1884
What happened in Illinois, 1884
In 1884, Illinois awarded its 22 electoral votes to Blaine of the Republican party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Grover Cleveland (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Illinois among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 7th consecutive election in which Illinois backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1860. The region divided — Wisconsin and Iowa joined Illinois for the Republican ticket, while Missouri, Kentucky, and Indiana did not. Across the 53 presidential elections Illinois has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (26 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.
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