1884 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1884 Presidential election year November 4 Republican Party (US)Chester A. Arthur (R) 49th Democratic gain Grover Cleveland (D) 219 James G. Blaine (R) 182 Democratic +0.6% 1884 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Blaine, blue denotes states won by Cleveland. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. 27 of 76 seatsNot counting special elections. Republican hold Democratic -2Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. 400px Results:#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#92C5DE Democratic hold #000000 Legislature failed to elect All 325 voting members Democratic hold Republican +24 400px 1884 House of Representatives election results #3962ae Democratic seat #e61e25 Republican seat #f3ec19 Independent seat Elections were held on November 4, 1884, electing the members of the 49th United States Congress. The election took place during the Third Party System. The Democratic governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated the Republican secretary of state James G. Blaine in the presidential election. In Congress, the Republicans retained control of the Senate while the Democrats maintained control of the House of Representatives. This marks the last election in U.S. history in which the Democratic president came to office without a unified control of Congress. In the presidential election, the Democratic governor Grover Cleveland of New York defeated the Republican former secretary of state James G. Blaine.1884 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1884 The American Presidency Project 25 June 2014 Though Cleveland won the popular vote by less than 1%, he won by a fairly comfortable margin in the electoral college. Cleveland won the Southern United States and the critical state of New York, while Blaine took most of the rest of the country. This was the most recent example of an incumbent president being denied nomination by his party for another term, as Blaine defeated President Chester A. Arthur at the 1884 Republican National Convention. Cleveland took the Democratic nomination on the second ballot of the 1884 Democratic National Convention, defeating the Delaware senator Thomas F. Bayard and several other candidates. Cleveland's win made him the first Democratic president to win an election since the 1856 election, although Andrew Johnson served out Abraham Lincoln's term from 1865 to 1869. Republicans picked up several seats in the House, but Democrats continued to command a majority in the chamber.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 In the Senate, Republicans made moderate gains and established a clear majority.Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 This marks one of four occasions where a newly elected president entered office with a divided legislature, occurring again in 1860, 1876, and 1980. 1860 is the only other occasion where the president's party held the House, but not the Senate. A divided Congress also occurred after the 1984 and 2012 elections.August 2026 See also 1884 United States presidential election 1884 United States House of Representatives elections 1884–85 United States Senate elections References Category:1884 elections in the United States 1884