1884 United States presidential election in Indiana

1884 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Maine Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks John A. Logan Electoral vote 15 0 Popular vote 245,041 238,511 Percentage 49.5% 48.1%

County Results Cleveland   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Blaine   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%

President before election Chester A. Arthur Republican Elected President Grover Cleveland Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the governor of New York Grover Cleveland and the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks defeated the Republican ticket of the former U.S. secretary of state James G. Blaine and the senior U.S. senator from Illinois John A. Logan. Cleveland defeated Blaine in the national election with 219 electoral votes. ^[1]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the Electoral College rather than for president. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. ^[2] This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 . Svend Petersen's later Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections shows slightly smaller totals for all four candidates: 49 fewer votes for Cleveland, 31 fewer for Blaine, 104 fewer for Butler, and 33 fewer for St. John. ^[3]

1884 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Grover Cleveland Thomas A. Hendricks	245,041	49.46	1.55
	Republican	James G. Blaine John A. Logan	238,511	48.14	1.18
	National	Benjamin Butler Absolom M. West	8,820	1.78	1.00
	Prohibition	John St. John William Daniel	3,051	0.62	0.62
Total votes			495,423	100.00

Results

1884 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Democratic	Mortimer Nye	245,005
	Democratic	William F. Townsend	245,004
	Democratic	James A. New	245,001
	Democratic	Nimrod R. Elliott	244,999
	Democratic	Frank E. Gavin	244,997
	Democratic	William H. Harkins	244,996
	Democratic	Willis Hickam	244,996
	Democratic	Henry S. Cauthorn	244,995
	Democratic	William R. Oglebay	244,995
	Democratic	James M. Seller	244,995
	Democratic	Johannes Kopoelke	244,994
	Democratic	Aaron A. Cravens	244,943
	Democratic	William H. Dills	244,992
	Democratic	Bayless W. Hanna	245,990
	Democratic	William D. H. Hunter	245,983
	Republican	Joseph D. Ferrall	238,489
	Republican	James M. Reynolds	238,489
	Republican	Marshall Hacker	238,488
	Republican	John Berkshire	238,486
	Republican	James F. Elliott	238,486
	Republican	William B. Roberts	238,486
	Republican	James C. Veatch	238,485
	Republican	Elias S. Holliday	238,484
	Republican	William D. Ward	238,484
	Republican	Truman F. Palmer	238,482
	Republican	Thaddeus S. Rollins	238,478
	Republican	Josiah E. Mellett	238,472
	Republican	John M. Butler	238,471
	Republican	Milo Smith Hascall	238,463
	Republican	Lemuel W. Royse	238,469
	National	Richard S. Rogers	8,812
	National	Millard F. Ireland	8,810
	National	Robert S. Cook	8,807
	National	Rufus H. Davis	8,807
	National	Edmund T. Spottswood	8,807
	National	Alanson T. Bliss	8,806
	National	Henry Doup	8,806
	National	James G. Nisbet	8,805
	National	John Studebaker	8,805
	National	Joseph Butler	8,804
	National	John S. Bender	8,794
	National	Joseph Q. A. Newsom	8,780
	National	William W. Fenton	8,779
	National	Reuben A. Riley	8,293
	National	Joshua K. Speer	8,028
	Prohibition	Preston Rider	3,028
	Prohibition	Isaac Keen	3,020
	Prohibition	Thomas Painter	3,020
	Prohibition	Jesse F. Wilson	3,020
	Prohibition	Newton Burwell	3,019
	Prohibition	William McKinney Gard	3,019
	Prohibition	Charles P. Gwin	3,019
	Prohibition	John A. Pollock	3,019
	Prohibition	William F. Singleton	3,019
	Prohibition	Thomas H. C. Beal	3,018
	Prohibition	John Birdsell	3,018
	Prohibition	Frank E. Dishman	3,018
	Prohibition	Samuel J. Wilson	3,018
	Prohibition	Thomas H. Stewart	3,016
	Prohibition	Elijah Coate	3,007
Total			≈495,423

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. Petersen 1963, p. 52.
2. Dubin 2002, p. xi.
3. Petersen 1963, pp. 52–53.
4. Burnham 1955, pp. 249, 909.
5. Indiana 1887, pp. 242–45.

Bibliography

• Burnham, Walter Dean (1955). Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
• Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. ISBN   978-0-7864-6422-7.
• Indiana (1887). Annual Reports of the Officers of State [...]. Indianapolis.
• Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN   62-21786.