1884 United States presidential election in Michigan

none June 2025 September 2023 1884 United States presidential election Flag of Michigan (1865–1911, obverse).svgborder 1884 United States presidential election in Michigan Michigan presidential no 1880 United States presidential election in Michigan 1880 1888 United States presidential election in Michigan 1888 All 13 Michigan votes to the Electoral College November 4, 1884 x150px James Gillespie Blaine, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front LCCN2011645229 (Cropped1).jpg James G. Blaine Republican Party (United States) Maine John A. Logan 13 192,669 47.79% Grover Cleveland by Charles Milton Bell color change (3x4 cropped b&w).jpg Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) New York Thomas A. Hendricks 0 149,835This is the total for the single Democratic elector would did not also appear on the Greenback ticket, see detailed elector results. 37.17% Bfbutler.jpg Benjamin Butler Greenback Party Anti-Monopoly Party Massachusetts Absolom M. West 0 41,390This is the total for the single Greenback elector would did not also appear on the Democratic ticket, see detailed elector results. 10.27% President Chester A. Arthur Republican Party (United States) Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) 1884 United States presidential election in Michigan results map by county.svg 300px County results Blaine #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Cleveland #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #0645B4 80–90% Butler #165016 100% The 1884 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1877_1881.html#1884 1884 Election for the Twenty-Fifth Term (1885-1889) 2018-04-03 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Benjamin Butler received the nominations of both the Greenback and Anti-Monopoly parties in Michigan. Butler initially hoped to organize fusion tickets with the minority party in each state in the election, a strategy designed to capitalize on the cross-partisan popularity of many elements of the candidate's program. The Greenbacks succeeded in negotiating fusion arrangements with the Democratic Party in Michigan, wherein they were balloted separately but shared 12 of the state's 13 electors. The fusion electors agreed to divide their votes between Butler and Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in proportion to the statewide popular vote for each candidate, had their combined vote been sufficient to achieve a plurality in the state.https://books.google.com/books?id=L45BAQAAMAAJ National Contest: Containing Portraits and Biographies of our National Favorites 1888 Chicago 127Fuller William D. September 25, 1884 Butler in Michigan https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025167/1884-09-25/ed-1/seq-1 Iowa Plain Dealer Michigan was won by the Republican nominee James G. Blaine over Cleveland and Butler in a close race by only 3,308 votes, a margin of less than 1%.Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1999-04-26 United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3 2024-11-14 10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3 Barry and Newaygo counties have voted Democratic only once since this election, in 1964. Results + General Election ResultsMichigan State Archives, Statement of Votes given in the State of Michigan, for thirteen Electors of President and Vice President of the United States for the State of Michigan, at the General Election held in the said State, on Tuesday, the Fourth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty fourThe Official Count https://www.newspapers.com/image/1049400521/ 22 May 2026 The Detroit Free Press 50 66 26 November 1884 Detroit 4Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Party James G. Blaine Dwight Cutler192,669 Republican Party James G. Blaine James McMillan192,641 Republican Party James G. Blaine George H. French192,625 Republican Party James G. Blaine Lorenzo A. Barker192,623 Republican Party James G. Blaine Charles W. Wells192,621 Republican Party James G. Blaine Josephus Smith192,618 Republican Party James G. Blaine George W. Jenks192,613 Republican Party James G. Blaine Seth McLean192,613 Republican Party James G. Blaine Joseph B. Moore192,597 Republican Party James G. Blaine William S. Wilcox192,565 Republican Party James G. Blaine John Duncan192,522 Republican Party James G. Blaine J. Eastman Johnson192,336 Republican Party James G. Blaine George G. Steketee192,128 Fusion Grover ClevelandThe Fusion electors were, in a sense, unpledged, as they planned to apportion themselves between Cleveland and Butler based on the proportion of Democratic and Greenbacker votes to the total Fusion vote. Andrew Harshaw189,361 Fusion Grover Cleveland Herman Goeschel189,294 Fusion Grover Cleveland Aaron S. Dykeman189,290 Fusion Grover Cleveland Wildman Mills189,244 Fusion Grover Cleveland Frederick H. Carnahan189,152 Fusion Grover Cleveland John R. Savage188,654 Fusion Grover Cleveland Hiram O. Rose188,574 Fusion Grover Cleveland Alfred L. Millard188,554 Fusion Grover Cleveland William D. Thompson188,554 Fusion Grover Cleveland Alexander K. Kelsey188,479 Fusion Grover Cleveland William B. Moran187,924 Fusion Grover Cleveland John J. Watkins186,927 Democratic Party Grover Cleveland Jonathan W. Flanders149,835This represents approximately the proportion of Democratic voters within the Fusion ticket. Greenback Party Benjamin Butler Moses W. Field41,490Field was a well-known Greenbacker and would have voted for Butler in the Electoral College. His votes represent approximately the proportion of Greenback voters within the Fusion ticket. Prohibition Party John St. John John Russell18,403 Prohibition Party John St. John Oscar M. Brownson18,403 Prohibition Party John St. John Thomas A. Granger18,403 Prohibition Party John St. John Emory A. Richards18,402 Prohibition Party John St. John Samuel Dickey18,400 Prohibition Party John St. John Brent Harding18,400 Prohibition Party John St. John Darius H. Stone18,400 Prohibition Party John St. John Henry Davis18,398 Prohibition Party John St. John Frank B. Cressey18,389 Prohibition Party John St. John Guernsey P. Waring18,376 Prohibition Party John St. John Benjah W. Warren18,104 Prohibition Party John St. John George Atchison17,982 Prohibition Party John St. John Moses Mix17,740 Straight Butler Benjamin Butler Charles Benton753 Straight Butler Benjamin Butler Charles Benton746 Straight Butler Benjamin Butler Charles H. Stone716 Straight Butler Benjamin Butler Charles H. Williams706 Straight Butler Benjamin Butler John D. Cotharin550 Straight Butler Benjamin Butler Jonathan P. Hinshaw540 Write-in Scattering40 Blank46Votes cast"highest" Based on highest elector on each ticket 401,272 Results by county The fusion between the Democrats and Greenbackers presents difficulties when interpreting the results. On one hand, it would be easy to use the votes for Flanders and Field separately for Cleveland and Butler, respectively. This does cause Butler to appear to have run ahead of both Cleveland and Blaine in Arenac County, for instance. However, splitting the Cleveland and Butler votes in this manner masks how close the election actually was; the Republican electors only narrowly ran ahead of the 12 Fusion electors by about 3,300 votes. Using Flanders' figures for Cleveland makes it falsely appear that Blaine easily won the state by double digits. Additionally, the combined total for Flanders and Field exceeds that of the highest fusion elector (Harshaw), although it is still less than that of the lowest Republican elector (Steketee). The 1885 Michigan Manual lists the county results for all three of Harshaw, Flanders, and Field, with a note implying that the results for the latter two are to be interpreted separately from the rest. Based on the split between Democratic and Greenbacker vote, had the Fusion ticket been elected, the electoral votes from Michigan likely would have been nine for Cleveland, three for Butler, and one for Blaine.Blaine would have received an electoral vote from Michigan in this case because with all electors being chosen individually at large, the top 13 candidates would be elected. With the Fusion ticket running only 12 electors, Flanders and Field would have both run well behind the Republican electors. Given the closeness of election, it would also not have been out of the realm of possibility that in a Fusion victory scenario, one or more Republican electors actually could have run ahead of the lowest Fusion electors, resulting in an even more chaotic split in Michigan's Electoral College delegation. CountyConant Harry A. Legislative Manual and Official Directory of the State of Michigan for the Year 1885 1885 W. S. George & Co., State Printers and Binders Lansing 424-426 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073066659&view=1up&seq=480 22 May 2026 James G. BlaineRepublican Grover ClevelandFusion John St. JohnProhibition Benjamin ButlerGreenback Margin Total votes cast"highest" # % # % # % # % # %Alcona54561.51%33938.26%10.11%10.11%20623.25%886Allegan4,08048.27%3,44540.75%92710.97%10.01%6357.51%8,453Alpena92743.87%1,12753.34%592.79%00.00%-200-9.47%2,113Antrim1,06658.44%72139.53%372.03%00.00%34518.91%1,824Arenac32331.95%60760.04%444.35%373.66%-284-28.09%1,011Baraga39656.33%30743.67%00.00%00.00%8912.66%703Barry2,69944.71%2,93748.65%4016.64%00.00%-238-3.94%6,037Bay2,91635.15%4,96359.83%1611.94%2553.07%-2,047-24.68%8,295Benzie55654.89%38037.51%777.60%00.00%17617.37%1,013Berrien4,44548.02%4,45848.16%3453.73%00.00%-13-0.14%9,256Includes 8 Scattering votesBranch3,67152.08%2,95841.96%4195.94%10.01%71310.11%7,049Calhoun5,11351.20%4,30943.15%5645.65%00.00%8048.05%9,986Cass2,76448.25%2,74447.90%2163.77%50.09%200.35%5,729Charlevoix1,04354.21%82542.88%562.91%00.00%21811.33%1,924Cheboygan77745.33%89752.33%402.33%00.00%-120-7.00%1,714Chippewa68651.12%63547.32%211.56%00.00%513.80%1,342Clare62246.21%68550.89%342.53%50.37%-63-4.68%1,346Clinton2,78244.03%3,22050.96%3154.98%20.03%-438-6.93%6,319Crawford30456.72%22341.60%91.68%00.00%8115.11%536Delta1,20166.13%60933.54%60.33%00.00%59232.60%1,816Eaton4,10649.37%3,71744.69%4945.94%00.00%3894.68%8,317Emmet77943.79%89550.31%1055.90%00.00%-116-6.52%1,779Genesee4,32848.14%3,65740.68%1,00511.18%00.00%6717.46%8,990Gladwin28855.49%21341.04%00.00%183.47%7514.45%519Grand Traverse1,64564.59%80831.72%943.69%00.00%83732.86%2,547Gratiot2,67646.99%2,73648.04%2834.97%00.00%-60-1.05%5,695Hillsdale4,31552.80%3,22239.43%6297.70%60.07%1,09313.37%8,172Houghton2,38357.90%1,69441.16%390.95%00.00%68916.74%4,116Huron1,35539.48%1,89855.30%1795.22%00.00%-543-15.82%3,432Ingham3,70942.36%4,56252.11%4725.39%120.14%-853-9.74%8,755Ionia3,55245.10%3,81448.43%5036.39%70.09%-262-3.33%7,876Iosco1,01652.83%86444.93%432.24%00.00%1527.90%1,923Isabella1,61748.78%1,61048.57%832.50%50.15%70.21%3,315Jackson4,80443.86%5,45249.78%6455.89%510.47%-648-5.92%10,952Kalamazoo4,51551.78%3,75043.00%4555.22%00.00%7658.77%8,720Kalkaska63060.93%36935.69%353.38%00.00%26125.24%1,034Kent9,00745.74%9,63948.95%1,0405.28%50.03%-632-3.21%19,691Keweenaw62074.43%20124.13%121.44%00.00%41950.30%833Lake95155.42%65638.23%1096.35%00.00%29517.19%1,716Lapeer3,06250.15%2,74144.89%2764.52%270.44%3215.26%6,106Leelanau81157.80%57140.70%211.50%00.00%24017.11%1,403Lenawee5,82746.63%5,57244.59%1,0978.78%10.01%2552.04%12,497Livingston2,59744.72%2,93850.59%2724.68%00.00%-341-5.87%5,807Mackinac47946.06%55853.65%30.29%00.00%-79-7.60%1,040Macomb2,78242.98%3,46453.51%2233.45%40.06%-682-10.54%6,473Manistee1,30538.46%1,92656.76%1624.77%00.00%-621-18.30%3,393Manitou1810.84%14889.16%00.00%00.00%-130-78.31%166Marquette4,23073.49%1,47825.68%480.83%00.00%2,75247.81%5,756Mason1,29950.49%1,21747.30%572.22%00.00%823.19%2,573Mecosta2,36553.76%1,84741.99%1874.25%00.00%51811.78%4,399Menominee2,61473.12%93626.18%250.70%00.00%1,67846.94%3,575Midland1,07153.36%88344.00%442.19%90.45%1889.37%2,007Missaukee47054.09%37342.92%262.99%00.00%9711.16%869Monroe3,02541.89%3,92054.29%2243.10%510.71%-895-12.39%7,221Includes 1 Scattering voteMontcalm3,85749.32%3,78848.43%1732.21%30.04%690.88%7,821Montmorency9338.91%13757.32%93.77%00.00%-44-18.41%239Muskegon3,48349.79%3,17145.33%3174.53%250.36%3124.46%6,996Newaygo1,97146.65%2,05148.54%2034.80%00.00%-80-1.89%4,225Oakland4,84245.03%5,38650.09%5224.85%30.03%-544-5.06%10,753Oceana1,63751.04%1,21337.82%35711.13%00.00%42413.22%3,207Ogemaw47849.48%47248.86%161.66%00.00%60.62%966Ontonagon30153.94%23341.76%244.30%00.00%6812.19%558Osceola1,49758.43%79230.91%27310.66%00.00%70527.52%2,562Oscoda19968.62%8730.00%41.38%00.00%11238.62%290Otsego48552.95%41044.76%212.29%00.00%758.19%916Ottawa3,75853.25%3,04943.21%2313.27%50.07%70910.05%7,057Includes 14 Scattering votesPresque Isle39463.65%22536.35%00.00%00.00%16927.30%619Roscommon42748.80%43549.71%20.23%111.26%-8-0.91%875Saginaw5,93944.68%7,04753.02%2051.54%1000.75%-1,108-8.34%13,291Sanilac1,92348.88%1,81746.19%1654.19%120.31%1062.69%3,934Includes 17 Scattering votesSchoolcraft51862.48%28934.86%222.65%00.00%22927.62%829Shiawassee2,70541.71%3,14148.43%6239.61%170.26%-436-6.72%6,486St. Clair4,01743.99%4,66851.12%3483.81%530.58%-651-7.13%9,132Includes 46 Blank votesSt. Joseph3,26146.89%3,55451.11%1331.91%60.09%-293-4.21%6,954Tuscola2,91449.73%2,62444.78%3225.49%00.00%2904.95%5,860Van Buren4,21956.11%2,93339.01%3614.80%60.08%1,28617.10%7,519Washtenaw4,04940.53%5,31553.20%6176.18%90.09%-1,266-12.67%9,990Wayne17,31544.46%20,93053.74%7031.80%00.00%-3,615-9.28%38,948Wexford1,22054.81%87639.35%1305.84%00.00%34415.45%2,226Total192,66948.01%189,36147.19%18,4034.59%7530.19%3,3080.82%401,272 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Baraga Gladwin Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Alpena Barry Bay Berrien Cheboygan Clare Clinton Emmet Gratiot Huron Ingham Ionia Jackson Kent Livingston Manistee Newaygo Oakland Shiawassee St. Clair St. Joseph Wayne See also United States presidential elections in Michigan Notes References Michigan 1884 United States presidential election