Election 1888 Results
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1888 presidential election in West Virginia
Grover Cleveland (Democrat) beat Benjamin Harrison (Republican) in West Virginia in 1888, 49.3% to 49.0%, a margin of 0.3 points and 506 votes.
West Virginia voted 0.5 points more Republican 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 30 of the 54 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 24. The largest, Ohio, cast 9,696 votes and went to the Democrat by 1.1 points. The closest was Brooke, where 17 votes separated the two parties.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grover Cleveland won | Democratic | 78,677 | 49.3% |
| Benjamin Harrison | Republican | 78,171 | 49.0% |
| All other candidates | 2,592 | 1.6% | |
| Total | 159,440 |
Every county
| County | Democrat | Republican | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 4,855 50.1% | 4,749 49.0% | 92 | 9,696 | D+1.1 |
| Kanawha | 3,089 37.2% | 4,541 54.7% | 677 | 8,307 | R+17.5 |
| Wood | 2,803 44.8% | 3,255 52.0% | 196 | 6,254 | R+7.2 |
| Mason | 2,321 46.3% | 2,646 52.8% | 47 | 5,014 | R+6.5 |
| Harrison | 2,161 43.8% | 2,628 53.3% | 140 | 4,929 | R+9.5 |
| Fayette | 1,923 40.5% | 2,616 55.0% | 215 | 4,754 | R+14.6 |
| Marion | 2,256 49.0% | 2,233 48.5% | 119 | 4,608 | D+0.5 |
| Marshall | 1,837 39.9% | 2,676 58.1% | 91 | 4,604 | R+18.2 |
| Preston | 1,403 31.3% | 2,998 66.9% | 79 | 4,480 | R+35.6 |
| Cabell | 2,427 55.0% | 1,947 44.1% | 38 | 4,412 | D+10.9 |
| Berkeley | 2,011 47.9% | 2,183 52.0% | 5 | 4,199 | R+4.1 |
| Jackson | 1,942 46.3% | 2,234 53.2% | 20 | 4,196 | R+7.0 |
| Wetzel | 2,295 61.7% | 1,385 37.2% | 41 | 3,721 | D+24.5 |
| Monongalia | 1,361 37.8% | 2,208 61.4% | 30 | 3,599 | R+23.5 |
| Greenbrier | 2,121 60.2% | 1,393 39.6% | 8 | 3,522 | D+20.7 |
| Jefferson | 2,357 67.1% | 1,132 32.2% | 23 | 3,512 | D+34.9 |
| Ritchie | 1,408 40.2% | 1,960 56.0% | 132 | 3,500 | R+15.8 |
| Wayne | 2,058 59.3% | 1,412 40.7% | 3 | 3,473 | D+18.6 |
| Lewis | 1,642 51.4% | 1,527 47.8% | 26 | 3,195 | D+3.6 |
| Roane | 1,636 52.9% | 1,449 46.9% | 6 | 3,091 | D+6.0 |
| Putnam | 1,390 45.6% | 1,521 49.9% | 138 | 3,049 | R+4.3 |
| Barbour | 1,508 50.4% | 1,473 49.2% | 11 | 2,992 | D+1.2 |
| Taylor | 1,219 43.1% | 1,580 55.8% | 32 | 2,831 | R+12.8 |
| Mercer | 1,374 49.3% | 1,402 50.3% | 13 | 2,789 | R+1.0 |
| Braxton | 1,688 61.3% | 1,062 38.5% | 5 | 2,755 | D+22.7 |
| Tyler | 1,137 41.9% | 1,562 57.6% | 15 | 2,714 | R+15.7 |
| Summers | 1,353 51.3% | 1,272 48.2% | 15 | 2,640 | D+3.1 |
| Upshur | 841 32.3% | 1,716 65.9% | 45 | 2,602 | R+33.6 |
| Monroe | 1,338 51.7% | 1,222 47.2% | 27 | 2,587 | D+4.5 |
| Doddridge | 1,151 45.1% | 1,393 54.6% | 9 | 2,553 | R+9.5 |
| Mineral | 1,209 48.4% | 1,251 50.0% | 40 | 2,500 | R+1.7 |
| Hampshire | 1,907 78.4% | 519 21.3% | 7 | 2,433 | D+57.0 |
| Randolph | 1,426 64.9% | 772 35.1% | 2,198 | D+29.8 | |
| Lincoln | 1,147 54.5% | 950 45.1% | 9 | 2,106 | D+9.4 |
| Gilmer | 1,179 58.6% | 833 41.4% | 2,012 | D+17.2 | |
| Wirt | 1,054 53.0% | 921 46.3% | 13 | 1,988 | D+6.7 |
| Logan | 1,533 79.6% | 393 20.4% | 1,926 | D+59.2 | |
| Nicholas | 1,016 55.0% | 779 42.2% | 53 | 1,848 | D+12.8 |
| Pendleton | 1,012 56.5% | 779 43.5% | 1 | 1,792 | D+13.0 |
| Raleigh | 924 52.8% | 806 46.1% | 20 | 1,750 | D+6.7 |
| Brooke | 804 50.2% | 787 49.1% | 11 | 1,602 | D+1.1 |
| Hardy | 1,153 72.2% | 439 27.5% | 5 | 1,597 | D+44.7 |
| Calhoun | 935 59.6% | 623 39.7% | 12 | 1,570 | D+19.9 |
| Pleasants | 803 53.2% | 693 45.9% | 14 | 1,510 | D+7.3 |
| Pocahontas | 891 60.0% | 587 39.6% | 6 | 1,484 | D+20.5 |
| Morgan | 539 37.5% | 877 60.9% | 23 | 1,439 | R+23.5 |
| Grant | 378 26.7% | 1,027 72.5% | 11 | 1,416 | R+45.8 |
| Tucker | 680 51.5% | 628 47.6% | 12 | 1,320 | D+3.9 |
| Boone | 741 58.6% | 520 41.1% | 3 | 1,264 | D+17.5 |
| Hancock | 489 40.4% | 675 55.8% | 45 | 1,209 | R+15.4 |
| Wyoming | 471 44.1% | 596 55.8% | 1 | 1,068 | R+11.7 |
| McDowell | 409 41.3% | 582 58.7% | 991 | R+17.5 | |
| Webster | 658 69.0% | 295 31.0% | 953 | D+38.1 | |
| Clay | 414 46.7% | 464 52.4% | 8 | 886 | R+5.6 |
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.
West Virginia in every presidential election we hold
| Year | Winner | Margin |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Donald Trump (R) | R+41.9 |
| 2020 | Donald Trump (R) | R+38.9 |
| 2016 | Donald Trump (R) | R+42.1 |
| 2012 | Mitt Romney (R) | R+26.8 |
| 2008 | John McCain (R) | R+13.1 |
| 2004 | George W. Bush (R) | R+12.9 |
| 2000 | George W. Bush (R) | R+6.3 |
| 1996 | Bill Clinton (D) | D+14.7 |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton (D) | D+13.0 |
| 1988 | Michael Dukakis (D) | D+4.7 |
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan (R) | R+10.5 |
| 1980 | Jimmy Carter (D) | D+4.5 |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter (D) | D+16.1 |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon (R) | R+27.2 |
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey (D) | D+8.8 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | D+35.9 |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy (D) | D+5.5 |
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) | R+8.2 |
| 1952 | Adlai Stevenson II (D) | D+3.8 |
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman (D) | D+15.1 |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+9.8 |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+14.2 |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+21.4 |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+10.0 |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover (R) | R+17.4 |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge (R) | R+5.4 |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding (R) | R+12.0 |
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | R+0.9 |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson (D) | D+21.0 |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft (R) | R+10.3 |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt (R) | R+13.2 |
| 1900 | William McKinley (R) | R+9.5 |
| 1896 | William McKinley (R) | R+5.4 |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland (D) | D+2.4 |
| 1888 | Grover Cleveland (D) | D+0.3 |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland (D) | D+3.2 |
| 1880 | Winfield Scott Hancock (D) | D+9.9 |
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden (D) | D+14.6 |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) | R+4.5 |
| 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) | R+17.6 |