In the Presidential election , Republican President Benjamin Harrison was defeated by former Democratic President Grover Cleveland . Cleveland won the popular vote by a margin of three percent , but won by a large margin in the electoral college . Populist James B. Weaver also carried five Western states and won a little over eight percent of the vote . At the 1892 Republican National Convention , Harrison fended off a challenge from supporters of former Secretary of State James G. Blaine and Governor William McKinley of Ohio . At the 1892 Democratic National Convention , Cleveland defeated Senator David B. Hill from New York and Governor Horace Boies of Iowa on the first ballot . Harrison had previously defeated Cleveland in 1888 , and Cleveland 's win made him the first President to serve non-consecutive terms . Cleveland 's win in the popular vote also made him the second person , after Andrew Jackson , to win the popular vote in three presidential elections
1892 Democratic National Convention
1892 Democratic National Convention
1892 United States elections