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Carroll County, presidential election of 1888

Carroll County

55.81%Benjamin Harrison (R), the most votes4,309Votes counted for president

Every election in Carroll County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1888

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What this is

Carroll County counted 4,309 votes for president across 4 candidates in 1888. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Benjamin HarrisonRepublican2,40555.81%
Grover ClevelandDemocratic1,74640.52%
Clinton B. FiskProhibition1303.02%
Alson StreeterUnion Labor280.65%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Benjamin Harrison (Republican) with 49.51%, a 2.3-point margin over Grover Cleveland. The country elected Benjamin Harrison.
Against the state
Carroll County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+15.3 against Ohio's R+2.3: 13.0 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 22nd of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1884
From 1884 to 1888 the county's lean moved 0.4 points toward the Democrats, from R+15.7 to R+15.3.
Matched
Carroll County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1888 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1888 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1888-11-06 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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