1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

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Election Name:1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:Louisiana
Flag Year:1861b
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1888 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:1888
Next Election:1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Next Year:1896
Election Date:November 8, 1892
Image1:StephenGroverCleveland.png
Nominee1:Grover Cleveland
Party1:Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:New York
Running Mate1:Adlai Stevenson I
Electoral Vote1:8
Popular Vote1:87,926
Percentage1:76.53%
Nominee2:Benjamin Harrison
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:Indiana
Running Mate2:Whitelaw Reid
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:26,963
Percentage2:23.47%
Map Size:350px
President
Before Election:Benjamin Harrison
Before Party:Republican Party (United States)
After Election:Grover Cleveland
After Party:Democratic Party (United States)

The 1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the 1892 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political system[1] in which the dominant Bourbon planter class used the newly enfranchised blacks to protect their power against potentially threatening poor whites.[2] Outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black voting[3] — intimidation would soon drastically reduce the number of black voters or, alternatively, count them for Democrats hostile to their interests.[4]

By the 1890s the Louisiana Republican Party was deeply divided between the establishment “black and tans” and an insurgent “lily white” faction led by Acadian sugar planters.[5] At the same time, there were major splits amongst the state’s white electorate,[4] formerly solidly Democratic because Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.[6] The major parties would be challenged in the predominantly white hill parishes by the rise of the Populist Party due to declining conditions for farmers.[7] Both the Populists and the earlier Greenback Party — who shared key leaders like James B. Weaver — would eventually be supported by the state Republican Party,[8] but only after a five-way 1892 gubernatorial race won by “Anti-Lottery Democrat” Murphy J. Foster. This support would mean that Weaver would be absent from Louisiana’s presidential ballot later in the year, and the state would be won by the Democratic nominees, former President Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. Although Cleveland won Louisiana by a landslide 53.06 percentage point margin, Populist support helped the Republicans carry several previously unanimously Democratic northern hill parishes.[7] However, this would prove the last time the Republicans won any parish in the state outside Acadiana until 1952, and the last time a parish outside Acadiana voted against the Democrats until 1948.[9]

Results

1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana[10]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
DemocraticGrover Cleveland87,92676.53%8
RepublicanBenjamin Harrison (incumbent)26,96323.47%0
Totals114,889100.00%8
Voter turnout

Results by parish

Parish! colspan="2"
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Benjamin Harrison
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number" width="11%"data-sort-type="number" width="11%"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%
Acadia25869.35%11430.65%14438.71%372
Ascension2,09990.91%2109.09%1,88981.81%2,309
Assumption1,27663.51%73336.49%54327.03%2,009
Avoyelles1,69693.14%1256.86%1,57186.27%1,821
Bienville1,62078.53%44321.47%1,17757.05%2,063
Bossier2,91497.88%632.12%2,85195.77%2,977
Caddo2,25290.55%2359.45%2,01781.10%2,487
Calcasieu1,08961.98%66838.02%42123.96%1,757
Caldwell67074.12%23425.88%43648.23%904
Cameron18497.35%52.65%17994.71%189
Catahoula1,08171.12%43928.88%64242.24%1,520
Claiborne1,44455.30%1,16744.70%27710.61%2,611
Concordia3,59399.09%330.91%3,56098.18%3,626
De Soto1,59884.51%29315.49%1,30569.01%1,891
East Baton Rouge1,37268.19%64031.81%73236.38%2,012
East Carroll1,28997.36%352.64%1,25494.71%1,324
East Feliciana1,35593.38%966.62%1,25986.77%1,451
Franklin79696.84%263.16%77093.67%822
Grant20628.41%51971.59%-313-43.17%725
Iberia57697.79%132.21%56395.59%589
Iberville1,60970.88%66129.12%94841.76%2,270
Jackson39656.41%30643.59%9012.82%702
Jefferson1,27584.44%23515.56%1,04068.87%1,510
Lafayette664100.00%00.00%664100.00%664
Lafourche2,92293.59%2006.41%2,72287.19%3,122
Lincoln69539.29%1,07460.71%-379-21.42%1,769
Livingston33359.68%22540.32%10819.35%558
Madison3,43399.51%170.49%3,41699.01%3,450
Morehouse1,17693.48%826.52%1,09486.96%1,258
Natchitoches1,14068.80%51731.20%62337.60%1,657
Orleans19,23475.73%6,16524.27%13,06951.45%25,399
Ouachita2,70191.03%2668.97%2,43582.07%2,967
Plaquemines92744.89%1,13855.11%-211-10.22%2,065
Pointe Coupee89373.44%32326.56%57046.88%1,216
Rapides3,44688.07%46711.93%2,97976.13%3,913
Red River92774.34%32025.66%60748.68%1,247
Richland88299.55%40.45%87899.10%886
Sabine50939.98%76460.02%-255-20.03%1,273
Saint Bernard44969.61%19630.39%25339.22%645
Saint Charles34532.89%70467.11%-359-34.22%1,049
Saint Helena30679.90%7720.10%22959.79%383
Saint James57542.22%78757.78%-212-15.57%1,362
Saint John the Baptist50331.03%1,11868.97%-615-37.94%1,621
Saint Landry1,13655.28%91944.72%21710.56%2,055
Saint Martin49197.42%132.58%47894.84%504
Saint Mary1,31182.19%28417.81%1,02764.39%1,595
Saint Tammany50167.70%23932.30%26235.41%740
Tangipahoa78685.62%13214.38%65471.24%918
Tensas2,35191.69%2138.31%2,13883.39%2,564
Terrebonne1,21067.64%57932.36%63135.27%1,789
Union1,21659.26%83640.74%38018.52%2,052
Vermilion31658.74%22241.26%9417.47%538
Vernon36151.28%34348.72%182.56%704
Washington39973.62%14326.38%25647.23%542
Webster1,44183.34%28816.66%1,15366.69%1,729
West Baton Rouge1,48786.76%22713.24%1,26073.51%1,714
West Carroll40899.76%10.24%40799.51%409
West Feliciana1,593100.00%00.00%1,593100.00%1,593
Winn21121.14%78778.86%-576-57.72%998
Totals87,92676.53%26,96323.47%60,96353.06%114,889

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hair, William Ivy. Bourbonism and agrarian protest; Louisiana politics, 1877-1900. 1969. 0807109088. 114–115.
  2. Inverarity. James M.. Populism and Lynching in Louisiana, 1889-1896: A Test of Erikson’s Theory of the Relationship between Boundary Crises and Repressive Justice. American Sociological Review. April 1976. 41. 2. 265–266.
  3. Howard. Perry H.. 1954. Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior. 112-113. A New Look at Reconstruction. LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses.
  4. Dethloff. Henry C.. Jones. Robert R.. Race Relations in Louisiana, 1877-98. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Autumn 1968. 9. 4. 301–323. Louisiana Historical Association.
  5. Book: Heersink. Boris. Jenkins. Jeffrey A.. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. 265–266. 1107158435.
  6. Book: [[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips]], Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 208, 210. 9780691163246.
  7. Howard. Perry H.. 1954. Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior. 115-121. The Populist–Republican Fusion: 1892-1900. LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses.
  8. Book: Kousser, J. Morgan. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910. 1975. Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut. 0-300-01973-4. 25. Second Printing.
  9. Book: Menendez, Albert J.. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. 2005. McFarland & Company. Jefferson, North Carolina. 0786422173. 213–219.
  10. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Louisiana