See main article: 1884 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Country: | West Virginia |
| Flag Year: | 1846 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1880 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Previous Year: | 1880 |
| Next Election: | 1888 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Next Year: | 1888 |
| Election Date: | November 4, 1884 |
| Turnout: | 21.37% of the total population 3.16 pp[1] |
| Image1: | StephenGroverCleveland.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Grover Cleveland |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York |
| Running Mate1: | Thomas A. Hendricks |
| Electoral Vote1: | 6 |
| Popular Vote1: | 67,311 |
| Percentage1: | 50.94% |
| Nominee2: | James G. Blaine |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Maine |
| Running Mate2: | John A. Logan |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 63,096 |
| Percentage2: | 47.75% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Chester A. Arthur |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Grover Cleveland |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1884 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]
West Virginia was won by Grover Cleveland, the 28th governor of New York, (D–New York), running with the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks, with 50.94 percent of the popular vote, against Secretary of State James G. Blaine (R-Maine), running with Senator John A. Logan, with 47.75 percent of the vote.[2]
The Prohibition Party chose John St. John, the former governor of Kansas, and former Maryland State Senator William Daniel as their presidential and vice-presidential candidates and received 0.71 percent of the vote. The Greenback and Anti-Monopoly Parties both chose major general and former governor of Massachusetts Benjamin Butler and Absolom M. West, an unseated Mississippi representative, received 0.60 percent of the vote.
This would prove the last time the Democratic Party won an absolute majority of West Virginia’s popular vote until 1932.
| County | Democratic | Republican | Margin | ||||||||||||||||
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| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | ||||||||
| Barbour | 1,263 | 49.94% | 1,241 | 49.07% | 25 | 0.99% | 22 | 0.87% | 2,529 | ||||||||||
| Berkeley | 1,840 | 50.47% | 1,763 | 48.35% | 43 | 1.18% | 77 | 2.11% | 3,646 | ||||||||||
| Boone | 470 | 56.15% | 362 | 43.25% | 5 | 0.60% | 108 | 12.90% | 837 | ||||||||||
| Braxton | 1,441 | 63.37% | 831 | 36.54% | 2 | 0.09% | 610 | 26.82% | 2,274 | ||||||||||
| Brooke | 757 | 51.29% | 704 | 47.70% | 15 | 1.02% | 53 | 3.59% | 1,476 | ||||||||||
| Cabell | 1,872 | 56.15% | 1,442 | 43.25% | 20 | 0.60% | 430 | 12.90% | 3,334 | ||||||||||
| Calhoun | 753 | 59.81% | 499 | 39.63% | 7 | 0.56% | 254 | 20.17% | 1,259 | ||||||||||
| Clay | 306 | 51.34% | 276 | 46.31% | 14 | 2.35% | 30 | 5.03% | 596 | ||||||||||
| Doddridge | 989 | 44.17% | 1,208 | 53.95% | 42 | 1.88% | -219 | -9.78% | 2,239 | ||||||||||
| Fayette | 1,555 | 46.67% | 1,753 | 52.61% | 24 | 0.72% | -198 | -5.94% | 3,332 | ||||||||||
| Gilmer | 1,027 | 60.06% | 674 | 39.42% | 9 | 0.53% | 353 | 20.64% | 1,710 | ||||||||||
| Grant | 340 | 29.08% | 826 | 70.66% | 3 | 0.26% | -486 | -41.57% | 1,169 | ||||||||||
| Greenbrier | 1,834 | 62.44% | 1,025 | 34.90% | 78 | 2.66% | 809 | 27.55% | 2,937 | ||||||||||
| Hampshire | 1,748 | 81.15% | 404 | 18.76% | 2 | 0.09% | 1,344 | 62.40% | 2,154 | ||||||||||
| Hancock | 455 | 40.66% | 655 | 58.53% | 9 | 0.80% | -200 | -17.87% | 1,119 | ||||||||||
| Hardy | 1,116 | 80.29% | 274 | 19.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 842 | 60.58% | 1,390 | ||||||||||
| Harrison | 2,149 | 46.12% | 2,383 | 51.14% | 128 | 2.75% | -234 | -5.02% | 4,660 | ||||||||||
| Jackson | 1,694 | 48.03% | 1,812 | 51.38% | 21 | 0.60% | -118 | -3.35% | 3,527 | ||||||||||
| Jefferson | 2,254 | 68.12% | 1,042 | 31.49% | 13 | 0.39% | 1,212 | 36.63% | 3,309 | ||||||||||
| Kanawha | 2,820 | 39.23% | 4,240 | 58.99% | 128 | 1.78% | -1,420 | -19.76% | 7,188 | ||||||||||
| Lewis | 1,500 | 52.65% | 1,331 | 46.72% | 18 | 0.63% | 169 | 5.93% | 2,849 | ||||||||||
| Lincoln | 984 | 60.63% | 638 | 39.31% | 1 | 0.06% | 346 | 21.32% | 1,623 | ||||||||||
| Logan | 1,023 | 86.40% | 161 | 13.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 862 | 72.80% | 1,184 | ||||||||||
| Marion | 1,956 | 48.80% | 1,958 | 48.85% | 94 | 2.35% | -2 | -0.05% | 4,008 | ||||||||||
| Marshall | 1,734 | 41.94% | 2,352 | 56.89% | 48 | 1.16% | -618 | -14.95% | 4,134 | ||||||||||
| Mason | 2,007 | 44.95% | 2,405 | 53.86% | 53 | 1.19% | -398 | -8.91% | 4,465 | ||||||||||
| McDowell | 203 | 52.19% | 186 | 47.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 17 | 4.37% | 389 | ||||||||||
| Mercer | 947 | 67.16% | 461 | 32.70% | 2 | 0.14% | 486 | 34.47% | 1,410 | ||||||||||
| Mineral | 1,077 | 51.02% | 985 | 46.66% | 49 | 2.32% | 92 | 4.36% | 2,111 | ||||||||||
| Monongalia | 1,292 | 39.01% | 1,988 | 60.02% | 32 | 0.97% | -696 | -21.01% | 3,312 | ||||||||||
| Monroe | 1,176 | 53.99% | 973 | 44.67% | 29 | 1.33% | 203 | 9.32% | 2,178 | ||||||||||
| Morgan | 452 | 37.05% | 754 | 61.80% | 14 | 1.15% | -302 | -24.75% | 1,220 | ||||||||||
| Nicholas | 696 | 54.76% | 549 | 43.19% | 26 | 2.05% | 147 | 11.57% | 1,271 | ||||||||||
| Ohio | 4,461 | 50.30% | 4,336 | 48.89% | 72 | 0.81% | 125 | 1.41% | 8,869 | ||||||||||
| Pendleton | 844 | 58.45% | 599 | 41.48% | 1 | 0.07% | 245 | 16.97% | 1,444 | ||||||||||
| Pleasants | 685 | 55.06% | 532 | 42.77% | 27 | 2.17% | 153 | 12.30% | 1,244 | ||||||||||
| Pocahontas | 667 | 62.57% | 389 | 36.49% | 10 | 0.94% | 278 | 26.08% | 1,066 | ||||||||||
| Preston | 1,316 | 32.94% | 2,625 | 65.71% | 54 | 1.35% | -1,309 | -32.77% | 3,995 | ||||||||||
| Putnam | 1,102 | 46.03% | 1,283 | 53.59% | 9 | 0.38% | -181 | -7.56% | 2,394 | ||||||||||
| Raleigh | 773 | 56.59% | 588 | 43.05% | 5 | 0.37% | 185 | 13.54% | 1,366 | ||||||||||
| Randolph | 1,119 | 66.61% | 554 | 32.98% | 7 | 0.42% | 565 | 33.63% | 1,680 | ||||||||||
| Ritchie | 1,283 | 41.32% | 1,720 | 55.39% | 102 | 3.29% | -437 | -14.07% | 3,105 | ||||||||||
| Roane | 1,324 | 54.33% | 1,100 | 45.14% | 13 | 0.53% | 224 | 9.19% | 2,437 | ||||||||||
| Summers | 1,058 | 54.06% | 871 | 44.51% | 28 | 1.43% | 187 | 9.56% | 1,957 | ||||||||||
| Taylor | 1,147 | 44.49% | 1,421 | 55.12% | 10 | 0.39% | -274 | -10.63% | 2,578 | ||||||||||
| Tucker | 435 | 60.00% | 289 | 39.86% | 1 | 0.14% | 146 | 20.14% | 725 | ||||||||||
| Tyler | 1,040 | 42.38% | 1,402 | 57.13% | 12 | 0.49% | -362 | -14.75% | 2,454 | ||||||||||
| Upshur | 682 | 34.44% | 1,267 | 63.99% | 31 | 1.57% | -585 | -29.55% | 1,980 | ||||||||||
| Wayne | 1,780 | 63.19% | 1,036 | 36.78% | 1 | 0.04% | 744 | 26.41% | 2,817 | ||||||||||
| Webster | 427 | 71.40% | 171 | 28.60% | 0 | 0.00% | 256 | 42.81% | 598 | ||||||||||
| Wetzel | 1,947 | 64.73% | 1,058 | 35.17% | 3 | 0.10% | 889 | 29.55% | 3,008 | ||||||||||
| Wirt | 865 | 54.30% | 713 | 44.76% | 15 | 0.94% | 152 | 9.54% | 1,593 | ||||||||||
| Wood | 2,340 | 43.01% | 2,721 | 50.01% | 380 | 6.98% | -381 | -7.00% | 5,441 | ||||||||||
| Wyoming | 286 | 51.53% | 266 | 47.93% | 3 | 0.54% | 20 | 3.60% | 555 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 67,311 | 50.94% | 63,096 | 47.75% | 1,738 | 1.32% | 4,215 | 3.19% | 132,145 | ||||||||||