U.S. presidential election, 1896 |
| Presidential Candidate |
Electoral Vote |
Popular Vote |
Pct |
Party |
Running Mate
(Electoral Votes) |
| William McKinley of Ohio
(W) |
271 |
7,104,779 |
51.2 |
Republican |
Garret Augustus Hobart of New Jersey (271) |
| William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska |
176 |
6,502,925 |
46.9 |
Democrat-Populist |
Arthur Sewall of Maine (149),
Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia (27) |
| Other |
|
|
|
|
| Total |
|
|
100.0% |
|
| Other elections: 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908 |
| Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register
|
Notes:
This is often considered a realigning election.
James Weaver of the People's Party, who had finished a respectable third 4 years before, threw his support
to Bryan. John M. Palmer of
the National Democratic Party received 133,435 votes (1.0%), and the Prohibition Party's Joshua Levering 125,072 votes (0.9%). Many of the Prohibition voters went to Bryan in this
election, but this was insufficient to overcome McKinley.
McKinley's campaign manager, Mark Hanna, raised $3.5 million and McKinley
outspent Bryan 20 to 1. Hanna's tactics are still in use in U.S. politics today.
Vice President Garret A. Hobart died on November 21, 1899.
See also: President of the United
States, U.S. presidential election,
1896, History of the United States (1865-1918)
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