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Lorain County, presidential election of 1884

Lorain County

60.30%James G. Blaine (R), the most votes9,085Votes counted for president

Every election in Lorain County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1884

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What this is

Lorain County counted 9,085 votes for president across 3 candidates in 1884. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
James G. BlaineRepublican5,47860.30%
Grover ClevelandDemocratic3,19935.21%
OtherOther4084.49%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to James G. Blaine (Republican) with 50.99%, a 4.0-point margin over Grover Cleveland. The country elected Grover Cleveland.
Against the state
Lorain County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+25.1 against Ohio's R+4.0: 21.0 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 7th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1880
From 1880 to 1884 the county's lean moved 8.7 points toward the Democrats, from R+33.7 to R+25.1.
Matched
Lorain County voted with Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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Where this appears

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1884 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1884 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1884-11-04 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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