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Election 1888 Results

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1888 presidential election in New Hampshire

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in New Hampshire in 1888, 50.4% to 47.8%, a margin of 2.6 points and 2,352 votes.

New Hampshire voted 3.4 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 6 of the 10 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Hillsborough, cast 18,168 votes and went to the Republican by 5.6 points. The closest was Carroll, where 96 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 45,734 50.4%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 43,382 47.8%
All other candidates 1,596 1.8%
Total90,712

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Hillsborough 8,440 46.5% 9,460 52.1% 268 18,168 R+5.6
Rockingham 6,552 49.6% 6,451 48.9% 200 13,203 D+0.8
Merrimack 6,121 49.1% 6,004 48.1% 346 12,471 D+0.9
Grafton 5,075 48.4% 5,210 49.7% 191 10,476 R+1.3
Strafford 4,271 47.8% 4,580 51.3% 80 8,931 R+3.5
Cheshire 3,165 42.8% 4,118 55.7% 110 7,393 R+12.9
Belknap 2,540 47.6% 2,687 50.3% 113 5,340 R+2.8
Coos 2,744 54.0% 2,298 45.2% 44 5,086 D+8.8
Carroll 2,434 49.3% 2,338 47.4% 162 4,934 D+1.9
Sullivan 2,040 43.3% 2,588 54.9% 82 4,710 R+11.6

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.

New Hampshire in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+2.8
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+7.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+0.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+1.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+1.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+26.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+37.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+29.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.3
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+29.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+27.8
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+6.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.6
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+25.1
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+2.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+21.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+22.3
1900 William McKinley (R) R+20.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+4.0
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.6
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+4.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+3.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+7.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.5