1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota
Flag of South Dakota (1909-1963).svg
  1892 November 3, 1896 1900  
  William Jennings Bryan 2 (cropped).jpg William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896 (cropped).jpg
Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Populist Republican
Alliance Democratic -
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall (Democratic)
Thomas E. Watson (Populist)
Garret Hobart
Electoral vote40
Popular vote41,22541,042
Percentage49.70%49.48%

South Dakota Presidential Election Results 1896.svg
County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

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

Contents

South Dakota was won by the Populist nominees, [lower-alpha 1] former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Two electors cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.

Bryan won the state by a very narrow margin of 0.22 percentage points, becoming the first national Democratic presidential candidate to win the state. Bryan would later lose the state to Republican incumbent president William McKinley four years later and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908. The state would not vote Democratic again until 1932. As of the 2020 election, this is the only time that a Republican candidate has won the presidency without carrying South Dakota.

Results

1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota [1]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Populist William Jennings Bryan41,22549.70%2
Democratic William Jennings Bryan00.00%2
Total William Jennings Bryan 41,22549.70%4
Republican William McKinley 41,04249.48%0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 6830.82%0
Totals82,950100.00%4
Voter turnout

Results by county

County [2] William McKinley
Republican
William Jennings Bryan
Populist
Joshua Levering
Prohibition
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Aurora 38744.08%47954.56%121.37%-92-10.48%878
Beadle 93549.84%91548.77%261.39%201.07%1,876
Bon Homme 1,16356.37%89343.29%70.34%27013.09%2,063
Brookings 1,26348.71%1,28849.67%421.62%-25-0.96%2,593
Brown 1,61846.15%1,86753.25%210.60%-249-7.10%3,506
Brule 44139.59%66859.96%50.45%-227-20.38%1,114
Buffalo 6846.26%7953.74%00.00%-11-7.48%147
Butte 22243.53%28656.08%20.39%-64-12.55%510
Campbell 44954.62%36944.89%40.49%809.73%822
Charles Mix 69853.57%59445.59%110.84%1047.98%1,303
Clark 69545.01%81652.85%332.14%-121-7.84%1,544
Clay 1,23853.36%1,06145.73%210.91%1777.63%2,320
Codington 1,04157.10%75941.63%231.26%28215.47%1,823
Custer 42945.30%51554.38%30.32%-86-9.08%947
Davison 61645.13%73353.70%161.17%-117-8.57%1,365
Day 1,17148.07%1,23050.49%351.44%-59-2.42%2,436
Deuel 69850.95%66848.76%40.29%302.19%1,370
Douglas 53358.06%38041.39%50.54%15316.67%918
Edmunds 37141.78%51057.43%70.79%-139-15.65%888
Fall River 53248.76%55550.87%40.37%-23-2.11%1,091
Faulk 43064.08%23735.32%40.60%19328.76%671
Grant 1,02952.72%90246.21%211.08%1276.51%1,952
Gregory 11048.67%11651.33%00.00%-6-2.65%226
Hamlin 70255.10%55943.88%131.02%14311.22%1,274
Hand 45143.96%56755.26%80.78%-116-11.31%1,026
Hanson 42038.75%65860.70%60.55%-238-21.96%1,084
Hughes 46258.33%32741.29%30.38%13517.05%792
Hutchinson 1,41374.96%45824.30%140.74%95550.66%1,885
Hyde 22364.45%12134.97%20.58%10229.48%346
Jerauld 27444.48%33654.55%60.97%-62-10.06%616
Kingsbury 95046.82%1,05151.80%281.38%-101-4.98%2,029
Lake 86446.10%99953.31%110.59%-135-7.20%1,874
Lawrence 2,21042.91%2,90556.41%350.68%-695-13.50%5,150
Lincoln 1,51651.86%1,39347.66%140.48%1234.21%2,923
Lyman 11459.07%7840.41%10.52%3618.65%193
Marshall 55343.78%69454.95%161.27%-141-11.16%1,263
McCook 67839.03%1,04760.28%120.69%-369-21.24%1,737
McPherson 51258.25%36141.07%60.68%15117.18%879
Meade 55040.56%80259.14%40.29%-252-18.58%1,356
Miner 58245.05%70554.57%50.39%-123-9.52%1,292
Minnehaha 2,42947.15%2,66751.77%561.09%-238-4.62%5,152
Moody 78043.36%1,01256.25%70.39%-232-12.90%1,799
Pennington 73941.40%1,03858.15%80.45%-299-16.75%1,785
Potter 33345.74%39053.57%50.69%-57-7.83%728
Roberts 1,32458.20%92940.84%220.97%39517.36%2,275
Sanborn 53050.72%50047.85%151.44%302.87%1,045
Spink 1,13251.31%1,06148.10%130.59%713.22%2,206
Stanley 8938.53%14060.61%20.87%-51-22.08%231
Sully 26256.34%19842.58%51.08%6413.76%465
Turner 1,61662.47%95036.72%210.81%66625.74%2,587
Union 1,29746.24%1,49153.16%170.61%-194-6.92%2,805
Walworth 25046.21%28652.87%50.92%-36-6.65%541
Yankton 1,42351.39%1,33048.03%160.58%933.36%2,769
Unorganized33747.73%36852.12%10.14%-31-4.39%706
Totals41,15249.48%41,34149.70%6830.82%-189-0.23%83,176

See also

Notes

  1. Although Bryan ran nationally as the Democratic nominee, that party was so weak in South Dakota that Bryan was instead endorsed by the state’s Populist Party, which was the major competitor with the GOP.

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