1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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.

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1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming
November 3, 1896
 
Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall[lower-alpha 1] Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 10,861 10,072
Percentage 51.49% 47.75%
President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

 Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

Elections in Wyoming

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.[1]

Electoral vote

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.

Results
1896 United States presidential election in Wyoming[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 10,861 51.49%
Republican William McKinley 10,072 47.75%
Prohibition Joshua Levering 159 0.75%
Total votes 21,092 100.00%

Results by county
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic		 William McKinley
Republican		 Others[lower-alpha 2]
Various candidates		 Margin Total votes cast[2]
County # % # % # % # % #
Albany 1,028 44.41% 1,220 52.70% 67 2.89% -192 -8.29% 2,315
Big Horn 518 45.20% 538 46.95% 90 7.85% -20 -1.75% 1,146
Carbon 1,039 44.82% 1,229 53.02% 50 2.16% -190 -8.20% 2,318
Converse 450 42.57% 585 55.35% 22 2.08% -135 -12.77% 1,057
Crook 537 48.86% 524 47.68% 38 3.46% 13 1.18% 1,099
Fremont 499 46.90% 535 50.28% 30 2.82% -36 -3.38% 1,064
Johnson 441 58.57% 284 37.72% 28 3.72% 157 20.85% 753
Laramie 1,590 46.45% 1,776 51.88% 57 1.67% -186 -5.43% 3,423
Natrona 317 43.91% 392 54.29% 13 1.80% -75 -10.39% 722
Sheridan 1,045 52.46% 877 44.03% 70 3.51% 168 8.43% 1,992
Sweetwater 916 51.26% 754 42.19% 117 6.55% 162 9.07% 1,787
Uinta 1,700 64.37% 907 34.34% 34 1.29% 793 30.03% 2,641
Weston 296 38.14% 451 58.12% 29 3.74% -155 -19.97% 776
Totals10,37649.19%10,07247.75%6453.06%3041.44%21,093

Notes
  1. One of the three electors voted for Thomas Watson of Georgia as Vice-President.
  2. 459 of these "other" votes were a "People's" ticket that was pledged to Bryan and Thomas Watson, rather than to Bryan and Arthur Sewell as the Democratic ticket was.

References
  1. "1896 Presidential Election Results Wyoming".
  2. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 377-379 ISBN 9780804716963
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