Presidential election in the United States 1884
‹ 1880 • • 1888 › | |||||||||||
25th presidential election | |||||||||||
November 4, 1884 | |||||||||||
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Democratic Party | |||||||||||
Grover Cleveland / Thomas Hendricks | |||||||||||
electors | 219 | ||||||||||
be right | 4,914,482 | ||||||||||
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48.9% | ||||||||||
Republican Party | |||||||||||
James G. Blaine / John A. Logan | |||||||||||
electors | 182 | ||||||||||
be right | 4,856,905 | ||||||||||
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48.3% | ||||||||||
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Election results by state | |||||||||||
20 states
Cleveland / Hendricks |
18 states
Blaine / Logan |
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President of the United States | |||||||||||
The presidential election in the United States of 1884 was overshadowed by excessive accusations and personal attacks of the candidates. On November 4, 1884 , New York Governor Grover Cleveland narrowly won the election against Republican Senator James G. Blaine from Maine . He was the first Democrat to serve as President in the United States since the 1856 election , the first since the American Civil War . The extremely close election may have been decided by a denigration in the final stages of the election campaign. During a Republican election campaign event, a speaker described the Democrats as a party of "rum, romance and rebellion" - excessive alcoholism and loyalty to the Pope rather than to one's own nation were typical allegations against Catholic immigrants from Germany and Ireland who, along with residents of the southern states Electoral potential of the Democratic Party. This faux pas cost Blaine many votes from Catholic and Irish voters and drove him to the decisive electoral votes in New York State.
The previous and still relatively popular incumbent Chester A. Arthur initially tried to get the Republican nomination, but did not campaign actively. The reason for this was his health.
The suffragette Belva Ann Lockwood ran as an independent candidate .
Result
candidate | Political party | be right | electors | |
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number | percent | |||
Grover Cleveland | democrat | 4,914,482 | 48.9% | 219 |
James Gillespie Blaine | republican | 4,856,905 | 48.3% | 182 |
Benjamin Franklin Butler | Greenback / Anti-Monopoly | 175.096 | 1.7% | 0 |
John St. John | Prohibitionist | 147,482 | 1.5% | 0 |
total | 10,049,754 | 100% | 401 |
201 votes were necessary for the election to the president.
literature
- Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 229-238 (= Chapter 27: Grover Cleveland's Initial Election. ).