A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the governor of New York Grover Cleveland and the former governor of Indiana Thomas A. Hendricks defeated the Republican ticket of the former U.S. secretary of state James G. Blaine and the senior U.S. senator from Illinois John A. Logan. Cleveland defeated Blaine in the national election with 219 electoral votes.
General election Summary Indiana chose 15 electors in a statewide general election. Nineteenth-century presidential elections used a form of block voting that allowed voters to modify the electoral list nominated by a political party before submitting their ballots. Because voters elected each member of the Electoral College individually, electors nominated by the same party often received differing numbers of votes as a consequence of voter rolloff, split-ticket voting, or electoral fusion. This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Walter Dean Burnham in his influential study, Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892. Svend Petersen's later Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections shows slightly smaller totals for all four candidates: 49 fewer votes for Cleveland, 31 fewer for Blaine, 104 fewer for Butler, and 33 fewer for St. John.
Results + 1884 United States presidential election in Indiana Party Electors for Candidate Votes Democratic Mortimer Nye 245,005 Democratic William F. Townsend 245,004 Democratic James A. New 245,001 Democratic Nimrod R. Elliott 244,999 Democratic Frank E. Gavin 244,997 Democratic William H. Harkins 244,996 Democratic Willis Hickam 244,996 Democratic Henry S. Cauthorn 244,995 Democratic William R. Oglebay 244,995 Democratic James M. Seller 244,995 Democratic Johannes Kopoelke 244,994 Democratic Aaron A. Cravens 244,943 Democratic William H. Dills 244,992 Democratic Bayless W. Hanna 245,990 Democratic William D. H. Hunter 245,983 Republican Joseph D. Ferrall 238,489 Republican James M. Reynolds 238,489 Republican Marshall Hacker 238,488 Republican John Berkshire 238,486 Republican James F. Elliott 238,486 Republican William B. Roberts 238,486 Republican James C. Veatch 238,485 Republican Elias S. Holliday 238,484 Republican William D. Ward 238,484 Republican Truman F. Palmer 238,482 Republican Thaddeus S. Rollins 238,478 Republican Josiah E. Mellett 238,472 Republican John M. Butler 238,471 Republican Milo Smith Hascall 238,463 Republican Lemuel W. Royse 238,469 Greenback Richard S. Rogers 8,812 Greenback Millard F. Ireland 8,810 Greenback Robert S. Cook 8,807 Greenback Rufus H. Davis 8,807 Greenback Edmund T. Spottswood 8,807 Greenback Alanson T. Bliss 8,806 Greenback Henry Doup 8,806 Greenback James G. Nisbet 8,805 Greenback John Studebaker 8,805 Greenback Joseph Butler 8,804 Greenback John S. Bender 8,794 Greenback Joseph Q. A. Newsom 8,780 Greenback William W. Fenton 8,779 Greenback Reuben A. Riley 8,293 Greenback Joshua K. Speer 8,028 Prohibition Preston Rider 3,028 Prohibition Isaac Keen 3,020 Prohibition Thomas Painter 3,020 Prohibition Jesse F. Wilson 3,020 Prohibition Newton Burwell 3,019 Prohibition William McKinney Gard 3,019 Prohibition Charles P. Gwin 3,019 Prohibition John A. Pollock 3,019 Prohibition William F. Singleton 3,019 Prohibition Thomas H. C. Beal 3,018 Prohibition John Birdsell 3,018 Prohibition Frank E. Dishman 3,018 Prohibition Samuel J. Wilson 3,018 Prohibition Thomas H. Stewart 3,016 Prohibition Elijah Coate 3,007
See also United States presidential elections in Indiana
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