1892United States presidential election in Georgia

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Nominee Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison James B. Weaver Party Democratic Republican Populist Home state New York Indiana Iowa Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Whitelaw Reid James G. Field Electoral vote 13 0 0 Popular vote 129,446 48,408 41,939 Percentage 58.01% 21.70% 18.80%

County Results Cleveland   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Harrison   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%   60–70% Weaver   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%

President before election Benjamin Harrison Republican ElectedPresident Grover Cleveland Democratic

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The1892 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1892, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and manypoor whites, doing so in the early 1870s.^[1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantialCivil WarUnionist sentiment – chieflyFannin but also to a lesser extentPickens,Gilmer andTowns^[2] – and in presidential elections to a small number of counties elsewhere where blacks were not fully disenfranchised. The Democratic Party served as the guardian ofwhite supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories ofReconstruction, and the main competition becameDemocratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.^[3] This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulativepoll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout declined steadily throughout the 1880s,^[4] unlike any other former Confederate state except South Carolina.

However, politics after the first demobilization was always chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly thePopulist Party, gained support amongst the remaining poor white and black voters in opposition tothe planter elite.^[5] Whereas the Republican Party had not contested a statewide election seriously since 1876,^[6] the Populists made a significant run for governor in 1892 as they launched the most significant third-party campaign sinceJohn Bell in the sectionally divided 1860 election.^[7] In Georgia, the Populists would be led byThomas E. Watson, who had won a seat in Congress in 1890.

However, the strong emphasis by Cleveland and running mateAdlai Stevenson I on opposing theLodge Force Bill and on reducing tariffs was able to reduce defections to the Populists or the GOP,^[8] despite strong opposition in the state to Cleveland's rigid support for thegold standard against free silver. The Populist influence caused voter turnout to rise substantially – some believing that many new voters had their poll taxes paid for – but despite opposition forces gaining more than twice as many votes as in 1888 Cleveland's margin fell by less than five percent as his opposition was divided. Rather than in the poor white upcountry counties, Weaver actually did best in the northeastern part ofthe Black Belt where Watson was based and where Populist strength would remain greatest in1904 and1908.^[9]

The Republicans won eight counties, six were majority white and two were majority black.^[10]

• Knoles, George (1971).The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1892.Stanford University Press.ISBN 040450969X.

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