1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia

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1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia
Flag of West Virginia.svg
  1880 November 4, 1884 1888  
Turnout21.37% of the total population Increase2.svg 3.16 pp [1]
  StephenGroverCleveland.png Unsuccessful 1884.jpg
Nominee Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Maine
Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks John A. Logan
Electoral vote60
Popular vote67,31163,096
Percentage50.94%47.75%

West Virginia Presidential Election Results 1884.svg
County Results

President before election

Chester A. Arthur
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

The 1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. [2]

Contents

West Virginia was won by Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (DNew York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 50.94 percent of the popular vote, against Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 47.75 percent of the vote. [2]

The Prohibition Party chose John St. John, the former governor of Kansas, and former Maryland State Senator William Daniel as their presidential and vice-presidential candidates and received 0.71 percent of the vote. The Greenback and Anti-Monopoly Parties both chose major general and former governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Butler and Absolom M. West, an unseated Mississippi representative, received 0.60 percent of the vote.

This would prove the last time the Democratic Party won an absolute majority of West Virginia’s popular vote until 1932.

Results

1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Grover Cleveland 67,311 50.94%
Republican James G. Blaine 63,09647.75%
Prohibition John St. John 9390.71%
Greenback Benjamin Butler 7990.60%
Total votes132,145 100.00%

Results by county

1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia by county [3]
CountyStephen Grover Cleveland
Democratic
James Gillespie Blaine
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Barbour 1,26349.94%1,24149.07%250.99%220.87%2,529
Berkeley 1,84050.47%1,76348.35%431.18%772.11%3,646
Boone 47056.15%36243.25%50.60%10812.90%837
Braxton 1,44163.37%83136.54%20.09%61026.82%2,274
Brooke 75751.29%70447.70%151.02%533.59%1,476
Cabell 1,87256.15%1,44243.25%200.60%43012.90%3,334
Calhoun 75359.81%49939.63%70.56%25420.17%1,259
Clay 30651.34%27646.31%142.35%305.03%596
Doddridge 98944.17%1,20853.95%421.88%-219-9.78%2,239
Fayette 1,55546.67%1,75352.61%240.72%-198-5.94%3,332
Gilmer 1,02760.06%67439.42%90.53%35320.64%1,710
Grant 34029.08%82670.66%30.26%-486-41.57%1,169
Greenbrier 1,83462.44%1,02534.90%782.66%80927.55%2,937
Hampshire 1,74881.15%40418.76%20.09%1,34462.40%2,154
Hancock 45540.66%65558.53%90.80%-200-17.87%1,119
Hardy 1,11680.29%27419.71%00.00%84260.58%1,390
Harrison 2,14946.12%2,38351.14%1282.75%-234-5.02%4,660
Jackson 1,69448.03%1,81251.38%210.60%-118-3.35%3,527
Jefferson 2,25468.12%1,04231.49%130.39%1,21236.63%3,309
Kanawha 2,82039.23%4,24058.99%1281.78%-1,420-19.76%7,188
Lewis 1,50052.65%1,33146.72%180.63%1695.93%2,849
Lincoln 98460.63%63839.31%10.06%34621.32%1,623
Logan 1,02386.40%16113.60%00.00%86272.80%1,184
Marion 1,95648.80%1,95848.85%942.35%-2-0.05%4,008
Marshall 1,73441.94%2,35256.89%481.16%-618-14.95%4,134
Mason 2,00744.95%2,40553.86%531.19%-398-8.91%4,465
McDowell 20352.19%18647.81%00.00%174.37%389
Mercer 94767.16%46132.70%20.14%48634.47%1,410
Mineral 1,07751.02%98546.66%492.32%924.36%2,111
Monongalia 1,29239.01%1,98860.02%320.97%-696-21.01%3,312
Monroe 1,17653.99%97344.67%291.33%2039.32%2,178
Morgan 45237.05%75461.80%141.15%-302-24.75%1,220
Nicholas 69654.76%54943.19%262.05%14711.57%1,271
Ohio 4,46150.30%4,33648.89%720.81%1251.41%8,869
Pendleton 84458.45%59941.48%10.07%24516.97%1,444
Pleasants 68555.06%53242.77%272.17%15312.30%1,244
Pocahontas 66762.57%38936.49%100.94%27826.08%1,066
Preston 1,31632.94%2,62565.71%541.35%-1,309-32.77%3,995
Putnam 1,10246.03%1,28353.59%90.38%-181-7.56%2,394
Raleigh 77356.59%58843.05%50.37%18513.54%1,366
Randolph 1,11966.61%55432.98%70.42%56533.63%1,680
Ritchie 1,28341.32%1,72055.39%1023.29%-437-14.07%3,105
Roane 1,32454.33%1,10045.14%130.53%2249.19%2,437
Summers 1,05854.06%87144.51%281.43%1879.56%1,957
Taylor 1,14744.49%1,42155.12%100.39%-274-10.63%2,578
Tucker 43560.00%28939.86%10.14%14620.14%725
Tyler 1,04042.38%1,40257.13%120.49%-362-14.75%2,454
Upshur 68234.44%1,26763.99%311.57%-585-29.55%1,980
Wayne 1,78063.19%1,03636.78%10.04%74426.41%2,817
Webster 42771.40%17128.60%00.00%25642.81%598
Wetzel 1,94764.73%1,05835.17%30.10%88929.55%3,008
Wirt 86554.30%71344.76%150.94%1529.54%1,593
Wood 2,34043.01%2,72150.01%3806.98%-381-7.00%5,441
Wyoming 28651.53%26647.93%30.54%203.60%555
Totals67,31150.94%63,09647.75%1,7381.32%4,2153.19%132,145

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