1896 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
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1896 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
The United States presidential election of 1896 was the 28th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1896. It was the climax of an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley (a former Governor of Ohio) defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan (a former Representative from Nebraska) in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral | Running mate | |||
| Count | Pct | vote | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | |||
| William McKinley | Republican | Ohio | 71,11,607 | 51.03% | 271 | Garret A. Hobart | New Jersey | 271 |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic –People's | Nebraska | 6,509,052(a) | 46.70% | 176 | Arthur Sewall(b) | Maine | 149 |
| Thomas E. Watson(c) | Georgia | 27 | ||||||
| John M. Palmer | National Democratic | Illinois | 1,34,645 | 0.97% | 0 | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Kentucky | 0 |
| Joshua Levering | Prohibition | Maryland | 1,31,312 | 0.94% | 0 | Hale Johnson | Illinois | 0 |
| Charles Matchett | Socialist Labor | New York | 36,373 | 0.26% | 0 | Matthew Maguire | New Jersey | 0 |
| Charles Eugene Bentley | National Prohibition | Nebraska | 13,968 | 0.10% | 0 | James H. Southgate | North Carolina | 0 |
| Other | 1,570 | 0.01% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 1,39,36,957 | 100% | 447 | 447 | ||||
| Needed to win | 224 | 224 | ||||||
Source: Wikipedia
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