1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina
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The 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose 9 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland, over the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine. Cleveland won the state by a wide margin of 51.84%.
This election marked the beginning of the disfranchisement of African Americans in South Carolina. The process was gradual, and it took about two decades for near-total disfranchisement to occur.[1] By 1882, the Democrats were firmly in power in South Carolina. Republican voters were mostly limited to the majority-black counties of Beaufort and Georgetown. Because the state had a large black-majority population (nearly sixty percent in 1890), white Democrats had narrow margins in many counties and feared a possible resurgence of black Republican voters at the polls. To remove the black threat, the General Assembly created an indirect literacy test, called the "Eight Box Law".[1]
The law required a separate box for ballots for each office; a voter had to insert the ballot into the corresponding box or it would not count. The ballots could not have party symbols on them. They had to be of the correct size and type of paper. Many ballots were arbitrarily rejected because they slightly deviated from the requirements. Ballots could also randomly be rejected if there were more ballots in a box than registered voters.[2]
Results
[edit]| 1884 United States presidential election in South Carolina[3] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Democratic | Grover Cleveland of New York | Thomas Andrews Hendricks of Indiana | 69,845 | 75.25% | 9 | 100.00% | ||
| Republican | James Gillespie Blaine of Maine | John Alexander Logan of Illinois | 21,730 | 23.41% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| N/A | Others | Others | 1,237 | 1.33% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 92,812 | 100.00% | 9 | 100.00% | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rogers, George C. and C. James Taylor Jr. (1994). A South Carolina Chronology 1497–1992. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-971-3.
- ^ Holt, Thomas (1979). Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- ^ "1884 Presidential General Election Results - South Carolina". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
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