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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 abstract "The United States presidential election of 1888 was the 26th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. It saw Grover Cleveland of New York, the incumbent president and a Democrat, try to secure a second term against the Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former U.S. Senator from Indiana. The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost re-election in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.Tariff policy was the principal issue in the election. Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers. His opposition to Civil War pensions and inflated currency also made enemies among veterans and farmers. On the other hand, he held a strong hand in the South and border states, and appealed to former Republican Mugwumps.Harrison swept almost the entire North and Midwest (losing only Connecticut and New Jersey), and narrowly carried the swing states of New York (Cleveland's home state) and Indiana (Harrison's home state) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the electoral vote. Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state.This election was notable for being the third of four U.S. presidential elections in which the winner of the electoral college did not win the popular vote. The first, in 1824, saw John Quincy Adams elected by the House. The second occurred just 12 years earlier in 1876, while the fourth would occur 112 years later in 2000. It is also notable because only two states (New York and Indiana) switched parties in the electoral vote in comparison to the preceding election. It would not be until the election of 2012 that only two states would switch parties in consecutive elections.".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 afterElection Benjamin_Harrison.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 afterParty "Republican Party".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 asOf "2005-07-27".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 electionDate "1888-11-06".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 flagYear "1877".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 homeState Indiana.
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 name Benjamin_Harrison.
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 name Grover_Cleveland.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 name James_Langdon_Curtis.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 name Robert_Hall_Cowdrey.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 neededVotes "201".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 nextElection "United States presidential election, 1892".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 nextYear "1892".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 nominee Grover_Cleveland.
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 party Democratic_Party_(United_States).
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 party Labor_Party_(United_States,_19th_century).
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 party National_Equal_Rights_Party.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 party Prohibition_Party.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 party Republican_Party_(United_States).
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 party "American Party".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 previousElection "United States presidential election, 1884".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 previousYear "1884".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 runningMate Allen_G._Thurman.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 runningMate "Levi P. Morton".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state Illinois.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state Indiana.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state New_Jersey.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state New_York.
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state Washington,_D.C..
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state "Illinois".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 state "New York".
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- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 title "Electoral vote".
- United_States_presidential_election,_1888 title "Popular vote".