See main article: 1888 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1888 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Country: | West Virginia |
| Flag Year: | 1846 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Previous Year: | 1884 |
| Next Election: | 1892 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Next Year: | 1892 |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1888 |
| Turnout: | 25.78% of the total population 4.41 pp[1] |
| Image1: | StephenGroverCleveland.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Grover Cleveland |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York |
| Running Mate1: | Allen Thurman |
| Electoral Vote1: | 6 |
| Popular Vote1: | 78,677 |
| Percentage1: | 49.35% |
| Nominee2: | Benjamin Harrison |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Indiana |
| Running Mate2: | Levi P. Morton |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 78,171 |
| Percentage2: | 49.03% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| 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 West Virginia took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]
West Virginia 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 49.35 percent of the popular vote, against former Senator Benjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running with Levi P. Morton, the 31st governor of New York, with 49.03 percent of the vote.[2] Cleveland's razor-thin 0.32 percentage point margin of victory in West Virginia remains the state's closest presidential election result in history.
The Union Labor Party chose Alson Streeter, a former Illinois state representative, and Charles E. Cunningham as their presidential and vice-presidential candidates and received 0.95 percent of the vote. The Prohibition Party ran brigadier general Clinton B. Fisk and John A. Brooks and received 0.68 percent of the vote.
| County | Democratic | Republican | Prohibition | Margin | |||||||||||||||||||
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| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" width="8%" | data-sort-type="number" width="8%" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | |||||||||
| Barbour | 1,508 | 50.40% | 1,473 | 49.23% | 9 | 0.30% | 2 | 0.07% | 35 | 1.17% | 2,992 | ||||||||||||
| Berkeley | 2,011 | 47.89% | 2,183 | 51.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.12% | -172 | -4.10% | 4,199 | ||||||||||||
| Boone | 741 | 58.62% | 520 | 41.14% | 2 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.08% | 221 | 17.48% | 1,264 | ||||||||||||
| Braxton | 1,688 | 61.27% | 1,062 | 38.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.18% | 626 | 22.72% | 2,755 | ||||||||||||
| Brooke | 804 | 50.16% | 788 | 49.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 11 | 0.69% | 16 | 1.00% | 1,603 | ||||||||||||
| Cabell | 2,427 | 55.01% | 1,947 | 44.13% | 8 | 0.18% | 30 | 0.68% | 480 | 10.88% | 4,412 | ||||||||||||
| Calhoun | 935 | 59.55% | 623 | 39.68% | 11 | 0.70% | 1 | 0.06% | 312 | 19.87% | 1,570 | ||||||||||||
| Clay | 414 | 46.73% | 464 | 52.37% | 8 | 0.90% | 0 | 0.00% | -50 | -5.64% | 886 | ||||||||||||
| Doddridge | 1,151 | 45.08% | 1,393 | 54.56% | 6 | 0.24% | 3 | 0.12% | -242 | -9.48% | 2,553 | ||||||||||||
| Fayette | 1,923 | 40.45% | 2,616 | 55.03% | 189 | 3.98% | 26 | 0.55% | -693 | -14.58% | 4,754 | ||||||||||||
| Gilmer | 1,179 | 58.60% | 833 | 41.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 346 | 17.20% | 2,012 | ||||||||||||
| Grant | 378 | 26.69% | 1,027 | 72.53% | 2 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.64% | -649 | -45.83% | 1,416 | ||||||||||||
| Greenbrier | 2,121 | 60.22% | 1,393 | 39.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 8 | 0.23% | 728 | 20.67% | 3,522 | ||||||||||||
| Hampshire | 1,907 | 78.38% | 519 | 21.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 0.29% | 1,388 | 57.05% | 2,433 | ||||||||||||
| Hancock | 489 | 40.45% | 675 | 55.83% | 33 | 2.73% | 12 | 0.99% | -186 | -15.38% | 1,209 | ||||||||||||
| Hardy | 1,153 | 72.20% | 439 | 27.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.31% | 714 | 44.71% | 1,597 | ||||||||||||
| Harrison | 2,161 | 43.84% | 2,628 | 53.32% | 118 | 2.39% | 22 | 0.45% | -467 | -9.47% | 4,929 | ||||||||||||
| Jackson | 1,942 | 46.28% | 2,234 | 53.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 20 | 0.48% | -292 | -6.96% | 4,196 | ||||||||||||
| Jefferson | 2,357 | 67.11% | 1,132 | 32.23% | 16 | 0.46% | 7 | 0.20% | 1,225 | 34.88% | 3,512 | ||||||||||||
| Kanawha | 3,089 | 37.19% | 4,541 | 54.66% | 582 | 7.01% | 95 | 1.14% | -1,452 | -17.48% | 8,307 | ||||||||||||
| Lewis | 1,642 | 51.39% | 1,527 | 47.79% | 4 | 0.13% | 22 | 0.69% | 115 | 3.60% | 3,195 | ||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 1,147 | 54.46% | 950 | 45.11% | 9 | 0.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 197 | 9.35% | 2,106 | ||||||||||||
| Logan | 1,533 | 79.60% | 393 | 20.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,140 | 59.19% | 1,926 | ||||||||||||
| Marion | 2,256 | 48.96% | 2,233 | 48.46% | 69 | 1.50% | 50 | 1.09% | 23 | 0.50% | 4,608 | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | 1,837 | 39.90% | 2,676 | 58.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 91 | 1.98% | -839 | -18.22% | 4,604 | ||||||||||||
| Mason | 2,321 | 46.29% | 2,646 | 52.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 47 | 0.94% | -325 | -6.48% | 5,014 | ||||||||||||
| McDowell | 409 | 41.27% | 582 | 58.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -173 | -17.46% | 991 | ||||||||||||
| Mercer | 1,374 | 49.26% | 1,402 | 50.27% | 7 | 0.25% | 6 | 0.22% | -28 | -1.00% | 2,789 | ||||||||||||
| Mineral | 1,209 | 48.36% | 1,251 | 50.04% | 9 | 0.36% | 31 | 1.24% | -42 | -1.68% | 2,500 | ||||||||||||
| Monongalia | 1,361 | 37.82% | 2,208 | 61.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 30 | 0.83% | -847 | -23.53% | 3,599 | ||||||||||||
| Monroe | 1,338 | 51.72% | 1,222 | 47.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 27 | 1.04% | 116 | 4.48% | 2,587 | ||||||||||||
| Morgan | 539 | 37.46% | 877 | 60.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 23 | 1.60% | -338 | -23.49% | 1,439 | ||||||||||||
| Nicholas | 1,016 | 54.98% | 779 | 42.15% | 13 | 0.70% | 40 | 2.16% | 237 | 12.82% | 1,848 | ||||||||||||
| Ohio | 4,855 | 50.07% | 4,749 | 48.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 92 | 0.95% | 106 | 1.09% | 9,696 | ||||||||||||
| Pendleton | 1,012 | 56.47% | 779 | 43.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.06% | 233 | 13.00% | 1,792 | ||||||||||||
| Pleasants | 803 | 53.18% | 693 | 45.89% | 7 | 0.46% | 7 | 0.46% | 110 | 7.28% | 1,510 | ||||||||||||
| Pocahontas | 891 | 60.04% | 587 | 39.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 0.40% | 304 | 20.49% | 1,484 | ||||||||||||
| Preston | 1,403 | 31.32% | 2,998 | 66.92% | 35 | 0.78% | 44 | 0.98% | -1,595 | -35.60% | 4,480 | ||||||||||||
| Putnam | 1,390 | 45.59% | 1,521 | 49.89% | 128 | 4.20% | 10 | 0.33% | -131 | -4.30% | 3,049 | ||||||||||||
| Raleigh | 924 | 52.80% | 806 | 46.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 20 | 1.14% | 118 | 6.74% | 1,750 | ||||||||||||
| Randolph | 1,426 | 64.88% | 772 | 35.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 654 | 29.75% | 2,198 | ||||||||||||
| Ritchie | 1,408 | 40.23% | 1,960 | 56.00% | 32 | 0.91% | 100 | 2.86% | -552 | -15.77% | 3,500 | ||||||||||||
| Roane | 1,636 | 52.93% | 1,449 | 46.88% | 3 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.10% | 187 | 6.05% | 3,091 | ||||||||||||
| Summers | 1,353 | 51.25% | 1,272 | 48.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 15 | 0.57% | 81 | 3.07% | 2,640 | ||||||||||||
| Taylor | 1,219 | 43.06% | 1,580 | 55.81% | 2 | 0.07% | 30 | 1.06% | -361 | -12.75% | 2,831 | ||||||||||||
| Tucker | 680 | 51.52% | 628 | 47.58% | 6 | 0.45% | 6 | 0.45% | 52 | 3.94% | 1,320 | ||||||||||||
| Tyler | 1,137 | 41.89% | 1,562 | 57.55% | 1 | 0.04% | 14 | 0.52% | -425 | -15.66% | 2,714 | ||||||||||||
| Upshur | 841 | 32.32% | 1,716 | 65.95% | 21 | 0.81% | 24 | 0.92% | -875 | -33.63% | 2,602 | ||||||||||||
| Wayne | 2,058 | 59.26% | 1,412 | 40.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.09% | 646 | 18.60% | 3,473 | ||||||||||||
| Webster | 658 | 69.05% | 295 | 30.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 363 | 38.09% | 953 | ||||||||||||
| Wetzel | 2,295 | 61.68% | 1,385 | 37.22% | 34 | 0.91% | 7 | 0.19% | 910 | 24.46% | 3,721 | ||||||||||||
| Wirt | 1,054 | 53.02% | 921 | 46.33% | 10 | 0.50% | 3 | 0.15% | 133 | 6.69% | 1,988 | ||||||||||||
| Wood | 2,803 | 44.82% | 3,255 | 52.05% | 134 | 2.14% | 62 | 0.99% | -452 | -7.23% | 6,254 | ||||||||||||
| Wyoming | 471 | 44.10% | 596 | 55.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.09% | -125 | -11.70% | 1,068 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 78,677 | 49.35% | 78,172 | 49.03% | 1,508 | 0.95% | 1,084 | 0.68% | 505 | 0.32% | 159,441 | ||||||||||||