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Election 1884 Results

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1884 presidential election in Pennsylvania

James G. Blaine (Republican) beat Grover Cleveland (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1884, 53.0% to 43.5%, a margin of 9.5 points and 86,019 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 10.1 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 37 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 30. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 174,633 votes and went to the Republican by 17.2 points. The closest was Mifflin, where 3 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 478,804 53.0%
Grover Cleveland Democratic 392,785 43.5%
All other candidates 32,275 3.6%
Total903,864

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 71,288 40.8% 101,288 58.0% 2,057 174,633 R+17.2
Allegheny 19,469 31.9% 37,865 62.0% 3,774 61,108 R+30.1
Lancaster 9,953 33.0% 19,848 65.9% 340 30,141 R+32.8
Luzerne 13,806 50.7% 12,854 47.2% 592 27,252 D+3.5
Berks 16,484 62.7% 9,587 36.5% 226 26,297 D+26.2
Schuylkill 11,200 46.6% 11,272 46.9% 1,575 24,047 R+0.3
Montgomery 11,088 48.2% 11,617 50.5% 281 22,986 R+2.3
York 11,552 58.6% 8,014 40.7% 132 19,698 D+18.0
Chester 7,102 38.2% 10,885 58.6% 592 18,579 R+20.4
Westmoreland 8,346 47.6% 8,339 47.5% 864 17,549 level
Bucks 8,604 50.9% 8,191 48.5% 103 16,898 D+2.4
Erie 6,725 39.9% 9,230 54.8% 896 16,851 R+14.9
Lackawanna 6,171 37.4% 9,656 58.5% 687 16,514 R+21.1
Dauphin 6,378 39.7% 9,394 58.5% 298 16,070 R+18.8
Northampton 9,491 59.2% 6,327 39.4% 224 16,042 D+19.7
Crawford 5,633 38.3% 7,233 49.2% 1,834 14,700 R+10.9
Lehigh 8,095 55.7% 6,357 43.7% 88 14,540 D+12.0
Bradford 4,216 31.4% 8,405 62.5% 825 13,446 R+31.2
Washington 5,849 43.8% 6,699 50.2% 793 13,341 R+6.4
Fayette 6,734 51.3% 5,955 45.4% 432 13,121 D+5.9
Mercer 4,861 39.6% 6,357 51.8% 1,052 12,270 R+12.2
Delaware 4,538 37.0% 7,512 61.3% 211 12,261 R+24.3
Northumberland 5,835 48.9% 5,718 47.9% 380 11,933 D+1.0
Lycoming 5,900 49.9% 5,355 45.3% 579 11,834 D+4.6
Blair 4,649 40.7% 6,396 56.0% 385 11,430 R+15.3
Franklin 5,261 48.0% 5,570 50.8% 130 10,961 R+2.8
Tioga 2,681 26.0% 6,714 65.1% 915 10,310 R+39.1
Cumberland 5,375 52.8% 4,659 45.7% 151 10,185 D+7.0
Butler 4,236 42.6% 5,217 52.4% 497 9,950 R+9.9
Clearfield 5,169 52.9% 4,271 43.7% 323 9,763 D+9.2
Cambria 4,816 50.3% 4,253 44.5% 498 9,567 D+5.9
Beaver 3,546 39.5% 5,075 56.5% 360 8,981 R+17.0
Susquehanna 3,394 38.6% 4,717 53.6% 693 8,804 R+15.0
Armstrong 3,591 41.2% 4,685 53.8% 431 8,707 R+12.6
Centre 4,495 51.7% 4,057 46.7% 143 8,695 D+5.0
Venango 3,432 40.3% 3,961 46.5% 1,125 8,518 R+6.2
Lebanon 2,977 36.3% 5,207 63.5% 22 8,206 R+27.2
Indiana 1,979 24.3% 4,607 56.5% 1,571 8,157 R+32.2
Bedford 3,815 48.5% 3,985 50.6% 73 7,873 R+2.2
McKean 2,980 39.0% 3,820 50.0% 847 7,647 R+11.0
Warren 2,691 35.7% 3,948 52.4% 889 7,528 R+16.7
Somerset 2,449 33.1% 4,792 64.8% 150 7,391 R+31.7
Huntingdon 2,908 40.4% 3,913 54.4% 373 7,194 R+14.0
Columbia 4,338 61.5% 2,443 34.6% 275 7,056 D+26.9
Clarion 3,822 54.3% 2,679 38.1% 533 7,034 D+16.2
Lawrence 2,148 31.1% 4,322 62.5% 446 6,916 R+31.4
Carbon 3,392 49.8% 3,250 47.7% 173 6,815 D+2.1
Adams 3,530 52.9% 3,080 46.1% 64 6,674 D+6.7
Jefferson 2,978 44.9% 3,418 51.5% 243 6,639 R+6.6
Greene 4,240 65.0% 2,260 34.6% 24 6,524 D+30.3
Clinton 3,625 57.1% 2,625 41.3% 103 6,353 D+15.7
Perry 2,883 47.6% 3,106 51.3% 62 6,051 R+3.7
Wayne 2,894 47.9% 2,829 46.8% 319 6,042 D+1.1
Monroe 3,242 75.8% 1,009 23.6% 27 4,278 D+52.2
Mifflin 2,085 49.3% 2,082 49.2% 66 4,233 D+0.1
Wyoming 2,027 49.1% 1,960 47.5% 142 4,129 D+1.6
Snyder 1,460 39.6% 2,186 59.3% 40 3,686 R+19.7
Juniata 1,900 51.8% 1,711 46.6% 60 3,671 D+5.1
Union 1,395 38.0% 2,209 60.2% 66 3,670 R+22.2
Potter 1,363 37.5% 1,990 54.7% 284 3,637 R+17.2
Montour 1,755 57.6% 1,165 38.3% 125 3,045 D+19.4
Elk 1,447 53.9% 1,082 40.3% 158 2,687 D+13.6
Fulton 1,256 57.2% 928 42.2% 13 2,197 D+14.9
Sullivan 1,062 55.3% 679 35.3% 180 1,921 D+19.9
Pike 1,141 68.2% 512 30.6% 20 1,673 D+37.6
Forest 437 30.2% 705 48.7% 305 1,447 R+18.5
Cameron 590 43.6% 757 55.9% 7 1,354 R+12.3

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4