See main article: 1896 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming |
| Country: | Wyoming |
| Flag Year: | 1923 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1892 United States presidential election in Wyoming |
| Previous Year: | 1892 |
| Next Election: | 1900 United States presidential election in Wyoming |
| 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: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 10,861 |
| Percentage1: | 51.49% |
| Nominee2: | William McKinley |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Ohio |
| Running Mate2: | Garret Hobart |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 10,072 |
| Percentage2: | 47.75% |
| Map Size: | 290px |
| 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 Wyoming took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Wyoming was won by representative William Jennings Bryan (D–Nebraska), running with shipbuilder, railroad president and director, bank president Arthur Sewall, with 51.49 percent of the popular vote, against the 39th Governor of Ohio William McKinley (R–Ohio), running with New Jersey State Senator, Garret Hobart, with 47.75 percent of the popular vote. Bryan won the state by a narrow margin of 3.74%. This is also the only election where the Republican candidate won the election without Wyoming.
Bryan's support for many Populist goals resulted in him being nominated by both the Democratic Party and the People's Party (Populists), though with different running mates. One electoral vote from Wyoming was cast for the Populist Bryan-Watson ticket with Thomas E. Watson as vice president and two votes were cast for the Bryan-Sewall ticket.
Bryan would later lose Wyoming to William McKinley four year later and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908.
| 1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming[1] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 10,575 | 50.13% | 2 | ||
| Populist | William Jennings Bryan | 286 | 1.36% | 1 | ||
| Total | William Jennings Bryan | 10,861 | 51.49% | 3 | ||
| Republican | William McKinley | 10,072 | 47.75% | 0 | ||
| Prohibition | Joshua Levering | 159 | 0.75% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 21,092 | 100.00% | 3 | |||
| Voter turnout | — | |||||
| County | William Jennings Bryan | William McKinley Republican | Joshua Levering Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Populist[2] | Total[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| % | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 1,028 | 44.41% | 41 | 1.77% | 1,069 | 46.18% | 1,220 | 52.70% | 26 | 1.10% | -151 | -6.52% | 2,315 | ||||||||||||||
| Big Horn | 518 | 45.20% | 75 | 6.54% | 593 | 51.75% | 538 | 46.95% | 15 | 1.23% | 55 | 4.80% | 1,146 | ||||||||||||||
| Carbon | 1,039 | 44.82% | 39 | 1.68% | 1,078 | 46.51% | 1,229 | 53.02% | 11 | 0.47% | -151 | -6.51% | 2,318 | ||||||||||||||
| Converse | 450 | 42.57% | 10 | 0.95% | 460 | 43.52% | 585 | 55.35% | 12 | 1.12% | -125 | -11.83% | 1,057 | ||||||||||||||
| Crook | 537 | 48.86% | 32 | 2.91% | 569 | 51.77% | 524 | 47.68% | 6 | 0.53% | 45 | 4.09% | 1,099 | ||||||||||||||
| Fremont | 499 | 46.90% | 23 | 2.16% | 522 | 49.06% | 535 | 50.28% | 7 | 0.64% | -13 | -1.22% | 1,064 | ||||||||||||||
| Johnson | 441 | 58.57% | 27 | 3.59% | 468 | 62.15% | 284 | 37.72% | 1 | 0.13% | 184 | 24.44% | 753 | ||||||||||||||
| Laramie | 1,590 | 46.45% | 41 | 1.20% | 1,631 | 47.65% | 1,776 | 51.88% | 16 | 0.46% | -145 | -4.24% | 3,423 | ||||||||||||||
| Natrona | 317 | 43.91% | 11 | 1.52% | 328 | 45.43% | 392 | 54.29% | 2 | 0.27% | -64 | -8.86% | 722 | ||||||||||||||
| Sheridan | 1,045 | 52.46% | 58 | 2.91% | 1,103 | 55.37% | 877 | 44.03% | 12 | 0.59% | 226 | 11.35% | 1,992 | ||||||||||||||
| Sweetwater | 916 | 51.26% | 101 | 5.65% | 1,017 | 56.91% | 754 | 42.19% | 16 | 0.85% | 263 | 14.72% | 1,787 | ||||||||||||||
| Uinta | 1,700 | 64.37% | 28 | 1.06% | 1,728 | 65.43% | 907 | 34.34% | 6 | 0.22% | 821 | 31.09% | 2,641 | ||||||||||||||
| Weston | 296 | 38.14% | 23 | 2.96% | 319 | 41.11% | 451 | 58.12% | 6 | 0.75% | -132 | -17.01% | 776 | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 10,376 | 49.19% | 509 | 2.41% | 10,885 | 51.60% | 10,072 | 47.75% | 136 | 0.64% | 813 | 3.85% | 21,093 | ||||||||||||||