1882 Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election

At the time, Texas was a part of the "Solid South" and the Democratic party was overwhelmingly favored in state elections. The previous couple of elections had split opposition support between the Republican and Greenback parties. In an attempt to improve their odds at success a strategy of electoral fusionism was attempted and both parties endorsed the independent campaign of congressman and former lieutenant governor George Washington Jones for governor.

However, the support for fusionism did not necessarily extend to down ballot races and both the Republican and Greenback parties ended up endorsing separate slates of tickets for nominally independent campaigns. Sometimes these disagreements resulted in the tickets nominating the same person for different offices. This was the case in the race for lieutenant governor as the Greenback endorsed candidate, Dr. Andrew Young, appeared on the Republican backed ticket as the candidate for the Commissioner of the General Land Office.^[1][2] There was speculation that either Young or the Republican endorsed candidate Col. E. W. Morton would drop out, but neither did.^[3][4]

• Francis Marion Martin, state senator (Democrat)^[5][6]
• Colonel E. W. Morton^[a] (Independent, with support from the Republicans)^[8][9]
• Dr. Andrew Young (Independent, with support of the Greenbacks)^[10][9][11]

Texas lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1882^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Francis Marion Martin	171,277	68.79
	Independent	E. W. Morton	58,504	23.50
	Independent	Andrew Young[b]	19,220	7.72
Total votes			266,514	100.00
	Democratic hold