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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1892, in 32 states, concurrent with theHouse,Senate elections andpresidential election, on November 8, 1892 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
InFlorida, the gubernatorial election was held in October for the first time, having previously been held onthe same day as federal elections.[1]
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama (held, 1 August 1892) | Thomas G. Jones | Democratic | Re-elected, 52.24% | Reuben F. Kolb (Independent Democrat) 47.53% Scattering 0.23% [2][3] |
| Arkansas (held, 5 September 1892) | James Philip Eagle | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | William Meade Fishback (Democratic) 57.70% William G. Whipple (Republican) 21.53% Jacob P. Carnahan (Populist) 19.92% William J. Nelson (Prohibition) 0.84% [4] |
| Colorado | John Long Routt | Republican | Retired, Populist victory | Davis Hanson Waite (Populist)[d] 47.19% Joseph Helm (Republican) 41.39% Joseph H. Maupin (Democratic) 9.54% John Hipp (Prohibition) 1.88% [5][6][7][8][9] |
| Connecticut | Morgan Bulkeley | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | Luzon B. Morris (Democratic) 50.31% Samuel E. Merwin (Republican) 46.64% E. P. Angin (Prohibition) 2.39% E. M. Ripley (Populist) 0.47% Moritz E. Ruther (Socialist Labor) 0.19% [10] |
| Florida (held, 4 October 1892) | Francis P. Fleming | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Henry L. Mitchell (Democratic) 78.70% Alonzo P. Baskin (Populist) 20.56% N. J. Hawley (Prohibition) 0.74% [11][12][13] |
| Georgia (held, 5 October 1892) | William J. Northen | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.07% | W. L. Peck (Populist) 32.93% [14][15] |
| Idaho | N. B. Willey (acting) | Republican | Defeated for renomination,[16] Republican victory | William J. McConnell (Republican) 40.74% John M. Burke (Democratic) 33,72% Abraham J. Crook (Populist) 24.23% J. A. Clark (Prohibition) 1.32% [17] |
| Illinois | Joseph W. Fifer | Republican | Defeated, 46.12% | John Peter Altgeld (Democratic) 48.74% Robert R. Link (Prohibition) 2.84% Nathan M. Barnett (Populist) 2.30% [18][19] |
| Indiana | Ira Joy Chase (acting) | Republican | Defeated, 46.18% | Claude Matthews (Democratic) 47.45% Leroy Templeton (Populist) 4.01% Aaron Worth (Prohibition) 2.36% [20][21] |
| Kansas | Lyman U. Humphrey | Republican | Retired torun for U.S. House, Populist victory | Lorenzo D. Lewelling (Populist)[e] 50.19% Abram W. Smith (Republican) 48.52% I. O. Pickering (Prohibition) 1.28% [22][23][24] |
| Louisiana' (held, 19 April 1892) | Francis T. Nicholls | Democratic | [data missing], Anti-Lottery Democrat victory | Murphy J. Foster (Anti-Lottery Democrat) 44.59% Samuel D. McEnery (Democratic) 26.42% Albert H. Leonard (Republican) 16.55% John E. Breaux (Independent Republican) 6.94% R. H. Tannehill (Populist) 5.50% [25][26][27] |
| Maine (held, 12 September 1892) | Edwin C. Burleigh | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Henry B. Cleaves (Republican) 52.12% Charles F. Johnson (Democratic) 42.51% Timothy B. Hussey (Prohibition) 2.97% Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 2.22% Edgar F. Knowlton (Union Labor) 0.15% Scattering 0.03% [28][29][30] |
| Massachusetts | William E. Russell | Democratic | Re-elected, 49.03% | William H. Haile (Republican) 48.36% Wolcott Hamlin (Prohibition) 1.86% Henry Winn (Populist) 0.52% Squire E. Putney (Socialist Labor) 0.23% [31][32] |
| Michigan | Edwin B. Winans | Democratic | Retired,[33] Republican victory | John Treadway Rich (Republican) 47.21% Allen Benton Morse (Democratic) 43.77% John W. Ewing (Populist) 4.57% John Russell (Prohibition) 4.43% Scattering 0.02% [34][35] |
| Minnesota | William Rush Merriam | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Knute Nelson (Republican) 42.68% Daniel W. Lawler (Democratic) 36.96% Ignatius L. Donnelly (Populist) 15.58% William J. Dean (Prohibition) 4.78% [36][37] |
| Missouri | David R. Francis | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William J. Stone (Democratic) 48.98% William Warner (Republican) 43.50% Leverett Leonard (Populist) 6.89% John Sobieski (Prohibition) 0.63% [38] |
| Montana | Joseph Toole | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | John E. Rickards (Republican) 41.17% Timothy E. Collins (Democratic) 39.96% William Kennedy (Populist) 17.64% J. M. Waters (Prohibition) 1.23% [39] |
| Nebraska | James E. Boyd | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | Lorenzo Crounse (Republican) 39.71% Charles Van Wyck (Populist) 34.75% Julius Sterling Morton (Democratic) 22.38% Charles Eugene Bentley (Prohibition) 3.16% [40] |
| New Hampshire | Hiram A. Tuttle | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | John Butler Smith (Republican) 50.17% Luther F. McKinney (Democratic) 47.67% Edgar L. Carr (Prohibition) 1.80% William O. Noyes (Populist) 0.37% [41][42] |
| New Jersey | Leon Abbett | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | George Theodore Werts (Democratic) 49.65% John Kean Jr. (Republican) 47.39% Thomas J. Kennedy (Prohibition) 2.30% George B. Keim (Socialist Labor) 0.40% Benjamin Bird (Populist) 0.27% [43] |
| North Carolina | Thomas Michael Holt (acting) | Democratic | Defeated for renomination,[44] Democratic victory | Elias Carr (Democratic) 48.31% David M. Furches (Republican) 33.75% Wyatt P. Exum (Populist) 17.05% James M. Templeton (Prohibition) 0.88% [45][46][47][48][49][50] |
| North Dakota | Andrew H. Burke | Republican | Defeated, 47.57% | Eli C. D. Shortridge (Populist)[f] 52.43% [51][52] |
| Rhode Island (held, 6 April 1892) | Herbert W. Ladd | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Daniel Russell Brown (Republican) 50.22% William T. C. Wardwell (Democratic) 46.51% Alexander Gilbert (Prohibition) 2.92% Franklin E. Burton (Populist) 0.34% [53][54] |
| South Carolina | Benjamin Ryan Tillman | Democratic | Re-elected, 99.90% | Scattering 0.10% [55] |
| South Dakota | Arthur C. Mellette | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Charles H. Sheldon (Republican) 47.46% A. L. Van Osdel (Independent) 31.99% Peter Couchman (Democratic) 20.55% [56][57][58][59][60] |
| Tennessee | John P. Buchanan | Democratic | Defeated as a Populist, 11.94% | Peter Turney (Democratic) 47.86% George W. Winstead (Republican) 38.14% Edward H. East (Prohibition) 2.06% [61] |
| Texas | Jim Hogg | Democratic | Re-elected, 43.74% | George Clark (Independent Democrat) 30.63% Thomas L. Nugent (Populist) 24.91% D. M. Prendergast (Prohibition) 0.37% Andrew Jackson Houston (Lily-White Republican) 0.30% Scattering 0.04% [62][63] |
| Vermont (held, 6 September 1892) | Carroll S. Page | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Levi K. Fuller (Republican) 64.99% Bradley B. Smalley (Democratic) 32.09% Edward L. Allen (Prohibition) 2.55% Scattering 0.37% [64][65] |
| Washington | Elisha P. Ferry | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | John McGraw (Republican) 37.01% Henry J. Snively (Democratic) 32.20% Cyrus W. Young (Populist) 26.41% Roger Sherman Greene (Prohibition) 4.38% [66] |
| West Virginia | Aretas B. Fleming | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William A. MacCorkle (Democratic) 49.37% Thomas E. Davis (Republican) 47.08% James Bassett (Populist) 2.36% Frank Burt (Prohibition) 1.19% [67] |
| Wisconsin | George W. Peck | Democratic | Re-elected, 47.93% | John Coit Spooner (Republican) 45.89% Thomas C. Richmond (Prohibition) 3.55% Cyrus M. Butt (Populist) 2.59% Scattering 0.04% [68] |
| Wyoming (special election) | Amos W. Barber (acting) | Republican | Retired, Democratic victory | John Eugene Osborne (Democratic) 53.95% Edward Ivinson (Republican) 43.61% William Brown (Prohibition) 2.44% [69][70][71] |
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