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Van Wert County, presidential election of 1892

Van Wert County

50.06%Grover Cleveland (D), the most votes7,250Votes counted for president

Every election in Van Wert County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1892

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What this is

Van Wert County counted 7,250 votes for president across 4 candidates in 1892. 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
Grover ClevelandDemocratic3,62950.06%
Benjamin HarrisonRepublican3,37346.52%
John BidwellProhibition1912.63%
James B. WeaverPopulist570.79%

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 47.66%, a 0.1-point margin over Grover Cleveland. The country elected Grover Cleveland.
Against the state
Van Wert County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+3.5 against Ohio's R+0.1: 3.7 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 55th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1888
From 1888 to 1892 the county's lean moved 3.7 points toward the Democrats, from R+0.2 to D+3.5.
Matched
Van Wert County parted from Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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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: 1892 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1892 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1892-11-08 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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