Back انتخابات الرئاسة الأمريكية 1892 Arabic ھەڵبژاردنی سەرۆکایەتیی ویلایەتە یەکگرتووەکانی ئەمریکا (١٨٩٢) CKB Præsidentvalget i USA 1892 Danish Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 1892 German Προεδρική εκλογή των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών 1892 Greek Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 1892 Spanish Yhdysvaltain presidentinvaalit 1892 Finnish Élection présidentielle américaine de 1892 French הבחירות לנשיאות ארצות הברית 1892 HE Elezioni presidenziali negli Stati Uniti d'America del 1892 Italian
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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1892. In the fourth rematch in American history, the Democratic nominee, former president Grover Cleveland, defeated the incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison. Cleveland's victory made him the first president in American history to be elected to a non-consecutive second term, a feat not repeated until Donald Trump was elected in 2024. However, unlike Trump, who lost the popular vote twice before winning the popular vote in 2024, Cleveland won the popular vote in all 3 of the elections in which he was a presidential candidate. This was the first of two occasions when incumbents were defeated in consecutive elections—the second being Gerald Ford's loss in 1976 to Jimmy Carter followed by Carter's loss in 1980 to Ronald Reagan. The 1892 election saw the incumbent White House party defeated in three consecutive elections, which did not occur again until 2024.[2]
This was the first time a Republican president lost reelection. The Democrats did not win another presidential election until 1912. Harrison's loss was also the second time an elected president lost the popular vote twice, the first being John Quincy Adams in the 1820s. This feat was not repeated until Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020 (but later won it in 2024).[3]
Though some Republicans opposed Harrison's renomination, he defeated James G. Blaine and William McKinley on the first presidential ballot of the 1892 Republican National Convention. Cleveland defeated challenges by David B. Hill and Horace Boies on the first presidential ballot of the 1892 Democratic National Convention, becoming the fourth presidential candidate to be nominated for president in three elections, after Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson. Groups from The Grange and the Knights of Labor joined to form a new party called the Populist Party. It had a ticket led by former congressman James B. Weaver of Iowa.
The campaign centered mainly on economic issues, especially the protectionist 1890 McKinley Tariff. Cleveland ran on a platform of lowering the tariff and opposed the Republicans' 1890 voting rights proposal. He was also a proponent of the gold standard, while the Republicans and Populists both supported bimetallism.
Cleveland swept the Solid South and won several important swing states, taking a majority of the electoral vote and a plurality of the popular vote. Weaver won 8.6% of the popular vote and carried several Western states, while John Bidwell of the Prohibition Party won 2.2% of the popular vote.
- ^ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789–Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.
- ^ Wolf, Zachary B. (November 9, 2024). "Analysis: Trump's win was real but not a landslide. Here's where it ranks | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
- ^ Enten, Harry (January 10, 2021). "How Trump led Republicans to historic losses". CNN. Retrieved February 3, 2021.