Who won Alabama in the 1884 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Alabama in 1884, winning its 10 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Alabama have in 1884?

Alabama cast 10 electoral votes in the 1884 presidential election.

Did Alabama vote for the national winner in 1884?

Yes. Alabama backed Grover Cleveland, who won the presidency that year.

Gilded AgeAL · 10 EV

1884

Alabama: Cleveland carries 10 EV.

Alabama cast its 10 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) — Alabama voted with the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Alabama, 1884

In 1884, Alabama awarded its 10 electoral votes to Cleveland of the Democratic party. Alabama ended up on the winning side — Grover Cleveland captured the White House that year.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Alabama backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Alabama did not move alone — neighboring Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida broke the same way in 1884. Across the 51 presidential elections Alabama has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 times). The vote fell within the Gilded Age — Industrialization, narrow margins, and patronage politics.

In the national count, Grover Cleveland took 219 of the 401 electoral votes, against James G. Blaine's 182. Grover Cleveland led the national popular vote with 48.85% of the ballots cast.

The 1884 national map

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