Who won Arkansas in the 1884 presidential election?

Cleveland (Democratic) carried Arkansas in 1884, winning its 7 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Arkansas have in 1884?

Arkansas cast 7 electoral votes in the 1884 presidential election.

Did Arkansas vote for the national winner in 1884?

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

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1884

Arkansas: Cleveland carries 7 EV.

Arkansas cast its 7 electoral votes for Cleveland (Democratic). National winner: Grover Cleveland (Democratic) — Arkansas voted with the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Arkansas, 1884

In 1884, Arkansas awarded its 7 electoral votes to Cleveland of the Democratic party. Arkansas ended up on the winning side — Grover Cleveland captured the White House that year.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Arkansas backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Arkansas did not move alone — neighboring Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas broke the same way in 1884. Across the 47 presidential elections Arkansas has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (32 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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