1888 United States presidential election in Indiana
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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 6, 1888, as part of the 1888 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of Indiana's own junior U.S. senator Benjamin Harrison and the former U.S. ambassador to France Levi P. Morton defeated the Democratic ticket of the incumbent president Grover Cleveland and the former U.S. senator from Ohio Allen G. Thurman. Harrison defeated Cleveland in the national election with 233 electoral votes.[2]
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November 6, 1888
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This was the last presidential election held in Indiana using the party ticket system. Following this election, allegations of widespread fraud and abuse associated with the use of tickets printed and distributed by the parties led to the adoption of the Australian ballot for future contests.[3]
General election
Summary
Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.[4] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836â1892,[5] as corrected by the secretary of state of Indiana.[6] Svend Petersen finds four more votes for Cleveland in Indiana.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Benjamin Harrison Levi P. Morton |
263,361 | 49.04 | 0.90 | |
| Democratic | Grover Cleveland Allen G. Thurman |
261,009 | 48.60 |  0.86 | |
| Prohibition | Clinton B. Fisk John A. Brooks |
9,945 | 1.85 | 0.06 | |
| Union Labor | Alson Streeter Charles E. Cunningham |
2,693 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |
| Total votes | 537,008 | 100.00 | |||
Results
| Party | Electors for Candidate | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Thomas H. Nelson | 263,361 | |
| Republican | James M. Shackelford | 263,356 | |
| Republican | Thomas J. Brooks | 263,340 | |
| Republican | Cicero Buchanan | 263,340 | |
| Republican | John O. Cravens | 263,340 | |
| Republican | David E. Beem | 263,338 | |
| Republican | John C. Chaney | 263,337 | |
| Republican | Winfield T. Durbin | 263,336 | |
| Republican | Leander P. Mitchell | 263,335 | |
| Republican | David W. Voyles | 263,334 | |
| Republican | David C. Suell | 263,332 | |
| Republican | William L. Penfield | 263,325 | |
| Republican | William H. Trammel | 263,325 | |
| Republican | Frank Swigart | 263,321 | |
| Republican | Hiram S. Biggs | 263,316 | |
| Democratic | Samuel B. Vance | 261,009[b] | |
| Democratic | Cutler S. Dobbins | 261,008 | |
| Democratic | John N. Turner | 261,004 | |
| Democratic | Andrew G. Wood | 261,004 | |
| Democratic | Nicholas Cornet | 260,995 | |
| Democratic | John F. McHugh | 260,991 | |
| Democratic | Thomas J. Study | 260,989 | |
| Democratic | David D. Dykeman | 260,988 | |
| Democratic | George H. D. Gibson | 260,987 | |
| Democratic | John H. Bass | 260,983 | |
| Democratic | John R. East | 260,983 | |
| Democratic | David S. Gooding | 260,978 | |
| Democratic | Samuel D. Puett | 260,974 | |
| Democratic | Thomas R. Cobb | 260,969 | |
| Democratic | John E. Lamb | 260,882 | |
| Prohibition | Jesse T. Hutchens | 9,945[b] | |
| Prohibition | Augustus Bradley | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | John Brazelton | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | Milton Hayward | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | Rena M. Julian | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | Felix McWhirter | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | Charles L. Murray | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | William M. Ross | 9,941[b] | |
| Prohibition | James T. Williams | 9,940[b] | |
| Prohibition | George W. Terry | 9,940[b] | |
| Prohibition | Daniel W. Thomas | 9,940[b] | |
| Prohibition | Calvin J. Winch | 9,940[b] | |
| Prohibition | Henry W. Bullock | 9,939[b] | |
| Prohibition | Leander M. Crist | 9,938[b] | |
| Prohibition | Leroy H. Albert | 9,823 | |
| Union Labor | Hugh Marlin | 2,694 | |
| Union Labor | Jason H. Allen | 2,693[b] | |
| Union Labor | James D. Hudson | 2,693 | |
| Union Labor | Charlton Bull | 2,692 | |
| Union Labor | Wesley Glover | 2,691 | |
| Union Labor | Albert A. Bender | 2,684 | |
| Union Labor | Edward Sanford | 2,684 | |
| Union Labor | Claborn J. Smoot | 2,670 | |
| Union Labor | John S. Bender | 2,668 | |
| Union Labor | R. H. Davis | 2,604 | |
| Union Labor | Moses Smith | 2,585 | |
| Union Labor | Abram Williams | 2,536 | |
| Union Labor | Adam C. Ford | 2,605 | |
| Union Labor | William Austell | 2,346 | |
Total |
â537,008 | ||
Results by county
| County | Benjamin Harrison Republican |
Grover Cleveland Democratic |
Clinton B. Fisk Prohibition |
Alson Streeter Union Labor |
Margin | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Percent | Votes | Percent | Votes | Percent | Votes | Percent | Votes | Percent | ||
| Adams | 1,277 | 29.27% | 2,936 | 67.29% | 141 | 3.23% | 9 | 0.21% | -1,659 | -38.02% | 4,363 |
| Allen | 5,455 | 35.41% | 9,692 | 62.92% | 162 | 1.05% | 95 | 0.62% | -4,237 | -27.51% | 15,404 |
| Bartholomew | 2,742 | 46.27% | 3,109 | 52.46% | 69 | 1.16% | 6 | 0.10% | -367 | -6.19% | 5,926 |
| Benton | 1,626 | 52.18% | 1,425 | 45.73% | 62 | 1.99% | 3 | 0.10% | 201 | 6.45% | 3,116 |
| Blackford | 1,141 | 46.57% | 1,232 | 50.29% | 59 | 2.41% | 18 | 0.73% | -91 | -3.71% | 2,450 |
| Boone | 3,441 | 48.95% | 3,324 | 47.29% | 104 | 1.48% | 160 | 2.28% | 117 | 1.66% | 7,029 |
| Brown | 661 | 29.08% | 1,538 | 67.66% | 63 | 2.77% | 11 | 0.48% | -877 | -38.58% | 2,273 |
| Carroll | 2,607 | 48.96% | 2,560 | 48.08% | 130 | 2.44% | 28 | 0.53% | 47 | 0.88% | 5,325 |
| Cass | 3,822 | 46.34% | 4,221 | 51.18% | 162 | 1.96% | 43 | 0.52% | -399 | -4.84% | 8,248 |
| Clark | 3,206 | 45.52% | 3,788 | 53.78% | 46 | 0.65% | 3 | 0.04% | -582 | -8.26% | 7,043 |
| Clay | 3,711 | 48.12% | 3,773 | 48.92% | 130 | 1.69% | 98 | 1.27% | -62 | -0.80% | 7,712 |
| Clinton | 3,519 | 50.50% | 3,278 | 47.04% | 137 | 1.97% | 34 | 0.49% | 241 | 3.46% | 6,968 |
| Crawford | 1,445 | 46.54% | 1,628 | 52.43% | 22 | 0.71% | 10 | 0.32% | -183 | -5.89% | 3,105 |
| Daviess | 2,691 | 49.60% | 2,689 | 49.57% | 6 | 0.11% | 39 | 0.72% | 2 | 0.04% | 5,425 |
| De Kalb | 2,879 | 46.28% | 3,160 | 50.80% | 141 | 2.27% | 41 | 0.66% | -281 | -4.52% | 6,221 |
| Dearborn | 2,648 | 42.25% | 3,531 | 56.33% | 57 | 0.91% | 32 | 0.51% | -883 | -14.09% | 6,268 |
| Decatur | 2,663 | 51.86% | 2,400 | 46.74% | 67 | 1.30% | 5 | 0.10% | 263 | 5.12% | 5,135 |
| Delaware | 4,227 | 62.23% | 2,368 | 34.86% | 181 | 2.66% | 17 | 0.25% | 1,859 | 27.37% | 6,793 |
| Dubois | 1,220 | 28.88% | 2,986 | 70.67% | 17 | 0.40% | 2 | 0.05% | -1,766 | -41.80% | 4,225 |
| Elkhart | 4,955 | 50.62% | 4,464 | 45.61% | 322 | 3.29% | 47 | 0.48% | 491 | 5.01% | 9,788 |
| Fayette | 1,953 | 56.64% | 1,471 | 42.66% | 24 | 0.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 482 | 13.98% | 3,448 |
| Floyd | 2,947 | 42.88% | 3,824 | 55.65% | 86 | 1.25% | 15 | 0.22% | -877 | -12.76% | 6,872 |
| Fountain | 2,608 | 49.41% | 2,525 | 47.84% | 31 | 0.59% | 114 | 2.16% | 83 | 1.57% | 5,278 |
| Franklin | 1,712 | 37.05% | 2,872 | 62.15% | 37 | 0.80% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,160 | -25.10% | 4,621 |
| Fulton | 2,053 | 47.79% | 2,163 | 50.35% | 76 | 1.77% | 4 | 0.09% | -110 | -2.56% | 4,296 |
| Gibson | 2,953 | 49.74% | 2,721 | 45.83% | 238 | 4.01% | 25 | 0.42% | 232 | 3.91% | 5,937 |
| Grant | 3,929 | 53.87% | 2,990 | 41.00% | 373 | 5.11% | 1 | 0.01% | 939 | 12.88% | 7,293 |
| Greene | 2,934 | 51.96% | 2,659 | 47.09% | 36 | 0.64% | 18 | 0.32% | 275 | 4.87% | 5,647 |
| Hamilton | 3,599 | 56.04% | 2,412 | 37.56% | 390 | 6.07% | 21 | 0.33% | 1,187 | 18.48% | 6,422 |
| Hancock | 1,986 | 44.68% | 2,376 | 53.45% | 75 | 1.69% | 8 | 0.18% | -390 | -8.77% | 4,445 |
| Harrison | 2,133 | 44.76% | 2,529 | 53.07% | 26 | 0.55% | 77 | 1.62% | -396 | -8.31% | 4,765 |
| Hendricks | 3,297 | 58.62% | 2,083 | 37.04% | 241 | 4.29% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,214 | 21.59% | 5,624 |
| Henry | 3,849 | 60.07% | 2,277 | 35.54% | 230 | 3.59% | 51 | 0.80% | 1,572 | 24.52% | 6,407 |
| Howard | 3,604 | 58.87% | 2,202 | 35.97% | 227 | 3.71% | 89 | 1.45% | 1,402 | 22.90% | 6,122 |
| Huntington | 3,559 | 49.23% | 3,481 | 48.15% | 186 | 2.57% | 3 | 0.04% | 78 | 1.08% | 7,229 |
| Jackson | 2,263 | 40.89% | 3,235 | 58.45% | 19 | 0.34% | 18 | 0.33% | -972 | -17.56% | 5,535 |
| Jasper | 1,604 | 59.30% | 1,003 | 37.08% | 78 | 2.88% | 20 | 0.74% | 601 | 22.22% | 2,705 |
| Jay | 2,811 | 48.42% | 2,741 | 47.22% | 181 | 3.12% | 72 | 1.24% | 70 | 1.20% | 5,805 |
| Jefferson | 3,321 | 54.87% | 2,700 | 44.61% | 31 | 0.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 621 | 10.26% | 6,052 |
| Jennings | 2,057 | 55.55% | 1,598 | 43.15% | 25 | 0.68% | 23 | 0.62% | 459 | 12.40% | 3,703 |
| Johnson | 2,168 | 43.45% | 2,594 | 51.98% | 66 | 1.32% | 162 | 3.25% | -426 | -8.54% | 4,990 |
| Knox | 2,922 | 43.57% | 3,621 | 53.99% | 161 | 2.40% | 3 | 0.04% | -699 | -10.42% | 6,707 |
| Kosciusko | 4,147 | 55.81% | 3,081 | 41.46% | 197 | 2.65% | 6 | 0.08% | 1,066 | 14.35% | 7,431 |
| La Porte | 3,722 | 44.11% | 4,607 | 54.60% | 93 | 1.10% | 16 | 0.19% | -885 | -10.49% | 8,438 |
| Lagrange | 2,262 | 57.32% | 1,516 | 38.42% | 133 | 3.37% | 35 | 0.89% | 746 | 18.91% | 3,946 |
| Lake | 2,543 | 54.21% | 2,068 | 44.08% | 77 | 1.64% | 3 | 0.06% | 475 | 10.13% | 4,691 |
| Lawrence | 2,256 | 55.24% | 1,814 | 44.42% | 9 | 0.22% | 5 | 0.12% | 442 | 10.82% | 4,084 |
| Madison | 3,436 | 45.26% | 3,928 | 51.74% | 199 | 2.62% | 29 | 0.38% | -492 | -6.48% | 7,592 |
| Marion | 17,139 | 48.82% | 17,515 | 49.89% | 399 | 1.14% | 57 | 0.16% | -376 | -1.07% | 35,110 |
| Marshall | 2,582 | 43.70% | 3,188 | 53.96% | 101 | 1.71% | 37 | 0.63% | -606 | -10.26% | 5,908 |
| Martin | 1,391 | 46.99% | 1,558 | 52.64% | 8 | 0.27% | 3 | 0.10% | -167 | -5.64% | 2,960 |
| Miami | 3,042 | 45.30% | 3,492 | 52.00% | 145 | 2.16% | 36 | 0.54% | -450 | -6.70% | 6,715 |
| Monroe | 2,054 | 51.50% | 1,815 | 45.51% | 84 | 2.11% | 35 | 0.88% | 239 | 5.99% | 3,988 |
| Montgomery | 4,011 | 50.82% | 3,763 | 47.68% | 89 | 1.13% | 29 | 0.37% | 248 | 3.14% | 7,892 |
| Morgan | 2,500 | 53.58% | 2,077 | 44.51% | 76 | 1.63% | 13 | 0.28% | 423 | 9.07% | 4,666 |
| Newton | 1,283 | 57.66% | 860 | 38.65% | 68 | 3.06% | 14 | 0.63% | 423 | 19.01% | 2,225 |
| Noble | 3,026 | 49.16% | 2,979 | 48.39% | 137 | 2.23% | 14 | 0.23% | 47 | 0.76% | 6,156 |
| Ohio | 726 | 55.25% | 585 | 44.52% | 2 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.08% | 141 | 10.73% | 1,314 |
| Orange | 1,779 | 51.67% | 1,654 | 48.04% | 10 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 125 | 3.63% | 3,443 |
| Owen | 1,632 | 45.08% | 1,918 | 52.98% | 70 | 1.93% | 0 | 0.00% | -286 | -7.90% | 3,620 |
| Parke | 2,764 | 53.28% | 2,159 | 41.62% | 178 | 3.43% | 87 | 1.68% | 605 | 11.66% | 5,188 |
| Perry | 1,974 | 49.54% | 2,007 | 50.36% | 3 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.03% | -33 | -0.83% | 3,985 |
| Pike | 2,197 | 50.02% | 2,098 | 47.77% | 19 | 0.43% | 78 | 1.78% | 99 | 2.25% | 4,392 |
| Porter | 2,427 | 52.82% | 2,018 | 43.92% | 143 | 3.11% | 7 | 0.15% | 409 | 8.90% | 4,595 |
| Posey | 2,369 | 45.70% | 2,684 | 51.77% | 99 | 1.91% | 32 | 0.62% | -315 | -6.08% | 5,184 |
| Pulaski | 1,223 | 44.95% | 1,446 | 53.14% | 37 | 1.36% | 15 | 0.55% | -223 | -8.20% | 2,721 |
| Putnam | 2,570 | 45.12% | 3,016 | 52.95% | 96 | 1.69% | 14 | 0.25% | -446 | -7.83% | 5,696 |
| Randolph | 4,629 | 65.11% | 2,256 | 31.73% | 180 | 2.53% | 45 | 0.63% | 2,373 | 33.38% | 7,110 |
| Ripley | 2,404 | 49.77% | 2,381 | 49.30% | 40 | 0.83% | 5 | 0.10% | 23 | 0.48% | 4,830 |
| Rush | 2,713 | 52.46% | 2,292 | 44.32% | 146 | 2.82% | 21 | 0.41% | 421 | 8.14% | 5,172 |
| Scott | 743 | 41.28% | 1,030 | 57.22% | 27 | 1.50% | 0 | 0.00% | -287 | -15.94% | 1,800 |
| Shelby | 2,877 | 44.41% | 3,409 | 52.62% | 180 | 2.78% | 12 | 0.19% | -532 | -8.21% | 6,478 |
| Spencer | 2,733 | 50.22% | 2,685 | 49.34% | 20 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.07% | 48 | 0.88% | 5,442 |
| St. Joseph | 4,929 | 47.40% | 5,257 | 50.56% | 198 | 1.90% | 14 | 0.13% | -328 | -3.15% | 10,398 |
| Starke | 834 | 47.23% | 904 | 51.19% | 26 | 1.47% | 2 | 0.11% | -70 | -3.96% | 1,766 |
| Steuben | 2,352 | 61.12% | 1,348 | 35.03% | 118 | 3.07% | 30 | 0.78% | 1,004 | 26.09% | 3,848 |
| Sullivan | 1,902 | 35.56% | 3,382 | 63.24% | 38 | 0.71% | 26 | 0.49% | -1,480 | -27.67% | 5,348 |
| Switzerland | 1,560 | 47.87% | 1,637 | 50.23% | 5 | 0.15% | 57 | 1.75% | -77 | -2.36% | 3,259 |
| Tippecanoe | 5,072 | 53.39% | 4,281 | 45.06% | 120 | 1.26% | 27 | 0.28% | 791 | 8.33% | 9,500 |
| Tipton | 2,042 | 44.93% | 2,370 | 52.14% | 109 | 2.40% | 24 | 0.53% | -328 | -7.21% | 4,545 |
| Union | 1,108 | 54.74% | 868 | 42.89% | 42 | 2.08% | 6 | 0.30% | 240 | 11.86% | 2,024 |
| Vanderburgh | 6,027 | 50.23% | 5,889 | 49.08% | 65 | 0.54% | 17 | 0.14% | 138 | 1.15% | 11,998 |
| Vermillion | 1,730 | 52.36% | 1,438 | 43.52% | 49 | 1.48% | 87 | 2.63% | 292 | 8.84% | 3,304 |
| Vigo | 6,273 | 49.84% | 6,102 | 48.48% | 51 | 0.40% | 160 | 1.27% | 171 | 1.36% | 12,586 |
| Wabash | 3,986 | 58.41% | 2,555 | 37.44% | 261 | 3.82% | 22 | 0.32% | 1,431 | 20.97% | 6,824 |
| Warren | 1,847 | 63.32% | 1,017 | 34.86% | 38 | 1.30% | 15 | 0.51% | 830 | 28.45% | 2,917 |
| Warrick | 2,361 | 47.05% | 2,557 | 50.96% | 62 | 1.24% | 38 | 0.76% | -196 | -3.91% | 5,018 |
| Washington | 1,847 | 43.38% | 2,389 | 56.12% | 14 | 0.33% | 8 | 0.19% | -542 | -12.74% | 4,258 |
| Wayne | 6,138 | 60.91% | 3,653 | 36.25% | 266 | 2.64% | 20 | 0.20% | 2,485 | 24.66% | 10,077 |
| Wells | 1,926 | 37.17% | 2,942 | 56.77% | 286 | 5.52% | 28 | 0.54% | -1,016 | -19.61% | 5,182 |
| White | 1,942 | 48.01% | 2,017 | 49.86% | 69 | 1.71% | 17 | 0.42% | -75 | -1.85% | 4,045 |
| Whitley | 2,133 | 46.18% | 2,325 | 50.34% | 148 | 3.20% | 13 | 0.28% | -192 | -4.16% | 4,619 |
| Totals | 263,361 | 49.04% | 261,009 | 48.60% | 9,945 | 1.85% | 2,693 | 0.50% | 2,352 | 0.44% | 537,008 |
See also
Notes
- Burnham finds 9,877 votes for Fisk and 2,757 votes for Streeter in Indiana;[9] however, revised figures published by the secretary of state indicate 9,945 votes for the leading Prohibition elector, Jesse T. Hutchens, and 2,693 votes for the leading Union Labor elector, Jason H. Allen.[6] The total number of third party votes calculated by Burnham (12,638) equals the sum of the totals for the Prohibition and Union Labor electors in the corrected official returns.