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Election 1884 Results

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1884 presidential election in Nebraska

James G. Blaine (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in Nebraska in 1884, 57.3% to 40.5%, a margin of 16.8 points and 22,521 votes.

Nebraska voted 17.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.6.

The Republican hold continued from 1880, when James A. Garfield won.

Republicans led in 60 of the 69 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 9. The largest, Douglas, cast 9,483 votes and went to the Republican by 4.0 points. The closest was Dundy, where 2 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
James G. Blaine won Republican 76,912 57.3%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 54,391 40.5%
All other candidates 2,899 2.2%
Total134,202

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Douglas 4,516 47.6% 4,894 51.6% 73 9,483 R+4.0
Lancaster 2,180 34.1% 4,011 62.7% 207 6,398 R+28.6
Gage 1,934 37.7% 3,007 58.6% 187 5,128 R+20.9
Richardson 2,007 48.4% 2,062 49.8% 74 4,143 R+1.3
Cass 1,826 44.4% 2,256 54.9% 30 4,112 R+10.5
Otoe 1,930 47.4% 2,013 49.5% 126 4,069 R+2.0
Saline 1,608 41.6% 2,167 56.1% 91 3,866 R+14.5
Saunders 1,667 45.6% 1,819 49.7% 173 3,659 R+4.2
Dodge 1,690 49.6% 1,634 48.0% 82 3,406 D+1.6
Adams 1,109 36.0% 1,854 60.3% 114 3,077 R+24.2
Seward 1,332 44.0% 1,630 53.8% 67 3,029 R+9.8
York 903 30.4% 1,970 66.3% 100 2,973 R+35.9
Nemaha 1,207 41.2% 1,690 57.7% 30 2,927 R+16.5
Holt 1,166 40.1% 1,638 56.4% 102 2,906 R+16.2
Buffalo 1,147 41.2% 1,612 57.9% 27 2,786 R+16.7
Hall 1,215 45.1% 1,467 54.5% 12 2,694 R+9.4
Fillmore 997 37.3% 1,620 60.6% 58 2,675 R+23.3
Clay 806 31.1% 1,684 64.9% 104 2,594 R+33.8
Butler 1,210 47.7% 1,136 44.7% 193 2,539 D+2.9
Platte 1,285 52.9% 1,117 46.0% 28 2,430 D+6.9
Washington 924 38.6% 1,419 59.3% 49 2,392 R+20.7
Johnson 991 41.6% 1,361 57.2% 29 2,381 R+15.5
Hamilton 904 39.5% 1,360 59.5% 23 2,287 R+19.9
Jefferson 789 36.7% 1,343 62.6% 15 2,147 R+25.8
Thayer 859 41.0% 1,220 58.3% 14 2,093 R+17.2
Pawnee 683 33.1% 1,283 62.2% 97 2,063 R+29.1
Burt 540 26.8% 1,461 72.6% 11 2,012 R+45.8
Webster 655 33.0% 1,300 65.5% 30 1,985 R+32.5
Custer 664 34.4% 1,246 64.5% 21 1,931 R+30.1
Polk 783 43.3% 944 52.2% 83 1,810 R+8.9
Cuming 921 51.1% 871 48.3% 12 1,804 D+2.8
Madison 811 45.1% 969 53.9% 18 1,798 R+8.8
Brown 551 32.6% 1,110 65.7% 28 1,689 R+33.1
Boone 527 32.2% 1,065 65.0% 47 1,639 R+32.8
Antelope 457 28.5% 1,115 69.5% 32 1,604 R+41.0
Colfax 805 50.4% 789 49.4% 2 1,596 D+1.0
Merrick 538 34.4% 925 59.2% 100 1,563 R+24.8
Nuckolls 562 36.5% 960 62.3% 18 1,540 R+25.8
Kearney 582 37.8% 941 61.2% 15 1,538 R+23.3
Howard 723 49.8% 728 50.1% 1 1,452 R+0.3
Knox 485 34.7% 894 63.9% 20 1,399 R+29.2
Dixon 414 32.9% 777 61.7% 69 1,260 R+28.8
Sarpy 610 48.8% 616 49.3% 23 1,249 R+0.5
Furnas 376 30.6% 828 67.4% 25 1,229 R+36.8
Franklin 435 35.8% 733 60.3% 47 1,215 R+24.5
Valley 403 34.6% 749 64.2% 14 1,166 R+29.7
Harlan 321 28.2% 760 66.8% 56 1,137 R+38.6
Dawson 384 35.4% 686 63.2% 15 1,085 R+27.8
Phelps 216 20.3% 833 78.4% 14 1,063 R+58.0
Dakota 458 48.8% 476 50.7% 5 939 R+1.9
Red Willow 279 31.1% 606 67.6% 12 897 R+36.5
Lincoln 362 41.2% 505 57.5% 12 879 R+16.3
Sherman 350 40.4% 503 58.0% 14 867 R+17.6
Cedar 490 59.3% 330 39.9% 7 827 D+19.3
Cheyenne 365 47.7% 400 52.3% 765 R+4.6
Nance 235 32.1% 485 66.3% 12 732 R+34.2
Greeley 355 51.4% 335 48.6% 690 D+2.9
Stanton 349 52.3% 318 47.7% 667 D+4.6
Wayne 211 33.1% 420 65.8% 7 638 R+32.8
Pierce 278 44.8% 325 52.4% 17 620 R+7.6
Gosper 213 39.6% 323 60.0% 2 538 R+20.4
Cherry 237 47.6% 260 52.2% 1 498 R+4.6
Frontier 143 31.2% 316 68.8% 459 R+37.7
Garfield 108 41.5% 152 58.5% 260 R+16.9
Hitchcock 88 35.5% 160 64.5% 248 R+29.0
Wheeler 59 28.5% 145 70.0% 3 207 R+41.5
Loup 40 19.4% 166 80.6% 206 R+61.2
Keith 72 51.4% 67 47.9% 1 140 D+3.6
Dundy 51 49.0% 53 51.0% 104 R+1.9

Counties as they stood in 1884; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Nebraska in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+20.5
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+19.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+25.0
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+21.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+14.9
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+33.2
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+29.0
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+18.7
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+17.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+21.0
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+41.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+39.5
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+20.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+41.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+5.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+31.0
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+8.3
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+17.2
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+27.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+27.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+17.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+33.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+14.3
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+22.0
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+37.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+3.2
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+5.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+31.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+13.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+16.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+30.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+29.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+41.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+27.7