1896 United States presidential election in Ohio

Summary

The 1896 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 3, 1896 as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1896 United States presidential election in Ohio

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Nominee William McKinley William Jennings Bryan
Party Republican Democratic
Alliance Populist
Home state Ohio Nebraska
Running mate Garret Hobart Arthur Sewall
Electoral vote 23 0
Popular vote 525,991 477,497
Percentage 51.86% 47.08%

County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

Since the Civil War, Ohio politics had been controlled by a conflict between the anti-Civil War Appalachian southeast and German-American counties of the northwest, opposed both to the heavily Yankee and New Englander northeast and to the Ohio Company counties of the southeast.[1] There was also an area of the Virginia Military District in the southwest that was historically the state’s Whig stronghold and later voted Republican.[2] The GOP had consistently controlled the state during this era, if largely due to the prevalence of Ohio natives on the ticket,[3] losing only one electoral vote to Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1892.

In 1896, the Democratic Party moved away from its urban northeastern Irish-American base to attempt to forge an alliance of the developing Jim CrowSolid South” with the Populist West. The Midwest had seen the nation‘s worst labor strife in the years between the 1892 and 1896 elections,[4] and the Republican Party saw Bryan as attempting to ferment class war.[4] Although Ohio had been affected severely by the farm crisis of the early 1890s, its strong coverage by rail transport made this much less of a problem than it was in the more remote Plains States.[5]

Consequently, Ohio was narrowly won by the Republican Party candidate and native son, William McKinley, with 51.86% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, William Jennings Bryan, garnered 47.08% of the popular vote.[6] McKinley won his home state by a narrow margin of 4.78%.

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

Results edit

1896 United States presidential election in Ohio[6]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican William McKinley 525,991 51.86% 23
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 474,882 46.82% 0
Populist William Jennings Bryan 2,615 0.82% 0
Total William Jennings Bryan 477,497 47.08% 0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 5,068 0.50% 0
National Prohibition Charles E. Bentley 2,716 0.27% 0
National Democratic John M. Palmer 1,858 0.18% 0
Socialist Labor Charles H. Matchett 1,165 0.11% 0
Totals 1,014,295 100.0% 23

Results by county edit

County William McKinley
Republican
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast[7]
# % # % # % # %
Adams 3,338 50.13% 3,248 48.78% 73 1.10% 90 1.35% 6,659
Allen 4,959 43.01% 6,394 55.46% 176 1.53% -1,435 -12.45% 11,529
Ashland 2,608 42.89% 3,422 56.28% 50 0.82% -814 -13.39% 6,080
Ashtabula 8,557 67.70% 3,840 30.38% 242 1.91% 4,717 37.32% 12,639
Athens 5,429 61.02% 3,293 37.01% 175 1.97% 2,136 24.01% 8,897
Auglaize 2,900 36.75% 4,939 62.59% 52 0.66% -2,039 -25.84% 7,891
Belmont 7,699 53.66% 6,413 44.70% 236 1.64% 1,286 8.96% 14,348
Brown 3,170 41.08% 4,485 58.13% 61 0.79% -1,315 -17.04% 7,716
Butler 5,936 40.21% 8,724 59.09% 103 0.70% -2,788 -18.89% 14,763
Carroll 2,668 57.07% 1,955 41.82% 52 1.11% 713 15.25% 4,675
Champaign 4,314 55.13% 3,432 43.86% 79 1.01% 882 11.27% 7,825
Clark 7,667 53.89% 6,382 44.86% 179 1.26% 1,285 9.03% 14,228
Clermont 4,272 47.36% 4,672 51.80% 76 0.84% -400 -4.43% 9,020
Clinton 4,144 60.18% 2,657 38.59% 85 1.23% 1,487 21.59% 6,886
Columbiana 9,487 57.80% 6,598 40.20% 329 2.00% 2,889 17.60% 16,414
Coshocton 3,340 45.23% 3,979 53.89% 65 0.88% -639 -8.65% 7,384
Crawford 3,150 34.37% 5,915 64.53% 101 1.10% -2,765 -30.17% 9,166
Cuyahoga 42,993 52.76% 37,542 46.07% 955 1.17% 5,451 6.69% 81,490
Darke 4,384 41.28% 6,151 57.92% 84 0.79% -1,767 -16.64% 10,619
Defiance 2,414 36.01% 4,239 63.24% 50 0.75% -1,825 -27.23% 6,703
Delaware 3,789 50.39% 3,612 48.04% 118 1.57% 177 2.35% 7,519
Erie 5,442 53.18% 4,641 45.35% 150 1.47% 801 7.83% 10,233
Fairfield 3,432 39.20% 5,250 59.96% 74 0.85% -1,818 -20.76% 8,756
Fayette 3,357 54.54% 2,748 44.65% 50 0.81% 609 9.89% 6,155
Franklin 20,291 51.96% 18,320 46.91% 442 1.13% 1,971 5.05% 39,053
Fulton 3,227 55.99% 2,464 42.75% 73 1.27% 763 13.24% 5,764
Gallia 4,247 63.66% 2,369 35.51% 55 0.82% 1,878 28.15% 6,671
Geauga 2,807 68.20% 1,260 30.61% 49 1.19% 1,547 37.59% 4,116
Greene 5,296 62.51% 3,003 35.45% 173 2.04% 2,293 27.07% 8,472
Guernsey 4,337 55.78% 3,258 41.90% 180 2.32% 1,079 13.88% 7,775
Hamilton 57,749 59.86% 38,165 39.56% 561 0.58% 19,584 20.30% 96,475
Hancock 5,591 49.66% 5,546 49.26% 121 1.07% 45 0.40% 11,258
Hardin 4,276 49.50% 4,247 49.16% 116 1.34% 29 0.34% 8,639
Harrison 3,151 57.36% 2,245 40.87% 97 1.77% 906 16.49% 5,493
Henry 2,558 36.91% 4,323 62.37% 50 0.72% -1,765 -25.47% 6,931
Highland 4,106 50.32% 3,909 47.91% 144 1.76% 197 2.41% 8,159
Hocking 2,746 46.00% 3,177 53.22% 47 0.79% -431 -7.22% 5,970
Holmes 1,284 25.93% 3,622 73.16% 45 0.91% -2,338 -47.22% 4,951
Huron 5,008 53.98% 4,185 45.11% 84 0.91% 823 8.87% 9,277
Jackson 4,439 53.46% 3,786 45.59% 79 0.95% 653 7.86% 8,304
Jefferson 6,185 60.61% 3,824 37.48% 195 1.91% 2,361 23.14% 10,204
Knox 3,762 47.72% 4,062 51.52% 60 0.76% -300 -3.81% 7,884
Lake 3,745 68.40% 1,682 30.72% 48 0.88% 2,063 37.68% 5,475
Lawrence 5,408 63.42% 3,050 35.77% 69 0.81% 2,358 27.65% 8,527
Licking 5,560 45.32% 6,611 53.89% 96 0.78% -1,051 -8.57% 12,267
Logan 4,722 59.56% 3,125 39.42% 81 1.02% 1,597 20.14% 7,928
Lorain 7,801 63.28% 4,367 35.43% 159 1.29% 3,434 27.86% 12,327
Lucas 16,758 54.45% 13,759 44.71% 259 0.84% 2,999 9.74% 30,776
Madison 3,308 54.01% 2,751 44.91% 66 1.08% 557 9.09% 6,125
Mahoning 8,529 55.27% 6,772 43.88% 131 0.85% 1,757 11.39% 15,432
Marion 3,426 45.40% 4,016 53.21% 105 1.39% -590 -7.82% 7,547
Medina 3,533 57.32% 2,575 41.77% 56 0.91% 958 15.54% 6,164
Meigs 4,696 64.27% 2,536 34.71% 75 1.03% 2,160 29.56% 7,307
Mercer 1,991 29.16% 4,790 70.16% 46 0.67% -2,799 -41.00% 6,827
Miami 6,051 52.60% 5,387 46.83% 65 0.57% 664 5.77% 11,503
Monroe 2,001 32.07% 4,180 67.00% 58 0.93% -2,179 -34.93% 6,239
Montgomery 18,333 53.56% 15,540 45.40% 359 1.05% 2,793 8.16% 34,232
Morgan 2,531 51.12% 2,375 47.97% 45 0.91% 156 3.15% 4,951
Morrow 2,506 48.79% 2,517 49.01% 113 2.20% -11 -0.21% 5,136
Muskingum 7,245 50.67% 6,871 48.05% 183 1.28% 374 2.62% 14,299
Noble 2,559 51.86% 2,318 46.98% 57 1.16% 241 4.88% 4,934
Ottawa 2,079 38.69% 3,260 60.67% 34 0.63% -1,181 -21.98% 5,373
Paulding 3,580 49.30% 3,656 50.34% 26 0.36% -76 -1.05% 7,262
Perry 3,989 48.63% 4,112 50.13% 102 1.24% -123 -1.50% 8,203
Pickaway 3,370 44.23% 4,165 54.67% 84 1.10% -795 -10.43% 7,619
Pike 2,228 50.64% 2,145 48.75% 27 0.61% 83 1.89% 4,400
Portage 4,073 50.01% 3,995 49.05% 76 0.93% 78 0.96% 8,144
Preble 3,300 49.56% 3,254 48.87% 105 1.58% 46 0.69% 6,659
Putnam 2,728 33.68% 5,303 65.48% 68 0.84% -2,575 -31.79% 8,099
Richland 5,115 44.70% 6,256 54.67% 73 0.64% -1,141 -9.97% 11,444
Ross 5,562 52.32% 4,967 46.73% 101 0.95% 595 5.60% 10,630
Sandusky 3,970 43.28% 5,105 55.66% 97 1.06% -1,135 -12.37% 9,172
Scioto 5,492 59.44% 3,658 39.59% 90 0.97% 1,834 19.85% 9,240
Seneca 4,988 43.51% 6,347 55.36% 130 1.13% -1,359 -11.85% 11,465
Shelby 2,488 38.35% 3,941 60.74% 59 0.91% -1,453 -22.40% 6,488
Stark 12,111 51.13% 11,339 47.87% 235 0.99% 772 3.26% 23,685
Summit 8,584 51.25% 8,020 47.88% 146 0.87% 564 3.37% 16,750
Trumbull 7,867 66.23% 3,829 32.24% 182 1.53% 4,038 34.00% 11,878
Tuscarawas 6,235 47.15% 6,898 52.16% 92 0.70% -663 -5.01% 13,225
Union 3,476 55.36% 2,736 43.57% 67 1.07% 740 11.79% 6,279
Van Wert 3,957 49.26% 3,984 49.60% 92 1.15% -27 -0.34% 8,033
Vinton 2,035 52.43% 1,821 46.92% 25 0.64% 214 5.51% 3,881
Warren 4,379 60.53% 2,794 38.62% 61 0.84% 1,585 21.91% 7,234
Washington 5,949 52.99% 5,182 46.16% 95 0.85% 767 6.83% 11,226
Wayne 4,369 43.09% 5,588 55.11% 182 1.80% -1,219 -12.02% 10,139
Williams 3,191 47.16% 3,530 52.17% 45 0.67% -339 -5.01% 6,766
Wood 7,290 51.54% 6,653 47.04% 201 1.42% 637 4.50% 14,144
Wyandot 2,374 40.44% 3,441 58.62% 55 0.94% -1,067 -18.18% 5,870
Totals 525,991 51.86% 477,497 47.08% 10,807 1.07% 48,494 4.78% 1,014,295

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 343 ISBN 9780691163246
  2. ^ Flinn, Thomas A.; ‘Continuity and Change in Ohio Politics’; The Journal of Politics, vol. 24, no. 3 (August 1962), pp. 521-544
  3. ^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 352
  4. ^ a b Kelly, Patrick J. "The Election of 1896 and the Restructuring of Civil War Memory" (PDF).
  5. ^ Eichengreen, Barry; Haines, Michael R.; Jaremski, Matthew S. & Leblang, David (September 2017). "opulists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election" (PDF).
  6. ^ a b Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1896 Presidential General Election Results – Ohio
  7. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 292-299 ISBN 9780804716963