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The1892 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 8, 1892. All contemporary 44 states were part of the1892 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
This was the first timeIdaho participated in a presidential election, having become the 43rd state on July 3, 1890. During its period as a territory Idaho had been divided between a strongly Republican northern half and an anti-RepublicanMormon south,[1] which in this first presidential election was in places (notablyOneida County) still excluded from voting.[1]
A wave of strikes in thesilver-mining regions[2] and even deeper conflict whereby an idled ore concentrator was destroyed inGem,[3] was to give the Populists a grip on the Mountain West that was not to be relinquished. Almost all the large number of dissenting farmers in the new state were to join with the silver interests[4] to back Weaver's policies of nationalization of railways and communications, restriction of immigration, shorter working days anddirect election of senators.[5] AlthoughSenator-to-beWilliam Borah campaigned for Harrison under the slogan that “a vote for Weaver was a vote for Cleveland and therefore against their own interests”[6] Weaver's campaign againstRepublicanGovernorNorman Bushnell Willey’s declaration ofmartial law upon the miners, and against the absentee ownership of Idaho's land and water,[7] ensured that these campaigns for Harrison would not be decisive.
Owing to the unpopularity ofGrover Cleveland in the West due to hisgold standard platform, the Democratic Party decided to not enter a Cleveland ticket in the race and to instead back Weaver.[8] Idaho was won by thePopulist nominees,James B. Weaver ofIowa and his running mateJames G. Field ofVirginia. Weaver and Field defeated theRepublican nominees, incumbentPresidentBenjamin Harrison ofIndiana and his running mateWhitelaw Reid ofNew York. Weaver won the state by a margin of 9.9%.
| 1892 United States presidential election in Idaho[9] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| People's/Democratic | James B. Weaver | 10,520 | 54.21% | 3 | |
| Republican | Benjamin Harrison (incumbent) | 8,599 | 44.31% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | John Bidwell | 288 | 1.48% | 0 | |
| Totals | 19,407 | 100.00% | 3 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | Benjamin Harrison Republican | James Baird Weaver People's/Democratic | John Bidwell Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast[10] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ada | 1,170 | 41.39% | 1,597 | 56.49% | 60 | 2.12% | -427 | -15.10% | 2,827 |
| Alturas | 290 | 32.66% | 596 | 67.12% | 2 | 0.23% | -306 | -34.46% | 888 |
| Bear Lake | 114 | 33.93% | 220 | 65.48% | 2 | 0.60% | -106 | -31.55% | 336 |
| Bingham | 937 | 48.35% | 933 | 48.14% | 68 | 3.51% | 4 | 0.21% | 1,938 |
| Boise | 377 | 42.60% | 500 | 56.50% | 8 | 0.90% | -123 | -13.90% | 885 |
| Cassia | 121 | 39.16% | 173 | 55.99% | 15 | 4.85% | -52 | -16.83% | 309 |
| Custer | 187 | 36.45% | 324 | 63.16% | 1 | 0.19% | -137 | -26.71% | 513[a] |
| Elmore | 188 | 34.81% | 351 | 65.00% | 1 | 0.19% | -163 | -30.19% | 540 |
| Idaho | 386 | 46.01% | 448 | 53.40% | 5 | 0.60% | -62 | -7.39% | 839 |
| Kootenai | 713 | 47.95% | 753 | 50.64% | 21 | 1.41% | -40 | -2.69% | 1,487 |
| Latah | 1,242 | 45.46% | 1,432 | 52.42% | 58 | 2.12% | -190 | -6.95% | 2,732 |
| Lemhi | 330 | 57.39% | 244 | 42.43% | 1 | 0.17% | 86 | 14.96% | 575 |
| Logan | 306 | 36.69% | 518 | 62.11% | 9 | 1.08% | -212 | -25.42% | 834[a] |
| Nez Perce | 345 | 44.23% | 428 | 54.87% | 7 | 0.90% | -83 | -10.64% | 780 |
| Oneida | 267 | 63.88% | 137 | 32.78% | 14 | 3.35% | 130 | 31.10% | 418 |
| Owyhee | 337 | 49.34% | 340 | 49.78% | 6 | 0.88% | -3 | -0.44% | 683 |
| Shoshone | 936 | 48.95% | 971 | 50.78% | 5 | 0.26% | -35 | -1.83% | 1,912 |
| Washington | 317 | 36.15% | 555 | 63.28% | 5 | 0.57% | -238 | -27.14% | 877 |
| Totals | 8,563 | 44.21% | 10,520 | 54.31% | 288 | 1.49% | -1,957 | -10.10% | 19,371 |
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