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Election 1888 Results

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1888 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1888, 52.7% to 44.8%, a margin of 8.0 points and 79,458 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 8.8 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 42 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 25. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 205,444 votes and went to the Republican by 9.0 points. The closest was Northumberland, where 31 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 526,091 52.7%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 446,633 44.8%
All other candidates 24,844 2.5%
Total997,568

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 92,786 45.2% 111,358 54.2% 1,300 205,444 R+9.0
Allegheny 24,710 34.8% 45,118 63.6% 1,138 70,966 R+28.8
Lancaster 10,495 31.8% 21,976 66.6% 545 33,016 R+34.8
Luzerne 15,218 48.2% 15,543 49.3% 797 31,558 R+1.0
Berks 18,105 62.4% 10,626 36.7% 261 28,992 D+25.8
Montgomery 12,582 47.6% 13,445 50.9% 390 26,417 R+3.3
Schuylkill 13,054 50.2% 12,522 48.2% 404 25,980 D+2.0
York 12,359 56.9% 9,047 41.7% 301 21,707 D+15.3
Lackawanna 9,858 46.5% 10,279 48.5% 1,058 21,195 R+2.0
Westmoreland 9,602 47.8% 9,926 49.4% 577 20,105 R+1.6
Chester 7,541 38.1% 11,578 58.5% 669 19,788 R+20.4
Dauphin 7,684 40.8% 10,852 57.7% 286 18,822 R+16.8
Bucks 8,642 49.4% 8,584 49.1% 253 17,479 D+0.3
Erie 7,111 41.1% 9,372 54.2% 798 17,281 R+13.1
Northampton 10,027 58.6% 6,785 39.7% 291 17,103 D+19.0
Lehigh 8,927 55.5% 6,977 43.4% 190 16,094 D+12.1
Crawford 5,964 39.8% 8,040 53.6% 999 15,003 R+13.8
Lycoming 7,467 51.4% 6,591 45.3% 478 14,536 D+6.0
Fayette 6,951 48.6% 7,034 49.2% 321 14,306 R+0.6
Washington 5,847 41.1% 7,801 54.8% 579 14,227 R+13.7
Delaware 5,028 35.5% 8,791 62.0% 351 14,170 R+26.6
Bradford 4,552 32.7% 8,762 63.0% 594 13,908 R+30.3
Northumberland 6,257 48.7% 6,288 49.0% 297 12,842 R+0.2
Blair 5,175 40.3% 7,311 57.0% 351 12,837 R+16.6
Mercer 4,806 40.3% 6,428 53.9% 689 11,923 R+13.6
Clearfield 6,266 52.7% 5,297 44.5% 337 11,900 D+8.1
Cambria 5,948 50.8% 5,517 47.1% 246 11,711 D+3.7
Tioga 2,972 26.3% 7,808 69.2% 499 11,279 R+42.9
Franklin 5,082 46.0% 5,772 52.3% 188 11,042 R+6.2
Cumberland 5,386 52.1% 4,693 45.4% 268 10,347 D+6.7
Butler 3,986 40.1% 5,358 53.8% 607 9,951 R+13.8
Lebanon 3,670 37.1% 6,096 61.6% 129 9,895 R+24.5
Beaver 3,706 38.9% 5,552 58.2% 276 9,534 R+19.4
Centre 4,712 49.8% 4,574 48.3% 185 9,471 D+1.5
Susquehanna 3,328 36.7% 5,019 55.3% 729 9,076 R+18.6
Armstrong 3,763 41.8% 5,030 55.9% 207 9,000 R+14.1
Venango 3,475 39.7% 4,424 50.5% 863 8,762 R+10.8
Bedford 3,822 46.5% 4,287 52.2% 106 8,215 R+5.7
Indiana 2,231 27.6% 5,084 62.8% 777 8,092 R+35.3
Warren 2,640 34.0% 4,329 55.8% 795 7,764 R+21.8
McKean 2,922 37.9% 4,066 52.7% 721 7,709 R+14.8
Jefferson 3,257 42.6% 4,090 53.5% 301 7,648 R+10.9
Columbia 4,676 62.8% 2,484 33.4% 281 7,441 D+29.5
Somerset 2,319 31.4% 4,825 65.4% 238 7,382 R+33.9
Adams 3,794 52.4% 3,371 46.5% 78 7,243 D+5.8
Huntingdon 2,789 38.7% 4,217 58.6% 195 7,201 R+19.8
Carbon 3,665 51.1% 3,279 45.7% 233 7,177 D+5.4
Clarion 3,880 54.9% 2,950 41.7% 243 7,073 D+13.1
Lawrence 2,113 30.4% 4,342 62.6% 486 6,941 R+32.1
Greene 4,116 62.1% 2,373 35.8% 141 6,630 D+26.3
Wayne 3,010 47.6% 2,939 46.5% 375 6,324 D+1.1
Clinton 3,204 52.8% 2,756 45.4% 113 6,073 D+7.4
Perry 2,738 45.8% 3,168 53.0% 67 5,973 R+7.2
Potter 1,692 36.7% 2,570 55.7% 354 4,616 R+19.0
Mifflin 2,084 46.2% 2,321 51.5% 105 4,510 R+5.3
Monroe 3,274 73.8% 1,107 24.9% 56 4,437 D+48.8
Union 1,582 38.7% 2,448 59.9% 60 4,090 R+21.2
Wyoming 1,841 46.1% 2,026 50.7% 129 3,996 R+4.6
Snyder 1,493 38.2% 2,360 60.4% 57 3,910 R+22.2
Juniata 1,842 49.8% 1,760 47.6% 97 3,699 D+2.2
Montour 1,865 57.7% 1,289 39.9% 76 3,230 D+17.8
Elk 1,824 56.7% 1,321 41.1% 70 3,215 D+15.6
Sullivan 1,260 54.5% 946 41.0% 104 2,310 D+13.6
Fulton 1,230 55.5% 951 42.9% 34 2,215 D+12.6
Pike 1,265 68.8% 559 30.4% 16 1,840 D+38.4
Forest 612 38.2% 917 57.2% 73 1,602 R+19.0
Cameron 551 41.0% 782 58.1% 12 1,345 R+17.2

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4