1896 United States gubernatorial elections

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1896 United States gubernatorial elections
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  1895 November 3, 1896 [lower-alpha 1] 1897  

32 governorships
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Republican Democratic
Seats before2617
Seats after2416
Seat changeDecrease2.svg2Decrease2.svg1
Seats up1714
Seats won1513

 Third partyFourth party
 
Party Populist Silver
Seats before11
Seats after41
Seat changeIncrease2.svg3Steady2.svg
Seats up10
Seats won40

1896 United States gubernatorial elections results map.svg
     Democratic gain     Democratic hold
     Republican gain     Republican hold
     Populist gain     Populist hold

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1896, in 32 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 3, 1896 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).

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Following the death of Delaware Governor Joshua H. Marvil, the General Assembly scheduled the next gubernatorial election for 1896, two years into the term. Delaware's gubernatorial elections have been held in presidential election years ever since.

In Florida, the gubernatorial election was held in October for the last time. The subsequent election days were moved to the same day as federal elections from the 1900 elections. [1]

Results

StateIncumbentPartyStatusOpposing candidates
Alabama
(held, 3 August 1896)
William C. Oates DemocraticRetired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory Joseph F. Johnston (Democratic) 59.01%
Albert Taylor Goodwyn (Populist) [lower-alpha 2] 40.99%
[4]
Arkansas
(held, 7 September 1896)
James Paul Clarke DemocraticRetired to run for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory Daniel Webster Jones (Democratic) 64.26%
Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 25.28%
Abner W. Files [5] [6] (Populist) 9.86%
J. W. Miller (Prohibition) 0.60%
[7] [8]
Colorado Albert McIntire Republican[ data missing ] Alva Adams (Democratic) [lower-alpha 3] 46.22%
Morton Shelley Bailey (Populist) [lower-alpha 4] 37.98%
George W. Allen (Republican) 12.66%
Davis H. Waite (Midroad-Populist) 1.78%
Scattering 1.36%
[9]
Connecticut Owen Vincent Coffin RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Lorrin A. Cooke (Republican) 62.53%
Joseph B. Sargent (Democratic) 32.48%
Lewis Sperry (National Democratic) 3.21%
Edward Manchester (Prohibition) 1.06%
John A. Norton (Socialist Labor) 0.72%
[10]
Delaware William T. Watson (acting)DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Ebe W. Tunnell (Democratic) 44.20%
John H. Hoffecker (Union Republican) 31.40%
John C. Higgins (Anti-Addicks Republican) 20.39%
Louis N. Slaughter (Single Tax) 2.44%
Daniel M. Green (Prohibition) 1.56%
Scattering 0.01%
[11] [12]
Florida
(held, 6 October 1896) [13]
Henry L. Mitchell DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory William D. Bloxham (Democratic) 66.71%
Edward R. Gunby (Republican) 20.35%
William A. Wicks (Populist) 12.94%
[14] [15]
Georgia
(held, 7 October 1896)
William Yates Atkinson DemocraticRe-elected, 58.47%Seaborn Wright (Populist) 41.53%
[16] [17]
Idaho William J. McConnell RepublicanRetired, Democratic victory Frank Steunenberg (Democratic) [lower-alpha 5] 76.79%
David Budlong (Republican) 22.38%
Moses F. Fowler (Prohibition) 0.83%
[18]
Illinois John Peter Altgeld DemocraticDefeated, 43.66% John Riley Tanner (Republican) 54.10%
George Washington Gere (Prohibition) 1.34%
William St. John Forman (National Democratic) 0.75%
Charles A. Baustian (Socialist Labor) 0.09%
Isaac W. Higgs (National Prohibition) 0.07%
[19] [20]
Indiana Claude Matthews DemocraticTerm-limited, Republican victory James A. Mount (Republican) 50.93%
Benjamin F. Shively (Democratic) 46.79%
Thomas Wadsworth (Populist) 1.37%
Leander M. Crist (Prohibition) 0.48%
A. G. Burkhart (National Prohibition) 0.40%
Philip H. Moore (Socialist Labor) 0.04%
[21] [22]
Kansas Edmund Needham Morrill RepublicanDefeated, 48.30% John W. Leedy (Populist) [lower-alpha 6] 50.56%
Horace Hurley (Prohibition) 0.71%
Henry L. Douthart (National Prohibition) 0.23%
A. E. Kepford (Independent Prohibition) 0.21%
[23] [24]
Louisiana
(held, 21 April 1896)
Murphy J. Foster DemocraticRe-elected, 56.27%John N. Pharr (Populist) [lower-alpha 7] 43.64%
A. B. Booth 0.09%
[25] [26] [27]
Maine
(held, 14 September 1896)
Henry B. Cleaves RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Llewellyn Powers (Republican) 66.84%
Melvin P. Frank (Democratic) 27.79%
Luther C. Bateman (Populist) 2.67%
Ammi S. Ladd (Prohibition) 2.19%
William H. Clifford (National Democratic) 0.49%
Scattering 0.03%
[28] [29]
Massachusetts Roger Wolcott (acting)RepublicanRe-elected, 67.05% George Fred Williams (Democratic) 26.92%
Frederick O. Prince (National Democratic) 3.68%
Thomas C. Brophy (Socialist Labor) 1.18%
Allen Coffin (Prohibition) 1.16%
[30] [31]
Michigan John Treadway Rich RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Hazen S. Pingree (Republican) 55.57%
Charles R. Sligh (Democratic) [lower-alpha 8] 40.35%
Rufus S. Sprague (National Democratic) 1.78%
Robert C. Safford (Prohibition) 1.00%
John Gilberson (National Prohibition) 0.35%
Scattering 0.94%
[32]
Minnesota David Marston Clough (acting)RepublicanRe-elected, 49.18% John Lind (Democratic) [lower-alpha 9] 48.10%
William J. Dean (Prohibition) 1.53%
Albert Alonzo Ames (Independent) 0.86%
William B. Hammond (Socialist Labor) 0.33%
[33]
Missouri William J. Stone DemocraticTerm-limited, Democratic victory Lon Vest Stephens (Democratic) 52.88%
Robert E. Lewis (Republican) 46.35%
Herman P. Faris (Prohibition) 0.39%
J. McDowell Trimble (National Democratic) 0.27%
Louis C. Fry (Socialist Labor) 0.11%
[34]
Montana John E. Rickards RepublicanLost re-nomination, Democratic victory Robert Burns Smith (Democratic) [lower-alpha 10] 70.99%
Alexander C. Botkin (Republican) [lower-alpha 11] 29.01%
[35]
Nebraska Silas A. Holcomb Populist [lower-alpha 12] Re-elected, 53.46%John H. McColl (Republican) 43.50%
Robert S. Bibb (National Democratic) 1.63%
Joel Warner (Prohibition) 0.72%
Richard H. Hawley (National Prohibition) 0.43%
Charles Sadilek (Socialist Labor) 0.27%
[36]
New Hampshire Charles A. Busiel RepublicanRetired, Republican victory George A. Ramsdell (Republican) 61.41%
Henry O. Kent (Democratic) 35.96%
John C. Berry (Prohibition) 1.34%
Harry H. Acton (Socialist Labor) 0.61%
Gardiner J. Greenleaf (Populist) 0.36%
George W. Barnard (National) 0.29%
Scattering 0.02%
[37]
New York Levi P. Morton RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Frank S. Black (Republican) 55.28%
Wilbur E. Porter (Democratic) 40.33%
Daniel G. Griffin (National Democratic) 1.87%
Howard Balkam (Socialist Labor) 1.29%
William W. Smith (Prohibition) 1.22%
[38]
North Carolina Elias Carr DemocraticTerm-limited, Republican victory Daniel Lindsay Russell (Republican) 46.46%
Cyrus B. Watson (Democratic) 43.89%
William A. Guthrie (Populist) 9.41%
James R. Jones (National Prohibition) 0.17%
Jeremiah W. Holt (Prohibition) 0.07%
[39] [40]
North Dakota Roger Allin RepublicanLost re-nomination, Republican victory Frank A. Briggs (Republican) 55.61%
Robert B. Richardson (Populist) [lower-alpha 13] 44.39%
[41]
Rhode Island
(held, 1 April 1896)
Charles W. Lippitt RepublicanRe-elected, 56.40%George L. Littlefield (Democratic) 33.79%
Thomas H. Peabody (Prohibition) 5.84%
Edward W. Thienert (Socialist Labor) 2.52%
Henry A. Burlingame (Populist) 1.45%
[42]
South Carolina John Gary Evans DemocraticRetired, Democratic victory William Haselden Ellerbe (Democratic) 89.18%
Sampson Pope (Lily-White Republican) 6.65%
R. M. Wallace (Black and Tan Republican) 4.17%
[43] [44]
South Dakota Charles H. Sheldon RepublicanRetired, Populist victory Andrew E. Lee (Populist) [lower-alpha 14] 49.76%
A. O. Ringsrud (Republican) 49.37%
J. F. Hanson (Prohibition) 0.87%
[45] [46]
Tennessee Peter Turney DemocraticRetired, Democratic victory Robert Love Taylor (Democratic) 48.76%
G. N. Tillman (Republican) 46.62%
A. L. Mims (Populist) 3.74%
Josephus Hopwood (Prohibition) 0.88%
[47] [48]
Texas Charles A. Culberson DemocraticRe-elected, 55.31%Jerome C. Kearby (Republican) 44.22%
Randolph Clark (Prohibition) 0.35%
Scattering 0.13%
[49] [50]
Vermont
(held, 1 September 1896)
Urban A. Woodbury RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Josiah Grout (Republican) 76.41%
J. Henry Jackson (Democratic) 21.25%
Joseph Battell (Populist) 1.19%
Rodney Whittemore (Prohibition) 1.08%
Scattering 0.08%
[51]
Washington John McGraw RepublicanRetired, Populist victory John Rankin Rogers (Populist) [lower-alpha 15] 55.55%
Potter C. Sullivan (Republican) 41.68%
Robert E. Dunlap (Prohibition) 2.78%
[52]
West Virginia William A. MacCorkle DemocraticTerm-limited, Republican victory George W. Atkinson (Republican) 52.41%
Cornelius Clarkson Watts (Democratic) 46.44%
T. C. Johnson (Prohibition) 0.67%
N. W. Fitzgerald (Populist) 0.40%
Scattering 0.08%
[53]
Wisconsin William H. Upham RepublicanRetired, Republican victory Edward Scofield (Republican) 59.67%
Willis C. Silverthorn (Democratic) 38.11%
Joshua H. Berkey (Prohibition) 1.83%
Christ Tuttrop (Socialist Labor) 0.29%
Robert Henderson (National Prohibition) 0.09%
[54]

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Notes

  1. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont held early elections.
  2. Some 19th Century sources indicate Goodwyn ran under a fusion ticket between the Populists and the Republicans. [2] [3]
  3. Adams ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Silver Republican Party
  4. Bailey ran under a fusion ticket between the Populists and the National Silver Party
  5. Steunenberg ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Silver Republican Party.
  6. Leedy ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
  7. Pharr ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the Populist Party.
  8. Sligh ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats, the Populists and the Union Silver Party.
  9. Lind ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
  10. Smith ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
  11. Botkin ran under a fusion ticket between the Republicans and the Silver Republican Party.
  12. Holcomb ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
  13. Richardson ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
  14. Some sources indicate Lee ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party.
  15. Rogers ran under a fusion ticket between the Democrats and the Populist Party

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