1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

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Election Name:1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:Louisiana
Flag Year:1861b
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:1892
Next Election:1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana
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:Populist
Home State1:Nebraska
Running Mate1:Arthur Sewall
(Democratic)
Thomas E. Watson
(Populist)
Electoral Vote1:8
Popular Vote1:77,175
Percentage1:76.38%
Nominee2:William McKinley
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:Ohio
Running Mate2:Garret Hobart
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:22,037
Percentage2:21.81%
Map Size:350px
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 Louisiana took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political system[1] that would from 1890 be challenged by the rise of the Populist Party due to declining conditions for farmers. Both the Populists and the earlier Greenback Party — who shared key leaders like James B. Weaver — would be supported by the state Republican Party.[2] At the same time, outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black voting[3] — intimidation was already either drastically reducing the number of black voters or counting them for Democrats hostile to their interests.[4]

By the 1890s the Louisiana Republican Party was deeply divided between “black and tans” and an insurgent “lily white” faction led by Acadian sugar planters,[5] and the state Democratic Party was divided less deeply between pro- and anti-lottery factions.[6] To avert the fragmented 1892 gubernatorial election, both Republican factions would organize a fusion with the Populist Party, who had run a separate candidate that year. This fusion ticket, headed by sugar planter John Pharr, would be denied according to later analysis by the persistent electoral fraud,[7] and in the immediate aftermath of a potential civil war due to a planned Populist march on Baton Rouge, the Democrats would pass laws to disenfranchise the remaining black voters and also many poor whites[8] — which they would complete during the ensuing gubernatorial term.[9]

Louisiana was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine, though four electors would cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson. They defeated the 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 54.57%.

As this was the last election before disfranchising constitutional conventions ended black voting in Acadiana as well as the rest of the state, McKinley did retain overwhelming support in several sugarcane-growing parishes opposed to the anti-tariff Democratic policy.[3]

Bryan would later win Louisiana against McKinley again four years later and would later win it again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana[10]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
DemocraticWilliam Jennings Bryan77,17576.38%4
PopulistWilliam Jennings Bryan00.00%4
TotalWilliam Jennings Bryan77,17576.38%8
RepublicanWilliam McKinley22,03721.81%0
National DemocraticJohn M. Palmer1,8341.82%0
Totals101,046100.00%8
Voter turnout—

Results by parish

Parish! colspan="2"
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic		William McKinley
Republican		John McAuley Palmer
National Democratic		MarginTotal votes cast
data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number" width="9%"data-sort-type="number" width="9%"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%
Acadia1,08281.54%23417.63%110.83%84863.90%1,327
Ascension73749.07%72248.07%432.86%151.00%1,502
Assumption34423.66%1,07073.59%402.75%-726-49.93%1,454
Avoyelles1,65788.00%21411.36%120.64%1,44376.63%1,883
Bienville1,49196.01%513.28%110.71%1,44092.72%1,553
Bossier1,14697.28%221.87%100.85%1,12495.42%1,178
Caddo1,81283.70%28513.16%683.14%1,52770.53%2,165
Calcasieu2,65874.27%89124.90%300.84%1,76749.37%3,579
Caldwell61095.46%264.07%30.47%58491.39%639
Cameron25185.37%3712.59%62.04%21472.79%294
Catahoula81191.33%748.33%30.34%73783.00%888
Claiborne1,75795.80%532.89%241.31%1,70492.91%1,834
Concordia1,08592.58%806.83%70.60%1,00585.75%1,172
De Soto1,94091.55%1537.22%261.23%1,78784.33%2,119
East Baton Rouge1,41268.38%59528.81%582.81%81739.56%2,065
East Carroll23552.93%18541.67%245.41%5011.26%444
East Feliciana1,54898.47%150.95%90.57%1,53397.52%1,572
Franklin87194.88%283.05%192.07%84391.83%918
Grant78085.15%12313.43%131.42%65771.72%916
Iberia93970.02%39129.16%110.82%54840.87%1,341
Iberville35836.68%60061.48%181.84%-242-24.80%976
Jackson70597.24%182.48%20.28%68794.76%725
Jefferson1,38379.30%35220.18%90.52%1,03159.12%1,744
Lafayette82581.68%16716.53%181.78%65865.15%1,010
Lafourche1,12973.94%38625.28%120.79%74348.66%1,527
Lincoln1,24195.02%403.06%251.91%1,20191.96%1,306
Livingston69390.23%729.38%30.39%62180.86%768
Madison1,24892.04%967.08%120.88%1,15284.96%1,356
Morehouse85394.15%465.08%70.77%80789.07%906
Natchitoches1,65698.10%231.36%90.53%1,63396.74%1,688
Orleans17,48765.81%8,29531.22%7892.97%9,19234.59%26,571
Ouachita2,71296.31%933.30%110.39%2,61993.00%2,816
Plaquemines1,50273.16%54026.30%110.54%96246.86%2,053
Pointe Coupee77364.04%41033.97%241.99%36330.07%1,207
Rapides2,60093.56%1425.11%371.33%2,45888.45%2,779
Red River83296.41%263.01%50.58%80693.40%863
Richland70690.75%617.84%111.41%64582.90%778
Sabine1,46997.22%362.38%60.40%1,43394.84%1,511
Saint Bernard56989.47%6610.38%10.16%50379.09%636
Saint Charles12529.90%28267.46%112.63%-157-37.56%418
Saint Helena52288.62%5910.02%81.36%46378.61%589
Saint James21012.57%1,41784.85%432.57%-1,207-72.28%1,670
Saint John the Baptist18024.32%53972.84%212.84%-359-48.51%740
Saint Landry1,78687.04%24211.79%241.17%1,54475.24%2,052
Saint Martin67989.11%769.97%70.92%60379.13%762
Saint Mary59149.25%58048.33%292.42%110.92%1,200
Saint Tammany63660.80%31730.31%938.89%31930.50%1,046
Tangipahoa1,42976.99%39521.28%321.72%1,03455.71%1,856
Tensas1,10882.13%23617.49%50.37%87264.64%1,349
Terrebonne59762.12%34836.21%161.66%24925.91%961
Union1,58693.46%865.07%251.47%1,50088.39%1,697
Vermilion70277.40%19621.61%90.99%50655.79%907
Vernon69794.57%354.75%50.68%66289.82%737
Washington1,16895.11%483.91%120.98%1,12091.21%1,228
Webster77488.36%9711.07%50.57%67777.28%876
West Baton Rouge23743.73%27951.48%264.80%-42-7.75%542
West Carroll63799.84%10.16%00.00%63699.69%638
West Feliciana91993.58%444.48%191.93%87589.10%982
Winn68293.42%425.75%60.82%64087.67%730
Totals77,17276.38%22,03721.81%1,8341.82%55,13554.57%101,043

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hair, William Ivy. Bourbonism and agrarian protest; Louisiana politics, 1877-1900. 1969. 0807109088. 114–115.
  2. Book: Kousser, J. Morgan. The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910. 1975. Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut. 0-300-01973-4. 25. Second Printing.
  3. Howard. Perry H.. 1954. Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior. 112-113. A New Look at Reconstruction. LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses.
  4. Dethloff. Henry C.. Jones. Robert R.. Race Relations in Louisiana, 1877-98. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Autumn 1968. 9. 4. 301–323. Louisiana Historical Association.
  5. Book: Heersink. Boris. Jenkins. Jeffrey A.. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. 265–266. 1107158435.
  6. Hair. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest, pp. 168-169
  7. Kousser. The Shaping of Southern Politics, p. 41
  8. Hair. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest, pp. 261-268
  9. Book: Lewinson, Paul. Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. 1965. Grosset & Dunlap. New York City. 81.
  10. Web site: Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. 1896 Presidential General Election Results – Louisiana.

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