1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina

none June 2025 September 2023 December 2024 1884 United States presidential election 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina South Carolina presidential no 1880 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1880 1888 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1888 November 4, 1884 x200px Grover Cleveland by Charles Milton Bell color change (3x4 cropped b&w).jpg Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) New York Thomas A. Hendricks 9 69,845 75.25% James Gillespie Blaine, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front LCCN2011645229 (Cropped1).jpg James G. Blaine Republican Party (United States) Maine John A. Logan 0 21,730 23.41% 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina results map by county.svg 325px County results Cleveland #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Blaine #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #800000 90–100% President Chester A. Arthur Republican Party (United States) Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) The 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. South Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won the state by a wide margin of 51.84%. This election marked the beginning of the disfranchisement of African Americans in South Carolina. The process was gradual, and it took about two decades for near-total disfranchisement to occur. George C. and C. James Taylor Jr. Rogers A South Carolina Chronology 1497–1992 1994 University of South Carolina Press 978-0-87249-971-3 By 1882, the Democrats were firmly in power in South Carolina. Republican voters were mostly limited to the majority-black counties of Beaufort and Georgetown. Because the state had a large black-majority population (nearly sixty percent in 1890), white Democrats had narrow margins in many counties and feared a possible resurgence of black Republican voters at the polls. To remove the black threat, the General Assembly created an indirect literacy test, called the "Eight Box Law". The law required a separate box for ballots for each office; a voter had to insert the ballot into the corresponding box or it would not count. The ballots could not have party symbols on them. They had to be of the correct size and type of paper. Many ballots were arbitrarily rejected because they slightly deviated from the requirements. Ballots could also randomly be rejected if there were more ballots in a box than registered voters.Holt Thomas Thomas C. Holt Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction University of Illinois Press 1979 Urbana Results 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina1884 Presidential General Election Results - South Carolina http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1884&fips=45&f=1&off=0&elect=0 U.S. Election Atlas 23 December 2013 Democratic Party (United States) Grover Cleveland New York Thomas Andrews Hendricks Indiana 69,845 75.25% 9 100.00% Republican Party (United States) James Gillespie Blaine Maine John Alexander Logan Illinois 21,730 23.41% 0 0.00% N/A Others Others 1,237 1.33% 0 0.00% 92,812 100.00% 9 100.00% See also United States presidential elections in South Carolina References South Carolina 1884 Category:1884 South Carolina elections