The 1890 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1890. Incumbent Democratic Governor Robert Love Taylor did not seek re-election. Democratic nominee John P. Buchanan defeated Republican nominee Lewis T. Baxter and Prohibition nominee D. C. Kelley with 56.57% of the vote.
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Nominations were made by party conventions.
The Democratic convention was held on July 15 to 18 at Nashville. John P. Buchanan was nominated by acclamation on the twenty-sixth ballot.[1]
Partial results of the balloting were as follows (excluding fractions).[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Gubernatorial Ballot | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 15th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th | 26th | |
Buchanan | 759 | 749 | 749 | 754 | 735 | 738 | 729 | 749 | 764 | 749 | 719 | 720 | 734 | 751 | 789 | 801 | acclamation | |||
Patterson | 370 | 370 | 371 | 385 | 364 | 382 | 375 | 360 | 374 | 401 | 374 | 379 | 374 | 349 | 448 | 433 | withdrew | |||
Baxter | 297 | 312 | 310 | 298 | 314 | 306 | 307 | 306 | 294 | 306 | 355 | 349 | 353 | 360 | 360 | 370 | withdrew | |||
Taylor | 177 | 170 | 172 | 168 | 158 | 178 | 198 | 169 | 129 | 147 | 144 | 158 | 146 | 141 | withdrew | |||||
Turney | 7 |
The Republican convention was held on July 30 at Nashville. Lewis T. Baxter was nominated by acclamation.[10][11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | John P. Buchanan | 113,549 | 56.57% | ||
Republican | Lewis T. Baxter | 76,081 | 37.91% | ||
Prohibition | D. C. Kelley | 11,082 | 5.52% | ||
Majority | 37,468 | 18.66% | |||
Turnout | 200,712 | 100.00% | |||
Democratic hold | Swing |