prohibition Party ran brigadier general Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks and received 1.33% of the vote.
Members of the Knights of Labor and former members of the Greenback Party attended a convention in Waco on July 5, 1887, and formed an affiliate of the Union Labor Party. Around 300 delegates, mostly members of the Farmers' Alliance, from seventy counties attended a convention on May 15, 1888, to consider possible electoral campaigns. The delegates appointed Mayor H.S. Broiles as a one-man executive committee and he called for a Nonpartisan Convention to be held on July 2–3. The Nonpartisan Convention created a platform and slate of candidates. The ULP endorsed these candidates and platform and William R. Lamb, the chair of the Nonpartisan Convention, was given a seat on the ULP executive committee.