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Election 1888 Results

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1888 presidential election in Iowa

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in Iowa in 1888, 52.3% to 44.4%, a margin of 7.8 points and 31,731 votes.

Iowa voted 8.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.8.

The Republican hold continued from 1884, when James G. Blaine won.

Republicans led in 78 of the 99 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 21. The largest, Polk, cast 12,263 votes and went to the Republican by 17.0 points. The closest was Cedar, where 3 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Benjamin Harrison won Republican 211,607 52.3%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 179,876 44.4%
All other candidates 13,207 3.3%
Total404,690

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Polk 4,966 40.5% 7,049 57.5% 248 12,263 R+17.0
Linn 4,373 44.3% 5,247 53.2% 244 9,864 R+8.9
Dubuque 5,948 60.4% 3,060 31.1% 835 9,843 D+29.3
Pottawattamie 4,881 50.8% 4,596 47.8% 131 9,608 D+3.0
Clinton 5,106 57.9% 3,597 40.8% 115 8,818 D+17.1
Scott 5,692 66.0% 2,832 32.8% 104 8,628 D+33.1
Lee 4,650 54.1% 3,820 44.4% 125 8,595 D+9.7
Woodbury 3,588 45.5% 4,169 52.9% 129 7,886 R+7.4
Des Moines 4,291 55.6% 3,368 43.6% 57 7,716 D+12.0
Wapello 3,101 46.1% 3,282 48.8% 347 6,730 R+2.7
Mahaska 2,702 40.3% 3,700 55.2% 304 6,706 R+14.9
Clayton 3,311 55.5% 2,576 43.2% 77 5,964 D+12.3
Jasper 2,341 39.7% 3,137 53.2% 423 5,901 R+13.5
Muscatine 2,767 50.3% 2,654 48.3% 75 5,496 D+2.1
Benton 2,646 48.2% 2,768 50.5% 71 5,485 R+2.2
Keokuk 2,635 48.3% 2,690 49.4% 125 5,450 R+1.0
Marshall 1,933 35.5% 3,365 61.8% 150 5,448 R+26.3
Black Hawk 2,127 40.1% 3,106 58.5% 76 5,309 R+18.4
Fayette 2,182 41.1% 2,781 52.4% 346 5,309 R+11.3
Jackson 3,029 59.0% 2,029 39.5% 74 5,132 D+19.5
Johnson 3,038 59.5% 2,051 40.2% 19 5,108 D+19.3
Marion 2,322 46.3% 2,374 47.3% 323 5,019 R+1.0
Harrison 2,247 45.7% 2,381 48.4% 290 4,918 R+2.7
Boone 1,847 39.0% 2,765 58.4% 121 4,733 R+19.4
Tama 2,294 48.5% 2,305 48.8% 127 4,726 R+0.2
Jones 2,187 46.9% 2,428 52.0% 50 4,665 R+5.2
Winneshiek 2,043 43.9% 2,559 55.0% 49 4,651 R+11.1
Washington 1,990 44.8% 2,345 52.8% 109 4,444 R+8.0
Dallas 1,579 35.5% 2,538 57.1% 326 4,443 R+21.6
Page 1,468 33.2% 2,571 58.1% 383 4,422 R+24.9
Webster 1,809 41.0% 2,353 53.4% 248 4,410 R+12.3
Cass 1,722 39.1% 2,372 53.9% 308 4,402 R+14.8
Cedar 2,134 49.0% 2,137 49.1% 80 4,351 R+0.1
Poweshiek 1,779 41.1% 2,347 54.2% 201 4,327 R+13.1
Henry 1,729 40.0% 2,485 57.5% 109 4,323 R+17.5
Buchanan 1,880 43.6% 2,343 54.4% 86 4,309 R+10.7
Warren 1,523 37.2% 2,289 56.0% 278 4,090 R+18.7
Appanoose 1,837 45.4% 2,103 52.0% 103 4,043 R+6.6
Plymouth 2,140 53.3% 1,755 43.7% 119 4,014 D+9.6
Allamakee 2,023 51.0% 1,903 47.9% 44 3,970 D+3.0
Van Buren 1,775 45.5% 2,028 52.0% 94 3,897 R+6.5
Hardin 1,287 33.2% 2,522 65.1% 64 3,873 R+31.9
Delaware 1,570 40.6% 2,247 58.1% 50 3,867 R+17.5
Fremont 1,866 48.6% 1,851 48.2% 123 3,840 D+0.4
Guthrie 1,405 37.0% 2,218 58.3% 179 3,802 R+21.4
Crawford 2,123 55.9% 1,658 43.6% 19 3,800 D+12.2
Union 1,414 37.9% 1,833 49.1% 484 3,731 R+11.2
Carroll 2,052 55.1% 1,593 42.8% 78 3,723 D+12.3
Jefferson 1,588 42.7% 2,046 55.0% 88 3,722 R+12.3
Iowa 1,978 53.3% 1,664 44.9% 67 3,709 D+8.5
Shelby 1,762 48.5% 1,714 47.2% 158 3,634 D+1.3
Madison 1,346 37.3% 1,870 51.8% 396 3,612 R+14.5
Story 1,050 29.1% 2,420 67.1% 135 3,605 R+38.0
Taylor 1,322 36.8% 2,015 56.0% 259 3,596 R+19.3
Montgomery 1,228 34.7% 2,260 63.8% 52 3,540 R+29.2
Greene 1,300 37.0% 2,118 60.3% 97 3,515 R+23.3
Decatur 1,497 43.0% 1,753 50.4% 231 3,481 R+7.4
Wayne 1,570 45.6% 1,781 51.8% 90 3,441 R+6.1
Davis 1,626 47.3% 1,428 41.6% 382 3,436 D+5.8
Bremer 1,728 50.8% 1,613 47.4% 60 3,401 D+3.4
Floyd 1,288 38.3% 1,982 59.0% 92 3,362 R+20.6
Sioux 1,408 42.0% 1,905 56.9% 37 3,350 R+14.8
Butler 1,204 36.9% 2,038 62.4% 25 3,267 R+25.5
Cherokee 1,162 35.7% 1,960 60.1% 137 3,259 R+24.5
Chickasaw 1,604 49.7% 1,561 48.3% 65 3,230 D+1.3
Lucas 1,225 38.0% 1,891 58.6% 110 3,226 R+20.6
Mills 1,461 45.5% 1,623 50.6% 125 3,209 R+5.0
Adair 1,178 37.1% 1,883 59.3% 117 3,178 R+22.2
Sac 1,102 36.8% 1,832 61.1% 62 2,996 R+24.4
Monona 1,088 36.4% 1,590 53.2% 310 2,988 R+16.8
Ringgold 1,040 35.3% 1,766 59.9% 144 2,950 R+24.6
Louisa 1,012 34.3% 1,836 62.3% 101 2,949 R+27.9
Cerro Gordo 1,004 34.1% 1,866 63.3% 78 2,948 R+29.2
Monroe 1,233 42.9% 1,442 50.2% 197 2,872 R+7.3
Hamilton 1,007 35.9% 1,778 63.3% 22 2,807 R+27.5
O'Brien 1,085 39.3% 1,671 60.5% 6 2,762 R+21.2
Mitchell 1,028 37.3% 1,683 61.0% 47 2,758 R+23.7
Adams 1,146 42.5% 1,387 51.4% 165 2,698 R+8.9
Audubon 1,210 45.5% 1,368 51.4% 84 2,662 R+5.9
Buena Vista 857 32.9% 1,693 65.0% 53 2,603 R+32.1
Calhoun 828 32.0% 1,729 66.8% 32 2,589 R+34.8
Grundy 1,132 44.7% 1,372 54.1% 31 2,535 R+9.5
Wright 831 32.9% 1,677 66.3% 20 2,528 R+33.5
Kossuth 1,026 40.7% 1,451 57.6% 43 2,520 R+16.9
Clarke 910 36.6% 1,395 56.1% 180 2,485 R+19.5
Franklin 848 34.4% 1,609 65.2% 11 2,468 R+30.8
Ida 1,087 45.7% 1,269 53.3% 24 2,380 R+7.6
Howard 1,012 44.6% 1,233 54.4% 23 2,268 R+9.7
Clay 494 25.1% 1,438 73.1% 36 1,968 R+48.0
Humboldt 641 33.5% 1,237 64.6% 37 1,915 R+31.1
Pocahontas 746 41.6% 999 55.7% 48 1,793 R+14.1
Palo Alto 850 48.2% 840 47.7% 72 1,762 D+0.6
Lyon 676 41.4% 952 58.3% 6 1,634 R+16.9
Worth 542 33.2% 1,063 65.1% 29 1,634 R+31.9
Hancock 561 37.4% 892 59.5% 45 1,498 R+22.1
Winnebago 218 19.2% 894 78.8% 23 1,135 R+59.6
Osceola 354 33.6% 695 65.9% 6 1,055 R+32.3
Dickinson 225 24.8% 672 74.2% 9 906 R+49.3
Emmet 206 25.8% 573 71.7% 20 799 R+45.9

Counties as they stood in 1888; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Iowa in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+13.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+8.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+9.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+0.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+0.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+6.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+10.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+12.7
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.0
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+24.0
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+28.2
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+2.7
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.5
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+4.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+17.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+24.2
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+38.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+45.4
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+12.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+13.3
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+15.0
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+32.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+18.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+12.6
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+5.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+7.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+5.2
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+24.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+20.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+23.1
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+23.8