1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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The 1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
Although the state had been carried by a fusion ticket under the “
For these reasons, Bryan was able to carry only the rural
McKinley won North Dakota by a margin of 11.92 percentage points, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state. He repeated this much more decisively four years later. Bryan would also later lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908. Bryan would be the only Democrat to carry any of North Dakota’s counties until Woodrow Wilson in 1912[5] and the only one to obtain a majority in a North Dakota county until Wilson in 1916. This is the only election ever where North Dakota and Kansas didn't choose the same candidate.[a]
Results
1896 United States presidential election in North Dakota[6] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | William McKinley | 26,335 | 55.57% | 3 | |
Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 20,686 | 43.65% | 0 | |
Prohibition | Joshua Levering | 358 | 0.76% | 0 | |
Write-ins | Scattered | 12 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Totals | 47,391 | 100.00% | 3 | ||
Voter turnout | — |
Results by county
County[7] | William McKinley Republican |
William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
John Granville Woolley Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Barnes | 986 | 49.62% | 977 | 49.17% | 24 | 1.21% | 9 | 0.45% | 1,987 |
Benson | 549 | 70.11% | 227 | 28.99% | 7 | 0.89% | 322 | 41.12% | 783 |
Billings | 78 | 73.58% | 27 | 25.47% | 1 | 0.94% | 51 | 48.11% | 106 |
Bottineau | 369 | 48.36% | 389 | 50.98% | 5 | 0.66% | -20 | -2.62% | 763 |
Burleigh | 729 | 68.13% | 338 | 31.59% | 3 | 0.28% | 391 | 36.54% | 1,070 |
Cass | 3,050 | 58.80% | 2,089 | 40.27% | 48 | 0.93% | 961 | 18.53% | 5,187 |
Cavalier | 730 | 38.42% | 1,158 | 60.95% | 12 | 0.63% | -428 | -22.53% | 1,900 |
Dickey | 619 | 51.07% | 587 | 48.43% | 6 | 0.50% | 32 | 2.64% | 1,212 |
Eddy | 278 | 53.15% | 243 | 46.46% | 2 | 0.38% | 35 | 6.69% | 523 |
Emmons | 300 | 63.69% | 168 | 35.67% | 3 | 0.64% | 132 | 28.03% | 471 |
Foster | 216 | 59.83% | 143 | 39.61% | 2 | 0.55% | 73 | 20.22% | 361 |
Grand Forks | 2,432 | 55.72% | 1,893 | 43.37% | 40 | 0.92% | 539 | 12.35% | 4,365 |
Griggs | 318 | 46.42% | 360 | 52.55% | 7 | 1.02% | -42 | -6.13% | 685 |
Kidder | 176 | 62.86% | 104 | 37.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 72 | 25.71% | 280 |
LaMoure | 460 | 53.30% | 401 | 46.47% | 2 | 0.23% | 59 | 6.84% | 863 |
Logan | 70 | 73.68% | 25 | 26.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 45 | 47.37% | 95 |
McHenry | 217 | 56.51% | 166 | 43.23% | 1 | 0.26% | 51 | 13.28% | 384 |
McIntosh | 336 | 83.58% | 66 | 16.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 270 | 67.16% | 402 |
McLean | 124 | 61.08% | 79 | 38.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 45 | 22.17% | 203 |
Mercer | 115 | 80.42% | 28 | 19.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 87 | 60.84% | 143 |
Morton | 752 | 65.51% | 393 | 34.23% | 3 | 0.26% | 359 | 31.27% | 1,148 |
Nelson | 616 | 50.45% | 603 | 49.39% | 2 | 0.16% | 13 | 1.06% | 1,221 |
Oliver | 59 | 50.43% | 58 | 49.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.85% | 117 |
Pembina | 1,687 | 47.57% | 1,807 | 50.96% | 52 | 1.47% | -120 | -3.38% | 3,546 |
Pierce | 222 | 74.50% | 75 | 25.17% | 1 | 0.34% | 147 | 49.33% | 298 |
Ramsey | 869 | 55.78% | 665 | 42.68% | 12 | 0.77% | 204 | 13.09% | 1,558[b] |
Ransom | 766 | 56.49% | 579 | 42.70% | 11 | 0.81% | 187 | 13.79% | 1,356 |
Richland | 1,843 | 61.13% | 1,160 | 38.47% | 12 | 0.40% | 683 | 22.65% | 3,015 |
Rolette | 306 | 47.44% | 331 | 51.32% | 8 | 1.24% | -25 | -3.88% | 645 |
Sargent | 587 | 47.84% | 636 | 51.83% | 4 | 0.33% | -49 | -3.99% | 1,227 |
Stark | 530 | 70.86% | 216 | 28.88% | 2 | 0.27% | 314 | 41.98% | 748 |
Steele | 572 | 63.49% | 322 | 35.74% | 7 | 0.78% | 250 | 27.75% | 901 |
Stutsman | 705 | 54.44% | 578 | 44.63% | 12 | 0.93% | 127 | 9.81% | 1,295 |
Towner | 303 | 42.74% | 394 | 55.57% | 12 | 1.69% | -91 | -12.83% | 709 |
Traill | 1,673 | 70.68% | 674 | 28.47% | 20 | 0.84% | 999 | 42.21% | 2,367 |
Walsh | 1,707 | 44.18% | 2,134 | 55.23% | 23 | 0.60% | -427 | -11.05% | 3,864 |
Ward | 299 | 60.28% | 193 | 38.91% | 4 | 0.81% | 106 | 21.37% | 496 |
Wells | 584 | 64.25% | 317 | 34.87% | 8 | 0.88% | 267 | 29.37% | 909 |
Williams | 103 | 54.79% | 83 | 44.15% | 2 | 1.06% | 20 | 10.64% | 188 |
Totals | 26,335 | 55.57% | 20,686 | 43.65% | 358 | 0.76% | 5,649 | 11.92% | 47,391 |
See also
Notes
- ^ In 1892, when Kansas gave all its votes to James B. Weaver, North Dakota, although giving a plurality to Weaver, split its votes one each between Weaver, Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican Benjamin Harrison.
- ^ 12 write-in votes were recorded from this county.
References
- ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
- ^ Barry Eichengreen; Michael R. Haines; Matthew S. Jaremski; David Leblang. "Populists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election" (PDF). National Bureau of Economic Research.
- ISBN 9781585444502
- ^ Patrick J. Kelly. "The Election of 1896 and the Restructuring of Civil War Memory" (PDF). Kent State University Press.
- ISBN 0786422173
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)