diff --git a/sklearn/linear_model/logistic.py b/sklearn/linear_model/logistic.py
index c649327aedca3..657c3118010ba 100644
--- a/sklearn/linear_model/logistic.py
+++ b/sklearn/linear_model/logistic.py
@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ def _multinomial_loss_grad(w, X, Y, alpha, sample_weight):
     n_classes = Y.shape[1]
     n_features = X.shape[1]
     fit_intercept = (w.size == n_classes * (n_features + 1))
-    grad = np.zeros((n_classes, n_features + bool(fit_intercept)))
+    grad = np.zeros((n_classes, n_features + bool(fit_intercept)),
+                    dtype=X.dtype)
     loss, p, w = _multinomial_loss(w, X, Y, alpha, sample_weight)
     sample_weight = sample_weight[:, np.newaxis]
     diff = sample_weight * (p - Y)
@@ -609,10 +610,10 @@ def logistic_regression_path(X, y, pos_class=None, Cs=10, fit_intercept=True,
     # and check length
     # Otherwise set them to 1 for all examples
     if sample_weight is not None:
-        sample_weight = np.array(sample_weight, dtype=np.float64, order='C')
+        sample_weight = np.array(sample_weight, dtype=X.dtype, order='C')
         check_consistent_length(y, sample_weight)
     else:
-        sample_weight = np.ones(X.shape[0])
+        sample_weight = np.ones(X.shape[0], dtype=X.dtype)
 
     # If class_weights is a dict (provided by the user), the weights
     # are assigned to the original labels. If it is "balanced", then
@@ -625,10 +626,10 @@ def logistic_regression_path(X, y, pos_class=None, Cs=10, fit_intercept=True,
     # For doing a ovr, we need to mask the labels first. for the
     # multinomial case this is not necessary.
     if multi_class == 'ovr':
-        w0 = np.zeros(n_features + int(fit_intercept))
+        w0 = np.zeros(n_features + int(fit_intercept), dtype=X.dtype)
         mask_classes = np.array([-1, 1])
         mask = (y == pos_class)
-        y_bin = np.ones(y.shape, dtype=np.float64)
+        y_bin = np.ones(y.shape, dtype=X.dtype)
         y_bin[~mask] = -1.
         # for compute_class_weight
 
@@ -646,10 +647,10 @@ def logistic_regression_path(X, y, pos_class=None, Cs=10, fit_intercept=True,
         else:
             # SAG multinomial solver needs LabelEncoder, not LabelBinarizer
             le = LabelEncoder()
-            Y_multi = le.fit_transform(y)
+            Y_multi = le.fit_transform(y).astype(X.dtype, copy=False)
 
         w0 = np.zeros((classes.size, n_features + int(fit_intercept)),
-                      order='F')
+                      order='F', dtype=X.dtype)
 
     if coef is not None:
         # it must work both giving the bias term and not
@@ -1204,7 +1205,12 @@ def fit(self, X, y, sample_weight=None):
             raise ValueError("Tolerance for stopping criteria must be "
                              "positive; got (tol=%r)" % self.tol)
 
-        X, y = check_X_y(X, y, accept_sparse='csr', dtype=np.float64,
+        if self.solver in ['newton-cg']:
+            _dtype = [np.float64, np.float32]
+        else:
+            _dtype = np.float64
+
+        X, y = check_X_y(X, y, accept_sparse='csr', dtype=_dtype,
                          order="C")
         check_classification_targets(y)
         self.classes_ = np.unique(y)
diff --git a/sklearn/linear_model/tests/test_logistic.py b/sklearn/linear_model/tests/test_logistic.py
index 7cb7fdd2d7d32..c6f4fbf4a4c4d 100644
--- a/sklearn/linear_model/tests/test_logistic.py
+++ b/sklearn/linear_model/tests/test_logistic.py
@@ -1129,3 +1129,33 @@ def test_saga_vs_liblinear():
                 liblinear.fit(X, y)
                 # Convergence for alpha=1e-3 is very slow
                 assert_array_almost_equal(saga.coef_, liblinear.coef_, 3)
+
+
+def test_dtype_match():
+    # Test that np.float32 input data is not cast to np.float64 when possible
+
+    X_32 = np.array(X).astype(np.float32)
+    y_32 = np.array(Y1).astype(np.float32)
+    X_64 = np.array(X).astype(np.float64)
+    y_64 = np.array(Y1).astype(np.float64)
+    X_sparse_32 = sp.csr_matrix(X, dtype=np.float32)
+
+    for solver in ['newton-cg']:
+        for multi_class in ['ovr', 'multinomial']:
+
+            # Check type consistency
+            lr_32 = LogisticRegression(solver=solver, multi_class=multi_class)
+            lr_32.fit(X_32, y_32)
+            assert_equal(lr_32.coef_.dtype, X_32.dtype)
+
+            # check consistency with sparsity
+            lr_32_sparse = LogisticRegression(solver=solver,
+                                              multi_class=multi_class)
+            lr_32_sparse.fit(X_sparse_32, y_32)
+            assert_equal(lr_32_sparse.coef_.dtype, X_sparse_32.dtype)
+
+            # Check accuracy consistency
+            lr_64 = LogisticRegression(solver=solver, multi_class=multi_class)
+            lr_64.fit(X_64, y_64)
+            assert_equal(lr_64.coef_.dtype, X_64.dtype)
+            assert_almost_equal(lr_32.coef_, lr_64.coef_.astype(np.float32))