1888 Presidential Election

VAP turnout uses this page’s presidential vote total. VAP includes all residents age 21 and over, including women barred from voting in many states. VEP turnout is a separately published historical rate, using its own turnout and population estimates. These rates are not directly comparable.
36.3%
Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1888, won by Benjamin Harrison with 233 electoral votes.

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Harrison’s Cabinet

Officials who served during the 1889–1893 elected term, including brief holdovers from the preceding administration. Years show full tenure in office, including service outside the term; acting service is identified where included. William F. Wharton acted in two separate periods, in 1892 and 1893. Agriculture became a Cabinet department in February 1889, before Harrison took office. Commerce and Labor had not yet been established.

President: Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

Vice President: Levi P. Morton (1889–1893)

Secretary of State: Thomas F. Bayard (1885–1889), James G. Blaine (1889–1892), William F. Wharton (acting) (1892–1892), John W. Foster (1892–1893), William F. Wharton (acting) (1893–1893)

Secretary of the Treasury: Charles S. Fairchild (1887–1889), William Windom (1889–1891), Allured B. Nettleton (acting) (1891–1891), Charles Foster (1891–1893)

Secretary of War: William C. Endicott (1885–1889), Redfield Proctor (1889–1891), Lewis A. Grant (acting) (1891–1891), Stephen B. Elkins (1891–1893)

Attorney General: Augustus H. Garland (1885–1889), William H. H. Miller (1889–1893)

Postmaster General: Don M. Dickinson (1888–1889), John Wanamaker (1889–1893)

Secretary of the Navy: William C. Whitney (1885–1889), Benjamin F. Tracy (1889–1893)

Secretary of the Interior: William F. Vilas (1888–1889), John W. Noble (1889–1893)

Secretary of Agriculture: Norman J. Colman (1889–1889), Jeremiah M. Rusk (1889–1893)

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Electoral Votes

Other color: Prohibition Party (Clinton B. Fisk). Party identity color for the Prohibition movement; not a modern left–right rating. Combined Other totals include all remaining candidates.

201 to win
5,539,118 popular votes (48.6%)
Running Mate: Allen G. Thurman
5,449,825 popular votes (47.8%)
Running Mate: Levi P. Morton

One of only 5 elections (1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016) where the popular vote winner was defeated.

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State Electoral Votes

Alabama

10

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

7

California

8

Colorado

3

Connecticut

6

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

4

Georgia

12

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

22

Indiana

15

Iowa

13

Kansas

9

Kentucky

13

Louisiana

8

Maine

6

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

14

Michigan

13

Minnesota

7

Mississippi

9

Missouri

16

Montana

Nebraska

5

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

9

New Mexico

New York

36

North Carolina

11

North Dakota

Ohio

23

Oklahoma

Oregon

3

Pennsylvania

30

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

9

South Dakota

Tennessee

12

Texas

13

Utah

Vermont

4

Virginia

12

Washington

West Virginia

6

Wisconsin

11

Wyoming

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