1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi
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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance Populist
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 63,355 4,819
Percentage 91.04% 6.92%
County Results
Bryan
  70-80%
  80-90%
  90-100%

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Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

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The 1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Mississippi was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. They defeated the Republican nominees, former Governor of Ohio William McKinley and Garret Hobart of New Jersey. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 84.12%.

With black disfranchisement virtually complete due to onerous poll taxes and literacy tests, Mississippi would begin seven decades as a one-party Democratic state, as the state completely lacked areas of upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.[1] No Republican would serve in the state legislature between 1902 and the 1960s, and only once until 1950 – when Herbert Hoover won riding on anti-Catholic and Prohibitionist sentiment the Pine Belt counties of Pearl River, Stone[a] and George[b] in 1928 – would the state Democratic nominee[c] lose a Mississippi county in any Presidential election.[2]

With 91.04% of the popular vote, Mississippi would prove to be Bryan's strongest state in the 1896 presidential election.[3]

Bryan would later win Mississippi against McKinley four years later and would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi[4]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 55,838 80.24% 9
Populist William Jennings Bryan 7,517 10.80% 0
Total William Jennings Bryan 63,355 91.04% 9
Republican William McKinley 4,819 6.92% 0
National Democratic John M. Palmer 1,021 1.47% 0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 396 0.57% 0
Totals 69,591 100.00% 9
Voter turnout —

Results by county

County William Jennings Bryan
Democratic 		William McKinley
Republican 		John McAuley Palmer[5]
National Democratic 		Joshua Levering[5]
Prohibition 		Margin Total votes cast[6]
# % # % # % # % # %
Adams 507 70.91% 174 24.34% 30 4.20% 4 0.56% 333 46.57% 715
Alcorn 925 93.72% 57 5.78% 2 0.20% 3 0.30% 868 87.94% 987
Amite 983 95.72% 21 2.04% 17 1.66% 6 0.58% 962 93.67% 1,027
Attala 1,307 87.72% 164 11.01% 11 0.74% 8 0.54% 1,143 76.71% 1,490
Benton 636 84.46% 113 15.01% 1 0.13% 3 0.40% 523 69.46% 753
Bolivar 360 72.00% 117 23.40% 3 0.60% 20 4.00% 243 48.60% 500
Calhoun 948 92.76% 33 3.23% 30 2.94% 11 1.08% 915 89.53% 1,022
Carroll 1,187 92.81% 79 6.18% 11 0.86% 2 0.16% 1,108 86.63% 1,279
Chickasaw 666 86.83% 70 9.13% 20 2.61% 11 1.43% 596 77.71% 767
Choctaw 904 93.68% 54 5.60% 4 0.41% 3 0.31% 850 88.08% 965
Claiborne 514 89.86% 15 2.62% 41 7.17% 2 0.35% 499[d] 82.69% 572
Clarke 947 98.65% 7 0.73% 4 0.42% 2 0.21% 940 97.92% 960
Clay 676 93.50% 34 4.70% 8 1.11% 5 0.69% 642 88.80% 723
Coahoma 347 78.33% 83 18.74% 10 2.26% 3 0.68% 264 59.59% 443
Copiah 1,588 94.86% 63 3.76% 17 1.02% 6 0.36% 1,525 91.10% 1,674
Covington 731 90.69% 72 8.93% 1 0.12% 2 0.25% 659 81.76% 806
DeSoto 888 91.74% 58 5.99% 21 2.17% 1 0.10% 830 85.74% 968
Franklin 592 95.79% 17 2.75% 7 1.13% 2 0.32% 575 93.04% 618
Greene 266 98.52% 0 0.00% 4 1.48% 0 0.00% 266[d] 97.04% 270
Grenada 483 94.89% 20 3.93% 2 0.39% 4 0.79% 463 90.96% 509
Hancock 348 85.50% 48 11.79% 11 2.70% 0 0.00% 300 73.71% 407
Harrison 237 87.78% 17 6.30% 15 5.56% 1 0.37% 220 81.48% 270
Hinds 1,643 88.57% 144 7.76% 28 1.51% 40 2.16% 1,499 80.81% 1,855
Holmes 1,010 92.24% 74 6.76% 6 0.55% 5 0.46% 936 85.48% 1,095
Issaquena 97 75.78% 29 22.66% 1 0.78% 1 0.78% 68 53.13% 128
Itawamba 1,089 95.78% 32 2.81% 11 0.97% 5 0.44% 1,057 92.96% 1,137
Jackson 723 72.96% 181 18.26% 72 7.27% 15 1.51% 542 54.69% 991
Jasper 871 95.50% 20 2.19% 16 1.75% 5 0.55% 851 93.31% 912
Jefferson 627 91.40% 55 8.02% 1 0.15% 3 0.44% 572 83.38% 686
Jones 934 94.53% 35 3.54% 14 1.42% 5 0.51% 899 90.99% 988
Kemper 922 90.75% 72 7.09% 19 1.87% 3 0.30% 850 83.66% 1,016
Lafayette 1,314 90.81% 129 8.91% 3 0.21% 1 0.07% 1,185 81.89% 1,447
Lauderdale 1,978 92.60% 98 4.59% 42 1.97% 18 0.84% 1,880 88.01% 2,136
Lawrence 774 80.71% 175 18.25% 8 0.83% 2 0.21% 599 62.46% 959
Leake 1,164 91.94% 91 7.19% 4 0.32% 7 0.55% 1,073 84.76% 1,266
Lee 1,241 96.43% 34 2.64% 9 0.70% 3 0.23% 1,207 93.78% 1,287
Leflore 316 99.68% 0 0.00% 1 0.32% 0 0.00% 315[d] 99.36% 317
Lincoln 954 84.65% 134 11.89% 22 1.95% 17 1.51% 820 72.76% 1,127
Lowndes 820 97.27% 13 1.54% 7 0.83% 3 0.36% 807 95.73% 843
Madison 763 89.76% 66 7.76% 20 2.35% 1 0.12% 697 82.00% 850
Marion 839 76.07% 228 20.67% 29 2.63% 7 0.63% 611 55.39% 1,103
Marshall 1,286 93.32% 72 5.22% 13 0.94% 7 0.51% 1,214 88.10% 1,378
Monroe 1,608 95.49% 71 4.22% 4 0.24% 1 0.06% 1,537 91.27% 1,684
Montgomery 1,050 96.95% 23 2.12% 3 0.28% 7 0.65% 1,027 94.83% 1,083
Neshoba 1,055 99.15% 7 0.66% 0 0.00% 2 0.19% 1,048 98.50% 1,064
Newton 1,201 98.44% 9 0.74% 6 0.49% 4 0.33% 1,192 97.70% 1,220
Noxubee 715 96.10% 12 1.61% 5 0.67% 12 1.61% 703 94.49% 744
Oktibbeha 816 96.11% 27 3.18% 2 0.24% 4 0.47% 789 92.93% 849
Panola 1,235 91.01% 78 5.75% 21 1.55% 23 1.69% 1,157 85.26% 1,357
Pearl River 266 85.81% 34 10.97% 9 2.90% 1 0.32% 232 74.84% 310
Perry 419 91.48% 30 6.55% 2 0.44% 7 1.53% 389 84.93% 458
Pike 1,380 89.73% 120 7.80% 28 1.82% 10 0.65% 1,260 81.92% 1,538
Pontotoc 944 92.28% 64 6.26% 4 0.39% 11 1.08% 880 86.02% 1,023
Prentiss 973 92.31% 59 5.60% 18 1.71% 4 0.38% 914 86.72% 1,054
Quitman 171 81.04% 40 18.96% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 131 62.09% 211
Rankin 1,044 92.23% 76 6.71% 9 0.80% 3 0.27% 968 85.51% 1,132
Scott 780 95.94% 23 2.83% 3 0.37% 7 0.86% 757 93.11% 813
Sharkey 194 87.78% 22 9.95% 1 0.45% 4 1.81% 172 77.83% 221
Simpson 677 91.49% 53 7.16% 4 0.54% 6 0.81% 624 84.32% 740
Smith 1,077 99.26% 1 0.09% 2 0.18% 5 0.46% 1,072[e] 98.80% 1,085
Sunflower 459 93.48% 24 4.89% 6 1.22% 2 0.41% 435 88.59% 491
Tallahatchie 779 97.01% 23 2.86% 0 0.00% 1 0.12% 756 94.15% 803
Tate 1,125 90.65% 76 6.12% 40 3.22% 0 0.00% 1,049 84.53% 1,241
Tippah 1,063 90.55% 103 8.77% 5 0.43% 3 0.26% 960 81.77% 1,174
Tishomingo 851 92.40% 67 7.27% 2 0.22% 1 0.11% 784 85.12% 921
Tunica 174 72.20% 62 25.73% 4 1.66% 1 0.41% 112 46.47% 241
Union 1,262 91.25% 114 8.24% 7 0.51% 0 0.00% 1,148 83.01% 1,383
Warren 867 72.19% 183 15.24% 143 11.91% 8 0.67% 684 56.95% 1,201
Washington 611 80.61% 98 12.93% 44 5.80% 5 0.66% 513 67.68% 758
Wayne 655 94.79% 30 4.34% 5 0.72% 1 0.14% 625 90.45% 691
Webster 876 86.82% 127 12.59% 5 0.50% 1 0.10% 749 74.23% 1,009
Wilkinson 561 93.50% 36 6.00% 2 0.33% 1 0.17% 525 87.50% 600
Winston 793 94.63% 32 3.82% 11 1.31% 2 0.24% 761 90.81% 838
Yalobusha 1,110 91.51% 73 6.02% 24 1.98% 6 0.49% 1,037 85.49% 1,213
Yazoo 1,159 97.48% 24 2.02% 6 0.50% 0 0.00% 1,135 95.46% 1,189
Totals 63,355 91.05% 4,819 6.93% 1,021 1.47% 390 0.56% 58,536 84.12% 69,585

See also

Notes

  1. ^ At the time of the 1892 election, Stone County was the northern part of Harrison County.
  2. ^ At the time of the 1892 election, what has been since 1910 George County was the northern part of Jackson County and the southern part of Greene County.
  3. ^ James Strom Thurmond, who was listed as the “States’ Rights Democratic Party” nominee at a national level, was listed as the “Democratic” nominee in Mississippi in the 1948 election, when he won every county with at least 56 percent of the vote.
  4. ^ a b c In this county where Palmer ran second ahead of McKinley, margin given is Bryan vote minus Palmer vote and percentage margin Bryan percentage minus Palmer percentage
  5. ^ In this county where Levering ran second ahead of both McKinley and Palmer, margin given is Bryan vote minus Levering vote and percentage margin Bryan percentage minus Levering percentage.

References

  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 ISBN 9780691163246
  2. ^ Menendez; Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 233-236 ISBN 0786422173
  3. ^ "1896 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  4. ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Mississippi
  5. ^ a b Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
  6. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 241-247 ISBN 9780804716963
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