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1892 presidential election in Maine

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in Maine in 1892, 54.0% to 41.3%, a margin of 12.8 points and 14,887 votes.

Maine voted 15.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.0.

The Republican hold continued from 1888, when Benjamin Harrison also won.

Republicans led in 16 of the 16 counties as they stood then. The largest, Cumberland, cast 17,682 votes and went to the Republican by 6.3 points. The closest was Knox, where 185 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Benjamin Harrison won Republican 62,936 54.0%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 48,049 41.3%
All other candidates 5,462 4.7%
Total116,447

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 8,051 45.5% 9,165 51.8% 466 17,682 R+6.3
York 5,237 43.6% 6,388 53.2% 384 12,009 R+9.6
Penobscot 4,516 38.3% 6,571 55.8% 695 11,782 R+17.4
Kennebec 4,094 38.0% 6,165 57.3% 508 10,767 R+19.2
Androscoggin 3,452 41.9% 4,326 52.5% 466 8,244 R+10.6
Washington 2,906 41.7% 3,817 54.8% 246 6,969 R+13.1
Somerset 2,872 41.5% 3,777 54.6% 270 6,919 R+13.1
Oxford 2,492 39.7% 3,521 56.1% 262 6,275 R+16.4
Hancock 2,654 42.8% 3,330 53.6% 223 6,207 R+10.9
Aroostook 1,920 35.9% 2,896 54.2% 532 5,348 R+18.2
Knox 2,136 42.5% 2,321 46.2% 566 5,023 R+3.7
Waldo 2,151 43.7% 2,503 50.9% 264 4,918 R+7.2
Lincoln 1,585 42.0% 2,018 53.4% 173 3,776 R+11.5
Sagadahoc 1,278 34.5% 2,265 61.2% 156 3,699 R+26.7
Franklin 1,456 41.1% 1,964 55.5% 119 3,539 R+14.4
Piscataquis 1,249 38.0% 1,909 58.0% 132 3,290 R+20.1

Counties as they stood in 1892; 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.

Maine in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+6.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+9.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+3.0
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+15.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.0
2000 Al Gore (D) D+5.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+20.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+11.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+22.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+3.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+0.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+23.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.7
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+14.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+41.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.5
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.0
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.3
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+14.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+12.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+37.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+50.2
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.1
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+4.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+19.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+29.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+27.1
1896 William McKinley (R) R+38.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+12.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+18.1
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+15.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+6.2
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+14.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+35.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.8