1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut

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1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut
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  1892 November 3, 1896 1900  
  William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896 (cropped).jpg William Jennings Bryan 2 (cropped).jpg
Nominee William McKinley William Jennings Bryan
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Ohio Nebraska
Running mate Garret Hobart Arthur Sewall
Electoral vote60
Popular vote110,28556,740
Percentage63.24%32.54%

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President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

The 1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Connecticut voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor of Ohio William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won the state by a margin of 30.7%. This was the first time a Republican carried Connecticut in a presidential election since James A. Garfield did so 16 years earlier.

William Bryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but held little appeal in the Northeastern states like Connecticut.

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

Results

1896 United States presidential election in Connecticut [1]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Republican William McKinley of Ohio Garret Hobart of New Jersey 110,28563.24%6100.00%
Democratic William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska Arthur Sewall of Maine 56,74032.54%00.00%
National Democratic John McAuley Palmer of Illinois Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky 4,3362.49%00.00%
Prohibition Joshua Levering of Maryland Hale Johnson of Illinois 1,8061.04%00.00%
Socialist Labor Charles Horatio Matchett of New York Matthew Maguire of New Jersey 1,2230.70%00.00%
Total174,390100.00%6100.00%

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References

  1. "1896 Presidential General Election Results - Connecticut". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.