1892 United States presidential election in North Dakota

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Nominee Grover Cleveland James B. Weaver Benjamin Harrison Party Democratic Populist Republican Alliance Populist Democratic Home state New York Iowa Indiana Running mate Adlai Stevenson I James G. Field Whitelaw Reid Electoral vote 1 1 1 Popular vote 17,700 17,520 17,519 Percentage 49.01% 48.51% 48.50%

County results Fusion   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Harrison   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Unorganized

President before election Benjamin Harrison Republican Elected President Grover Cleveland Democratic

The1892 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 8, 1892. As North Dakota had been admitted to the Union as the 39th state on November 2, 1889, this was the first presidential election in which North Dakota cast electoral votes. All contemporary 44 states were part of the1892 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.

In 1892, the North Dakota Democratic Party and People's Party conducteda fusion ticket.^[1] In North Dakota, the Fusionists' opponents were theRepublican nominees, incumbentPresidentBenjamin Harrison ofIndiana and his running mateWhitelaw Reid ofNew York.

As was the case in this era, voters in North Dakota chose electors individually rather than as a slate.^[2] While it was a Fusion elector who earned the most votes with 17,700, the 17,519 recorded by the top Republican elector was enough to edge out the lowest vote-getting Fusion elector for third place overall. This created a split delegation of electors. Ultimately, the Fusion electors split their votes (one for Weaver and one for Democratic president-electGrover Cleveland) while the Republican elector duly voted for the defeated incumbent Harrison.^[3] This is the only time in a US presidential election that a state has equally distributed its electoral votes between three candidates. A state had only cast electoral votes for 3 different candidates twice before, in1824 (New York cast votes for four) and1872, the latter due to the death ofHorace Greeley. Since 1892, the only time a state has cast electoral votes for more than two candidates was in2016, when bothWashington andTexas did so. However, both of those situations involvedfaithless electors, meaning this remains (as of 2026) the last time a state's voters duly elected presidential electors who vote more or less as pledged for three different candidates.

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