1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming
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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance Populist
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall (Democratic)[a]
Thomas E. Watson (Populist)[b] 		Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 10,861 10,072
Percentage 51.49% 47.75%
County Results
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Elected President

William McKinley
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The 1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Wyoming was won by representative William Jennings Bryan (D–Nebraska), running with shipbuilder, railroad president and director, bank president Arthur Sewall, with 51.49 percent of the popular vote, against the 39th Governor of Ohio William McKinley (R–Ohio), running with New Jersey State Senator, Garret Hobart, with 47.75 percent of the popular vote. Bryan won the state by a narrow margin of 3.74%.

This is also the only election where the Republican candidate won the election without Wyoming.

Bryan's support for many Populist goals resulted in him being nominated by both the Democratic Party and the People's Party (Populists), though with different running mates. One electoral vote from Wyoming was cast for the Populist Bryan-Watson ticket with Thomas E. Watson as vice president and two votes were cast for the Bryan-Sewall ticket.

Bryan would later lose Wyoming to William McKinley four year later and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908.

Results

General Election Results[1]
Party Pledged to Elector Votes
Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan John A. Martin 10,375
Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Patrick J. Quealy 10,352
Democratic Party & People's Party William Jennings Bryan Daniel L. Van Meter 10,138
Republican Party William McKinley William F. Brittain 10,072
Republican Party William McKinley Benjamin F. Howell 10,032
Republican Party William McKinley Sarah Ruby Malloy 9,997
People's Party William Jennings Bryan Patrick J. M. Jordan 486
People's Party William Jennings Bryan John Sims 427
Prohibition Party Joshua Levering O. C. Smith 159
Prohibition Party Joshua Levering O. S. Jackson 136
Prohibition Party Joshua Levering Nina W. Higby 133
Votes cast[c] 21,092

Results by county

County[1] William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Republican 		Joshua Levering
Prohibition 		Margin Total votes cast[d]
Democratic Populist Total
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Albany 1,028 44.41% 45 1.94% 1,073 46.35% 1,220 52.70% 22 0.95% -147 -6.35% 2,315
Big Horn 518 45.20% 73 6.37% 591 51.57% 538 46.95% 17 1.48% 53 4.62% 1,146
Carbon 1,039 44.82% 41 1.77% 1,080 46.59% 1,229 53.02% 9 0.39% -149 -6.43% 2,318
Converse 450 42.57% 9 0.85% 459 43.42% 585 55.35% 13 1.23% -126 -11.92% 1,057
Crook 537 48.86% 32 2.91% 569 51.77% 524 47.68% 6 0.53% 45 4.09% 1,099
Fremont 499 46.90% 24 2.26% 523 49.15% 535 50.28% 6 0.57% -12 -1.13% 1,064
Johnson 441 58.57% 26 3.45% 467 62.02% 284 37.72% 2 0.27% 183 24.30% 753
Laramie 1,590 46.45% 38 1.11% 1,628 47.56% 1,776 51.88% 19 0.56% -148 -4.32% 3,423
Natrona 317 43.91% 10 1.39% 327 45.29% 392 54.29% 3 0.42% -65 -9.00% 722
Sheridan 1,045 52.46% 59 2.96% 1,104 55.42% 877 44.03% 11 0.55% 227 11.40% 1,992
Sweetwater 916 51.26% 80 4.48% 996 55.74% 754 42.19% 37 2.07% 242 13.54% 1,787
Uinta 1,700 64.37% 26 0.98% 1,726 65.35% 907 34.34% 8 0.30% 819 31.01% 2,641
Weston 295[e][2] 38.06% 23 2.97% 318 41.03% 451 58.19% 6 0.77% -133 -17.16% 775
Totals 10,375 49.19% 486 2.30% 10,861 51.49% 10,072 47.75% 159 0.75% 789 3.74% 21,092

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Martin and Quealy voted for Sewall for Vice President
  2. ^ Van Meter voted for Watson for Vice-President.
  3. ^ Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket
  4. ^ Based on highest elector on each ticket
  5. ^ The Secretary of State's report appears to contain a typo for Democratic elector Martin in this county. The figure given in the report is 296 but this causes Martin's county figures to not add up correctly. Based on newspaper reporting from November 1896, this figure should be 295, which corrects the discrepancy.

References

  1. ^ a b Wyoming Secretary of State (1897). "Summary of Election Returns of the State of Wyoming November 3, 1896". Report of the Secretary of State of State of Wyoming for the Period Ending Sept. 30 1896. Cheyenne, Wyoming: The S. A. Bristol Company, Printers and Bookbinders. p. 45.
  2. ^ "Results in Weston Co". The Newcastle News-Journal. November 6, 1896. Retrieved October 18, 2024.