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Election 1888 Results

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1888 presidential election in South Carolina

Grover Cleveland (Democrat) beat Benjamin Harrison (Republican) in South Carolina in 1888, 82.3% to 17.2%, a margin of 65.1 points and 52,088 votes.

South Carolina voted 64.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.8.

The Democratic hold continued from 1884, when Grover Cleveland also won.

Democrats led in 33 of the 34 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 1. The largest, Orangeburg, cast 4,209 votes and went to the Democrat by 44.6 points. The closest was Georgetown, where 75 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
Grover Cleveland won Democratic 65,824 82.3%
Benjamin Harrison Republican 13,736 17.2%
All other candidates 437 0.5%
Total79,997

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Orangeburg 3,044 72.3% 1,165 27.7% 4,209 D+44.6
Spartanburg 3,344 86.6% 502 13.0% 15 3,861 D+73.6
Greenville 3,305 86.7% 456 12.0% 50 3,811 D+74.8
Barnwell 2,905 78.5% 613 16.6% 183 3,701 D+61.9
Colleton 2,805 79.9% 704 20.1% 3,509 D+59.9
Edgefield 3,142 98.3% 54 1.7% 3,196 D+96.6
Marion 2,417 76.3% 705 22.3% 46 3,168 D+54.0
Charleston 2,652 85.2% 435 14.0% 27 3,114 D+71.2
Abbeville 2,985 97.4% 74 2.4% 6 3,065 D+95.0
Aiken 2,532 86.2% 404 13.8% 2,936 D+72.5
Berkeley 1,611 55.0% 1,318 45.0% 2,929 D+10.0
Sumter 1,735 64.8% 944 35.2% 2,679 D+29.5
Williamsburg 1,634 66.8% 813 33.2% 2,447 D+33.6
York 2,305 95.6% 105 4.4% 2,410 D+91.3
Richland 1,912 81.0% 443 18.8% 5 2,360 D+62.2
Beaufort 509 22.3% 1,769 77.7% 2,278 R+55.3
Anderson 2,045 94.3% 124 5.7% 2,169 D+88.6
Darlington 1,852 86.3% 294 13.7% 2,146 D+72.6
Chesterfield 1,871 91.4% 177 8.6% 2,048 D+82.7
Lexington 1,903 94.8% 91 4.5% 14 2,008 D+90.2
Lancaster 1,740 88.7% 221 11.3% 1,961 D+77.5
Union 1,920 98.5% 30 1.5% 1,950 D+96.9
Newberry 1,729 96.4% 58 3.2% 7 1,794 D+93.1
Chester 1,735 96.9% 42 2.3% 14 1,791 D+94.5
Clarendon 1,452 81.4% 331 18.6% 1,783 D+62.9
Hampton 1,398 79.7% 324 18.5% 31 1,753 D+61.3
Horry 1,241 77.4% 363 22.6% 1,604 D+54.7
Laurens 1,451 96.6% 36 2.4% 15 1,502 D+94.2
Oconee 1,212 83.6% 231 15.9% 7 1,450 D+67.7
Kershaw 1,258 87.6% 170 11.8% 8 1,436 D+75.8
Fairfield 1,388 99.0% 5 0.4% 9 1,402 D+98.6
Georgetown 703 52.8% 628 47.2% 1,331 D+5.6
Marlboro 1,231 99.0% 12 1.0% 1,243 D+98.1
Pickens 858 90.0% 95 10.0% 953 D+80.1

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.

South Carolina in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+17.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+11.7
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+14.3
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.5
2008 John McCain (R) R+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+17.1
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+16.0
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.8
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+8.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+23.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+1.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+13.0
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+42.7
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.5
1964 Barry Goldwater (R) R+17.8
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.5
1956 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+20.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+1.4
1948 Strom Thurmond (other)
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+83.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+91.3
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+97.1
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+96.1
1928 Al Smith (D) D+82.9
1924 John W. Davis (D) D+94.4
1920 James M. Cox (D) D+92.1
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+94.3
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+94.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+87.9
1904 Alton B. Parker (D) D+90.7
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+86.1
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.8
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+58.6
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+65.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+51.8
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+31.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+0.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+52.0
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+15.9