1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee

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1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee
← 1880 November 4, 1884 1888 →
Turnout16.86% of the total population Increase 1.03 pp[1]
 
Nominee Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Maine
Running mate Thomas A. Hendricks John A. Logan
Electoral vote 12 0
Popular vote 133,770 124,101
Percentage 51.45% 47.74%

County Results

President before election

Chester A. Arthur
Republican

Elected President

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

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

For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee’s white citizenry was divided according to partisan loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and Wayne[3] voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the “war party” who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.[4] Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state’s secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction.[5] After the state’s white landowning class re-established its rule in the early 1870s, blacks and Unionist whites nonetheless forged adequate support for the GOP to produce a competitive political system for two decades,[6] although during this era the Republicans could only capture statewide offices when the Democratic Party was divided on this issue of payment of state debt.[6]

White Democrats in West Tennessee were always aiming to eliminate black political influence, and during the 1880s they attempted to do this by election fraud and stuffing of ballot boxes.[7] However, at this stage the Republican Party was a strong force throughout the state and the Democratic Party had not yet achieved a monopoly in power in secessionist areas, with its statewide vote not rising above sixty percent in any year’s congressional race.

Tennessee was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate former Senator and Governor Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana. Cleveland and Hendricks defeated the Republican nominees, former Secretary of State and Senator James G. Blaine of Maine and his running mate Senator John A. Logan of Illinois, with 51.45% of the vote.[2]

This would be the last occasion Shelby County voted for a Republican presidential candidate until Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956,[8] the last occasion Fayette County did so until Richard Nixon in 1960,[8] and the last occasion Haywood County voted Republican until Barry Goldwater in 1964.[8]

Results[edit]

1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee[2]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Grover Cleveland of New York Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana 133,770 51.45% 12 100.00%
Republican James G. Blaine of Maine John A. Logan of Illinois 124,101 47.74% 0 0.00%
Prohibition John St. John of Kansas William Daniel of Maryland 1,150 0.44% 0 0.00%
Greenback Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts Absolom West of Mississippi 957 0.37% 0 0.00%
Total 259,978 100.00% 12 100.00%

Results by county[edit]

1884 United States presidential election in Tennessee by county[9]
County Stephen Grover Cleveland
Democratic
James Gillespie Blaine
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Anderson 604 29.29% 1,456 70.61% 2 0.10% -852 -41.32% 2,062
Bedford 2,053 50.89% 1,882 46.65% 99 2.45% 171 4.24% 4,034
Benton 1,054 62.93% 599 35.76% 22 1.31% 455 27.16% 1,675
Bledsoe 416 42.11% 572 57.89% 0 0.00% -156 -15.79% 988
Blount 849 31.35% 1,823 67.32% 36 1.33% -974 -35.97% 2,708
Bradley 892 40.33% 1,304 58.95% 16 0.72% -412 -18.63% 2,212
Campbell 399 22.18% 1,394 77.49% 6 0.33% -995 -55.31% 1,799
Cannon 1,011 64.48% 515 32.84% 42 2.68% 496 31.63% 1,568
Carroll 1,850 43.81% 2,319 54.91% 54 1.28% -469 -11.11% 4,223
Carter 407 20.51% 1,575 79.39% 2 0.10% -1,168 -58.87% 1,984
Cheatham 959 73.71% 335 25.75% 7 0.54% 624 47.96% 1,301
Claiborne 921 39.85% 1,390 60.15% 0 0.00% -469 -20.29% 2,311
Clay 628 63.76% 333 33.81% 24 2.44% 295 29.95% 985
Cocke 875 35.28% 1,587 63.99% 18 0.73% -712 -28.71% 2,480
Coffee 1,597 79.61% 376 18.74% 33 1.65% 1,221 60.87% 2,006
Crockett 1,404 52.17% 1,256 46.67% 31 1.15% 148 5.50% 2,691
Cumberland 312 38.81% 488 60.70% 4 0.50% -176 -21.89% 804
Davidson 8,165 49.88% 8,111 49.55% 94 0.57% 54 0.33% 16,370
DeKalb 1,409 55.25% 1,117 43.80% 24 0.94% 292 11.45% 2,550
Decatur 734 52.02% 653 46.28% 24 1.70% 81 5.74% 1,411
Dickson 1,339 69.99% 561 29.33% 13 0.68% 778 40.67% 1,913
Dyer 1,542 70.41% 609 27.81% 39 1.78% 933 42.60% 2,190
Fayette 1,729 39.60% 2,637 60.40% 0 0.00% -908 -20.80% 4,366
Fentress 220 32.64% 454 67.36% 0 0.00% -234 -34.72% 674
Franklin 2,091 75.79% 615 22.29% 53 1.92% 1,476 53.50% 2,759
Gibson 3,210 60.55% 1,999 37.71% 92 1.74% 1,211 22.84% 5,301
Giles 2,775 54.70% 2,278 44.90% 20 0.39% 497 9.80% 5,073
Grainger 840 39.03% 1,303 60.55% 9 0.42% -463 -21.51% 2,152
Greene 2,111 45.09% 2,507 53.55% 64 1.37% -396 -8.46% 4,682
Grundy 585 75.68% 188 24.32% 0 0.00% 397 51.36% 773
Hamblen 875 44.19% 1,072 54.14% 33 1.67% -197 -9.95% 1,980
Hamilton 2,439 38.60% 3,827 60.56% 53 0.84% -1,388 -21.97% 6,319
Hancock 425 28.79% 1,049 71.07% 2 0.14% -624 -42.28% 1,476
Hardeman 1,940 60.51% 1,226 38.24% 40 1.25% 714 22.27% 3,206
Hardin 1,087 41.03% 1,546 58.36% 16 0.60% -459 -17.33% 2,649
Hawkins 1,529 43.61% 1,973 56.27% 4 0.11% -444 -12.66% 3,506
Haywood 1,842 39.94% 2,768 60.02% 2 0.04% -926 -20.08% 4,612
Henderson 1,478 47.39% 1,629 52.23% 12 0.38% -151 -4.84% 3,119
Henry 1,941 62.35% 1,139 36.59% 33 1.06% 802 25.76% 3,113
Hickman 1,135 60.63% 709 37.87% 28 1.50% 426 22.76% 1,872
Houston 630 78.36% 174 21.64% 0 0.00% 456 56.72% 804
Humphreys 1,484 82.72% 285 15.89% 25 1.39% 1,199 66.83% 1,794
Jackson 1,380 82.19% 281 16.74% 18 1.07% 1,099 65.46% 1,679
James 254 33.29% 504 66.06% 5 0.66% -250 -32.77% 763
Jefferson 736 27.35% 1,909 70.94% 46 1.71% -1,173 -43.59% 2,691
Johnson 179 13.95% 1,101 85.81% 3 0.23% -922 -71.86% 1,283
Knox 3,481 39.21% 5,248 59.11% 149 1.68% -1,767 -19.90% 8,878
Lake 367 97.61% 8 2.13% 1 0.27% 359 95.48% 376
Lauderdale 1,488 51.85% 1,330 46.34% 52 1.81% 158 5.51% 2,870
Lawrence 953 60.78% 611 38.97% 4 0.26% 342 21.81% 1,568
Lewis 209 76.28% 64 23.36% 1 0.36% 145 52.92% 274
Lincoln 2,780 73.45% 949 25.07% 56 1.48% 1,831 48.38% 3,785
Loudon 487 32.49% 1,009 67.31% 3 0.20% -522 -34.82% 1,499
Macon 619 43.17% 810 56.49% 5 0.35% -191 -13.32% 1,434
Madison 2,393 55.01% 1,901 43.70% 56 1.29% 492 11.31% 4,350
Marion 901 44.87% 1,107 55.13% 0 0.00% -206 -10.26% 2,008
Marshall 2,084 73.07% 728 25.53% 40 1.40% 1,356 47.55% 2,852
Maury 3,148 52.50% 2,818 47.00% 30 0.50% 330 5.50% 5,996
McMinn 1,293 43.64% 1,663 56.13% 7 0.24% -370 -12.49% 2,963
McNairy 1,436 51.36% 1,312 46.92% 48 1.72% 124 4.43% 2,796
Meigs 679 56.12% 524 43.31% 7 0.58% 155 12.81% 1,210
Monroe 1,258 52.61% 1,120 46.84% 13 0.54% 138 5.77% 2,391
Montgomery 2,516 56.37% 1,922 43.07% 25 0.56% 594 13.31% 4,463
Moore 906 93.31% 53 5.46% 12 1.24% 853 87.85% 971
Morgan 300 32.75% 607 66.27% 9 0.98% -307 -33.52% 916
Obion 2,509 71.67% 939 26.82% 53 1.51% 1,570 44.84% 3,501
Overton 1,179 73.55% 421 26.26% 3 0.19% 758 47.29% 1,603
Perry 715 61.53% 447 38.47% 0 0.00% 268 23.06% 1,162
Pickett 275 49.19% 284 50.81% 0 0.00% -9 -1.61% 559
Polk 704 56.77% 533 42.98% 3 0.24% 171 13.79% 1,240
Putnam 1,063 65.70% 551 34.05% 4 0.25% 512 31.64% 1,618
Rhea 912 54.58% 755 45.18% 4 0.24% 157 9.40% 1,671
Roane 808 30.47% 1,843 69.49% 1 0.04% -1,035 -39.03% 2,652
Robertson 1,977 71.01% 794 28.52% 13 0.47% 1,183 42.49% 2,784
Rutherford 2,828 57.67% 2,040 41.60% 36 0.73% 788 16.07% 4,904
Scott 130 11.83% 969 88.17% 0 0.00% -839 -76.34% 1,099
Sequatchie 284 66.20% 142 33.10% 3 0.70% 142 33.10% 429
Sevier 468 17.17% 2,242 82.25% 16 0.59% -1,774 -65.08% 2,726
Shelby 7,626 45.38% 9,165 54.54% 13 0.08% -1,539 -9.16% 16,804
Smith 1,592 63.83% 880 35.28% 22 0.88% 712 28.55% 2,494
Stewart 1,336 70.80% 530 28.09% 21 1.11% 806 42.71% 1,887
Sullivan 2,176 61.99% 1,298 36.98% 36 1.03% 878 25.01% 3,510
Sumner 2,225 69.71% 945 29.61% 22 0.69% 1,280 40.10% 3,192
Tipton 1,922 50.62% 1,868 49.20% 7 0.18% 54 1.42% 3,797
Trousdale 584 71.22% 226 27.56% 10 1.22% 358 43.66% 820
Unicoi 91 14.00% 559 86.00% 0 0.00% -468 -72.00% 650
Union 530 28.63% 1,321 71.37% 0 0.00% -791 -42.73% 1,851
Van Buren 348 85.29% 59 14.46% 1 0.25% 289 70.83% 408
Warren 1,754 76.10% 532 23.08% 19 0.82% 1,222 53.02% 2,305
Washington 1,559 46.21% 1,815 53.79% 0 0.00% -256 -7.59% 3,374
Wayne 668 37.26% 1,124 62.69% 1 0.06% -456 -25.43% 1,793
Weakley 2,293 58.18% 1,606 40.75% 42 1.07% 687 17.43% 3,941
White 1,365 81.01% 315 18.69% 5 0.30% 1,050 62.31% 1,685
Williamson 2,025 57.66% 1,461 41.60% 26 0.74% 564 16.06% 3,512
Wilson 2,191 62.49% 1,234 35.20% 81 2.31% 957 27.30% 3,506
Totals 133,770 51.45% 124,110 47.74% 2,108 0.81% 9,660 3.72% 259,988

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1880 Presidential Election Results Tennessee Total Population Turnout".
  2. ^ a b c "1884 Presidential Election Results Tennessee".
  3. ^ Wright, John K.; ‘Voting Habits in the United States: A Note on Two Maps’; Geographical Review, vol. 22, no. 4 (October 1932), pp. 666-672
  4. ^ Key (Jr.), Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York, 1949), pp. 282-283
  5. ^ Lyons, William; Scheb (II), John M. and Stair Billy; Government and Politics in Tennessee, pp. 183-184 ISBN 1572331410
  6. ^ a b Kousser, J. Morgan; The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910, p. 104 ISBN 0-300-01973-4
  7. ^ Kousser; The Shaping of Southern Politics, p. 110
  8. ^ a b c Menendez, Albert J. (2005). The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 298–303. ISBN 0786422173.
  9. ^ "Presidential election of 1884 Popular Vote". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €15)