United States presidential election in California, 1892

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Nominee	Grover Cleveland	Benjamin Harrison	James Weaver
Party	Democratic	Republican	Populist
Home state	New York	Indiana	Iowa
Running mate	Adlai E. Stevenson	Whitelaw Reid	James Field
Electoral vote	8	1	0
Popular vote	118,174	118,027	25,311
Percentage	43.83%	43.78%	9.39%

President before election

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Benjamin Harrison
Republican

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The 1892 United States presidential election in California refers to how California participated in the 1892 United States presidential election. California voted for the Democratic challenger, former president Grover Cleveland, over the Republican incumbent, Benjamin Harrison by an extremely narrow margin of just 147 votes, or a 0.05452% margin, which constitutes the fifth-closest statewide presidential election result on record, behind Florida in 2000, Maryland in 1832 and 1904, and California itself in 1912. One elector cast a vote for Harrison.

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