1884 Presidential Election
November 4, 1884 · The Gilded Age · 401 electoral votes, 201 to win
Cleveland became the first Democratic president since Buchanan in a campaign of personal scandal on both sides, decided by a thousand-vote margin in New York after a Blaine surrogate's 'rum, Romanism and rebellion' slur.
Elected
Grover Cleveland
Democratic
Electoral vote
219 of 401
Popular vote
48.9%
4,914,482 votes
Turnout
77.5%
The result
| EV share | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grover Cleveland | Democratic | Thomas A. Hendricks | 219 | 4,914,482 | 48.90% | 20 | |
| James G. Blaine | Republican | John A. Logan | 182 | 4,856,903 | 48.30% | 18 | |
| John St. John | Prohibition | William Daniel | — | 147,482 | 1.50% | — | |
| Benjamin Butler | Anti-Monopoly | Absolom M. West | — | 134,294 | 1.33% | — | |
| Belva Ann Lockwood | National Equal Rights Party | Marietta Stow | — | 4,194 | 0.04% | — |
10,057,355 votes recorded for the candidates listed.
Results by state
| Alabama | Grover Cleveland | 60.4% | 10 | James G. Blaine · 38.7% |
| Arkansas | Grover Cleveland | 57.8% | 7 | James G. Blaine · 40.7% |
| California | James G. Blaine | 52.0% | 8 | Grover Cleveland · 45.3% |
| Colorado | James G. Blaine | 54.3% | 3 | Grover Cleveland · 41.7% |
| Connecticut | Grover Cleveland | 49.0% | 6 | James G. Blaine · 48.0% |
| Delaware | Grover Cleveland | 56.6% | 3 | James G. Blaine · 43.2% |
| Florida | Grover Cleveland | 53.0% | 4 | James G. Blaine · 46.7% |
| Georgia | Grover Cleveland | 65.9% | 12 | James G. Blaine · 33.8% |
| Illinois | James G. Blaine | 50.2% | 22 | Grover Cleveland · 46.4% |
| Indiana | Grover Cleveland | 49.8% | 15 | James G. Blaine · 48.5% |
| Iowa | James G. Blaine | 52.3% | 13 | Grover Cleveland · 47.0% |
| Kansas | James G. Blaine | 58.1% | 9 | Grover Cleveland · 33.9% |
| Kentucky | Grover Cleveland | 55.3% | 13 | James G. Blaine · 42.9% |
| Louisiana | Grover Cleveland | 57.2% | 8 | James G. Blaine · 42.2% |
| Maine | James G. Blaine | 55.3% | 6 | Grover Cleveland · 40.0% |
| Maryland | Grover Cleveland | 52.1% | 8 | James G. Blaine · 46.1% |
| Massachusetts | James G. Blaine | 48.4% | 14 | Grover Cleveland · 40.3% |
| Michigan | James G. Blaine | 47.8% | 13 | Grover Cleveland · 37.2% |
| Minnesota | James G. Blaine | 58.8% | 7 | Grover Cleveland · 36.9% |
| Mississippi | Grover Cleveland | 64.3% | 9 | James G. Blaine · 35.7% |
| Missouri | Grover Cleveland | 53.5% | 16 | James G. Blaine · 46.0% |
| Nebraska | James G. Blaine | 57.3% | 5 | Grover Cleveland · 40.5% |
| Nevada | James G. Blaine | 56.2% | 3 | Grover Cleveland · 43.6% |
| New Hampshire | James G. Blaine | 51.1% | 4 | Grover Cleveland · 46.3% |
| New Jersey | Grover Cleveland | 49.0% | 9 | James G. Blaine · 47.3% |
| New York | Grover Cleveland | 48.3% | 36 | James G. Blaine · 48.2% |
| North Carolina | Grover Cleveland | 53.3% | 11 | James G. Blaine · 46.6% |
| Ohio | James G. Blaine | 51.0% | 23 | Grover Cleveland · 46.9% |
| Oregon | James G. Blaine | 51.0% | 3 | Grover Cleveland · 46.7% |
| Pennsylvania | James G. Blaine | 52.6% | 30 | Grover Cleveland · 43.9% |
| Rhode Island | James G. Blaine | 58.1% | 4 | Grover Cleveland · 37.8% |
| South Carolina | Grover Cleveland | 75.3% | 9 | James G. Blaine · 23.4% |
| Tennessee | Grover Cleveland | 51.5% | 12 | James G. Blaine · 47.7% |
| Texas | Grover Cleveland | 69.5% | 13 | James G. Blaine · 28.4% |
| Vermont | James G. Blaine | 66.5% | 4 | Grover Cleveland · 29.2% |
| Virginia | Grover Cleveland | 51.1% | 12 | James G. Blaine · 48.9% |
| West Virginia | Grover Cleveland | 50.9% | 6 | James G. Blaine · 47.8% |
| Wisconsin | James G. Blaine | 50.4% | 11 | Grover Cleveland · 45.8% |
The Congress it seated
49th Congress
1885–1887
Divided government
Senate
34–41
Democratic vs Republican
House
182–140
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