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1896 United States presidential election in New York

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The 1896 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

1896 United States presidential election in New York
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Turnout84.3%[1] Decrease 2.0 pp
 
Nominee William McKinley William Jennings Bryan
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Ohio Nebraska
Running mate Garret Hobart Arthur Sewall
Electoral vote 36 0
Popular vote 819,838 551,369
Percentage 57.58% 38.72%
County Results
President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

New York was won by the Republican nominees, former Governor William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate corporate lawyer Garret Hobart of New Jersey. McKinley and Hobart defeated the Democratic nominees, former Congressman William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate industrialist Arthur Sewall of Maine. Bryan also ran and received votes on the Populist Party line, with running mate Congressman Thomas E. Watson of Georgia.

Also in the running was the National Democratic Party (Gold Democrat) candidate, John M. Palmer of Illinois, who ran with former Governor of Kentucky Simon Bolivar Buckner on a platform advocating for the gold standard. McKinley carried New York State with 57.58% of the vote to Bryan's 38.72%, a victory margin of 18.85%. Palmer came in a distant third, with 1.33%. New York weighed in for this election as about fourteen percent more Republican than the national average.

Bryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had little appeal in Northeastern states like New York. Consequently, he performed especially weakly for a Democrat in New York, losing every county in the state except for Schoharie County upstate. This included New York City, where McKinley outpolled Bryan by about 60,000 votes. McKinley would lose New York City to Bryan in their 1900 rematch four years later and Bryan would later win the city again against William Howard Taft in 1908. Bryan would also lose the state to both McKinley and Taft in those two elections and New York City would not vote Republican again until Warren G. Harding won it in 1920.

This election would begin the Fourth Party System, which would last from 1896 to 1928 and where New York would become a reliably Republican state in nearly all of the presidential elections during that era barring 1912.

Results

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1896 United States presidential election in New York[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican William McKinley 819,838 57.58% 36
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 551,369 38.72% 0
National Democratic John M. Palmer 18,950 1.33% 0
Socialist Labor Charles H. Matchett 17,667 1.24% 0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 16,052 1.13% 0
Totals 1,423,876 100.0% 36

Results by county

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County William McKinley
Republican 		William Jennings Bryan
Democratic 		John McAuley Palmer[3]
National Democratic 		Charles Horatio Matchett[3]
Socialist Labor 		Joshua Levering[3]
Prohibition 		Margin Total votes cast[4]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Albany 22,263 54.52% 17,818 43.64% 359 0.88% 187 0.46% 207 0.51% 4,445 10.89% 40,834
Allegany 7,079 61.51% 3,895 33.85% 83 0.72% 4 0.03% 447 3.88% 3,184 27.67% 11,508
Broome 10,630 63.75% 5,461 32.75% 128 0.77% 9 0.05% 446 2.67% 5,169 31.00% 16,674
Cattaraugus 9,337 58.76% 6,088 38.32% 90 0.57% 12 0.08% 362 2.28% 3,249 20.45% 15,889
Cayuga 10,024 61.38% 5,846 35.80% 143 0.88% 30 0.18% 287 1.76% 4,178 25.58% 16,330
Chautauqua 14,325 66.61% 6,581 30.60% 135 0.63% 17 0.08% 449 2.09% 7,744 36.01% 21,507
Chemung 7,926 58.34% 5,259 38.71% 92 0.68% 19 0.14% 290 2.13% 2,667 19.63% 13,586
Chenango 6,338 59.09% 3,973 37.04% 104 0.97% 14 0.13% 297 2.77% 2,365 22.05% 10,726
Clinton 6,005 65.35% 3,074 33.45% 54 0.59% 12 0.13% 44 0.48% 2,931 31.90% 9,189
Columbia 6,654 58.46% 4,373 38.42% 177 1.56% 3 0.03% 175 1.54% 2,281 20.04% 11,382
Cortland 4,939 63.39% 2,574 33.04% 55 0.71% 1 0.01% 222 2.85% 2,365 30.36% 7,791
Delaware 7,790 61.75% 4,450 35.28% 94 0.75% 9 0.07% 272 2.16% 3,340 26.48% 12,615
Dutchess 12,127 62.44% 6,634 34.16% 244 1.26% 30 0.15% 387 1.99% 5,493 28.28% 19,422
Erie 45,612 58.57% 30,172 38.74% 1,124 1.44% 508 0.65% 463 0.59% 15,440 19.83% 77,879
Essex 5,356 74.24% 1,760 24.40% 56 0.78% 4 0.06% 38 0.53% 3,596 49.85% 7,214
Franklin 6,118 69.29% 2,490 28.20% 64 0.72% 14 0.16% 143 1.62% 3,628 41.09% 8,829
Fulton/Hamilton[5][a] 7,704 63.44% 3,849 31.70% 127 1.05% 73 0.60% 390 3.21% 3,855 31.75% 12,143
Genesee 5,190 61.50% 3,004 35.60% 55 0.65% 9 0.11% 181 2.14% 2,186 25.90% 8,439
Greene 4,540 53.46% 3,688 43.43% 88 1.04% 18 0.21% 158 1.86% 852 10.03% 8,492
Herkimer 8,096 59.77% 5,027 37.11% 151 1.11% 10 0.07% 261 1.93% 3,069 22.66% 13,545
Jefferson 11,411 60.88% 6,644 35.45% 176 0.94% 6 0.03% 507 2.70% 4,767 25.43% 18,744
Kings 109,135 56.35% 76,882 39.70% 3,715 1.92% 3,481 1.80% 463 0.24% 32,253 16.65% 193,676
Lewis 4,461 58.70% 3,042 40.03% 51 0.67% 5 0.07% 88 1.15% 1,419 18.56% 7,600
Livingston 5,608 56.72% 3,877 39.21% 73 0.74% 4 0.04% 257 2.60% 1,360 13.74% 9,887
Madison 7,174 63.37% 3,673 32.44% 106 0.92% 32 0.28% 268 2.32% 4,008 34.63% 11,321
Monroe 26,288 58.66% 17,158 38.28% 395 0.88% 466 1.04% 511 1.14% 9,130 20.37% 44,818
Montgomery 7,082 58.39% 4,759 39.24% 141 1.16% 36 0.30% 111 0.92% 2,323 19.15% 12,129
New York 156,359 50.73% 135,624 44.00% 5,541 1.80% 10,025 3.25% 683 0.22% 20,735 6.73% 308,232
Niagara 8,626 55.69% 6,441 41.58% 143 0.92% 13 0.08% 267 1.72% 2,185 14.11% 15,490
Oneida 18,855 60.81% 11,003 35.49% 468 1.51% 161 0.52% 520 1.68% 7,852 25.32% 31,007
Onondaga 25,032 62.36% 13,695 34.12% 296 0.74% 713 1.78% 405 1.01% 11,337 28.24% 40,141
Ontario 7,506 56.30% 5,485 41.14% 126 0.95% 9 0.07% 206 1.55% 2,021 15.16% 13,332
Orange 14,086 59.52% 8,971 37.91% 249 1.05% 57 0.24% 304 1.28% 5,115 21.61% 23,667
Orleans 4,664 58.97% 2,993 37.84% 33 0.42% 6 0.08% 213 2.69% 1,671 21.13% 7,909
Oswego 11,411 62.81% 6,401 35.23% 95 0.52% 3 0.02% 258 1.42% 5,010 27.58% 18,168
Otsego 8,161 56.37% 5,820 40.20% 166 1.15% 9 0.06% 321 2.22% 2,341 16.17% 14,477
Putnam 2,364 67.64% 1,027 29.38% 53 1.52% 9 0.26% 42 1.20% 1,337 38.25% 3,495
Queens 18,694 58.03% 11,980 37.19% 633 1.97% 774 2.40% 132 0.41% 6,714 20.84% 32,213
Rensselaer 17,221 55.71% 13,119 42.44% 208 0.67% 92 0.30% 274 0.89% 4,102 13.27% 30,914
Richmond 6,170 55.10% 4,452 39.76% 293 2.62% 138 1.23% 145 1.29% 1,718 15.34% 11,198
Rockland 4,336 56.95% 3,002 39.43% 156 2.05% 11 0.14% 109 1.43% 1,334 17.52% 7,614
Saratoga 9,638 63.57% 4,987 32.89% 157 1.04% 17 0.11% 362 2.39% 4,651 30.68% 15,161
Schenectady 4,903 55.05% 3,711 41.66% 103 1.16% 75 0.84% 115 1.29% 1,192 13.38% 8,907
Schoharie 3,838 46.58% 4,203 51.01% 60 0.73% 4 0.05% 135 1.64% -365 -4.43% 8,240
Schuyler 2,692 59.89% 1,619 36.02% 37 0.82% 1 0.02% 146 3.25% 1,073 23.87% 4,495
Seneca 3,853 53.53% 3,213 44.64% 54 0.75% 3 0.04% 75 1.04% 640 8.89% 7,198
St. Lawrence 15,287 70.97% 5,749 26.69% 123 0.57% 5 0.02% 377 1.75% 9,538 44.28% 21,541
Steuben 12,958 59.65% 7,971 36.70% 118 0.55% 18 0.08% 657 3.04% 4,887 22.60% 21,722
Suffolk 9,388 66.60% 3,872 27.47% 367 2.60% 61 0.43% 409 2.90% 5,516 39.13% 14,097
Sullivan 4,589 58.35% 3,073 39.08% 86 1.09% 10 0.13% 106 1.35% 1,516 19.28% 7,864
Tioga 4,849 61.06% 2,824 35.56% 40 0.50% 4 0.05% 224 2.82% 2,025 25.50% 7,941
Tompkins 5,342 58.07% 3,506 38.11% 103 1.12% 9 0.10% 240 2.61% 1,836 19.96% 9,200
Ulster 11,100 56.31% 8,140 41.30% 143 0.73% 12 0.06% 316 1.60% 2,960 15.02% 19,711
Warren 4,685 65.51% 2,269 31.73% 69 0.96% 7 0.10% 122 1.71% 2,416 33.78% 7,152
Washington 8,139 69.12% 3,239 27.51% 133 1.13% 4 0.03% 260 2.21% 4,900 41.61% 11,775
Wayne 8,039 63.81% 4,254 33.77% 77 0.61% 8 0.06% 220 1.75% 3,785 30.04% 12,598
Westchester 19,337 59.62% 11,752 36.23% 643 1.98% 388 1.20% 314 0.97% 7,585 23.39% 32,434
Wyoming 4,967 62.28% 2,706 33.93% 67 0.84% 5 0.06% 230 2.88% 2,261 28.35% 7,975
Yates 3,370 59.86% 2,086 37.05% 30 0.53% 3 0.05% 141 2.50% 1,284 22.81% 5,630
Totals 819,671 57.57% 551,238 38.72% 18,950 1.33% 17,667 1.24% 16,052 1.13% 268,469 18.85% 1,423,667

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Returns for Hamilton County were not separated from those for Fulton county when the 1896 election was compiled.

References

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  1. ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
  2. ^ "1896 Presidential Election Results - New York". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
  4. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 275-280 ISBN 9780804716963
  5. ^ Robinson; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 390
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