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County results
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The1888 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 6, 1888, as part of theconcurrent Presidential election in which all thirty-eight contemporary states participated. Alabama voters chose ten electors, or representatives to theElectoral College, who voted forPresident andVice-president.
Alabama was won easily by the Democratic nominee, former president andGovernor of New YorkGrover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, formerIndiana SenatorBenjamin Harrison. Increasing intimidation ofAfrican Americans who attempted to vote[1] meant that Cleveland increased his margin of 22% in 1884 to 34.51%. Increasingly blatantelectoral fraud in the region against the Republican Party – associated at this state with the memories ofReconstruction – meant that Cleveland carried everyBlack Belt county,[2] and lost only five counties inNorth Alabama that were unfavourable to hisBourbon Democrat policies and image.
| 1888 United States presidential election in Alabama[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Grover Cleveland (incumbent) | 117,314 | 67.00% | 10 | |
| Republican | Benjamin Harrison | 57,177 | 32.66% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Clinton B. Fisk | 594 | 0.34% | 0 | |
| Totals | 175,085 | 100.00% | 10 | ||
| County | Grover Cleveland[4] Democratic | Benjamin Harrison[4] Republican | Clinton B. Fisk[5] Prohibition | Various candidates[5] Write-ins | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Autauga | 893 | 63.24% | 519 | 36.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 374 | 26.49% | 1,412 | ||
| Baldwin | 724 | 56.96% | 547 | 43.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 177 | 13.93% | 1,271 | ||
| Barbour | 3,530 | 88.65% | 452 | 11.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,078 | 77.30% | 3,982 | ||
| Bibb | 960 | 59.04% | 657 | 40.41% | 9 | 0.55% | 303 | 18.63% | 1,626 | ||
| Blount | 1,873 | 83.06% | 375 | 16.63% | 7 | 0.31% | 1,498 | 66.43% | 2,255 | ||
| Bullock | 716 | 60.63% | 465 | 39.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 251 | 21.25% | 1,181 | ||
| Butler | 1,905 | 58.13% | 1,347 | 41.10% | 25 | 0.76% | 558 | 17.03% | 3,277 | ||
| Calhoun | 2,680 | 73.87% | 938 | 25.85% | 10 | 0.28% | 1,742 | 48.02% | 3,628 | ||
| Chambers | 2,115 | 57.04% | 1,593 | 42.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 522 | 14.08% | 3,708 | ||
| Cherokee | 1,686 | 82.65% | 333 | 16.32% | 19 | 0.93% | 2 | 0.10% | 1,353 | 66.32% | 2,040 |
| Chilton | 1,101 | 71.59% | 437 | 28.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 664 | 43.17% | 1,538 | ||
| Choctaw | 1,389 | 68.83% | 629 | 31.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 760 | 37.66% | 2,018 | ||
| Clarke | 1,566 | 55.91% | 1,235 | 44.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 331 | 11.82% | 2,801 | ||
| Clay | 1,278 | 77.08% | 376 | 22.68% | 4 | 0.24% | 902 | 54.40% | 1,658 | ||
| Cleburne | 940 | 77.24% | 276 | 22.68% | 1 | 0.08% | 664 | 54.56% | 1,217 | ||
| Coffee | 1,124 | 99.38% | 7 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,117 | 98.76% | 1,131 | ||
| Colbert | 1,274 | 49.08% | 1,315 | 50.65% | 7 | 0.27% | -41 | -1.58% | 2,596 | ||
| Conecuh | 1,347 | 64.30% | 748 | 35.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 599 | 28.59% | 2,095 | ||
| Coosa | 1,329 | 64.26% | 739 | 35.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 590 | 28.53% | 2,068 | ||
| Covington | 1,058 | 95.49% | 50 | 4.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,008 | 90.97% | 1,108 | ||
| Crenshaw | 1,923 | 90.71% | 197 | 9.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,726 | 81.42% | 2,120 | ||
| Cullman | 920 | 72.33% | 350 | 27.52% | 2 | 0.16% | 570 | 44.81% | 1,272 | ||
| Dale | 1,266 | 98.83% | 15 | 1.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,251 | 97.66% | 1,281 | ||
| Dallas | 5,302 | 71.69% | 2,090 | 28.26% | 4 | 0.05% | 3,212 | 43.43% | 7,396 | ||
| DeKalb | 1,326 | 68.49% | 593 | 30.63% | 17 | 0.88% | 733 | 37.86% | 1,936 | ||
| Elmore | 1,717 | 52.80% | 1,535 | 47.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 182 | 5.60% | 3,252 | ||
| Escambia | 694 | 58.47% | 484 | 40.78% | 9 | 0.76% | 210 | 17.69% | 1,187 | ||
| Etowah | 1,912 | 68.09% | 841 | 29.95% | 55 | 1.96% | 1,071 | 38.14% | 2,808 | ||
| Fayette | 864 | 72.85% | 315 | 26.56% | 7 | 0.59% | 549 | 46.29% | 1,186 | ||
| Franklin | 784 | 76.86% | 236 | 23.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 548 | 53.73% | 1,020 | ||
| Geneva | 794 | 99.37% | 5 | 0.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 789 | 98.75% | 799 | ||
| Greene | 1,401 | 64.24% | 778 | 35.67% | 2 | 0.09% | 623 | 28.56% | 2,181 | ||
| Hale | 2,914 | 66.23% | 1,478 | 33.59% | 8 | 0.18% | 1,436 | 32.64% | 4,400 | ||
| Henry | 1,947 | 99.85% | 2 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.05% | 1,945 | 99.74% | 1,950 | ||
| Jackson | 2,304 | 68.45% | 1,022 | 30.36% | 40 | 1.19% | 1,282 | 38.09% | 3,366 | ||
| Jefferson | 5,508 | 63.95% | 3,001 | 34.84% | 104 | 1.21% | 2,507 | 29.11% | 8,613 | ||
| Lamar | 1,133 | 82.28% | 243 | 17.65% | 1 | 0.07% | 890 | 64.63% | 1,377 | ||
| Lauderdale | 1,637 | 59.35% | 1,120 | 40.61% | 1 | 0.04% | 517 | 18.75% | 2,758 | ||
| Lawrence | 1,449 | 49.54% | 1,457 | 49.81% | 19 | 0.65% | -8 | -0.27% | 2,925 | ||
| Lee | 1,991 | 58.11% | 1,432 | 41.80% | 3 | 0.09% | 559 | 16.32% | 3,426 | ||
| Limestone | 1,489 | 55.29% | 1,183 | 43.93% | 21 | 0.78% | 306 | 11.36% | 2,693 | ||
| Lowndes | 2,105 | 58.91% | 1,468 | 41.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 637 | 17.83% | 3,573 | ||
| Macon | 931 | 77.65% | 268 | 22.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 663 | 55.30% | 1,199 | ||
| Madison | 2,136 | 45.08% | 2,595 | 54.77% | 6 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.02% | -459 | -9.69% | 4,738 |
| Marengo | 3,426 | 63.93% | 1,933 | 36.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,493 | 27.86% | 5,359 | ||
| Marion | 721 | 72.54% | 273 | 27.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 448 | 45.07% | 994 | ||
| Marshall | 1,166 | 79.43% | 248 | 16.89% | 20 | 1.36% | 34 | 2.32% | 918 | 62.53% | 1,468 |
| Mobile | 3,109 | 55.02% | 2,542 | 44.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 567 | 10.03% | 5,651 | ||
| Monroe | 1,445 | 65.33% | 767 | 34.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 678 | 30.65% | 2,212 | ||
| Montgomery | 3,712 | 55.58% | 2,966 | 44.41% | 1 | 0.01% | 746 | 11.17% | 6,679 | ||
| Morgan | 1,707 | 76.65% | 507 | 22.77% | 13 | 0.58% | 1,200 | 53.88% | 2,227 | ||
| Perry | 2,729 | 77.55% | 790 | 22.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,939 | 55.10% | 3,519 | ||
| Pickens | 1,326 | 98.66% | 17 | 1.26% | 1 | 0.07% | 1,309 | 97.40% | 1,344 | ||
| Pike | 2,623 | 74.67% | 890 | 25.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,733 | 49.33% | 3,513 | ||
| Randolph | 1,023 | 57.93% | 733 | 41.51% | 8 | 0.45% | 2 | 0.11% | 290 | 16.42% | 1,766 |
| Russell | 1,970 | 64.42% | 1,088 | 35.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 882 | 28.84% | 3,058 | ||
| Shelby | 1,626 | 60.65% | 1,037 | 38.68% | 18 | 0.67% | 589 | 21.97% | 2,681 | ||
| St. Clair | 1,489 | 69.26% | 640 | 29.77% | 21 | 0.98% | 849 | 39.49% | 2,150 | ||
| Sumter | 2,060 | 71.28% | 819 | 28.34% | 11 | 0.38% | 1,241 | 42.94% | 2,890 | ||
| Talladega | 1,983 | 46.64% | 2,179 | 51.25% | 90 | 2.12% | -196 | -4.61% | 4,252 | ||
| Tallapoosa | 2,385 | 76.05% | 751 | 23.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,634 | 52.10% | 3,136 | ||
| Tuscaloosa | 2,214 | 67.09% | 1,057 | 32.03% | 28 | 0.85% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,157 | 35.06% | 3,300 |
| Walker | 1,126 | 51.82% | 1,047 | 48.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 79 | 3.64% | 2,173 | ||
| Washington | 508 | 69.97% | 217 | 29.89% | 1 | 0.14% | 291 | 40.08% | 726 | ||
| Wilcox | 4,811 | 88.80% | 607 | 11.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,204 | 77.59% | 5,418 | ||
| Winston | 220 | 40.52% | 323 | 59.48% | 0 | 0.00% | -103 | -18.97% | 543 | ||
| Totals | 117,094 | 67.07% | 56,854 | 32.57% | 594 | 0.34% | 40 | 0.02% | 60,240 | 34.51% | 174,582 |