1884 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 4, 1884
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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 elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. 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]
| 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 | |
| Greenback Labor | 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
| 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 | |
| Greenback Labor | Richard S. Rogers | 8,812 | |
| Greenback Labor | Millard F. Ireland | 8,810 | |
| Greenback Labor | Robert S. Cook | 8,807 | |
| Greenback Labor | Rufus H. Davis | 8,807 | |
| Greenback Labor | Edmund T. Spottswood | 8,807 | |
| Greenback Labor | Alanson T. Bliss | 8,806 | |
| Greenback Labor | Henry Doup | 8,806 | |
| Greenback Labor | James G. Nisbet | 8,805 | |
| Greenback Labor | John Studebaker | 8,805 | |
| Greenback Labor | Joseph Butler | 8,804 | |
| Greenback Labor | John S. Bender | 8,794 | |
| Greenback Labor | Joseph Q. A. Newsom | 8,780 | |
| Greenback Labor | William W. Fenton | 8,779 | |
| Greenback Labor | Reuben A. Riley | 8,293 | |
| Greenback Labor | 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
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≈495,423
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See also
Notes
- ^ Petersen 1963, p. 52.
- ^ Dubin 2002, p. xi.
- ^ Petersen 1963, pp. 52–53.
- ^ Burnham 1955, pp. 249, 909.
- ^ 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.