1888United States presidential election in Texas

← 1884 November 6, 1888 1892 →
Turnout	22.27% of the total population 2.09pp[1]
Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Alson Streeter Party Democratic Republican Union Labor Home state New York Indiana Illinois Running mate Allen Thurman Levi P. Morton Charles E. Cunningham Electoral vote 13 0 0 Popular vote 234,883 88,422 29,459 Percentage 65.70% 24.73% 8.24%
County results Cleveland   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Harrison   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Streeter   40–50%
President before election Grover Cleveland Democratic Elected President Benjamin Harrison Republican

The1888 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 6, 1888, as part of the1888 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.^[2]

Texas was won by the incumbentPresidentGrover Cleveland (D–New York), running with the formerSenator andChief Justice of theSupreme Court of OhioAllen G. Thurman, with 65.70% of the popular vote, against formerSenatorBenjamin Harrison (R-Indiana), running withLevi P. Morton, the 31stgovernor of New York, with 24.73% of the vote and formerIllinois state representativeAlson Streeter (UL–Illinois), running withCharles E. Cunningham, with 8.24% of the vote.^[2]

The Prohibition Party ranbrigadier generalClinton B. Fisk andJohn A. Brooks and received 1.33% of the vote.

Members of theKnights of Labor and former members of theGreenback Party attended a convention in Waco on July 5, 1887, and formed an affiliate of the Union Labor Party. Around 300 delegates, mostly members of theFarmers' Alliance, from seventy counties attended a convention on May 15, 1888, to consider possible electoral campaigns. The delegates appointed MayorH.S. Broiles as a one-man executive committee and he called for a Nonpartisan Convention to be held on July 2–3. The Nonpartisan Convention created a platform and slate of candidates. The ULP endorsed these candidates and platform and William R. Lamb, the chair of the Nonpartisan Convention, was given a seat on the ULP executive committee.^[3]

The electors in Texas for Grover Cleveland were as follows, according to an October 27, 1888 edition of The Lampasas Leader: State at large- A. W. Terrell, J. W. Bailey1st District- A. T. McKinney2nd District- E. C. Dickinson3rd District- R. C. DeGrafenried4th District- Howard Templeton5th District- J. H. Cobb6th District- J. S. Woods7th District- G. A. Levi8th District- W. S. Fly9th District- W. H. Richardson10th District- J. H. McLeary11th District- W. H. Cowan

• United States presidential elections in Texas

• Hild, Matthew (2015)."The Knights of Labor and the Third-Party Movement in Texas, 1886–1896".The Southwestern Historical Quarterly.119 (1).Texas State Historical Association:24–43.doi:10.2307/447112.JSTOR 24388910.

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