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Presidential elections were held in theUnited States on November 4, 1884.Democratic GovernorGrover Cleveland ofNew York narrowly defeatedRepublicanJames G. Blaine ofMaine, ending a streak of six consecutive Republican victories.
Cleveland won the presidential nomination on the second ballot of the1884 Democratic National Convention. PresidentChester A. Arthur had acceded to the presidency in 1881 following theassassination of James A. Garfield, but he was unsuccessful in his bid for nomination to a full term. Blaine, who had served as Secretary of State under President Garfield, defeated Arthur and other candidates on the fourth ballot of the1884 Republican National Convention. A group of reformist Republicans known as "Mugwumps" abandoned Blaine's candidacy, viewing him as corrupt. The campaign was characterized bymudslinging and personal allegations that eclipsed substantive issues, such as civil administration change, and it was marred by exceptional political acrimony and personal invective. Blaine's reputation for public corruption and his inadvertent last minute alienation ofCatholic voters proved decisive, as well as voter exhaustion after a generation of Republican rule.
In the election, Cleveland won 48.8% of the nationwide popular vote and 219electoral votes, carrying theSolid South and several keyswing states. Blaine won 48.3% of the popular vote and 182 electoral votes. Cleveland won his home state by just 1,149 votes. Two third-party candidates,John St. John of theProhibition Party andBenjamin Butler of theGreenback Party and theAnti-Monopoly Party, each won less than 2% of the popular vote.
Marking an interruption in the era when Republicans largely controlled the presidency betweenReconstruction and theGreat Depression, Cleveland (who would be elected to another non-consecutive term in 1892) was the first Democrat elected president sinceJames Buchanan in1856, the first to hold office sinceAndrew Johnson left the White House in 1869, and the last to hold office untilWoodrow Wilson, who began his first term in 1913. Blaine became the only Republican nominee in the 52-year period from1860 to1912 never to win a presidential election, and he was the last former secretary of state to be nominated by a major political party until2016.
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The Democrats convened in Chicago on July 8–11, 1884, with New York Governor Grover Cleveland as clear frontrunner, the candidate of northern reformers and sound-money men (as opposed to inflationists). AlthoughTammany Hall bitterly opposed his nomination, the machine represented a minority of the New York delegation. Its only chance to block Cleveland was to break the unit rule, which mandated that the votes of an entire delegation be cast for only one candidate, and this it failed to do.Daniel N. Lockwood from New York placed Cleveland's name in nomination. But this rather lackluster address was eclipsed by the seconding speech ofEdward S. Bragg from Wisconsin, who roused the delegates with a memorable slap at Tammany. "They love him, gentlemen," Bragg said of Cleveland, "and they respect him, not only for himself, for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will, but they love him most of all for the enemies he has made." As the convention rocked with cheers, Tammany bossJohn Kelly lunged at the platform, screaming that he welcomed the compliment.
On the first ballot, Cleveland led the field with 392 votes, more than 150 votes short of the nomination. Trailing him wereThomas F. Bayard from Delaware, 170;Allen G. Thurman from Ohio, 88;Samuel J. Randall from Pennsylvania, 78; andJoseph E. McDonald from Indiana, 56; with the rest scattered. Randall then withdrew in Cleveland's favor. This move, together with the Southern bloc scrambling aboard the Cleveland bandwagon, was enough to put him over the top of the second ballot, with 683 votes to 81.5 for Bayard and 45.5 forThomas A. Hendricks from Indiana. Hendricks was nominated unanimously for vice president on the first ballot afterJohn C. Black,William Rosecrans, andGeorge Washington Glick withdrew their names from consideration.[2]
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The1884 Republican National Convention was held inChicago, Illinois, on June 3–6, with former Secretary of State James G. Blaine from Maine,President Arthur, and SenatorGeorge F. Edmunds from Vermont as the frontrunners. Though he was still popular, Arthur did not make a serious bid for a full-term nomination, knowing that his increasing health problems meant he would probably not survive a second term (he ultimately died in November 1886). Blaine led on the first ballot, with Arthur second, and Edmunds third. This order did not change on successive ballots as Blaine increased his lead, and he won a majority on the fourth ballot. After nominating Blaine, the convention chose SenatorJohn A. Logan from Illinois as the vice-presidential nominee. Blaine remains the only presidential nominee ever to come from Maine.[3]
FamedCivil War generalWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was considered a possible Republican candidate, but ruled himself out with what has become known as theSherman pledge: "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve."Robert Todd Lincoln,Secretary of War of the United States, and son of the past PresidentAbraham Lincoln, was also strongly courted by politicians and the media of the day to seek the presidential or vice-presidential nomination, but Lincoln was as averse to the nomination as Sherman.
Anti-Monopoly candidates:
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TheAnti-Monopoly National Convention assembled in the Hershey Music Hall in Chicago, Illinois on May 14.[4] The party had been formed to express opposition to the business practices of the emerging nationwide companies. There were around 200 delegates from 16 states, but 61 of them were from Michigan and Illinois.
Alson Streeter was the temporary chairman and John F. Henry was the permanent chairman.
Benjamin Butler was nominated for president on the first ballot. Delegates from New York, Washington, D.C., and Maryland bolted the convention when it appeared that no discussion of other candidates would be allowed.Allen G. Thurman andJames B. Weaver were put forward as alternatives to Butler, but Weaver declined, not wishing to run another national campaign for political office, and Thurman generated little enthusiasm. Butler, while far from opposed to the nomination, hoped to be nominated by the Democratic or Republican party, or at least in the case of the former, to make its platform more favorable to greenbacks. Ultimately only theGreenback Party endorsed his candidacy.
The convention chose not to nominate a candidate for vice president, hoping that other conventions would endorse a similar platform and name a suitable vice-presidential nominee.[5]: 55 The committee ultimately nominatedAbsolom Madden West as their vice-presidential candidate.[6]: 56
| Presidential Ballot[6]: 56 | |
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| Benjamin Butler | 124 |
| Allen G. Thurman[a] | 2 |
| Solon Chase | 1 |
Greenback candidates:
The third Greenback National Convention assembled inEnglish's Opera House in Indianapolis, Indiana. Delegates from 28 states and theDistrict of Columbia were in attendance. The convention nominated formerMassachusettsGovernor Benjamin Butler for president over party chairman Jesse Harper on the first ballot.MississippiState SenatorAbsolom M. West was nominated unanimously for vice president. The ticket was subsequently adopted by the Anti-Monopoly Party.
Butler initially hoped to organizefusion tickets with the minority party in each state, 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 Democrats inIowa,Michigan, andNebraska and with the Republicans inMissouri andWest Virginia. The fusion electors agreed to divide their votes between Butler and Cleveland, or Butler and Blaine, in proportion to the statewide popular vote for each candidate; however, the fusion ticket was not elected in any state, and Butler received no votes in the Electoral College.[7][8]
| Presidential Ballot[6]: 57 | |
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| Benjamin Butler | 323 |
| Jesse Harper | 98 |
| Solon Chase | 2 |
| Edward Phelps Allis | 1 |
| David Davis | 0 |
The American Prohibition Party held its national convention in the YMCA building in Chicago, Illinois. There were 150 delegates, including many non-voting delegates. The party sought to merge the reform movements ofanti-masonry,prohibition,anti-polygamy, and direct election of the president into a new party.Jonathan Blanchard was a major figure within the party. He traveled throughout northern states in the spring and gave an address entitled "The American Party – Its Principles and Its Claims."
During the convention, the party name was changed from the American Party to the American Prohibition Party. The party had been known as the Anti-Masonic Party in 1880. Many of the delegates at the convention were initially interested in nominatingJohn St. John, the former governor of Kansas, but it was feared that such a nomination might cost him that of the Prohibition Party, which he was actively seeking. Party leaders met withSamuel C. Pomeroy, a former senator from the same state who was the convention's runner-up for the nomination, and at Pomeroy's suggestion they agreed to withdraw the ticket from the race should St. John win the Prohibition Party nomination. Nominated alongside Pomeroy was John A. Conant from Connecticut.
St. John later unanimously won the Prohibition Party nomination, with Pomeroy and Conant withdrawing from the presidential contest and endorsing him. TheNew York Times speculated that the endorsement would "give him 40,000 votes".[9]
The fourth Prohibition Party National Convention assembled in Lafayette Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were 505 delegates from 31 states and territories at the convention. The national ticket was nominated unanimously: John St. John for president andWilliam Daniel for vice president. The straightforward single-issueProhibition Party platform advocated the criminalization ofalcoholic beverages.[6]: 58
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| John St. John | 505 |
Dissatisfied with resistance by the men of the major parties to women's suffrage, a small group of women announced the formation in 1884 of theEqual Rights Party.
The Equal Rights Party held its national convention in San Francisco, California, on September 20. The convention nominatedBelva Ann Lockwood, an attorney inWashington, D.C., for president. ChairmanMarietta Stow, the first woman to preside over a national nominating convention, was nominated for vice president.[6]: 57 [5]: 56
Lockwood agreed to be the party's presidential candidate even though most women in the United States did not yet have the right to vote. She said, "I cannot vote but I can be voted for." She was the first woman to run a full campaign for the office (Victoria Woodhull conducted a more limited campaign in1872). The Equal Rights Party had no treasury, but Lockwood gave lectures to pay for campaign travel. She received approximately 4,194 votes nationally.[10]
The issue of personal character was paramount in the 1884 campaign. Blaine had been prevented from getting the Republican presidential nomination during the previous two elections because of the stigma of the "Mulligan letters": in 1876, a Boston bookkeeper named James Mulligan had located some letters showing that Blaine had sold his influence in Congress to various businesses. One such letter ended with the phrase "burn this letter", from which a popular chant of the Democrats arose – "Burn, burn, burn this letter!" In just one deal, he had received $110,150 (over $1.5 million in 2010 dollars) from the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad for securing a federal land grant, among other things. Democrats and anti-Blaine Republicans made unrestrained attacks on his integrity as a result.Cleveland, on the other hand, was known as "Grover the Good" for his personal integrity; in the space of the three previous years he had become successively the mayor ofBuffalo, New York, and then the governor of the state of New York, cleaning up large amounts of Tammany Hall'sgraft.
CommentatorJeff Jacoby notes that, "Not since George Washington had a candidate for president been so renowned for his rectitude."[11] In July the Republicans found a refutation buried in Cleveland's past. Aided by sermons from a minister named George H. Ball, they charged that Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child while he was a lawyer in Buffalo. When confronted with the scandal, Cleveland immediately instructed his supporters to "Above all, tell the truth." Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child, named Oscar Folsom Cleveland after Cleveland's friend and law partner, but asserted that the child's paternity was uncertain.[12] Shortly before election day, the Republican media published an affidavit from Halpin in which she stated that until she met Cleveland her "life was pure and spotless," and "there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of Grover Cleveland, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false."[13] In a supplemental affidavit, Halpin also implied Cleveland had raped her, hence the conception of their child.[13][14] Republican cartoonists across the land had a field day.[15][16][17][18][19][20]
Cleveland's campaign decided thatcandor was the best approach to this scandal: it admitted that Cleveland had formed an "illicit connection" with the mother and that a child had been born and given the Cleveland surname. They also noted that there was no proof that Cleveland was the father, and claimed that, by assuming responsibility and finding a home for the child, he was merely doing his duty. Finally, they showed that the mother had not been forced into an asylum; her whereabouts were unknown. Blaine's supporters condemned Cleveland in the strongest of terms, singing "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa?"[21] (After Cleveland's victory, Cleveland supporters would respond to the taunt with: "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha.") However, the Cleveland campaign's damage control worked well enough and the race remained a tossup through Election Day. The greatest threat to the Republicans came from reformers called "Mugwumps" who were angrier at Blaine's public corruption than at Cleveland's private affairs.[22]
In the final week of the campaign, the Blaine campaign suffered a catastrophe. At a Republican meeting attended by Blaine, a group of New York preachers castigated the Mugwumps. Their spokesman,Reverend Dr. Samuel Burchard, said, "We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have beenrum,Romanism, andrebellion." Blaine did not notice Burchard's anti-Catholic slur, nor did the assembled newspaper reporters, but a Democratic operative did, and Cleveland's campaign managers made sure it was widely publicized. The statement energized the Irish and Catholic vote in New York City heavily against Blaine, costing him New York state and the election by a narrow margin.
In addition to Burchard's statement, it is also believed that John St. John's campaign was responsible for winning Cleveland the election in New York. Since Prohibitionists tended to ally more with Republicans, the Republican Party attempted to convince St. John to drop out. When they failed, they resorted toslandering him. Because of this, he redoubled his efforts in upstate New York, where Blaine was vulnerable on his prohibition stance, and took votes away from the Republicans.[23]
35.6% of the voting age population and 78.3% of eligible voters participated in the election.[24]
While the results remained broadly the same as those from 1880, Cleveland narrowly won three states (New York,Indiana, andConnecticut) thatJames A. Garfield had won, while Blaine won two states (California andNevada) thatWinfield Hancock had won. But most of those states had relatively small numbers of electoral votes, and Cleveland's victory in New York was decisive. Cleveland won by a slightly larger margin than Garfield (0.57% compared to 0.11%) in the popular vote, but a slightly smaller margin in the Electoral College (29 votes to 59). Cleveland became the first Democrat to ever win without Pennsylvania, California, Nevada, and Illinois. Pennsylvania voted for the losing candidate for the first time since 1824, and the loser of the popular vote since 1800.
The result marked an electoral breakthrough for the Prohibition Party, who had been little more than a fringe party in the previous three elections. While they never seriously challenged for the presidency and had only limited success in congressional and state-level elections, they regularly earned at least a percentage point of the popular vote (and occasionally finished third in that vote) in presidential elections for the next three decades before declining back to fringe status after the passage of theEighteenth Amendment in 1919. By contrast, Butler earned less than half the popular vote share thatJames B. Weaver had won in 1880, accelerating the decline of the Greenback Party. This was the last presidential election the party contested; it collapsed after failing to nominate a ticket in 1888.
This election was one of only four U.S. presidential elections, held since the Democrats and Republicans became the two major parties in U.S. politics, in which the winner did not carry any of the threeRust Belt states ofMichigan,Pennsylvania, andWisconsin; the others were1916,2000, and2004.[25]
16.08% of Blaine's votes came from the eleven states of the former Confederacy, with him taking 40.15% of the vote in that region.[26]
InBurke County, Georgia, 895 votes were cast for bolting "Whig Republican" electors for president (they were not counted for Blaine).[27] The Republicans won in 20 of the 33 cities with populations over 50,000 outside the southern U.S.[28]
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
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| Grover Cleveland | Democratic | New York | 4,914,482 | 48.85% | 219 | Thomas A. Hendricks | Indiana | 219 |
| James G. Blaine | Republican | Maine | 4,856,903 | 48.28% | 182 | John A. Logan | Illinois | 182 |
| John St. John | Prohibition | Kansas | 147,482 | 1.50% | 0 | William Daniel | Maryland | 0 |
| Benjamin Butler | Greenback/Anti-Monopoly | Massachusetts | 134,294 | 1.33% | 0 | Absolom M. West | Mississippi | 0 |
| Belva Ann Lockwood | Equal Rights | Washington, D.C. | 4,194 | 0.04% | 0 | Marietta Stow | California | 0 |
| Other | 3,576 | 0.04% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 10,060,145 | 100% | 401 | 401 | ||||
| Needed to win | 201 | 201 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1884 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedJuly 27, 2005.
Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedJuly 31, 2005.
| Cleveland | 48.85% | |||
| Blaine | 48.28% | |||
| St. John | 1.50% | |||
| Butler | 1.33% | |||
| Others | 0.09% | |||
| Cleveland | 54.61% | |||
| Blaine | 45.39% | |||
Source: Data fromWalter Dean Burnham,Presidential ballots, 1836–1892 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1955) pp 247–57.[29]
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| Alabama | 10 | 92,736 | 60.37 | 10 | 59,444 | 38.69 | – | 610 | 0.40 | – | 762 | 0.50 | – | 33,292 | 21.67 | 153,624 | AL |
| Arkansas | 7 | 72,734 | 57.83 | 7 | 51,198 | 40.70 | – | – | – | – | 1,847 | 1.47 | – | 21,536 | 17.12 | 125,779 | AR |
| California | 8 | 89,288 | 45.33 | – | 102,369 | 51.97 | 8 | 2,965 | 1.51 | – | 2,037 | 1.03 | – | −13,081 | −6.64 | 196,988 | CA |
| Colorado | 3 | 27,723 | 41.68 | – | 36,084 | 54.25 | 3 | 756 | 1.14 | – | 1,956 | 2.94 | – | −8,361 | −12.57 | 66,519 | CO |
| Connecticut | 6 | 67,182 | 48.95 | 6 | 65,898 | 48.01 | – | 2,493 | 1.82 | – | 1,684 | 1.23 | – | 1,284 | 0.94 | 137,257 | CT |
| Delaware | 3 | 16,957 | 56.55 | 3 | 12,953 | 43.20 | – | 64 | 0.21 | – | 10 | 0.03 | – | 4,004 | 13.35 | 29,984 | DE |
| Florida | 4 | 31,769 | 52.96 | 4 | 28,031 | 46.73 | – | 72 | 0.12 | – | – | – | – | 3,738 | 6.23 | 59,990 | FL |
| Georgia | 12 | 94,667 | 65.92 | 12 | 48,603 | 33.84 | – | 195 | 0.14 | – | 145 | 0.10 | – | 46,064 | 32.08 | 143,610 | GA |
| Illinois | 22 | 312,351 | 46.43 | – | 337,469 | 50.17 | 22 | 12,074 | 1.79 | – | 10,776 | 1.60 | – | −25,118 | −3.73 | 672,670 | IL |
| Indiana | 15 | 245,005 | 49.46 | 15 | 238,489 | 48.15 | – | 3,028 | 0.61 | – | 8,810 | 1.78 | – | 6,516 | 1.32 | 495,332 | IN |
| Iowa | 13 | 177,316 | 47.01 | – | 197,089 | 52.25 | 13 | 1,499 | 0.40 | – | – | – | – | −19,773 | −5.24 | 377,201 | IA |
| Kansas | 9 | 90,132 | 33.90 | – | 154,406 | 58.08 | 9 | 4,495 | 1.69 | – | 16,346 | 6.15 | – | −64,274 | −24.18 | 265,848 | KS |
| Kentucky | 13 | 152,961 | 55.32 | 13 | 118,690 | 42.93 | – | 3,139 | 1.14 | – | 1,691 | 0.61 | – | 34,271 | 12.40 | 276,481 | KY |
| Louisiana | 8 | 62,594 | 57.22 | 8 | 46,347 | 42.37 | – | 338 | 0.31 | – | 120 | 0.11 | – | 16,247 | 14.85 | 109,399 | LA |
| Maine | 6 | 52,153 | 39.97 | – | 72,217 | 55.34 | 6 | 2,160 | 1.66 | – | 3,955 | 3.03 | – | −20,064 | −15.38 | 130,491 | ME |
| Maryland | 8 | 96,866 | 52.07 | 8 | 85,748 | 46.10 | – | 2,827 | 1.52 | – | 578 | 0.31 | – | 11,118 | 5.98 | 186,019 | MD |
| Massachusetts | 14 | 122,352 | 40.33 | – | 146,724 | 48.36 | 14 | 9,923 | 3.27 | – | 24,382 | 8.04 | – | −24,372 | −8.03 | 303,383 | MA |
| Michigan | 13 | 189,361 | 47.20 | – | 192,669 | 48.02 | 13 | 18,403 | 4.59 | – | 753 | 0.19 | – | −3,308 | −0.82 | 401,186 | MI |
| Minnesota | 7 | 70,065 | 36.87 | – | 111,685 | 58.78 | 7 | 4,684 | 2.47 | – | 3,583 | 1.89 | – | −41,620 | −21.90 | 190,017 | MN |
| Mississippi | 9 | 77,653 | 64.34 | 9 | 43,035 | 35.66 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 34,618 | 28.68 | 120,688 | MS |
| Missouri | 16 | 236,023 | 53.49 | 16 | 203,081 | 46.02 | – | 2,164 | 0.49 | – | – | – | – | 32,942 | 7.47 | 441,268 | MO |
| Nebraska | 5 | 54,391 | 40.53 | – | 76,912 | 57.31 | 5 | 2,899 | 2.16 | – | – | – | – | −22,521 | −16.78 | 134,202 | NE |
| Nevada | 3 | 5,578 | 43.59 | – | 7,193 | 56.21 | 3 | – | – | – | 26 | 0.20 | – | −1,615 | −12.62 | 12,797 | NV |
| New Hampshire | 4 | 39,198 | 46.34 | – | 43,254 | 51.14 | 4 | 1,580 | 1.87 | – | 554 | 0.65 | – | −4,056 | −4.80 | 84,586 | NH |
| New Jersey | 9 | 127,798 | 48.98 | 9 | 123,440 | 47.31 | – | 6,159 | 2.36 | – | 3,496 | 1.34 | – | 4,358 | 1.67 | 260,921 | NJ |
| New York | 36 | 563,154 | 48.25 | 36 | 562,005 | 48.15 | – | 25,006 | 2.14 | – | 17,004 | 1.46 | – | 1,149 | 0.10 | 1,167,169 | NY |
| North Carolina | 11 | 142,905 | 53.25 | 11 | 125,021 | 46.59 | – | 430 | 0.16 | – | – | – | – | 17,884 | 6.66 | 268,356 | NC |
| Ohio | 23 | 368,280 | 46.94 | – | 400,082 | 50.99 | 23 | 11,069 | 1.41 | – | 5,179 | 0.66 | – | −31,802 | −4.05 | 784,610 | OH |
| Oregon | 3 | 24,604 | 46.70 | – | 26,860 | 50.99 | 3 | 492 | 0.93 | – | 726 | 1.38 | – | −2,256 | −4.28 | 52,682 | OR |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | 392,785 | 43.46 | – | 478,804 | 52.97 | 30 | 15,283 | 1.69 | – | 16,992 | 1.88 | – | −86,019 | −9.52 | 903,864 | PA |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 12,391 | 37.81 | – | 19,030 | 58.07 | 4 | 928 | 2.83 | – | 422 | 1.29 | – | −6,639 | −20.26 | 32,771 | RI |
| South Carolina | 9 | 69,845 | 75.25 | 9 | 21,730 | 23.41 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 48,115 | 51.84 | 92,812 | SC |
| Tennessee | 12 | 133,770 | 51.45 | 12 | 124,101 | 47.74 | – | 1,150 | 0.44 | – | 957 | 0.37 | – | 9,669 | 3.72 | 259,978 | TN |
| Texas | 13 | 225,309 | 69.26 | 13 | 93,141 | 28.63 | – | 3,534 | 1.09 | – | 3,321 | 1.02 | – | 132,168 | 40.63 | 325,305 | TX |
| Vermont | 4 | 17,331 | 29.18 | – | 39,514 | 66.52 | 4 | 1,753 | 2.95 | – | 785 | 1.32 | – | −22,183 | −37.34 | 59,401 | VT |
| Virginia | 12 | 145,491 | 51.05 | 12 | 139,356 | 48.90 | – | 130 | 0.05 | – | – | – | – | 6,135 | 2.15 | 284,977 | VA |
| West Virginia | 6 | 67,311 | 50.94 | 6 | 63,096 | 47.75 | – | 939 | 0.71 | – | 799 | 0.60 | – | 4,215 | 3.19 | 132,145 | WV |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 146,453 | 45.79 | – | 161,135 | 50.38 | 11 | 7,649 | 2.39 | – | 4,598 | 1.44 | – | −14,682 | −4.59 | 319,835 | WI |
| TOTALS: | 401 | 4,914,482 | 48.85 | 219 | 4,856,903 | 48.28 | 182 | 150,890 | 1.50 | – | 134,294 | 1.33 | – | 57,579 | 0.57 | 10,060,145 | US |
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Margin of victory between 1% and 5% (117 electoral votes):
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (104 electoral votes):
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