1896 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 1896 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the wider United States Presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Main article: 1896 United States presidential election
United States presidential election in Georgia, 1896
File:Flag of the State of Georgia (1879).svg
November 3, 1896 (1896-11-03)
 
Nominee William J. Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 13 0
Popular vote 93,885 59,395
Percentage 57.78% 36.56%
President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

 Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

Elections in Georgia

Background

With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a 1-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.[1]

Vote

The Bryan/Sewall ticket carried the state of Georgia on election day.

Results
United States presidential election in Georgia, 1896 [2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 93,885 57.78% 13
Republican William McKinley 59,395 36.56% 0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 5,483 3.37% 0
National Democratic John M. Palmer 3,670 2.26% 0
Write-ins Scattered 47 0.03% 0

References
  1. Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 ISBN 022611435X
  2. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1896 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia

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