1884 United States presidential election | Wikipedia audio article
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1884 United States presidential election


00:01:43 1 Nominations
00:01:53 1.1 Republican Party nomination
00:03:23 1.2 Democratic Party nomination
00:05:24 1.3 Other parties and candidates
00:05:34 1.3.1 Anti-Monopoly Party nomination
00:07:08 1.3.2 Greenback Party nomination
00:08:48 1.3.3 American Prohibition Party nomination
00:10:27 1.3.4 Prohibition Party nomination
00:11:08 1.3.5 Equal Rights Party nomination
00:12:16 2 General election
00:12:26 2.1 Campaign
00:17:03 2.2 Results
00:17:48 2.3 Geography of results
00:17:57 2.3.1 Cartographic gallery
00:18:05 2.4 Results by state
00:18:28 2.5 Close states
00:19:59 3 See also



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The United States presidential election of 1884 was the 25th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1884. It saw the first election of a Democrat as President of the United States since the Civil War. Governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine.
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 alienation of Catholic voters proved decisive.
In the election, Cleveland won 48.9% of the nationwide popular vote and 219 electoral votes, carrying the Solid South and several key swing states. Blaine won 48.3% of the popular vote and 182 electoral votes. Cleveland won his home state by just 1,047 votes; had he lost New York, he would have lost the election. Two third-party candidates, John St. John of the Prohibition Party and Benjamin Butler of the Greenback Party and the Anti-Monopoly Party, each won less than 2% of the popular vote.