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1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

election in New Hampshire

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ29095062 ↗
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The 1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 4, 1884, as part of the 1884 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, James G. Blaine, over the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Blaine won the state by a narrow margin of 4.80%. This would be the last occasion a Democratic presidential candidate won Belknap County until Woodrow Wilson won it in 1912.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire” as election in New Hampshire. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where United, States and presidential can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as election in New Hampshire. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29095062. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1884 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “1884 United States presidential election in New Hampshire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.