1888 United States presidential election in Virginia explained

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Election Name:1888 United States presidential election in Virginia
Country:Virginia
Flag Year:1861
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1884 United States presidential election in Virginia
Previous Year:1884
Next Election:1892 United States presidential election in Virginia
Next Year:1892
Election Date:November 6, 1888
Image1:StephenGroverCleveland.jpg
Nominee1:Grover Cleveland
Party1:Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:New York
Running Mate1:Allen G. Thurman
Electoral Vote1:12
Popular Vote1:152,004
Percentage1:49.99%
Nominee2:Benjamin Harrison
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:Indiana
Running Mate2:Levi P. Morton
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:150,399
Percentage2:49.46%
Map Size:435px
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 Virginia took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Virginia voted for the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Grover Cleveland over the Republican candidate, former U.S. Senator Benjamin Harrison. The contest in Virginia was very close and Cleveland narrowly won the state by a margin of just 0.53 percentage points. This was the closest the Republican Party came to winning an ex-Confederate state between the Compromise of 1877 and Warren G. Harding’s 1920 win in Tennessee, and with Virginia voting 0.30 points more Republican than the nation at-large, would also prove the last time any former Confederate state voted more Republican than the nation until Virginia itself did so in 1952.

This election represented the height of the expanded Reconstruction Era electorate. So complete was to be the disfranchisement of Virginia's lower classes with the new Constitution of 1902[1] that it was 1952, with a much larger population, before the electorate returned to the same numbers observed in 1888.[2]

Results

1888 United States presidential election in Virginia[3]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
DemocraticGrover Cleveland (inc.)152,00449.99%12
RepublicanBenjamin Harrison150,39949.46%0
ProhibitionClinton B. Fisk1,6840.55%0
Totals304,087100.0%12

Results by county

1888 United States presidential election in Virginia by counties and independent cities[4] [5]
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Democratic		Benjamin Harrison
Republican		Clinton Bowen Fisk
Prohibition 		MarginTotal votes cast
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Accomack County3,18459.70%1,99337.37%1562.93%1,19122.33%5,333
Albemarle County2,57354.15%2,16645.58%130.27%4078.56%4,752
Alexandria County25535.12%46263.64%91.24%-207-28.51%726
Alleghany County75943.13%99556.53%60.34%-236-13.41%1,760
Amelia County70440.46%1,03659.54%00.00%-332-19.08%1,740
Amherst County1,77755.74%1,41144.26%00.00%36611.48%3,188
Appomattox County68946.24%78752.82%140.94%-98-6.58%1,490
Augusta County3,37056.36%2,52642.25%831.39%84414.12%5,979
Bath County48254.22%40545.56%20.22%778.66%889
Bedford County3,20461.64%1,99138.30%30.06%1,21323.34%5,198
Bland County53751.34%50948.66%00.00%282.68%1,046
Botetourt County1,55855.62%1,21743.45%260.93%34112.17%2,801
Brunswick County1,28945.79%1,52154.03%50.18%-232-8.24%2,815
Buchanan County49253.54%42746.46%00.00%657.07%919
Buckingham County1,18443.67%1,52056.07%70.26%-336-12.39%2,711
Campbell County2,08957.00%1,56442.67%120.33%52514.32%3,665
Caroline County1,44247.56%1,58852.37%20.07%-146-4.82%3,032
Carroll County1,32253.18%1,14746.14%170.68%1757.04%2,486
Charles City County30330.67%68469.23%10.10%-381-38.56%988
Charlotte County1,72062.39%1,03637.58%10.04%68424.81%2,757
Chesterfield County1,58950.05%1,57649.64%100.31%130.41%3,175
Clarke County1,20469.20%52930.40%70.40%67538.79%1,740
Craig County55075.24%17724.21%40.55%37351.03%731
Culpeper County1,40454.31%1,18145.69%00.00%2238.63%2,585
Cumberland County57835.61%1,04564.39%00.00%-467-28.77%1,623
Dickenson County45153.95%38445.93%10.12%678.01%836
Dinwiddie County1,06642.86%1,41156.74%100.40%-345-13.87%2,487
Elizabeth City County54729.10%1,31670.00%170.90%-769-40.90%1,880
Essex County77441.57%1,08858.43%00.00%-314-16.86%1,862
Fairfax County2,01052.21%1,82447.38%160.42%1864.83%3,850
Fauquier County2,66159.95%1,77840.05%00.00%88319.89%4,439
Floyd County95238.78%1,48260.37%210.86%-530-21.59%2,455
Fluvanna County1,00457.31%73942.18%90.51%26515.13%1,752
Franklin County2,40357.71%1,75742.20%40.10%64615.51%4,164
Frederick County1,83266.72%87131.72%431.57%96135.00%2,746
Giles County97759.36%64038.88%291.76%33720.47%1,646
Gloucester County1,07343.94%1,36856.02%10.04%-295-12.08%2,442
Goochland County67440.63%98559.37%00.00%-311-18.75%1,659
Grayson County1,28850.47%1,25949.33%50.20%291.14%2,552
Greene County53250.57%52049.43%00.00%121.14%1,052
Greensville County71444.35%89355.47%30.19%-179-11.12%1,610
Halifax County3,57058.74%2,47340.69%350.58%1,09718.05%6,078
Hanover County1,72153.22%1,51146.72%20.06%2106.49%3,234
Henrico County1,71242.40%2,32657.60%00.00%-614-15.21%4,038
Henry County1,40946.55%1,60853.12%100.33%-199-6.57%3,027
Highland County45450.33%44048.78%80.89%141.55%902
Isle of Wight County1,20051.81%1,11648.19%00.00%843.63%2,316
James City County21926.51%60773.49%00.00%-388-46.97%826
King and Queen County95853.61%82946.39%00.00%1297.22%1,787
King George County54242.95%72057.05%00.00%-178-14.10%1,262
King William County74640.57%1,09359.43%00.00%-347-18.87%1,839
Lancaster County83947.32%92852.34%60.34%-89-5.02%1,773
Lee County1,47952.86%1,29546.28%240.86%1846.58%2,798
Loudoun County2,84255.83%2,19043.03%581.14%65212.81%5,090
Louisa County1,15740.70%1,67758.99%90.32%-520-18.29%2,843
Lunenburg County1,21560.12%80639.88%00.00%40920.24%2,021
Madison County96151.45%90748.55%00.00%542.89%1,868
Mathews County1,02361.92%61537.23%140.85%40824.70%1,652
Mecklenburg County1,76440.25%2,60759.48%120.27%-843-19.23%4,383
Middlesex County63540.81%90958.42%120.77%-274-17.61%1,556
Montgomery County1,33544.51%1,51650.55%1484.93%-181-6.04%2,999
Nansemond County1,38239.84%2,08760.16%00.00%-705-20.32%3,469
Nelson County1,55455.94%1,22444.06%00.00%33011.88%2,778
New Kent County37534.92%68964.15%100.93%-314-29.24%1,074
Norfolk County1,96934.41%3,74165.37%130.23%-1,772-30.96%5,723
Northampton County98044.53%1,22155.47%00.00%-241-10.95%2,201
Northumberland County85148.41%90551.48%20.11%-54-3.07%1,758
Nottoway County61135.30%1,11664.47%40.23%-505-29.17%1,731
Orange County1,12649.21%1,15350.39%90.39%-27-1.18%2,288
Page County1,19547.05%1,33352.48%120.47%-138-5.43%2,540
Patrick County1,23954.46%1,02244.92%140.62%2179.54%2,275
Pittsylvania County4,26152.36%3,84747.27%300.37%4145.09%8,138
Powhatan County56142.21%76757.71%10.08%-206-15.50%1,329
Prince Edward County1,13042.63%1,51957.30%20.08%-389-14.67%2,651
Prince George County66139.37%1,01860.63%00.00%-357-21.26%1,679
Prince William County1,31363.83%74035.97%40.19%57327.86%2,057
Princess Anne County84445.52%1,00454.15%60.32%-160-8.63%1,854
Pulaski County1,07051.47%99347.76%160.77%773.70%2,079
Rappahannock County1,03465.15%55334.85%00.00%48130.31%1,587
Richmond County55342.60%74157.09%40.31%-188-14.48%1,298
Roanoke County93542.58%1,21255.19%492.23%-277-12.61%2,196
Rockbridge County2,03049.22%2,07450.29%200.48%-44-1.07%4,124
Rockingham County2,89546.80%3,17551.33%1161.88%-280-4.53%6,186
Russell County1,60154.23%1,33345.16%180.61%2689.08%2,952
Scott County1,55046.27%1,80053.73%00.00%-250-7.46%3,350
Shenandoah County2,16450.81%2,06348.44%320.75%1012.37%4,259
Smyth County1,31051.57%1,22848.35%20.08%823.23%2,540
Southampton County1,56041.81%2,11756.74%541.45%-557-14.93%3,731
Spotsylvania County87648.67%92251.22%20.11%-46-2.56%1,800
Stafford County59540.26%88359.74%00.00%-288-19.49%1,478
Surry County66137.39%1,10162.27%60.34%-440-24.89%1,768
Sussex County89636.07%1,58263.69%60.24%-686-27.62%2,484
Tazewell County1,30736.31%2,24562.36%481.33%-938-26.06%3,600
Warren County1,22472.43%44026.04%261.54%78446.39%1,690
Warwick County38533.54%76366.46%00.00%-378-32.93%1,148
Washington County2,92052.82%2,54846.09%601.09%3726.73%5,528
Westmoreland County62638.24%1,00961.64%20.12%-383-23.40%1,637
Wise County72249.15%74250.51%50.34%-20-1.36%1,469
Wythe County1,46246.84%1,64352.64%160.51%-181-5.80%3,121
York County49533.13%97265.06%271.81%-477-31.93%1,494
Alexandria City1,66551.95%1,52347.52%170.53%1424.43%3,205
Charlottesville City67461.89%40737.37%80.73%26724.52%1,089
Danville City1,07056.76%81243.08%30.16%25813.69%1,885
Fredericksburg City59559.26%40940.74%00.00%18618.53%1,004
Lynchburg City2,05453.20%1,79646.52%110.28%2586.68%3,861
Manchester City89654.63%73544.82%90.55%1619.82%1,640
Newport News City2,61344.77%3,19854.80%250.43%-585-10.02%5,836
Norfolk City33760.07%22339.75%10.18%11420.32%561
Petersburg City2,06748.46%2,19851.54%00.00%-131-3.07%4,265
Portsmouth City1,43955.99%1,10743.07%240.93%33212.92%2,570
Richmond City8,21156.69%6,27343.31%00.00%1,93813.38%14,484
Radford City1,15553.97%97645.61%90.42%1798.36%2,140
Roanoke City71954.43%53540.50%675.07%18413.93%1,321
Staunton City10137.83%16160.30%51.87%-60-22.47%267
Winchester City48846.83%54051.82%141.34%-52-4.99%1,042
Totals152,00449.99%150,39949.46%1,6840.55%1,6050.53%304,087

Notes and References

  1. [Valdimer Orlando Key|Key, Valdimer Orlando]
  2. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results Comparison — Virginia
  3. Web site: 1888 Presidential General Election Results — Virginia. U.S. Election Atlas. 12 April 2013.
  4. Web site: Géoelections. Presidential election of 1888 Popular Vote. (.xlsx file for €15)
  5. Web site: Géoelections. Popular Vote for Clinton Fisk. (.xlsx file for €15)

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