Why did Benjamin Harrison win in 1888?

Benjamin Harrison

won the 1888 presidential election defeating incumbent President

Grover Cleveland. In the 1888 presidential election Benjamin

Harrison received 233 electoral votes and Grover Cleveland received

168 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Cleveland

5,534,488 and Harrison 5,443,892.

Grover Cleveland

won the 1892 presidential election defeating incumbent President

Benjamin Harrison. In the 1892 presidential election Grover

Cleveland received 277 electoral votes and Benjamin Harrison

received 145 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were

Cleveland 5,551,883 and Harrison 5,179,244. People's Party

candidate James Weaver received 1,027,329 popular votes for

President, but no electoral votes.