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Main article: 1884 United States presidential election

1884 United States presidential election in Iowa

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Nominee  | James G. Blaine | Grover Cleveland |
Party  | Republican | Democratic
Home state  | Maine | New York
Running mate  | John A. Logan | Thomas A. Hendricks
Electoral vote  | 13 | 0
Popular vote  | 197,089 | 177,316
Percentage  | 52.25% | 47.01%

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County Results

Blaine

40-50%

50-60%

60-70%

70-80%

80-90%

Cleveland

40-50%

50-60%

60-70%

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| President before election

Chester A. Arthur
Republican

| Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

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The 1884 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 4, 1884. All contemporary 38 states were part of the 1884 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.[1]

Iowa was won by Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 52.25% of the vote, against Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 47.01% of the popular vote.[1]

The Prohibition party chose the 8th Governor of Kansas, John St. John and Maryland State Representative William Daniel, received 0.40% of the popular vote.

## Results

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1884 United States presidential election in Iowa

Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | Percentage  | Electoral votes
| Republican | James G. Blaine | 197,089 | 52.25% | 13
| Democratic | Grover Cleveland | 177,316  | 47.01%  | 0
| Prohibition | John St. John | 1,499  | 0.40%  | 0
| No party | Write-ins | 1,297  | 0.34%  | 0

### Results by county

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County[2] | James Gillespie Blaine
Republican  | Stephen Grover Cleveland
Democratic  | Various candidates
Other parties  | Margin  | Total votes cast

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#  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %
Adair | 1,814  | 56.71%  | 1,371  | 42.86%  | 14  | 0.44%  | 443  | 13.85%  | 3,199
Adams | 1,362  | 49.98%  | 1,359  | 49.87%  | 4  | 0.15%  | 3  | 0.11%  | 2,725
Allamakee | 1,732  | 46.45%  | 1,995  | 53.50%  | 2  | 0.05%  | -263  | -7.05%  | 3,729
Appanoose | 1,724  | 48.95%  | 1,792  | 50.88%  | 6  | 0.17%  | -68  | -1.93%  | 3,522
Audubon | 1,222  | 50.12%  | 1,216  | 49.88%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 6  | 0.25%  | 2,438
Benton | 2,657  | 52.15%  | 2,436  | 47.81%  | 2  | 0.04%  | 221  | 4.34%  | 5,095
Black Hawk | 3,153  | 60.21%  | 2,084  | 39.79%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 1,069  | 20.41%  | 5,237
Boone | 2,616  | 54.12%  | 2,205  | 45.61%  | 13  | 0.27%  | 411  | 8.50%  | 4,834
Bremer | 1,699  | 53.11%  | 1,493  | 46.67%  | 7  | 0.22%  | 206  | 6.44%  | 3,199
Buchanan | 2,216  | 53.33%  | 1,923  | 46.28%  | 16  | 0.39%  | 293  | 7.05%  | 4,155
Buena Vista | 1,413  | 62.08%  | 854  | 37.52%  | 9  | 0.40%  | 559  | 24.56%  | 2,276
Butler | 2,011  | 61.29%  | 1,256  | 38.28%  | 14  | 0.43%  | 755  | 23.01%  | 3,281
Calhoun | 1,434  | 67.04%  | 692  | 32.35%  | 13  | 0.61%  | 742  | 34.69%  | 2,139
Carroll | 1,490  | 41.85%  | 2,062  | 57.92%  | 8  | 0.22%  | -572  | -16.07%  | 3,560
Cass | 2,195  | 51.43%  | 2,062  | 48.31%  | 11  | 0.26%  | 133  | 3.12%  | 4,268
Cedar | 2,180  | 52.33%  | 1,941  | 46.59%  | 45  | 1.08%  | 239  | 5.74%  | 4,166
Cerro Gordo | 1,697  | 64.21%  | 935  | 35.38%  | 11  | 0.42%  | 762  | 28.83%  | 2,643
Cherokee | 1,645  | 64.21%  | 892  | 34.82%  | 25  | 0.98%  | 753  | 29.39%  | 2,562
Chickasaw | 1,425  | 46.54%  | 1,621  | 52.94%  | 16  | 0.52%  | -196  | -6.40%  | 3,062
Clarke | 1,310  | 83.12%  | 207  | 13.13%  | 59  | 3.74%  | 1,103  | 69.99%  | 1,576
Clay | 1,024  | 73.30%  | 356  | 25.48%  | 17  | 1.22%  | 668  | 47.82%  | 1,397
Clayton | 2,536  | 43.97%  | 3,219  | 55.81%  | 13  | 0.23%  | -683  | -11.84%  | 5,768
Clinton | 3,243  | 40.72%  | 4,585  | 57.56%  | 137  | 1.72%  | -1,342  | -16.85%  | 7,965
Crawford | 1,506  | 45.46%  | 1,789  | 54.00%  | 18  | 0.54%  | -283  | -8.54%  | 3,313
Dallas | 2,636  | 52.95%  | 2,034  | 40.86%  | 308  | 6.19%  | 602  | 12.09%  | 4,978
Davis | 1,145  | 34.87%  | 2,139  | 65.13%  | 0  | 0.00%  | -994  | -30.27%  | 3,284
Decatur | 1,748  | 52.12%  | 1,596  | 47.58%  | 10  | 0.30%  | 152  | 4.53%  | 3,354
Delaware | 2,243  | 56.30%  | 1,741  | 43.70%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 502  | 12.60%  | 3,984
Des Moines | 2,929  | 42.41%  | 3,950  | 57.19%  | 28  | 0.41%  | -1,021  | -14.78%  | 6,907
Dickinson | 542  | 71.69%  | 212  | 28.04%  | 2  | 0.26%  | 330  | 43.65%  | 756
Dubuque | 3,246  | 34.96%  | 6,033  | 64.98%  | 6  | 0.06%  | -2,787  | -30.02%  | 9,285
Emmet | 385  | 79.22%  | 100  | 20.58%  | 1  | 0.21%  | 285  | 58.64%  | 486
Fayette | 2,607  | 51.37%  | 2,421  | 47.70%  | 47  | 0.93%  | 186  | 3.67%  | 5,075
Floyd | 1,941  | 57.96%  | 1,395  | 41.65%  | 13  | 0.39%  | 546  | 16.30%  | 3,349
Franklin | 1,600  | 68.49%  | 736  | 31.51%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 864  | 36.99%  | 2,336
Fremont | 1,820  | 47.45%  | 2,000  | 52.14%  | 16  | 0.42%  | -180  | -4.69%  | 3,836
Greene | 1,918  | 55.24%  | 1,524  | 43.89%  | 30  | 0.86%  | 394  | 11.35%  | 3,472
Grundy | 1,469  | 59.38%  | 1,005  | 40.62%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 464  | 18.76%  | 2,474
Guthrie | 2,175  | 58.45%  | 1,517  | 40.77%  | 29  | 0.78%  | 658  | 17.68%  | 3,721
Hamilton | 1,653  | 61.00%  | 1,057  | 39.00%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 596  | 21.99%  | 2,710
Hancock | 691  | 65.56%  | 361  | 34.25%  | 2  | 0.19%  | 330  | 31.31%  | 1,054
Hardin | 2,550  | 66.22%  | 1,293  | 33.58%  | 8  | 0.21%  | 1,257  | 32.64%  | 3,851
Harrison | 2,384  | 50.73%  | 2,283  | 48.58%  | 32  | 0.68%  | 101  | 2.15%  | 4,699
Henry | 2,377  | 56.68%  | 1,797  | 42.85%  | 20  | 0.48%  | 580  | 13.83%  | 4,194
Howard | 1,083  | 53.85%  | 912  | 45.35%  | 16  | 0.80%  | 171  | 8.50%  | 2,011
Humboldt | 1,043  | 64.86%  | 559  | 34.76%  | 6  | 0.37%  | 484  | 30.10%  | 1,608
Ida | 1,257  | 57.61%  | 917  | 42.03%  | 8  | 0.37%  | 340  | 15.58%  | 2,182
Iowa | 1,602  | 43.29%  | 2,083  | 56.28%  | 16  | 0.43%  | -481  | -13.00%  | 3,701
Jackson | 1,957  | 38.77%  | 3,076  | 60.94%  | 15  | 0.30%  | -1,119  | -22.17%  | 5,048
Jasper | 2,997  | 51.77%  | 2,734  | 47.23%  | 58  | 1.00%  | 263  | 4.54%  | 5,789
Jefferson | 2,012  | 53.14%  | 1,707  | 45.09%  | 67  | 1.77%  | 305  | 8.06%  | 3,786
Johnson | 2,019  | 38.71%  | 3,151  | 60.41%  | 46  | 0.88%  | -1,132  | -21.70%  | 5,216
Jones | 2,503  | 54.08%  | 2,109  | 45.57%  | 16  | 0.35%  | 394  | 8.51%  | 4,628
Keokuk | 2,493  | 47.66%  | 2,712  | 51.84%  | 26  | 0.50%  | -219  | -4.19%  | 5,231
Kossuth | 1,044  | 58.82%  | 728  | 41.01%  | 3  | 0.17%  | 316  | 17.80%  | 1,775
Lee | 3,285  | 43.81%  | 4,204  | 56.06%  | 10  | 0.13%  | -919  | -12.25%  | 7,499
Linn | 4,840  | 52.48%  | 4,306  | 46.69%  | 77  | 0.83%  | 534  | 5.79%  | 9,223
Louisa | 1,742  | 59.88%  | 1,104  | 37.95%  | 63  | 2.17%  | 638  | 21.93%  | 2,909
Lucas | 1,802  | 56.45%  | 1,384  | 43.36%  | 6  | 0.19%  | 418  | 13.10%  | 3,192
Lyon | 609  | 70.40%  | 249  | 28.79%  | 7  | 0.81%  | 360  | 41.62%  | 865
Madison | 1,930  | 49.56%  | 1,809  | 46.46%  | 155  | 3.98%  | 121  | 3.11%  | 3,894
Mahaska | 3,409  | 54.12%  | 2,837  | 45.04%  | 53  | 0.84%  | 572  | 9.08%  | 6,299
Marion | 2,356  | 47.27%  | 2,593  | 52.03%  | 35  | 0.70%  | -237  | -4.76%  | 4,984
Marshall | 3,394  | 61.22%  | 2,115  | 38.15%  | 35  | 0.63%  | 1,279  | 23.07%  | 5,544
Mills | 1,650  | 50.94%  | 1,589  | 49.06%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 61  | 1.88%  | 3,239
Mitchell | 1,509  | 58.02%  | 1,077  | 41.41%  | 15  | 0.58%  | 432  | 16.61%  | 2,601
Monona | 1,330  | 52.20%  | 1,208  | 47.41%  | 10  | 0.39%  | 122  | 4.79%  | 2,548
Monroe | 1,374  | 49.34%  | 1,406  | 50.48%  | 5  | 0.18%  | -32  | -1.15%  | 2,785
Montgomery | 2,134  | 60.16%  | 1,387  | 39.10%  | 26  | 0.73%  | 747  | 21.06%  | 3,547
Muscatine | 2,567  | 47.62%  | 2,808  | 52.09%  | 16  | 0.30%  | -241  | -4.47%  | 5,391
O'Brien | 1,195  | 64.98%  | 640  | 34.80%  | 4  | 0.22%  | 555  | 30.18%  | 1,839
Osceola | 640  | 72.48%  | 243  | 27.52%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 397  | 44.96%  | 883
Page | 2,761  | 57.06%  | 1,671  | 34.53%  | 407  | 8.41%  | 1,090  | 22.53%  | 4,839
Palo Alto | 650  | 49.17%  | 671  | 50.76%  | 1  | 0.08%  | -21  | -1.59%  | 1,322
Plymouth | 1,648  | 48.90%  | 1,710  | 50.74%  | 12  | 0.36%  | -62  | -1.84%  | 3,370
Pocahontas | 774  | 60.90%  | 497  | 39.10%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 277  | 21.79%  | 1,271
Polk | 6,122  | 56.06%  | 4,768  | 43.66%  | 30  | 0.27%  | 1,354  | 12.40%  | 10,920
Pottawattamie | 4,348  | 49.50%  | 4,436  | 50.50%  | 0  | 0.00%  | -88  | -1.00%  | 8,784
Poweshiek | 2,295  | 54.81%  | 1,861  | 44.45%  | 31  | 0.74%  | 434  | 10.37%  | 4,187
Ringgold | 1,677  | 57.02%  | 1,096  | 37.27%  | 168  | 5.71%  | 581  | 19.76%  | 2,941
Sac | 1,782  | 61.58%  | 1,110  | 38.36%  | 2  | 0.07%  | 672  | 23.22%  | 2,894
Scott | 2,740  | 34.31%  | 5,200  | 65.11%  | 47  | 0.59%  | -2,460  | -30.80%  | 7,987
Shelby | 1,802  | 50.82%  | 1,741  | 49.10%  | 3  | 0.08%  | 61  | 1.72%  | 3,546
Sioux | 1,351  | 59.67%  | 905  | 39.97%  | 8  | 0.35%  | 446  | 19.70%  | 2,264
Story | 2,314  | 65.42%  | 1,212  | 34.27%  | 11  | 0.31%  | 1,102  | 31.16%  | 3,537
Tama | 2,478  | 53.37%  | 2,147  | 46.24%  | 18  | 0.39%  | 331  | 7.13%  | 4,643
Taylor | 2,034  | 56.72%  | 1,535  | 42.81%  | 17  | 0.47%  | 499  | 13.92%  | 3,586
Union | 1,821  | 50.74%  | 1,741  | 48.51%  | 27  | 0.75%  | 80  | 2.23%  | 3,589
Van Buren | 1,944  | 50.69%  | 1,813  | 47.28%  | 78  | 2.03%  | 131  | 3.42%  | 3,835
Wapello | 2,984  | 50.22%  | 2,958  | 49.78%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 26  | 0.44%  | 5,942
Warren | 2,166  | 53.97%  | 1,818  | 45.30%  | 29  | 0.72%  | 348  | 8.67%  | 4,013
Washington | 2,419  | 53.79%  | 2,041  | 45.39%  | 37  | 0.82%  | 378  | 8.41%  | 4,497
Wayne | 1,672  | 49.47%  | 1,681  | 49.73%  | 27  | 0.80%  | -9  | -0.27%  | 3,380
Webster | 2,023  | 50.54%  | 1,980  | 49.46%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 43  | 1.07%  | 4,003
Winnebago | 690  | 75.74%  | 216  | 23.71%  | 5  | 0.55%  | 474  | 52.03%  | 911
Winneshiek | 2,453  | 55.29%  | 1,974  | 44.49%  | 10  | 0.23%  | 479  | 10.80%  | 4,437
Woodbury | 2,789  | 53.78%  | 2,380  | 45.89%  | 17  | 0.33%  | 409  | 7.89%  | 5,186
Worth | 899  | 64.63%  | 487  | 35.01%  | 5  | 0.36%  | 412  | 29.62%  | 1,391
Wright | 1,313  | 65.62%  | 688  | 34.38%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 625  | 31.23%  | 2,001
Totals | 197,088 | 52.22% | 177,523 | 47.04% | 2,796 | 0.74% | 19,565 | 5.18% | 377,407

## See also

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* United States presidential elections in Iowa

## References

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1. ^ a b "1884 Presidential Election Results Iowa".
2. ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1884 (.xlsx file for €15)

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