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Election 1892 Results

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1892 presidential election in Massachusetts

Benjamin Harrison (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in Massachusetts in 1892, 51.9% to 45.2%, a margin of 6.6 points and 26,001 votes.

Massachusetts voted 9.7 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 13 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Suffolk, cast 81,392 votes and went to the Democrat by 11.3 points. The closest was Hampden, where 145 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Benjamin Harrison won Republican 202,814 51.9%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 176,813 45.2%
All other candidates 11,401 2.9%
Total391,028

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Suffolk 44,504 54.7% 35,304 43.4% 1,584 81,392 D+11.3
Middlesex 34,769 45.1% 40,375 52.4% 1,946 77,090 R+7.3
Essex 21,975 41.2% 29,088 54.5% 2,320 53,383 R+13.3
Worcester 20,797 42.0% 27,130 54.8% 1,544 49,471 R+12.8
Bristol 10,825 39.7% 15,732 57.7% 699 27,256 R+18.0
Hampden 11,228 48.2% 11,373 48.8% 693 23,294 R+0.6
Norfolk 10,327 45.4% 11,862 52.1% 575 22,764 R+6.7
Plymouth 7,296 39.6% 10,501 57.0% 637 18,434 R+17.4
Berkshire 6,697 46.2% 7,336 50.6% 465 14,498 R+4.4
Hampshire 3,678 41.1% 4,887 54.6% 384 8,949 R+13.5
Franklin 2,886 37.4% 4,510 58.5% 313 7,709 R+21.1
Barnstable 1,373 26.2% 3,688 70.5% 171 5,232 R+44.2
Dukes 238 26.9% 588 66.5% 58 884 R+39.6
Nantucket 220 32.7% 440 65.5% 12 672 R+32.7

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.

Massachusetts in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+25.2
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+33.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+27.2
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.8
2004 John Kerry (D) D+25.2
2000 Al Gore (D) D+27.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+33.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.5
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+7.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+0.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+15.7
1972 George McGovern (D) D+9.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+30.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+52.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+20.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+11.5
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.0
1928 Al Smith (D) D+1.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+40.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+24.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+19.7
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.1
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.6
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+9.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+8.0
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+18.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+16.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+38.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+39.5