1892 United States presidential election in Kansas
November 8, 1892
 
Nominee James B. Weaver Benjamin Harrison
Party Populist Republican
Home state Iowa Indiana
Running mate James G. Field Whitelaw Reid
Electoral vote 10 0
Popular vote 163,111 157,241
Percentage 50.20% 48.40%
County Results
President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

 Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

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

Kansas was won by the Populist nominees,[1] James B. Weaver of Iowa and his running mate James G. Field of Virginia. Weaver and Field defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison of Indiana and his running mate Whitelaw Reid of New York. This was the first time that a non-Republican had won Kansas’ electoral votes since statehood, and one of only seven times out of thirty-nine that Kansas has not voted Republican in a Presidential Election.

Kansas was one of a handful of states, five in total, that did not feature former and future President Grover Cleveland on their ballots: Kansas had been his second weakest state in 1888, garnering only 31.03 percent of the vote. Kansas was also Weaver's fourth strongest state percentage-wise and the state which gave him the most popular votes. Lorenzo D. Lewelling, a fellow Populist, was elected Governor of Kansas, almost perfectly matching Weaver's vote total.[2]

Results

1892 United States presidential election in Kansas[3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
People's James Weaver 163,111 50.20% 10
Republican Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) 157,241 48.40% 0
Prohibition John Bidwell 4,553 1.40% 0
Totals 324,905 100.00% 10
Voter turnout —

Results by county

1892 United States presidential election in Kansas by county[4][5][6]
County Benjamin Harrison
Republican		 James Baird Weaver
Populist		 John Bidwell
Prohibition		 Margin[lower-alpha 1] Total votes cast
#  % #  % #  % #  %
Allen 1,509 51.20% 1,398 47.44% 40 1.36% 111 3.76% 2,947
Anderson 1,638 51.06% 1,476 46.01% 94 2.93% 162 5.05% 3,208
Atchison 2,666 49.17% 2,718 50.13% 38 0.70% -52 -0.96% 5,422
Barber 883 37.75% 1,439 61.52% 17 0.73% -556 -23.77% 2,339
Barton 1,381 43.10% 1,816 56.68% 7 0.22% -435 -13.58% 3,204
Bourbon 2,803 49.24% 2,863 50.30% 26 0.46% -60 -1.06% 5,692
Brown 2,562 52.03% 2,252 45.74% 110 2.23% 310 6.29% 4,924
Butler 2,650 48.62% 2,705 49.63% 95 1.74% -55 -1.01% 5,450
Chase 891 47.37% 972 51.67% 18 0.96% -81 -4.30% 1,881
Chautauqua 1,408 52.03% 1,292 47.75% 6 0.22% 116 4.28% 2,706
Cherokee 2,696 41.43% 3,751 57.64% 61 0.94% -1,055 -16.21% 6,508
Cheyenne 505 50.45% 486 48.55% 10 1.00% 19 1.90% 1,001
Clark 226 42.40% 305 57.22% 2 0.38% -79 -14.82% 533
Clay 1,666 43.78% 2,038 53.56% 101 2.65% -372 -9.78% 3,805
Cloud 1,915 44.98% 2,268 53.28% 74 1.74% -353 -8.30% 4,257
Coffey 1,769 47.54% 1,886 50.69% 66 1.77% -117 -3.15% 3,721
Comanche 259 45.52% 310 54.48% 0 0.00% -51 -8.96% 569
Cowley 3,886 49.13% 3,896 49.26% 127 1.61% -10 -0.13% 7,909
Crawford 3,064 41.89% 4,164 56.93% 86 1.18% -1,100 -15.04% 7,314
Decatur 619 38.59% 983 61.28% 2 0.12% -364 -22.69% 1,604
Dickinson 2,419 47.14% 2,647 51.59% 65 1.27% -228 -4.45% 5,131
Doniphan 2,161 64.41% 1,185 35.32% 9 0.27% 976 29.09% 3,355
Douglas 3,114 57.31% 2,174 40.01% 146 2.69% 940 17.30% 5,434
Edwards 399 45.55% 472 53.88% 5 0.57% -73 -8.33% 876
Elk 1,235 47.19% 1,369 52.31% 13 0.50% -134 -5.12% 2,617
Ellis 546 33.52% 1,069 65.62% 14 0.86% -523 -32.10% 1,629
Ellsworth 1,102 49.80% 1,097 49.57% 14 0.63% 5 0.23% 2,213
Finney 478 58.29% 338 41.22% 4 0.49% 140 17.07% 820
Ford 648 53.42% 565 46.58% 0 0.00% 83 6.84% 1,213
Franklin 2,209 46.06% 2,431 50.69% 156 3.25% -222 -4.63% 4,796
Garfield 102 59.65% 69 40.35% 0 0.00% 33 19.30% 171
Geary 863 42.72% 1,113 55.10% 44 2.18% -250 -12.38% 2,020
Gove 327 56.87% 248 43.13% 0 0.00% 79 13.74% 575
Graham 436 44.40% 546 55.60% 0 0.00% -110 -11.20% 982
Grant 151 53.55% 131 46.45% 0 0.00% 20 7.10% 282
Gray 274 54.37% 229 45.44% 1 0.20% 45 8.93% 504
Greeley 241 67.89% 114 32.11% 0 0.00% 127 35.78% 355
Greenwood 1,734 49.01% 1,781 50.34% 23 0.65% -47 -1.33% 3,538
Hamilton 252 56.25% 186 41.52% 10 2.23% 66 14.73% 448
Harper 1,288 38.57% 1,986 59.48% 65 1.95% -698 -20.91% 3,339
Harvey 2,025 52.80% 1,756 45.79% 54 1.41% 269 7.01% 3,835
Haskell 177 61.46% 111 38.54% 0 0.00% 66 22.92% 288
Hodgeman 363 61.21% 223 37.61% 7 1.18% 140 23.60% 593
Jackson 1,825 52.93% 1,594 46.23% 29 0.84% 231 6.70% 3,448
Jefferson 2,026 49.95% 1,973 48.64% 57 1.41% 53 1.31% 4,056
Jewell 1,963 45.59% 2,225 51.67% 118 2.74% -262 -6.08% 4,306
Johnson 2,070 50.48% 1,932 47.11% 99 2.41% 138 3.37% 4,101
Kearny 219 60.83% 141 39.17% 0 0.00% 78 21.66% 360
Kingman 1,225 43.12% 1,564 55.05% 52 1.83% -339 -11.93% 2,841
Kiowa 398 50.44% 376 47.66% 15 1.90% 22 2.78% 789
Labette 2,950 47.89% 3,116 50.58% 94 1.53% -166 -2.69% 6,160
Lane 284 55.58% 222 43.44% 5 0.98% 62 12.14% 511
Leavenworth 3,471 46.96% 3,869 52.34% 52 0.70% -398 -5.38% 7,392
Lincoln 878 39.18% 1,348 60.15% 15 0.67% -470 -20.97% 2,241
Linn 2,046 49.37% 2,063 49.78% 35 0.84% -17 -0.41% 4,144
Logan 457 58.14% 329 41.86% 0 0.00% 128 16.28% 786
Lyon 2,591 48.48% 2,623 49.08% 130 2.43% -32 -0.60% 5,344
Marion 2,210 55.54% 1,682 42.27% 87 2.19% 528 13.27% 3,979
Marshall 2,531 45.32% 2,937 52.59% 117 2.09% -406 -7.27% 5,585
McPherson 2,294 48.42% 2,335 49.28% 109 2.30% -41 -0.86% 4,738
Meade 261 54.83% 214 44.96% 1 0.21% 47 9.87% 476
Miami 2,243 49.10% 2,280 49.91% 45 0.99% -37 -0.81% 4,568
Mitchell 1,467 43.51% 1,855 55.01% 50 1.48% -388 -11.50% 3,372
Montgomery 2,736 51.83% 2,514 47.62% 29 0.55% 222 4.21% 5,279
Morris 1,416 50.90% 1,323 47.56% 43 1.55% 93 3.34% 2,782
Morton 106 57.61% 76 41.30% 2 1.09% 30 16.31% 184
Nemaha 2,222 49.73% 2,194 49.10% 52 1.16% 28 0.63% 4,468
Neosho 2,000 47.81% 2,170 51.88% 13 0.31% -170 -4.07% 4,183
Ness 495 44.43% 590 52.96% 29 2.60% -95 -8.53% 1,114
Norton 1,054 48.26% 1,090 49.91% 40 1.83% -36 -1.65% 2,184
Osage 2,604 43.77% 3,170 53.29% 175 2.94% -566 -9.52% 5,949
Osborne 1,162 45.37% 1,380 53.89% 19 0.74% -218 -8.52% 2,561
Ottawa 1,444 47.48% 1,541 50.67% 56 1.84% -97 -3.19% 3,041
Pawnee 670 47.86% 722 51.57% 8 0.57% -52 -3.71% 1,400
Phillips 1,352 47.79% 1,469 51.93% 8 0.28% -117 -4.14% 2,829
Pottawatomie 2,107 49.80% 2,101 49.66% 23 0.54% 6 0.14% 4,231
Pratt 947 44.19% 1,170 54.60% 26 1.21% -223 -10.41% 2,143
Rawlins 592 43.79% 756 55.92% 4 0.30% -164 -12.13% 1,352
Reno 3,166 50.00% 3,097 48.91% 69 1.09% 69 1.09% 6,332
Republic 2,167 50.03% 2,049 47.31% 115 2.66% 118 2.72% 4,331
Rice 1,724 46.78% 1,821 49.42% 140 3.80% -97 -2.64% 3,685
Riley 1,574 51.67% 1,427 46.85% 45 1.48% 147 4.82% 3,046
Rooks 811 47.93% 847 50.06% 34 2.01% -36 -2.13% 1,692
Rush 570 47.50% 616 51.33% 14 1.17% -46 -3.83% 1,200
Russell 1,007 57.44% 730 41.64% 16 0.91% 277 15.80% 1,753
Saline 1,817 45.17% 2,175 54.06% 31 0.77% -358 -8.89% 4,023
Scott 142 45.95% 162 52.43% 5 1.62% -20 -6.48% 309
Sedgwick 4,770 46.68% 5,254 51.42% 194 1.90% -484 -4.74% 10,218
Seward 156 57.14% 115 42.12% 2 0.73% 41 15.02% 273
Shawnee 6,759 60.82% 4,206 37.85% 148 1.33% 2,553 22.97% 11,113
Sheridan 325 41.09% 463 58.53% 3 0.38% -138 -17.44% 791
Sherman 571 43.16% 748 56.54% 4 0.30% -177 -13.38% 1,323
Smith 1,389 41.33% 1,923 57.22% 49 1.46% -534 -15.89% 3,361
Stafford 840 39.25% 1,232 57.57% 68 3.18% -392 -18.32% 2,140
Stanton 146 52.71% 131 47.29% 0 0.00% 15 5.42% 277
Stevens 85 31.48% 185 68.52% 0 0.00% -100 -37.04% 270
Sumner 3,503 45.52% 4,058 52.74% 134 1.74% -555 -7.22% 7,695
Thomas 490 41.28% 693 58.38% 4 0.34% -203 -17.10% 1,187
Trego 309 50.49% 294 48.04% 9 1.47% 15 2.45% 612
Wabaunsee 1,356 46.82% 1,520 52.49% 20 0.69% -164 -5.67% 2,896
Wallace 377 55.93% 295 43.77% 2 0.30% 82 12.16% 674
Washington 2,323 44.80% 2,842 54.81% 20 0.39% -519 -10.01% 5,185
Wichita 245 53.26% 214 46.52% 1 0.22% 31 6.74% 460
Wilson 1,803 51.80% 1,636 47.00% 42 1.21% 167 4.80% 3,481
Woodson 1,071 50.16% 1,032 48.34% 32 1.50% 39 1.82% 2,135
Wyandotte 5,889 51.10% 5,529 47.98% 106 0.92% 360 3.12% 11,524
Totals157,24148.40%163,096[lower-alpha 2]50.20%4,5541.40%-5,855-1.80%324,891

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Because Grover Cleveland was not on the ballot and no nominee was listed under the “Democratic” line, margin given is Harrison vote minus Weaver vote and percentage margin Harrison percentage minus Weaver percentage for all counties.
  2. ↑ There is a difference of fifteen votes between this sum and Dave Leip’s total figure for the Weaver vote.

References

  1. ↑ Our Campaigns; KS US President 1892
  2. ↑ "Our Campaigns - KS Governor Race - Nov 08, 1892".
  3. ↑ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1892 Presidential General Election Results – Kansas
  4. ↑ "Presidential election of 1892 Popular Vote". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
  5. ↑ "Popular Vote for James B. Weaver". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
  6. ↑ "Popular Vote for John Bidwell". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)
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