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Election 1888 Results

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1888 presidential election in New York

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in New York in 1888, 49.3% to 48.2%, a margin of 1.1 points and 14,373 votes.

New York voted 1.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.8.

New York changed party: in 1884 it went Democratic, for Grover Cleveland.

Republicans led in 48 of the 59 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 11. The largest, New York, cast 272,733 votes and went to the Democrat by 20.5 points. The closest was Greene, where 34 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Benjamin Harrison won	Republican	650,338	49.3%
Grover Cleveland	Democratic	635,965	48.2%
All other candidates		33,445	2.5%
Total		1,319,748

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
New York	162,735 59.7%	106,922 39.2%	3,076	272,733	D+20.5
Kings	82,507 53.6%	70,052 45.5%	1,430	153,989	D+8.1
Erie	29,543 47.7%	31,612 51.1%	762	61,917	R+3.3
Albany	21,037 51.5%	19,362 47.4%	454	40,853	D+4.1
Monroe	16,677 42.0%	21,650 54.6%	1,361	39,688	R+12.5
Onondaga	14,001 40.1%	20,144 57.7%	796	34,941	R+17.6
Rensselaer	15,410 48.6%	15,718 49.6%	549	31,677	R+1.0
Oneida	14,276 45.5%	16,241 51.8%	851	31,368	R+6.3
Westchester	14,948 50.7%	13,799 46.8%	732	29,479	D+3.9
Queens	12,683 52.9%	11,017 46.0%	275	23,975	D+6.9
Orange	10,852 47.7%	11,261 49.5%	640	22,753	R+1.8
Steuben	9,154 41.8%	11,637 53.1%	1,126	21,917	R+11.3
Ulster	10,487 48.0%	10,825 49.6%	526	21,838	R+1.5
St. Lawrence	6,509 30.1%	14,611 67.6%	508	21,628	R+37.5
Dutchess	9,249 45.9%	10,265 50.9%	634	20,148	R+5.0
Oswego	7,429 38.4%	11,296 58.4%	629	19,354	R+20.0
Chautauqua	6,178 32.1%	12,108 62.9%	958	19,244	R+30.8
Jefferson	7,562 41.7%	9,861 54.4%	713	18,136	R+12.7
Cayuga	6,380 38.2%	9,646 57.8%	668	16,694	R+19.6
Saratoga	6,570 41.6%	8,594 54.4%	646	15,810	R+12.8
Cattaraugus	6,173 39.2%	8,586 54.6%	975	15,734	R+15.3
Broome	6,447 41.2%	8,405 53.7%	801	15,653	R+12.5
Otsego	6,972 45.4%	7,829 51.0%	565	15,366	R+5.6
Suffolk	6,600 46.3%	7,167 50.2%	500	14,267	R+4.0
Niagara	6,429 45.9%	6,886 49.2%	684	13,999	R+3.3
Wayne	5,120 37.7%	7,850 57.7%	628	13,598	R+20.1
Ontario	5,753 44.0%	6,957 53.2%	379	13,089	R+9.2
Columbia	6,037 47.3%	6,447 50.5%	292	12,776	R+3.2
Washington	4,284 33.8%	8,023 63.2%	386	12,693	R+29.5
Herkimer	5,611 44.4%	6,683 52.9%	346	12,640	R+8.5
Delaware	5,332 42.3%	6,602 52.3%	683	12,617	R+10.1
Madison	4,641 37.6%	7,199 58.2%	519	12,359	R+20.7
Montgomery	5,677 46.5%	6,365 52.2%	156	12,198	R+5.6
Allegany	3,625 29.9%	7,067 58.4%	1,415	12,107	R+28.4
Chemung	6,037 50.7%	5,467 45.9%	394	11,898	D+4.8
Clinton	4,724 42.7%	6,271 56.7%	61	11,056	R+14.0
Chenango	4,640 42.0%	5,798 52.5%	608	11,046	R+10.5
Fulton	4,634 42.4%	5,892 53.9%	399	10,925	R+11.5
Livingston	4,067 39.9%	5,584 54.8%	538	10,189	R+14.9
Richmond	5,764 57.4%	4,100 40.8%	179	10,043	D+16.6
Tompkins	3,909 41.7%	5,073 54.2%	381	9,363	R+12.4
Greene	4,494 48.6%	4,460 48.3%	286	9,240	D+0.4
Genesee	3,633 40.4%	4,952 55.1%	408	8,993	R+14.7
Schoharie	5,006 56.0%	3,696 41.4%	235	8,937	D+14.7
Franklin	3,028 34.1%	5,757 64.8%	101	8,886	R+30.7
Tioga	3,609 40.7%	4,852 54.7%	411	8,872	R+14.0
Wyoming	3,166 36.9%	4,899 57.0%	524	8,589	R+20.2
Cortland	3,163 37.4%	4,732 56.0%	560	8,455	R+18.6
Lewis	3,807 45.6%	4,369 52.3%	173	8,349	R+6.7
Orleans	3,214 39.1%	4,277 52.0%	737	8,228	R+12.9
Essex	2,930 36.2%	5,043 62.3%	124	8,097	R+26.1
Sullivan	3,757 48.3%	3,860 49.7%	156	7,773	R+1.3
Seneca	3,705 49.8%	3,576 48.1%	158	7,439	D+1.7
Warren	2,883 39.3%	4,135 56.4%	315	7,333	R+17.1
Rockland	3,939 54.7%	3,013 41.8%	251	7,203	D+12.9
Schenectady	3,328 46.7%	3,633 51.0%	158	7,119	R+4.3
Yates	2,150 36.7%	3,410 58.3%	293	5,853	R+21.5
Schuyler	1,975 40.3%	2,704 55.2%	223	4,902	R+14.9
Putnam	1,515 40.7%	2,098 56.4%	109	3,722	R+15.7

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 York in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+12.6
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+23.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+22.5
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+28.2
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+26.9
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+18.3
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+25.0
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+28.9
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+15.8
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.1
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+8.0
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+2.7
1976	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+4.4
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+17.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+5.5
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+37.3
1960	John F. Kennedy (D)	D+5.3
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+22.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+11.9
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+1.0
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+5.0
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+3.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+19.9
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+12.7
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+2.3
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.6
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+37.6
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+7.0
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+12.6
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+12.4
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+10.9
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+9.3
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+18.9
1892	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+3.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+1.1
1884	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+0.1
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.9
1876	Samuel J. Tilden (D)	D+3.2
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+6.5
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+1.2

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