1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas explained

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Election Name:	1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Country:	Arkansas
Flag Year:	1913
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1892 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Previous Year:	1892
Next Election:	1900 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Next Year:	1900
Election Date:	November 3, 1896
Image1:	William Jennings Bryan 2 (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	William Jennings Bryan
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Alliance1:	People's Party (United States)
Home State1:	Nebraska
Running Mate1:	Arthur Sewall (Democratic) Thomas E. Watson (People's)
Electoral Vote1:	8
Popular Vote1:	110,103
Percentage1:	73.72%
Nominee2:	William McKinley
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Alliance2:	-
Home State2:	Ohio
Running Mate2:	Garret Hobart
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	37,512
Percentage2:	25.12%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Grover Cleveland
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	William McKinley
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

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

This election marks the establishment of one-party hegemony in every county in Arkansas except Unionist Ozark Newton and Searcy where Republicans would control local government permanently.^[1] The new secret ballot and an onerous poll tax had already severely reduced black and poor white voting at the time of this election,^[2] in the process largely eliminating opposition party challenges.

Arkansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Three electors cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson. They defeated Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 48.6%.

Bryan would later defeat McKinley again in Arkansas four years later and would later win the state against William Howard Taft in 1908.

Results

1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan	110,103	73.72%	8
	Republican	William McKinley	37,512	25.12%	0
	National Prohibition	Charles Eugene Bentley	893	0.60%	0
	Prohibition	Joshua Levering	839	0.56%	0
Totals			149,347	100.00%	8
Voter turnout					—

Results by county

1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas by county^{[4] [5]}

County	William Jennings Bryan Democratic		William McKinley Republican		Charles Eugene Bentley National Prohibition		Joshua Levering Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%
	Arkansas		1,175		67.45%		550		31.57%		6		0.34%		11		0.63%		625		35.88%		1,742
	Ashley		1,760		78.05%		405		17.96%		18		0.80%		72		3.19%		1,355		60.09%		2,255
	Baxter		980		78.78%		262		21.06%		0		0.00%		2		0.16%		718		57.72%		1,244
	Benton		3,548		83.15%		685		16.05%		13		0.30%		21		0.49%		2,863		67.10%		4,267
	Boone		1,730		74.50%		573		24.68%		6		0.26%		13		0.56%		1,157		49.83%		2,322
	Bradley		976		83.70%		185		15.87%		3		0.26%		2		0.17%		791		67.84%		1,166
	Calhoun		910		80.53%		216		19.12%		2		0.18%		2		0.18%		694		61.42%		1,130
	Carroll		1,790		66.08%		875		32.30%		23		0.85%		21		0.78%		915		33.78%		2,709
	Chicot		418		55.00%		258		33.95%		17		2.24%		67		8.82%		160		21.05%		760
	Clark		1,910		67.61%		833		29.49%		57		2.02%		25		0.88%		1,077		38.12%		2,825
	Clay		1,537		75.57%		475		23.35%		10		0.49%		12		0.59%		1,062		52.21%		2,034
	Cleburne		1,047		89.79%		108		9.26%		7		0.60%		4		0.34%		939		80.53%		1,166
	Cleveland		1,269		83.71%		231		15.24%		8		0.53%		8		0.53%		1,038		68.47%		1,516
	Columbia		2,159		79.76%		537		19.84%		4		0.15%		7		0.26%		1,622		59.92%		2,707
	Conway		2,255		76.99%		656		22.40%		7		0.24%		11		0.38%		1,599		54.59%		2,929
	Craighead		1,890		84.98%		329		14.79%		2		0.09%		3		0.13%		1,561		70.19%		2,224
	Crawford		1,870		58.46%		1,311		40.98%		8		0.25%		10		0.31%		559		17.47%		3,199
	Crittenden		625		69.99%		258		28.89%		5		0.56%		5		0.56%		367		41.10%		893
	Cross		908		80.14%		224		19.77%		0		0.00%		1		0.09%		684		60.37%		1,133
	Dallas		1,032		67.98%		479		31.55%		5		0.33%		2		0.13%		553		36.43%		1,518
	Desha		396		55.31%		290		40.50%		21		2.93%		9		1.26%		106		14.80%		716
	Drew		1,754		74.07%		603		25.46%		5		0.21%		6		0.25%		1,151		48.61%		2,368
	Faulkner		2,044		75.31%		556		20.49%		6		0.23%		8		0.31%		1,488		54.83%		2,714
	Franklin		1,746		78.19%		424		18.99%		25		1.12%		38		1.70%		1,322		59.20%		2,233
	Fulton		1,259		78.93%		333		20.88%		2		0.13%		1		0.06%		926		58.06%		1,595
	Garland		1,465		65.29%		703		31.33%		40		1.78%		36		1.60%		762		33.96%		2,244
	Grant		801		86.04%		125		13.43%		2		0.21%		3		0.32%		676		72.61%		931
	Greene		1,627		85.63%		262		13.79%		7		0.37%		4		0.21%		1,365		71.84%		1,900
	Hempstead		1,832		59.79%		1,203		39.26%		10		0.33%		19		0.62%		629		20.53%		3,064
	Hot Spring		1,331		80.96%		292		17.76%		9		0.55%		12		0.73%		1,039		63.20%		1,644
	Howard		1,392		82.42%		294		17.41%		1		0.06%		2		0.12%		1,098		65.01%		1,689
	Independence		2,089		78.06%		567		21.19%		9		0.34%		11		0.41%		1,522		56.88%		2,676
	Izard		1,507		82.98%		285		15.69%		11		0.61%		13		0.72%		1,222		67.29%		1,816
	Jackson		1,585		72.64%		588		26.95%		0		0.00%		9		0.41%		997		45.69%		2,182
	Jefferson		1,653		60.11%		1,050		38.18%		27		0.98%		20		0.73%		603		21.93%		2,750
	Johnson		1,831		78.55%		491		21.06%		3		0.13%		6		0.26%		1,340		57.49%		2,331
	Lafayette		608		58.69%		423		40.83%		2		0.19%		3		0.29%		185		17.86%		1,036
	Lawrence		1,679		81.78%		337		16.42%		23		1.12%		14		0.68%		1,342		65.37%		2,053
	Lee		1,946		88.41%		213		9.68%		23		1.04%		19		0.86%		1,733		78.74%		2,201
	Lincoln		1,026		81.11%		236		18.66%		2		0.16%		1		0.08%		790		62.45%		1,265
	Little River		852		74.80%		273		23.97%		7		0.61%		7		0.61%		579		50.83%		1,139
	Logan		1,786		65.16%		946		34.51%		6		0.22%		3		0.11%		840		30.65%		2,741
	Lonoke		2,300		83.27%		437		15.82%		12		0.43%		13		0.47%		1,863		67.45%		2,762
	Madison		1,689		56.64%		1,260		42.25%		16		0.54%		17		0.57%		429		14.39%		2,982
	Marion		1,212		76.90%		336		21.32%		25		1.59%		3		0.19%		876		55.58%		1,576
	Miller		1,073		65.07%		565		34.26%		6		0.36%		5		0.30%		508		30.81%		1,649
	Mississippi		815		82.74%		168		17.06%		2		0.20%		0		0.00%		647		65.69%		985
	Monroe		1,019		64.01%		436		27.39%		77		4.84%		60		3.77%		583		36.62%		1,592
	Montgomery		1,008		82.08%		220		17.92%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		788		64.17%		1,228
	Nevada		1,669		77.66%		469		21.82%		4		0.19%		7		0.33%		1,200		55.84%		2,149
	Newton		659		46.94%		733		52.21%		4		0.28%		8		0.57%		-74		-5.27%		1,404
	Ouachita		1,366		56.77%		1,029		42.77%		2		0.08%		9		0.37%		337		14.01%		2,406
	Perry		678		75.25%		217		24.08%		4		0.44%		2		0.22%		461		51.17%		901
	Phillips		1,085		54.85%		815		41.20%		43		2.17%		35		1.77%		270		13.65%		1,978
	Pike		864		78.69%		231		21.04%		2		0.18%		1		0.09%		633		57.65%		1,098
	Poinsett		572		80.34%		130		18.26%		3		0.42%		7		0.98%		442		62.08%		712
	Polk		1,004		94.10%		51		4.78%		4		0.37%		8		0.75%		953		89.32%		1,067
	Pope		2,315		74.75%		762		24.60%		13		0.42%		7		0.23%		1,553		50.15%		3,097
	Prairie		1,145		64.22%		633		35.50%		3		0.17%		2		0.11%		512		28.72%		1,783
	Pulaski		3,021		61.73%		1,754		35.84%		74		1.51%		45		0.92%		1,267		25.89%		4,894
	Randolph		1,915		86.03%		307		13.79%		4		0.18%		0		0.00%		1,608		72.24%		2,226
	St. Francis		1,087		70.13%		455		29.35%		2		0.12%		0		0.00%		632		40.77%		1,550
	Saline		1,417		84.00%		268		15.89%		31		1.99%		6		0.38%		1,149		68.11%		1,687
	Scott		1,260		80.72%		264		16.91%		2		0.15%		2		0.15%		996		63.81%		1,561
	Searcy		615		45.35%		737		54.35%		12		0.33%		17		0.46%		-122		-9.00%		1,356
	Sebastian		2,622		71.64%		1,009		27.57%		4		0.30%		3		0.22%		1,613		44.07%		3,660
	Sevier		1,166		86.82%		170		12.66%		1		0.06%		2		0.12%		996		74.16%		1,343
	Sharp		1,383		85.58%		230		14.23%		3		0.19%		5		0.32%		1,153		71.35%		1,616
	Stone		728		80.26%		172		18.96%		5		0.55%		2		0.22%		556		61.30%		907
	Union		1,749		89.37%		148		7.56%		29		1.48%		31		1.58%		1,601		81.81%		1,957
	Van Buren		846		67.90%		374		30.02%		20		1.61%		6		0.48%		472		37.88%		1,246
	Washington		3,208		72.17%		1,197		26.93%		17		0.38%		23		0.52%		2,011		45.24%		4,445
	White		2,876		83.12%		559		16.16%		17		0.49%		8		0.23%		2,317		66.97%		3,460
	Woodruff		1,478		70.15%		620		29.43%		5		0.24%		4		0.19%		858		40.72%		2,107
	Yell		2,261		73.29%		812		26.32%		4		0.13%		8		0.26%		1,449		46.97%		3,085
Totals	110,103	73.65%	37,512	25.09%	892	0.60%	889	0.60%	72,591	48.56%	149,496

See also

• United States presidential elections in Arkansas

Notes and References

1. See Book: Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger. Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71. 32. 1557282005.
2. Book: Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908. 65. 0807860255.
3. Web site: Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Presidential General Election Results – Arkansas.
4. Book: Robinson, Edgar Eugene. The Presidential Vote 1896-1932. 139–145. 9780804716963.
5. Web site: Géoelections. Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896. (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)