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Election 1884 Results

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1884 presidential election in South Carolina

Grover Cleveland (Democrat) beat James G. Blaine (Republican) in South Carolina in 1884, 75.3% to 23.4%, a margin of 51.8 points and 48,115 votes.

South Carolina voted 51.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.6.

The Democratic hold continued from 1880, when Winfield Scott Hancock won.

Democrats led in 31 of the 34 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 3. The largest, Orangeburg, cast 5,078 votes and went to the Democrat by 25.5 points. The closest was Williamsburg, where 251 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
Grover Cleveland won Democratic 69,845 75.3%
James G. Blaine Republican 21,730 23.4%
All other candidates 1,237 1.3%
Total92,812

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Orangeburg 3,000 59.1% 1,704 33.6% 374 5,078 D+25.5
Barnwell 3,247 75.8% 1,034 24.2% 4,281 D+51.7
Charleston 3,008 76.2% 941 23.8% 3,949 D+52.3
Greenville 3,458 88.7% 441 11.3% 3,899 D+77.4
Edgefield 3,573 92.1% 307 7.9% 3,880 D+84.2
Marion 2,896 75.0% 967 25.0% 3,863 D+49.9
Abbeville 3,638 97.5% 76 2.0% 17 3,731 D+95.5
York 2,489 69.1% 832 23.1% 280 3,601 D+46.0
Darlington 2,669 78.1% 750 21.9% 3,419 D+56.1
Spartanburg 2,938 87.4% 423 12.6% 3,361 D+74.8
Aiken 2,855 85.6% 461 13.8% 20 3,336 D+71.8
Berkeley 1,230 39.6% 1,876 60.4% 3,106 R+20.8
Anderson 2,719 92.9% 137 4.7% 72 2,928 D+88.2
Beaufort 251 8.7% 2,644 91.3% 2,895 R+82.7
Colleton 1,921 67.6% 818 28.8% 101 2,840 D+38.8
Richland 1,761 66.8% 876 33.2% 1 2,638 D+33.5
Sumter 1,685 64.6% 925 35.4% 2,610 D+29.1
Lancaster 1,786 72.3% 557 22.6% 126 2,469 D+49.8
Newberry 2,121 86.7% 325 13.3% 2,446 D+73.4
Union 2,302 94.9% 124 5.1% 2,426 D+89.8
Marlboro 1,707 75.5% 455 20.1% 100 2,262 D+55.3
Hampton 1,667 74.2% 581 25.8% 2,248 D+48.3
Lexington 1,835 82.4% 304 13.6% 89 2,228 D+68.7
Chester 1,858 83.9% 356 16.1% 2,214 D+67.8
Laurens 2,097 97.5% 50 2.3% 4 2,151 D+95.2
Fairfield 1,808 90.0% 197 9.8% 5 2,010 D+80.1
Chesterfield 1,568 81.5% 355 18.5% 1,923 D+63.1
Clarendon 1,263 69.1% 566 30.9% 1,829 D+38.1
Kershaw 1,400 77.5% 407 22.5% 1,807 D+55.0
Williamsburg 992 55.7% 741 41.6% 48 1,781 D+14.1
Horry 1,311 77.6% 379 22.4% 1,690 D+55.1
Pickens 1,320 92.7% 104 7.3% 1,424 D+85.4
Oconee 1,182 84.8% 212 15.2% 1,394 D+69.6
Georgetown 290 26.5% 805 73.5% 1,095 R+47.0

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.

South Carolina in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+17.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+11.7
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+14.3
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.5
2008 John McCain (R) R+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+17.1
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+16.0
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.8
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+8.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+23.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+1.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+13.0
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+42.7
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.5
1964 Barry Goldwater (R) R+17.8
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.5
1956 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+20.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+1.4
1948 Strom Thurmond (other)
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+83.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+91.3
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+97.1
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+96.1
1928 Al Smith (D) D+82.9
1924 John W. Davis (D) D+94.4
1920 James M. Cox (D) D+92.1
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+94.3
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+94.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+87.9
1904 Alton B. Parker (D) D+90.7
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+86.1
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.8
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+58.6
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+65.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+51.8
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+31.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+0.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+52.0
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+15.9