1884 United States presidential election in Michigan

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The 1884 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13^[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1884 United States presidential election in Michigan

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All 13 Michigan votes to the Electoral College
Nominee James G. Blaine Grover Cleveland Benjamin Butler Party Republican Democratic Greenback Alliance Anti-Monopoly Party Home state Maine New York Massachusetts Running mate John A. Logan Thomas A. Hendricks Absolom West Electoral vote 13 0 0 Popular vote 192,669 149,385 41,499 Percentage 47.79% 37.20% 10.29%
County Results Blaine   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80% Cleveland   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   80–90% Butler   100%
President before election Chester A. Arthur Republican Elected President Grover Cleveland Democratic

Benjamin Butler received the nominations of both the Greenback and Anti-Monopoly parties in Michigan. Butler initially hoped to organize fusion tickets with the minority party in each state in the election, a strategy designed to capitalize on the cross-partisan popularity of many elements of the candidate's program. The Greenbacks succeeded in negotiating fusion arrangements with the Democratic Party in Michigan, wherein they were balloted separately but shared 12 of the state's 13 electors. The fusion electors agreed to divide their votes between Butler and Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in proportion to the statewide popular vote for each candidate, had their combined vote been sufficient to achieve a plurality in the state.^[2][3]

Michigan was won by the Republican nominee James G. Blaine over Cleveland and Butler in a close race by only 1,335 votes, a margin of less than 1%.^[4]

Barry and Newaygo counties have voted Democratic once since this election, in 1964.

Results

1884 United States presidential election in Michigan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	James G. Blaine	192,669	47.79%
	Democratic	Grover Cleveland	149,385	37.17%
	Greenback	Benjamin Butler	41,499	10.29%
	Prohibition	John St. John	18,403	4.56%
Total votes			403,159	100%

Results by county

County	James G. Blaine Republican		Grover Cleveland Democratic		John St. John Prohibition		Benjamin Butler Greenback/Anti-Monopoly		Various candidates Other parties		Margin [a]		Total votes
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Alcona	545	61.58%	329	37.18%	1	0.11%	9	1.02%	1	0.11%	207	23.39%	885
Allegan	4,080	47.56%	2,810	32.76%	927	10.81%	760	8.86%	1	0.01%	510	5.95%	8,578
Alpena	927	43.98%	924	43.83%	59	2.80%	198	9.39%	0	0.00%	-195	-9.25%	2,108
Antrim	1,066	58.51%	364	19.98%	37	2.03%	355	19.48%	0	0.00%	347	19.05%	1,822
Arenac	323	33.93%	17	1.79%	44	4.62%	531	55.78%	37	3.89%	-225	-23.63%	952
Baraga	396	56.33%	307	43.67%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	89	12.66%	703
Barry	2,699	43.69%	1,150	18.62%	401	6.49%	1927	31.20%	0	0.00%	-378	-6.12%	6,177
Bay	2,916	35.12%	3,436	41.39%	161	1.94%	1534	18.48%	255	3.07%	-2,054	-24.74%	8,302
Benzie	556	54.89%	245	41.39%	161	7.60%	135	13.33%	0	0.00%	176	17.37%	1,013
Berrien	4,445	48.07%	4,030	43.58%	345	3.73%	427	4.62%	0	0.00%	-12	-0.13%	9,247
Branch	3,671	52.07%	1,315	18.65%	419	5.94%	1644	23.32%	1	0.01%	712	10.10%	7,050
Calhoun	5,113	46.42%	4,693	42.61%	564	5.12%	644	5.85%	0	0.00%	-224	-2.03%	11,014
Cass	2,764	48.20%	2,527	44.06%	216	3.77%	223	3.89%	5	0.09%	14	0.24%	5,735
Charlevoix	1,043	52.97%	401	20.37%	56	2.84%	469	23.82%	0	0.00%	173	8.79%	1,969
Cheboygan	777	45.57%	577	33.84%	40	2.35%	311	18.24%	0	0.00%	-111	-6.51%	1,705
Chippewa	686	51.12%	635	47.32%	21	1.56%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	51	3.80%	1,342
Clare	622	43.34%	503	35.05%	34	2.37%	271	18.89%	5	0.35%	-152	-10.59%	1,435
Clinton	2,782	43.98%	2,413	38.14%	315	4.98%	814	12.87%	2	0.03%	-445	-7.03%	6,326
Crawford	304	56.72%	178	33.21%	9	1.68%	45	8.40%	0	0.00%	81	15.11%	536
Delta	1,201	66.13%	609	33.54%	6	0.33%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	592	32.60%	1,816
Eaton	4,106	49.37%	3,717	33.83%	494	5.93%	911	10.94%	0	0.00%	377	4.53%	8,329
Emmet	779	43.74%	587	32.96%	105	5.90%	310	17.41%	0	0.00%	-118	-6.63%	1,781
Genesee	4,328	47.84%	3,153	34.86%	1005	11.11%	560	6.19%	0	0.00%	615	6.80%	9,046
Gladwin	288	54.03%	208	39.02%	0	0.00%	19	3.56%	18	3.38%	61	11.44%	533
Grand Traverse	1,645	64.64%	549	21.57%	94	3.69%	257	10.10%	0	0.00%	839	32.97%	2,545
Gratiot	2,676	47.01%	1,526	26.81%	283	4.97%	1,207	21.21%	0	0.00%	-57	-1.00%	5,692
Hillsdale	4,315	52.18%	2,024	24.48%	629	7.61%	1,295	15.66%	6	0.07%	996	12.04%	8,269
Houghton	2,383	57.90%	1,692	41.11%	39	0.95%	2	0.05%	0	0.00%	689	16.74%	4,116
Huron	1,355	39.48%	1,454	42.37%	179	5.22%	444	12.94%	0	0.00%	-543	-15.82%	3,432
Ingham	3,709	42.35%	3,272	37.36%	472	5.39%	1,292	14.75%	12	0.14%	-855	-9.76%	8,757
Ionia	3,552	45.11%	2,728	34.65%	503	6.39%	1,084	13.77%	7	0.09%	-260	-3.30%	7,874
Iosco	1,016	50.12%	844	41.64%	43	2.12%	124	6.12%	0	0.00%	48	2.37%	2,027
Isabella	1,617	48.72%	1,033	31.12%	83	2.50%	581	17.51%	5	0.15%	3	0.09%	3,319
Isle Royale	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	9	100.00%	0	0.00%	-9	-100.00%	9
Jackson	4,804	43.90%	4,383	40.05%	645	5.89%	1,060	9.69%	51	0.47%	-639	-5.84%	10,943
Kalamazoo	4,515	51.19%	3,452	39.14%	455	5.16%	398	4.51%	0	0.00%	665	7.54%	8,820
Kalkaska	630	60.87%	182	17.58%	35	3.38%	188	18.16%	0	0.00%	260	25.12%	1,035
Kent	9,007	45.70%	6,902	35.02%	1,040	5.28%	2,755	13.98%	5	0.03%	-650	-3.30%	19,709
Keweenaw	620	74.43%	201	24.13%	12	1.44%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	419	50.30%	833
Lake	951	55.42%	447	26.05%	109	6.35%	209	12.18%	0	0.00%	295	17.19%	1,716
Lapeer	3,062	50.15%	2,499	40.94%	276	4.52%	240	3.93%	27	0.44%	323	5.29%	6,104
Leelanau	811	57.48%	485	34.37%	21	1.49%	94	6.66%	0	0.00%	232	16.44%	1,411
Lenawee	5,827	46.63%	5,271	42.18%	1,097	8.78%	300	2.40%	1	0.01%	256	2.05%	12,496
Livingston	2,597	44.73%	2,621	45.14%	272	4.68%	316	5.44%	0	0.00%	-340	-5.86%	5,806
Mackinac	479	46.06%	543	52.21%	3	0.29%	15	1.44%	0	0.00%	-79	-7.60%	1,040
Macomb	2,782	42.97%	3,336	51.52%	223	3.44%	130	2.01%	4	0.06%	-684	-10.56%	6,475
Manistee	1,305	38.43%	1,223	36.01%	162	4.77%	706	20.79%	0	0.00%	-624	-18.37%	3,396
Manitou	18	10.84%	148	89.16%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-130	-78.31%	166
Marquette	4,230	73.48%	1,467	25.48%	48	0.83%	12	0.21%	0	0.00%	2,751	47.79%	5,757
Mason	1,299	50.39%	1,011	39.22%	57	2.21%	211	8.18%	0	0.00%	77	2.99%	2,578
Mecosta	2,365	53.74%	1,166	26.49%	187	4.25%	683	15.52%	0	0.00%	516	11.72%	4,401
Menominee	2,614	73.20%	918	25.71%	25	0.70%	14	0.39%	0	0.00%	1,682	47.10%	3,571
Midland	1,071	54.09%	457	23.08%	44	2.22%	399	20.15%	9	0.45%	215	10.86%	1,980
Missaukee	470	54.27%	294	33.95%	26	3.00%	76	8.78%	0	0.00%	100	11.55%	866
Monroe	3,025	41.87%	3,735	51.70%	224	3.10%	190	2.63%	51	0.71%	-900	-12.46%	7,225
Montcalm	3,857	49.25%	2,296	29.32%	173	2.21%	1,502	19.18%	3	0.04%	59	0.75%	7,831
Montmorency	93	38.91%	48	20.08%	9	3.77%	89	37.24%	0	0.00%	-44	-18.41%	239
Muskegon	3,483	49.86%	2,119	30.33%	317	4.54%	1,042	14.92%	25	0.36%	322	4.61%	6,986
Newaygo	1,971	46.65%	995	23.55%	203	4.80%	1,056	24.99%	0	0.00%	-80	-1.89%	4,225
Oakland	4,842	44.90%	5,101	47.31%	522	4.84%	315	2.92%	3	0.03%	-574	-5.32%	10,783
Oceana	1,637	51.04%	661	20.61%	357	11.13%	552	17.21%	0	0.00%	424	13.22%	3,207
Ogemaw	478	49.28%	375	38.66%	16	1.65%	101	10.41%	0	0.00%	2	0.21%	970
Ontonagon	301	53.94%	233	41.76%	24	4.30%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	68	12.19%	558
Osceola	1,497	58.43%	678	26.46%	273	10.66%	114	4.45%	0	0.00%	705	27.52%	2,562
Oscoda	199	68.62%	57	19.66%	4	1.38%	30	10.34%	0	0.00%	112	38.62%	290
Otsego	485	52.95%	197	21.51%	21	2.29%	213	23.25%	0	0.00%	75	8.19%	916
Ottawa	3,758	53.36%	2,390	33.93%	231	3.28%	659	9.36%	5	0.07%	709	10.07%	7,043
Presque Isle	394	63.14%	202	32.37%	0	0.00%	28	4.49%	0	0.00%	164	26.28%	624
Roscommon	427	48.80%	409	46.74%	2	0.23%	26	2.97%	1	1.26%	-8	-0.91%	875
Saginaw	5,939	43.65%	6,286	46.20%	205	1.51%	1,075	7.90%	100	0.74%	-1,422	-10.45%	13,605
Sanilac	1,923	49.06%	1,043	26.61%	165	4.21%	777	19.82%	12	0.31%	103	2.63%	3,920
Schoolcraft	518	61.96%	289	34.57%	22	2.63%	7	0.84%	0	0.00%	222	26.56%	836
Shiawassee	2,705	41.70%	1,671	25.76%	623	9.60%	1,471	22.68%	17	0.26%	-437	-6.74%	6,487
St. Clair	4,017	44.62%	3,583	39.80%	348	3.87%	1,002	11.13%	53	0.59%	-568	-6.31%	9,003
St. Joseph	3,261	46.88%	2,527	36.33%	133	1.91%	1,029	14.79%	6	0.09%	-295	-4.24%	6,956
Tuscola	2,914	49.74%	2,086	35.60%	322	5.50%	537	9.17%	0	0.00%	291	4.97%	5,859
Van Buren	4,219	56.11%	2,088	27.77%	361	4.80%	845	11.24%	6	0.08%	1,286	17.10%	7,519
Washtenaw	4,049	40.53%	4,983	49.88%	617	6.18%	332	3.32%	9	0.09%	-1,266	-12.67%	9,990
Wayne	17,315	44.55%	18,794	48.35%	703	1.81%	2,056	5.29%	0	0.00%	-3,535	-9.09%	38,868
Wexford	1,220	54.59%	632	28.28%	130	5.82%	253	11.32%	0	0.00%	335	14.99%	2,235
Totals	192,669	47.79%	149,385	37.17%	18,403	4.56%	41,499	10.29%	753	0.19%	1,335	0.33%	403,159

Notes

1. Because of an electoral fusion agreement, Cleveland and Butler votes are counted together.

See also

• United States presidential elections in Michigan

References

1. "1884 Election for the Twenty-Fifth Term (1885-1889)". Retrieved April 3, 2018.
2. National Contest: Containing Portraits and Biographies of our National Favorites. Chicago. 1888. p. 127.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Fuller, William D. (September 25, 1884). "Butler in Michigan". Iowa Plain Dealer.
4. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (April 26, 1999). "United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968". doi:10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3. Retrieved November 14, 2024.