1884 United States presidential election in Georgia

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Nominee Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Maine Running mate Thomas Hendricks John A. Logan Electoral vote 12 0 Popular vote 94,667 48,603 Percentage 65.92% 33.84%

County Results Cleveland   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Blaine   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%

President before election Chester A. Arthur Republican ElectedPresident Grover Cleveland Democratic

The1884 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

Following Reconstruction,Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and manypoor whites, doing so in the early 1870s.^[1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a fewNorth Georgia counties with substantialCivil WarUnionist sentiment – chieflyFannin but also to a lesser extentPickens,Gilmer andTowns^[2] – and in presidential elections to a small number of counties elsewhere where blacks were not fully disenfranchised. The Democratic Party served as the guardian ofwhite supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories ofReconstruction, and the main competition becameDemocratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.^[3] This restriction was done by local county laws, but combined with the highly efficacious cumulativepoll tax introduced in 1877 meant that turnout declined steadily throughout the 1880s,^[4] unlike any other former Confederate state except South Carolina.

Despite economic problems in the mountain counties due todeflation produced by thegold standard and large-scale government spending reductions by the “Redeemer” Democrats,^[5] voter turnout, especially for opposition parties, would maintain its poll tax-driven decline until thePopulist movement, which did not begin until five years after the 1884 election. Consequently, Cleveland and Hendricks were able to stabilize the decline from 1880, again carrying Georgia by almost a two-to-one margin.

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