1873 Wisconsin gubernatorial election

1873 Wisconsin gubernatorial election

← 1871 November 4, 1873 1875 →
 
Nominee William Robert Taylor Cadwallader C. Washburn
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance Reform
Popular vote 81,599 66,224
Percentage 55.19% 44.79%

County results
Taylor :      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
Washburn :      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%

Governor before election

Cadwallader C. Washburn
Republican

Elected Governor

William Robert Taylor
Democratic

The 1873 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1873. Democratic Party candidate William Robert Taylor was elected with 55% of the vote, defeating incumbent Republican governor Cadwallader C. Washburn.[1]

Taylor was the first Democrat elected Governor of Wisconsin since William A. Barstow in 1853. He was nominated as the consensus candidate of the "Reform Party,"—a coalition of Democrats, Liberal Republicans, and Grangers, on a platform of political and economy reform.

  1. ^ Joint Committee on Legislative Organization, Wisconsin Legislature (2015). Wisconsin Blue Book 2015–2016. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Department of Administration. pp. 699–701. ISBN 978-0-9752820-7-6.