THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. The Presidential election will take place on Tuesday, November 6, 1888. The Constitution prescribes that each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representstives to which the State may be entitled in Congress. For the election this year the electors by States will be as follows: POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT, 1884. A table showing the vote by States for each of the four leading candidates for President, the plurality received, the aggregate vote cast. *In these three States, Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska, there was a "fusion" of the Democratic and the National Greenback parties on one Electoral ticket. In Missouri and West Virginia there was a "fusion" of the Republicans and the National Greenback parties on one Electoral ticket. The blank and scattering votes reported were: Connecticut, 6; Georgia, 895; Kansas, 459; Louisiana, 453; Michigan, 4,234; Nebraska, 47; New Hampshire,6; New Jersey, 734 New York, 4,26); Oregon, 50; Texas, 12; Vermont, 27; West Virginia, 2; Wisconsin, 72. Total, 11,362. |