1896 United States presidential election in Mississippi

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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% 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 [lower-alpha 1] and George [lower-alpha 2] in 1928 – would the state Democratic nominee [lower-alpha 3] 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 [lower-alpha 4] 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 [lower-alpha 4] 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 [lower-alpha 4] 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 [lower-alpha 5] 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 United States presidential elections in Mississippi Notes At the time of the 1892 election, Stone County was the northern part of Harrison County. 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. 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. 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 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. 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