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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1884 United States presidential election
| country = United States
| flag_year = 1877
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1880 United States presidential election
| previous_year = 1880
| next_election = 1888 United States presidential election
| next_year = 1888
| votes_for_election = 401 members of the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]]
| needed_votes = 201 electoral
| turnout = 77.5%<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php|title=Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections|work=The American Presidency Project|publisher=[[UC Santa Barbara]]}}</ref> {{decrease}} 0.5 [[percentage point|pp]]
| election_date = November 4, 1884

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| nominee1 = '''[[Grover Cleveland]]'''
| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)
| home_state1 = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| running_mate1 = '''[[Thomas A. Hendricks]]'''
| electoral_vote1 = '''219'''
| states_carried1 = '''20'''
| popular_vote1 = '''4,914,482'''
| percentage1 = '''48.8%'''

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| nominee2 = [[James G. Blaine]]
| party2 = Republican Party (United States)
| home_state2 = [[Maine]]
| running_mate2 = [[John A. Logan]]
| electoral_vote2 = 182
| states_carried2 = 18
| popular_vote2 = 4,856,905
| percentage2 = 48.3%
| map = {{1884 United States presidential election imagemap}}
| map_size = 350px
| map_caption = Presidential election results map. <span style="color:blue;">Blue</span> denotes those won by Cleveland/Hendricks, <span style="color:red;">red</span> denotes states won by Blaine/Logan. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
| title = President
| before_election = [[Chester A. Arthur]]
| before_party = Republican Party (United States)
| after_election = [[Grover Cleveland]]
| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)
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The '''1884 United States presidential election''' was the 25th quadrennial [[United States presidential election|presidential election]], held on Tuesday, November 4, 1884. In the election, Governor [[Grover Cleveland]] of [[New York (state)|New York]] defeated [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] of [[Maine]]. It was set apart by unpleasant mudslinging and shameful personal allegations that eclipsed substantive issues, such as civil administration change. Cleveland was the first [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] elected [[President of the United States]] since [[James Buchanan]] in [[1856 United States presidential election|1856]], the first to hold office since [[Andrew Johnson]] left the [[White House]] in 1869, and the last to hold office until [[Woodrow Wilson]], who began his first term in 1913. For this reason, 1884 is a significant election in U.S. political history, marking an interruption in the era when Republicans largely controlled the presidency between [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] and the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]].

Cleveland won the presidential nomination on the second ballot of the [[1884 Democratic National Convention]]. President [[Chester A. Arthur]] had acceded to the presidency in 1881 following the [[assassination of James A. Garfield]], but he was unsuccessful in his bid for nomination to a full term. Blaine, who had served as Secretary of State under President Garfield, defeated Arthur and other candidates on the fourth ballot of the [[1884 Republican National Convention]]. A group of reformist Republicans known as "[[Mugwumps]]" abandoned Blaine's candidacy, viewing him as corrupt. The campaign was marred by exceptional political acrimony and personal invective. Blaine's reputation for public corruption and his inadvertent last-minute alienation of [[Catholicism|Catholic]] voters proved decisive.

In the election, Cleveland won 48.9% of the nationwide popular vote and 219 [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]], carrying the [[Solid South]] and several key [[swing state]]s. Blaine won 48.3% of the popular vote and 182 electoral votes. Cleveland won his home state by just 1,149 votes; had he lost New York, he would have lost the election. Two third-party candidates, [[John St. John (Governor of Kansas)|John St. John]] of the [[Prohibition Party]] and [[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin Butler]] of the [[Greenback Party]] and the [[Anti-Monopoly Party]], each won less than 2% of the popular vote. Blaine was the last former Secretary of State to be nominated by a major political party until the [[2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries|nomination]] of [[Hillary Clinton]] in [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]], while Cleveland became the only sitting Democratic president between the end of the Civil War and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in the [[1912 United States presidential election]], a span of almost 50 years. Blaine, similarly, also became the only Republican nominee in the 56-year period between [[1860 United States presidential election|1860]] and [[1916 United States presidential election|1916]] to never win a presidential election, and just one of three nominees from that party to never win the presidency in the 80-year span between 1856 and 1936.

== Nominations ==

=== Democratic Party nomination ===
{{Main|1884 Democratic National Convention}}

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| style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|[[File:Democratic Disc.svg|65px|center|link=Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party (United States)]]<big>'''1884 Democratic Party ticket'''</big>
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! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| [[Grover Cleveland|{{color|white|Grover Cleveland}}]]
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| [[Thomas A. Hendricks|{{color|white|Thomas A. Hendricks}}]]
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| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:#C8EBFF; width:200px;"|'''''for Vice President'''''
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| colspan=2 |[[Grover Cleveland 1884 presidential campaign|'''Campaign''']]
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The Democrats convened in Chicago on July 8–11, 1884, with New York Governor Grover Cleveland as clear frontrunner, the candidate of northern reformers and sound-money men (as opposed to inflationists). Although [[Tammany Hall]] bitterly opposed his nomination, the machine represented a minority of the New York delegation. Its only chance to block Cleveland was to break the unit rule, which mandated that the votes of an entire delegation be cast for only one candidate, and this it failed to do. [[Daniel N. Lockwood]] from New York placed Cleveland's name in nomination. But this rather lackluster address was eclipsed by the seconding speech of [[Edward S. Bragg]] from Wisconsin, who roused the delegates with a memorable slap at Tammany. "They love him, gentlemen," Bragg said of Cleveland, "and they respect him, not only for himself, for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will, but they love him most of all for the enemies he has made." As the convention rocked with cheers, Tammany boss [[John Kelly (New York politician)|John Kelly]] lunged at the platform, screaming that he welcomed the compliment.

On the first ballot, Cleveland led the field with 392 votes, more than 150 votes short of the nomination. Trailing him were [[Thomas F. Bayard]] from Delaware, 170; [[Allen G. Thurman]] from Ohio, 88; [[Samuel J. Randall]] from Pennsylvania, 78; and [[Joseph E. McDonald]] from Indiana, 56; with the rest scattered. Randall then withdrew in Cleveland's favor. This move, together with the Southern bloc scrambling aboard the Cleveland bandwagon, was enough to put him over the top of the second ballot, with 683 votes to 81.5 for Bayard and 45.5 for [[Thomas A. Hendricks]] from Indiana. Hendricks was nominated unanimously for vice president on the first ballot after [[John C. Black]], [[William Rosecrans]], and [[George Washington Glick]] withdrew their names from consideration.<ref>William DeGregorio, ''The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents'', Gramercy 1997</ref>

=== Republican Party nomination ===
{{Main|1884 Republican National Convention}}

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| style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|[[File:Republican Disc.svg|65px|center|link=Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party (United States)]]<big>'''1884 Republican Party ticket'''</big>
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! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#E81B23; width:200px;"| [[James G. Blaine|{{color|white|James G. Blaine}}]]
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#E81B23; width:200px;"| [[John A. Logan|{{color|white|John A. Logan}}]]
|-  style="color:#000; font-size:100%; background:#FFD0D7;"
| style="width:3em; width:200px;"|'''''for President'''''
| style="width:3em; width:200px;"|'''''for Vice President'''''
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| [[File:JamesGBlaine.png|center|200x200px]]
| [[File:John Alexander Logan crop.jpg|center|200x200px]]
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| [[List of secretaries of state of the United States|28th]] <br>[[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]]<br><small>(1881)</small>
| [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]]<br />from [[Illinois]]<br /><small>(1871–1877 & 1879–1886)</small>
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[[File:20 Chester Arthur 3x4.jpg|thumb|227x227px|[[Chester A. Arthur]], the incumbent president in 1884, whose term expired on March 4, 1885]]
The [[1884 Republican National Convention]] was held in [[Chicago]], Illinois, on June 3–6, with former Secretary of State James G. Blaine from Maine, [[Chester A. Arthur|President Arthur]], and Senator [[George F. Edmunds]] from Vermont as the frontrunners. Though he was still popular, Arthur did not make a serious bid for a full-term nomination, knowing that his increasing health problems meant he would probably not survive a second term (he ultimately died in November 1886). Blaine led on the first ballot, with Arthur second, and Edmunds third. This order did not change on successive ballots as Blaine increased his lead, and he won a majority on the fourth ballot. After nominating Blaine, the convention chose Senator [[John A. Logan]] from Illinois as the vice-presidential nominee. Blaine remains the only Presidential nominee ever to come from Maine.<ref>[http://editions.lib.umn.edu/smartpolitics/2009/09/23/what-states-do-presidents-come/ ‘What States do Presidents Come From?’]</ref>

Famed [[American Civil War|Civil War]] general [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] was considered a possible Republican candidate, but ruled himself out with what has become known as the [[Sherman pledge]]: "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve." [[Robert Todd Lincoln]], [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War of the United States]], and son of the past President [[Abraham Lincoln]], was also strongly courted by politicians and the media of the day to seek the presidential or vice-presidential nomination, but Lincoln was as averse to the nomination as Sherman.

=== Other parties and candidates ===

==== Anti-Monopoly Party nomination ====
Anti-Monopoly candidates:
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File:Bfbutler.jpg|{{center|'''[[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin F. Butler]]''' from [[Massachusetts]]}}
File:AllenGThurman.png|{{center|'''[[Allen G. Thurman]]''' from [[Ohio]]}}
File:James Weaver - Brady-Handy (cropped).jpg|{{center|'''[[James B. Weaver]]''' from [[Iowa]]<br><small>''(Declined to be nominated)''</small>}}
</gallery>

The [[Anti-Monopoly Party|Anti-Monopoly]] National Convention assembled in the Hershey Music Hall in Chicago, Illinois on May 14.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-anti-monopoly-party-founded/|date=14 May 2014| publisher=People's World|title=Today in labor history:Anti-Monopoly Party founded| accessdate=13 February 2021}}</ref> The party had been formed to express opposition to the business practices of the emerging nationwide companies. There were around 200 delegates from 16 states, but 61 of them were from Michigan and Illinois.

[[Alson Streeter]] was the temporary chairman and John F. Henry was the permanent chairman.

[[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin F. Butler]] was nominated for president on the first ballot. Delegates from New York, Washington, D.C., and Maryland bolted the convention when it appeared that no discussion of other candidates would be allowed. [[Allen G. Thurman]] and [[James B. Weaver]] were put forward as alternatives to Butler, but Weaver declined, not wishing to run another national campaign for political office, and Thurman generated little enthusiasm. Butler, while far from opposed to the nomination, hoped to be nominated by the Democratic or Republican party, or at least in the case of the former, to make its platform more favorable to greenbacks. Ultimately only the [[Greenback Party]] endorsed his candidacy.

The convention chose not to nominate a candidate for vice president, hoping that other conventions would endorse a similar platform and name a suitable vice-presidential nominee.<ref name=Hinshaw>{{Cite book |last=Hinshaw |first=Seth |title=Ohio Elects the President: Our State's Role in Presidential Elections 1804-1996 |publisher=Book Masters, Inc |year=2000 |location=Mansfield}}</ref>{{rp|55}} The committee ultimately nominated [[Absolom M. West|Absolom Madden West]] as their vice-presidential candidate.<ref name=Havel />{{rp|56}}

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| colspan="2" | '''Presidential Ballot'''<ref name=Havel>{{Cite book |last=Havel |first=James T. |title=U.S. Presidential Elections and the Candidates: A Biographical and Historical Guide |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1996 |isbn=0-02-864623-1 |volume=2: The Elections, 1789-1992 |location=New York |pages=}}</ref>{{Rp|page=56}}
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! Ballot!!1st
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![[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin F. Butler]] !!124
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![[Allen G. Thurman]]{{efn|Published sources disagree on how many votes Thurman received on the ballot. Hinshaw claims he received 7 votes, but Havel finds only 2.}} !!2
|-
![[Solon Chase]] !!1
|}

==== Greenback Party nomination ====
{{Main|1884 Greenback National Convention}}

Greenback candidates:
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File:Bfbutler.jpg|{{center|'''[[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin F. Butler]]''' from [[Massachusetts]]}}
File:Jesseharper.jpg|{{center|[[Party chair|Party Chairman]] '''[[Jesse Harper (politician)|Jesse Harper]]''' from [[Illinois]]}}
</gallery>

The 3rd Greenback Party National Convention assembled in English's Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Delegates from 28 states and the [[District of Columbia]] attended. The convention nominated Benjamin F. Butler for president over its Party Chairman Jesse Harper on the first ballot. [[Absolom M. West]] was nominated unanimously for vice president, and subsequently was also endorsed by the Anti-Monopoly Party.

Butler had initially hoped to form a number of fusion slates with the "minority party" in each state, Democratic or Republican, and for his supporters of various parties to come together under a single "People's Party". But many in the two major parties, while maybe agreeing with Butler's message and platform, were unwilling to place their support beyond the party line. In a number of places, Iowa in particular, fusion slates were nominated; essentially, Butler's and Cleveland's votes would be added together for the total vote of the fusion slate, allowing them to carry the state even if neither won a plurality, with the electoral vote being divided according to the percentage of the vote each party netted.<ref>{{cite news |title=FUSION AND CONFUSION. - View Article - NYTimes.com |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/20/106152322.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/20/106152322.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=2014-07-09}}</ref>

But even if Fusion had been carried out in every state in which it was considered possible (Indiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois), it would not have changed the result, none of the states flipping from Blaine to Cleveland, with Butler winning a single electoral vote from Indiana.

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| colspan="2" | '''Presidential Ballot'''<ref name=Havel />{{rp|57}}
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! Ballot!!1st
|-
![[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin F. Butler]] !!323
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![[Jesse Harper (politician)|Jesse Harper]]!!98
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![[Solon Chase]] !!2
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![[Edward P. Allis (businessman)|Edward Phelps Allis]] !!1
|-
![[David Davis (Supreme Court justice)|David Davis]] !!0
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==== American Prohibition Party nomination ====
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File:Samuel C. Pomeroy - Brady-Handy.jpg|{{center|'''[[Samuel C. Pomeroy]]''' from [[Kansas]]<br><small>''(Withdrew Aug 27, 1884)''</small><br><small>''(Endorsed John St. John)''</small>}}
</gallery>

The American Prohibition Party held its national convention in the YMCA building in Chicago, Illinois. There were 150 delegates, including many non-voting delegates. The party sought to merge the reform movements of [[anti-masonry]], [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]], [[anti-polygamy]], and direct election of the president into a new party. [[Jonathan Blanchard (abolitionist)|Jonathan Blanchard]] was a major figure within the party. He traveled throughout northern states in the spring and gave an address entitled "The American Party – Its Principles and Its Claims."

During the convention, the party name was changed from the American Party to the American Prohibition Party. The party had been known as the Anti-Masonic Party in 1880. Many of the delegates at the convention were initially interested in nominating [[John St. John (American politician)|John St. John]], the former governor of Kansas, but it was feared that such a nomination might cost him that of the Prohibition Party, which he was actively seeking. Party leaders met with [[Samuel C. Pomeroy]], a former senator from the same state who was the convention's runner-up for the nomination, and at Pomeroy's suggestion they agreed to withdraw the ticket from the race should St. John win the Prohibition Party nomination. Nominated alongside Pomeroy was John A. Conant from Connecticut.

St. John later unanimously won the Prohibition Party nomination, with Pomeroy and Conant withdrawing from the presidential contest and endorsing him. The ''New York Times'' speculated that the endorsement would "give him 40,000 votes".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/28/106153063.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/08/28/106153063.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=WITHDRAWS IN FAVOR OF ST. JOHN. - View Article - NYTimes.com |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=2014-07-09}}</ref>

==== Prohibition Party nomination ====
{{Main|1884 Prohibition National Convention}}

<gallery perrow="1" mode="packed" heights="160">
File:John St John 1880.jpg|{{center|'''[[John St. John (American politician)|John St. John]]''' from [[Kansas]]}}
</gallery>

The fourth Prohibition Party National Convention assembled in Lafayette Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were 505 delegates from 31 states and territories at the convention. The national ticket was nominated unanimously: John St. John for president and [[William Daniel (Maryland politician)|William Daniel]] for vice president. The straightforward single-issue [[Prohibition Party]] platform advocated the criminalization of [[alcoholic beverage]]s.<ref name="Havel" />{{Rp|page=58}}

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| colspan="2" | '''Presidential Ballot<ref name="Hinshaw" />'''{{Rp|page=56}}
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! Ballot!!1st
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![[John St. John (American politician)|John St. John]] !!505
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==== Equal Rights Party nomination ====
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File:Belva Ann Lockwood - Brady-Handy.jpg|{{center|[[Lawyer]] and [[Suffragette]] '''[[Belva Ann Lockwood]]''' from [[Washington, D.C.]]}}
</gallery>

Dissatisfied with resistance by the men of the major parties to women's suffrage, a small group of women announced the formation in 1884 of the [[National Equal Rights Party|Equal Rights Party]].

The Equal Rights Party held its national convention in San Francisco, California, on September 20. The convention nominated [[Belva Ann Lockwood]], an attorney in [[Washington, D.C.]], for president. Chairman [[Marietta Stow]], the first woman to preside over a national nominating convention, was nominated for vice president.<ref name=Havel />{{rp|57}}<ref name=Hinshaw />{{rp|56}}

Lockwood agreed to be the party's presidential candidate even though most women in the United States did not yet have the right to vote. She said, "I cannot vote but I can be voted for." She was the first woman to run a full campaign for the office ([[Victoria Woodhull]] conducted a more limited campaign in [[1872 United States presidential election|1872]]). The Equal Rights Party had no treasury, but Lockwood gave lectures to pay for campaign travel. She received approximately 4,194 votes nationally.<ref>Soden, Suzanne. ''Belva A. Lockwood Collection [1830–1917]''. The College of Saint Rose. February, 1997. http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc21041.htm</ref>

== General election ==

=== Campaign ===
[[Image:Ma ma wheres my pa.jpg|thumb|right|Campaign poster attacking Cleveland's morals]]

The issue of personal character was paramount in the 1884 campaign. Blaine had been prevented from getting the Republican presidential nomination during the previous two elections because of the stigma of the "Mulligan letters": in 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses. One such letter ended with the phrase "burn this letter", from which a popular chant of the Democrats arose – "Burn, burn, burn this letter!" In just one deal, he had received $110,150 (over $1.5 million in 2010 dollars) from the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad for securing a federal land grant, among other things. Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result.
Cleveland, on the other hand, was known as "Grover the Good" for his personal integrity; in the space of the three previous years he had become successively the mayor of [[Buffalo, New York]], and then the governor of the state of New York, cleaning up large amounts of Tammany Hall's [[graft (politics)|graft]].

[[File:How The Public Domain Has Been Squandered 1884 Cornell CUL PJM 1088.jpg|thumbnail|left|This campaign poster purports to show the area of land grants to railroads]]
Commentator [[Jeff Jacoby (columnist)|Jeff Jacoby]] notes that, "Not since George Washington had a candidate for president been so renowned for his rectitude."<ref>Jeff Jacoby, "'Grover the good' — the most honest president of them all," [https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/02/15/presidents-day-grover-cleveland-most-honest-president-them-all/CmhndHa3aA1t0cvAfjB6LL/story.html ''Boston Globe'' Feb. 15. 2015]</ref> In July the Republicans found a refutation buried in Cleveland's past. Aided by sermons from a minister named George H. Ball, they charged that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer in Buffalo. When confronted with the scandal, Cleveland immediately instructed his supporters to "Above all, tell the truth." Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child, named Oscar Folsom Cleveland after Cleveland's friend and law partner, but asserted that the child's paternity was uncertain.<ref name="Henry F. Graff 2002 61–63">{{cite book|author=Henry F. Graff|title=Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885–1889 and 1893–1897|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BjE7XsSQxmAC&pg=PA61|year=2002|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|pages=61–63|isbn=9780805069235}}</ref> Shortly before election day, the Republican media published an affidavit from Halpin in which she stated that until she met Cleveland her "life was pure and spotless," and "there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of Grover Cleveland, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false."<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Lachman|first=Charles|title=A Secret Life|date=2014|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|pages=285–288}}</ref> In a supplemental affidavit, Halpin also implied Cleveland had raped her, hence the conception of their child.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-life-and-presidency-of-grover-cleveland|title=The Life and Presidency of Grover Cleveland|last1=Bushong|first1=William|last2=Chervinsky|first2=Lindsay|date=2007|website=White House History}}</ref> Republican cartoonists across the land had a field day.<ref>Glen Jeansonne, "Caricature and Satire in the Presidential Campaign of 1884." ''Journal of American Culture'' (1980) 3#2 pp: 238–244. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1980.0302_238.x/abstract Online]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884/Newspapers%20Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884%20-%200236.PDF |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle/Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884/Newspapers%20Rochester%20NY%20Democrat%20Chronicle%201884%20-%200236.PDF |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Maria Halpin's Affidavit|date=Oct 31, 1884|pages=1|work=[[Democrat and Chronicle]] (Rochester, NY)}}</ref><ref>Daily Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Nov. 1, 1884. p. 5</ref><ref>Topeka Daily Capital (Topeka, Kansas) Nov. 1, 1884. p. 4</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045789/1884-11-02/ed-1/seq-2/|title=That Scandal|work=[[Wichita Daily Eagle]] (Wichita, Kansas)|date=Nov 2, 1884|access-date=July 30, 2014|page=2}}</ref><ref>Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). October 31, 1884. p. 3</ref>

Cleveland's campaign decided that candor was the best approach to this scandal: it admitted that Cleveland had formed an "illicit connection" with the mother and that a child had been born and given the Cleveland surname. They also noted that there was no proof that Cleveland was the father, and claimed that, by assuming responsibility and finding a home for the child, he was merely doing his duty. Finally, they showed that the mother had not been forced into an asylum; her whereabouts were unknown. Blaine's supporters condemned Cleveland in the strongest of terms, singing "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa?"<ref>Tugwell, 90</ref> (After Cleveland's victory, Cleveland supporters would respond to the taunt with: "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.") However, the Cleveland campaign's damage control worked well enough and the race remained a tossup through Election Day. The greatest threat to the Republicans came from reformers called "[[Mugwump]]s" who were angrier at Blaine's public corruption than at Cleveland's private affairs.<ref>Geoffrey T. Blodgett, "The Mind of the Boston Mugwump." ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' (1962): 614–634. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1893145 in JSTOR]</ref>

[[File:PresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|400px|thumb|Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Cleveland (Democratic), shades of red are for Blaine (Republican), shades of green are for Butler (Straight Greenback), and shades of yellow are for bolting electors (Whig Republican).]]
In the final week of the campaign, the Blaine campaign suffered a catastrophe. At a Republican meeting attended by Blaine, a group of New York preachers castigated the Mugwumps. Their spokesman, [[Samuel D. Burchard (minister)|Reverend Dr. Samuel Burchard]], said, "We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been [[rum]], [[Romanism]], and [[American Civil War|rebellion]]." Blaine did not notice Burchard's anti-Catholic slur, nor did the assembled newspaper reporters, but a Democratic operative did, and Cleveland's campaign managers made sure it was widely publicized. The statement energized the Irish and Catholic vote in New York City heavily against Blaine, costing him New York state and the election by a narrow margin.

In addition to Burchard's statement, it is also believed that John St. John's campaign was responsible for winning Cleveland the election in New York. Since Prohibitionists tended to ally more with Republicans, the Republican Party attempted to convince St. John to drop out. When they failed, they resorted to [[Defamation|slandering]] him. Because of this, he redoubled his efforts in upstate New York, where Blaine was vulnerable on his prohibition stance, and took votes away from the Republicans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.harpweek.com/1884/Overview-1884-3.htm |title=HarpWeek &#124; Elections &#124; 1884 Overview |publisher=Elections.harpweek.com |access-date=2014-07-09}}</ref>

===Results===
While the results remained broadly the same as those from 1880, Cleveland won three states ([[New York (state)|New York]], [[Indiana]], and [[Connecticut]]) that [[James A. Garfield]] had won, while Blaine won two states ([[California]] and [[Nevada]]) that [[Winfield Scott Hancock|Winfield Hancock]] had won. But most of those states had relatively small numbers of electoral votes, and Cleveland's victory in New York was decisive. Cleveland won by a slightly larger margin than Garfield (0.57% compared to 0.11%) in the popular vote, but a slightly smaller margin in the Electoral College (29 votes to 59). Cleveland became the first Democrat to ever win without Pennsylvania, California, Nevada, and Illinois. Pennsylvania voted for the losing candidate for the first time since 1824, and the loser of the popular vote since 1800. 

The result marked an electoral breakthrough for the Prohibition Party, who had been little more than a fringe party in the previous three elections. While they never seriously challenged for the presidency and had only limited success in congressional and state-level elections, they regularly earned at least a percentage point of the popular vote (and occasionally finished third in that vote) in presidential elections for the next three decades before declining back to fringe status after the passage of the [[Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Eighteenth Amendment]] in 1919. By contrast, Butler earned less than half the popular vote share that [[James B. Weaver]] had won in 1880, accelerating the decline of the Greenback Party. This was the last presidential election the party contested; it collapsed after failing to nominate a ticket in 1888.

In [[Burke County, Georgia]], 897 votes were cast for bolting "Whig Republican" electors for president (they were not counted for Blaine).<ref name="An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the year 1886">An American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the year 1886., Ainsworth R. Spofford, https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZcYAAAAIAAJ (pg. 207)</ref> The Republicans won in 20 of the 33 cities with populations over 50,000 outside the southern U.S.<ref>{{cite book |last=Murphy |first=Paul |date=1974 |title=Political Parties In American History, Volume 3, 1890-present |publisher=[[G. P. Putnam's Sons]]}}</ref>

[[File: United States Electoral College 1884.svg]]

{{start U.S. presidential ticket box|pv_footnote=|ev_footnote=}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=[[Grover Cleveland|Stephen Grover Cleveland]]| vp_name=[[Thomas A. Hendricks|Thomas Andrews Hendricks]]| party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]| state=[[New York (state)|New York]]| vp_state=[[Indiana]]| pv=4,914,482| pv_pct=48.85%| ev=219}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=[[James G. Blaine|James Gillespie Blaine]]|vp_name=[[John A. Logan|John Alexander Logan]]| party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]|state=[[Maine]]|vp_state=[[Illinois]]|pv=4,856,903|pv_pct=48.28%|ev=182}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=[[John St. John (Governor of Kansas)|John Pierce St. John]]|vp_name=[[William Daniel (Maryland politician)|William Daniel]]|party=[[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]]| state=[[Kansas]]|vp_state=[[Maryland]]|pv=147,482|pv_pct=1.50%|ev=0}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=[[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin Franklin Butler]]|vp_name=[[Absolom M. West|Absolom Madden West]]| party=[[Greenback Party|Greenback]]/[[Anti-Monopoly Party|Anti-Monopoly]]| state=[[Massachusetts]]|vp_state=[[Mississippi]]|pv=134,294|pv_pct=1.33%|ev=0}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row|name=[[Belva Ann Lockwood|Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood]]|vp_name=[[Marietta Stow|Marietta L.B. Stow]]| party=[[National Equal Rights Party|Equal Rights]]| state=[[Washington, D.C.]]|vp_state=[[California]]|pv=4,194|pv_pct=0.04%|ev=0}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box other| footnote=| pv=3,576| pv_pct=0.04%}}
{{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=10,060,145| ev=401| to_win=201}}

'''Source (Popular Vote):''' {{Leip PV source| year=1884| as of=July 27, 2005}}

'''Source (Electoral Vote):''' {{National Archives EV source| year=1884| as of=July 31, 2005}}

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|title=Popular vote
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|width=600px
|barwidth=410px
|bars=
{{bar percent|'''Cleveland'''|{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}|48.85}}
{{bar percent|Blaine|{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}|48.28}}
{{bar percent|St. John|#ff9955|1.50}}
{{bar percent|Butler|#0BDA51|1.33}}
{{bar percent|Others|#777777|0.09}}
}}
{{bar box
|title=Electoral vote
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|width=600px
|barwidth=410px
|bars=
{{bar percent|'''Cleveland'''|{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}|54.61}}
{{bar percent|Blaine|{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}|45.39}}
}}

=== Geography of results ===
[[File:1884 Electoral Map.png|650px|thumb|left]]
<gallery perrow="3" widths="500px" heights="317px">
Image:1884 United States presidential election results map by county.svg|Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
</gallery>

==== Cartographic gallery ====
<gallery perrow="4" widths="200px" heights="157px">
Image:PresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of presidential election results by county
Image:DemocraticPresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of Democratic presidential election results by county
Image:RepublicanPresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of Republican presidential election results by county
Image:OtherPresidentialCounty1884Colorbrewer.gif|Map of "other" presidential election results by county
</gallery>

=== Results by state ===
Source: Data from [[Walter Dean Burnham]], ''Presidential ballots, 1836–1892'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=1884&datatype=national&def=1&f=0&off=0&elect=0|title=1884 Presidential General Election Data – National|access-date=May 7, 2013}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable"
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
|States/districts won by [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]]/[[Thomas A. Hendricks|Hendricks]]
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
|States/districts won by [[James G. Blaine|Blaine]]/[[John A. Logan|Logan]]
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! colspan=2 |
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"| Grover Cleveland<br>Democratic
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"| James Blaine<br>Republican
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"| John St. John<br>Prohibition
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"| Benjamin Butler <br>Greenback
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Margin
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| State Total
|-
! align=center | State
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" data-sort-type="number" | electoral<br>votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| #
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" data-sort-type="number" | electoral<br>votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| #
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" data-sort-type="number" | electoral<br>votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| #
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" data-sort-type="number" | electoral<br>votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| #
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" data-sort-type="number" | electoral<br>votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| #
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort- type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center; font-size: 60%" data-sort-type="number" | #
!
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Alabama|Alabama]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 10
| 92,736
| 60.37
| 10
| 59,444
| 38.69
| –
| 610
| 0.40
| –
| 762
| 0.50
| –
| 33,292
| 21.67
| 153,624
| style="text-align:center;" | AL
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Arkansas|Arkansas]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| 72,734
| 57.83
| 7
| 51,198
| 40.70
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 1,847
| 1.47
| –
| 21,536
| 17.12
| 125,779
| style="text-align:center;" | AR
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in California|California]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| 89,288
| 45.33
| –
| 102,369
| 51.97
| 8
| 2,965
| 1.51
| –
| 2,037
| 1.03
| –
| −13,081
| −6.64
| 196,988
| style="text-align:center;" | CA
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Colorado|Colorado]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| 27,723
| 41.68
| –
| 36,084
| 54.25
| 3
| 756
| 1.14
| –
| 1,956
| 2.94
| –
| −8,361
| −12.57
| 66,519
| style="text-align:center;" | CO
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Connecticut|Connecticut]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| 67,182
| 48.95
| 6
| 65,898
| 48.01
| –
| 2,493
| 1.82
| –
| 1,684
| 1.23
| –
| 1,284
| 0.94
| 137,257
| style="text-align:center;" | CT
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Delaware|Delaware]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| 16,957
| 56.55
| 3
| 12,953
| 43.20
| –
| 64
| 0.21
| –
| 10
| 0.03
| –
| 4,004
| 13.35
| 29,984
| style="text-align:center;" | DE
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Florida|Florida]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| 31,769
| 52.96
| 4
| 28,031
| 46.73
| –
| 72
| 0.12
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 3,738
| 6.23
| 59,990
| style="text-align:center;" | FL
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Georgia|Georgia]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
| 94,667
| 65.92
| 12
| 48,603
| 33.84
| –
| 195
| 0.14
| –
| 145
| 0.10
| –
| 46,064
| 32.08
| 143,610
| style="text-align:center;" | GA
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Illinois|Illinois]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 22
| 312,351
| 46.43
| –
| 337,469
| 50.17
| 22
| 12,074
| 1.79
| –
| 10,776
| 1.60
| –
| −25,118
| −3.73
| 672,670
| style="text-align:center;" | IL
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Indiana|Indiana]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 15
| 245,005
| 49.46
| 15
| 238,489
| 48.15
| –
| 3,028
| 0.61
| –
| 8,810
| 1.78
| –
| 6,516
| 1.32
| 495,332
| style="text-align:center;" | IN
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Iowa|Iowa]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 13
| 177,316
| 47.01
| –
| 197,089
| 52.25
| 13
| 1,499
| 0.40
| –
| –
| –
| –
| −19,773
| −5.24
| 377,201
| style="text-align:center;" | IA
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Kansas|Kansas]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| 90,132
| 33.90
| –
| 154,406
| 58.08
| 9
| 4,495
| 1.69
| –
| 16,346
| 6.15
| –
| −64,274
| −24.18
| 265,848
| style="text-align:center;" | KS
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Kentucky|Kentucky]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 13
| 152,961
| 55.32
| 13
| 118,690
| 42.93
| –
| 3,139
| 1.14
| –
| 1,691
| 0.61
| –
| 34,271
| 12.40
| 276,481
| style="text-align:center;" | KY
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Louisiana|Louisiana]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| 62,594
| 57.22
| 8
| 46,347
| 42.37
| –
| 338
| 0.31
| –
| 120
| 0.11
| –
| 16,247
| 14.85
| 109,399
| style="text-align:center;" | LA
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Maine|Maine]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| 52,153
| 39.97
| –
| 72,217
| 55.34
| 6
| 2,160
| 1.66
| –
| 3,955
| 3.03
| –
| −20,064
| −15.38
| 130,491
| style="text-align:center;" | ME
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Maryland|Maryland]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 8
| 96,866
| 52.07
| 8
| 85,748
| 46.10
| –
| 2,827
| 1.52
| –
| 578
| 0.31
| –
| 11,118
| 5.98
| 186,019
| style="text-align:center;" | MD
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Massachusetts|Massachusetts]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 14
| 122,352
| 40.33
| –
| 146,724
| 48.36
| 14
| 9,923
| 3.27
| –
| 24,382
| 8.04
| –
| −24,372
| −8.03
| 303,383
| style="text-align:center;" | MA
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Michigan|Michigan]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 13
| 189,361
| 47.20
| –
| 192,669
| 48.02
| 13
| 18,403
| 4.59
| –
| 753
| 0.19
| –
| −3,308
| −0.82
| 401,186
| style="text-align:center;" | MI
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Minnesota|Minnesota]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 7
| 70,065
| 36.87
| –
| 111,685
| 58.78
| 7
| 4,684
| 2.47
| –
| 3,583
| 1.89
| –
| −41,620
| −21.90
| 190,017
| style="text-align:center;" | MN
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Mississippi|Mississippi]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| 77,653
| 64.34
| 9
| 43,035
| 35.66
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 34,618
| 28.68
| 120,688
| style="text-align:center;" | MS
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Missouri|Missouri]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 16
| 236,023
| 53.49
| 16
| 203,081
| 46.02
| –
| 2,164
| 0.49
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 32,942
| 7.47
| 441,268
| style="text-align:center;" | MO
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Nebraska|Nebraska]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
| 54,391
| 40.53
| –
| 76,912
| 57.31
| 5
| 2,899
| 2.16
| –
| –
| –
| –
| −22,521
| −16.78
| 134,202
| style="text-align:center;" | NE
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Nevada|Nevada]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| 5,578
| 43.59
| –
| 7,193
| 56.21
| 3
| –
| –
| –
| 26
| 0.20
| –
| −1,615
| −12.62
| 12,797
| style="text-align:center;" | NV
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire|New Hampshire]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| 39,198
| 46.34
| –
| 43,254
| 51.14
| 4
| 1,580
| 1.87
| –
| 554
| 0.65
| –
| −4,056
| −4.80
| 84,586
| style="text-align:center;" | NH
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in New Jersey|New Jersey]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| 127,798
| 48.98
| 9
| 123,440
| 47.31
| –
| 6,159
| 2.36
| –
| 3,496
| 1.34
| –
| 4,358
| 1.67
| 260,921
| style="text-align:center;" | NJ
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in New York|New York]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 36
| 563,154
| 48.25
| 36
| 562,005
| 48.15
| –
| 25,006
| 2.14
| –
| 17,004
| 1.46
| –
| 1,149
| 0.10
| 1,167,169
| style="text-align:center;" | NY
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in North Carolina|North Carolina]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
| 142,905
| 53.25
| 11
| 125,021
| 46.59
| –
| 430
| 0.16
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 17,884
| 6.66
| 268,356
| style="text-align:center;" | NC
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Ohio|Ohio]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 23
| 368,280
| 46.94
| –
| 400,082
| 50.99
| 23
| 11,069
| 1.41
| –
| 5,179
| 0.66
| –
| −31,802
| −4.05
| 784,610
| style="text-align:center;" | OH
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Oregon|Oregon]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
| 24,604
| 46.70
| –
| 26,860
| 50.99
| 3
| 492
| 0.93
| –
| 726
| 1.38
| –
| −2,256
| −4.28
| 52,682
| style="text-align:center;" | OR
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 30
| 392,785
| 43.46
| –
| 478,804
| 52.97
| 30
| 15,283
| 1.69
| –
| 16,992
| 1.88
| –
| −86,019
| −9.52
| 903,864
| style="text-align:center;" | PA
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Rhode Island|Rhode Island]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| 12,391
| 37.81
| –
| 19,030
| 58.07
| 4
| 928
| 2.83
| –
| 422
| 1.29
| –
| −6,639
| −20.26
| 32,771
| style="text-align:center;" | RI
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina|South Carolina]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| 69,845
| 75.25
| 9
| 21,730
| 23.41
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 48,115
| 51.84
| 92,812
| style="text-align:center;" | SC
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee|Tennessee]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
| 133,770
| 51.45
| 12
| 124,101
| 47.74
| –
| 1,150
| 0.44
| –
| 957
| 0.37
| –
| 9,669
| 3.72
| 259,978
| style="text-align:center;" | TN
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Texas|Texas]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 13
| 225,309
| 69.26
| 13
| 93,141
| 28.63
| –
| 3,534
| 1.09
| –
| 3,321
| 1.02
| –
| 132,168
| 40.63
| 325,305
| style="text-align:center;" | TX
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Vermont|Vermont]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
| 17,331
| 29.18
| –
| 39,514
| 66.52
| 4
| 1,753
| 2.95
| –
| 785
| 1.32
| –
| −22,183
| −37.34
| 59,401
| style="text-align:center;" | VT
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Virginia|Virginia]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
| 145,491
| 51.05
| 12
| 139,356
| 48.90
| –
| 130
| 0.05
| –
| –
| –
| –
| 6,135
| 2.15
| 284,977
| style="text-align:center;" | VA
|-{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia|West Virginia]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
| 67,311
| 50.94
| 6
| 63,096
| 47.75
| –
| 939
| 0.71
| –
| 799
| 0.60
| –
| 4,215
| 3.19
| 132,145
| style="text-align:center;" | WV
|-{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | [[1884 United States presidential election in Wisconsin|Wisconsin]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
| 146,453
| 45.79
| –
| 161,135
| 50.38
| 11
| 7,649
| 2.39
| –
| 4,598
| 1.44
| –
| −14,682
| −4.59
| 319,835
| style="text-align:right;" | WI
|-
! TOTALS:
! 401
! 4,914,482
! 48.85
! 219
! 4,856,903
! 48.28
! 182
! 150,890
! 1.50
! –
! 134,294
! 1.33
! –
! 57,579
! 0.57
! 10,060,145
| style="text-align:center;" | US
|}

=== Close states ===
Margin of victory less than 1% (55 electoral votes):
# ''<span style="color:darkblue;">'''New York, 0.10% (1,149 votes)'''</span> (tipping point state)''
#<span style="color:red;">'''Michigan, 0.82% (3,308 votes)''' </span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Connecticut, 0.94% (1,284 votes)'''</span>

Margin of victory between 1% and 5% (117 electoral votes):
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Indiana, 1.32% (6,516 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''New Jersey, 1.67% (4,358 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Virginia, 2.15% (6,135 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''West Virginia, 3.19% (4,215 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Tennessee, 3.72% (9,669 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''Illinois, 3.73% (25,118 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''Ohio, 4.05% (31,802 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''Oregon, 4.28% (2,256 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''Wisconsin, 4.59% (14,682 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''New Hampshire, 4.80% (4,056 votes)'''</span>

Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (104 electoral votes):
#<span style="color:red;">'''Iowa, 5.24% (19,773 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Maryland, 5.98% (11,118 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Florida, 6.23% (3,738 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''California, 6.64% (13,081 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''North Carolina, 6.66% (17,884 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:darkblue;">'''Missouri, 7.47% (32,942 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''Massachusetts, 8.03% (24,372 votes)'''</span>
#<span style="color:red;">'''Pennsylvania, 9.52% (86,019 votes)'''</span>

== See also ==
[[Image:DanceCardCoverUSPresidentialCandidatesGroverClevelandEtc1884.jpg|thumb|[[Dance card]] cover depicting the candidates]]

* [[American election campaigns in the 19th century]]
* [[History of the United States (1865–1918)]]
* [[First inauguration of Grover Cleveland]]
* [[1884 United States House of Representatives elections]]
* [[1884–85 United States Senate elections|1884–1885 United States Senate elections]]
* [[President of the United States]]
* [[Third Party System]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Sources ==
* {{cite book|doi=10.9783/9780812291360|title=America at the Ballot Box|year=2015|isbn=9780812291360|editor1-last=Davies|editor1-first=Gareth|editor2-last=Zelizer|editor2-first=Julian E}}
* Hirsch, Mark. "Election of 1884," in ''History of Presidential Elections: Volume III 1848–1896,'' ed. Arthur Schlesinger and Fred Israel (1971), 3:1578.
* {{cite book| last=Josephson| first=Matthew | author-link = Matthew Josephson| title=The Politicos: 1865–1896| year=1938}}
* {{cite book| last=Keller| first=Morton| title=Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America| year=1977|doi=10.4159/harvard.9780674181885| isbn=9780674181885}}
* {{cite book| last=Kleppner| first=Paul| title=The Third Electoral System 1853–1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures| year=1979}}
*  {{cite journal|doi=10.1086/POLv35n1ms3235469|title=U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century: Why Culture and the Economy Both Mattered|year=2002|last1=Lynch|first1=G. Patrick|journal=Polity|volume=35|pages=29–50|s2cid=157740436}}
*  Norgren, Jill. ''Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President'' (2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110604182639/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000625619 online version], focus on 1884
* {{cite book| last=Morgan| first=H. Wayne| title=From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877–1896| year=1969}}
* {{cite book| author=[[James Ford Rhodes]]| title=History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Roosevelt-Taft Administration| year=1920| type=8 vols.}}
* Summers, Mark Wahlgren. ''Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884'' [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=104865169 (2000) online version]
*[http://elections.harpweek.com/1884/Overview-1884-3.htm "1884 Election Cleveland v. Blaine Overview"], ''HarpWeek'', July 26, 2008. <!--accessed November 21, 2008-->
* {{cite book| last=Roberts| first=North| title=Encyclopedia of Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms| year=2004}}
* Thomas, Harrison Cook, ''The return of the Democratic Party to power in 1884'' (1919) [https://archive.org/details/returndemocratic00thomrich online]

=== Primary sources ===
* {{cite book| publisher=Republican Congressional Committee| title=The Republican Campaign Text Book for 1884| year=1882| url=https://archive.org/details/republicancampa01goog | quote=Democratic campaign text Book.}}
* Chester, Edward W  ''A guide to political platforms'' (1977) [https://archive.org/details/guidetopolitical0000ches online]
* Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. ''National party platforms, 1840-1964'' (1965) [https://archive.org/details/nationalpartypla00port online 1840-1956]

== External links ==
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* [https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1884.html Presidential Election of 1884: A Resource Guide] from the Library of Congress
* [http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1884.htm 1884 popular vote by counties]

* {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Rum, Romanism and Rebellion|year=1920}}
* [http://www.countingthevotes.com/1884/ Election of 1884 in Counting the Votes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509052627/http://www.countingthevotes.com/1884 |date=May 9, 2017 }}

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