1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas
The 1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Arkansas voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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County Results
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Elections in Arkansas |
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This election marks the establishment of one-party hegemony in every county in Arkansas except Unionist Ozark Newton and Searcy where Republicans would control local government permanently.[1] The new secret ballot and an onerous poll tax had already severely reduced black and poor white voting at the time of this election,[2] in the process largely eliminating opposition party challenges.
Arkansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Three electors cast their Vice Presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.
Results
1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas[3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 110,103 | 73.72% | 8 | |
Republican | William McKinley | 37,512 | 25.12% | 0 | |
National Prohibition | Charles Bentley | 893 | 0.60% | 0 | |
Prohibition | Joshua Levering | 839 | 0.56% | 0 | |
Totals | 149,347 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
Voter turnout | — |
Results by county
County | William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
William McKinley Republican |
Charles Eugene Bentley[4] National Prohibition |
Joshua Levering[4] Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Arkansas | 1,175 | 67.45% | 550 | 31.57% | 6 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.63% | 625 | 35.88% | 1,742 |
Ashley | 1,760 | 78.05% | 405 | 17.96% | 18 | 0.80% | 72 | 3.19% | 1,355 | 60.09% | 2,255 |
Baxter | 980 | 78.78% | 262 | 21.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.16% | 718 | 57.72% | 1,244 |
Benton | 3,548 | 83.15% | 685 | 16.05% | 13 | 0.30% | 21 | 0.49% | 2,863 | 67.10% | 4,267 |
Boone | 1,730 | 74.50% | 573 | 24.68% | 6 | 0.26% | 13 | 0.56% | 1,157 | 49.83% | 2,322 |
Bradley | 976 | 83.70% | 185 | 15.87% | 3 | 0.26% | 2 | 0.17% | 791 | 67.84% | 1,166 |
Calhoun | 910 | 80.53% | 216 | 19.12% | 2 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.18% | 694 | 61.42% | 1,130 |
Carroll | 1,790 | 66.08% | 875 | 32.30% | 23 | 0.85% | 21 | 0.78% | 915 | 33.78% | 2,709 |
Chicot | 418 | 55.00% | 258 | 33.95% | 17 | 2.24% | 67 | 8.82% | 160 | 21.05% | 760 |
Clark | 1,910 | 67.61% | 833 | 29.49% | 57 | 2.02% | 25 | 0.88% | 1,077 | 38.12% | 2,825 |
Clay | 1,537 | 75.57% | 475 | 23.35% | 10 | 0.49% | 12 | 0.59% | 1,062 | 52.21% | 2,034 |
Cleburne | 1,047 | 89.79% | 108 | 9.26% | 7 | 0.60% | 4 | 0.34% | 939 | 80.53% | 1,166 |
Cleveland | 1,269 | 83.71% | 231 | 15.24% | 8 | 0.53% | 8 | 0.53% | 1,038 | 68.47% | 1,516 |
Columbia | 2,159 | 79.76% | 537 | 19.84% | 4 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.26% | 1,622 | 59.92% | 2,707 |
Conway | 2,255 | 76.99% | 656 | 22.40% | 7 | 0.24% | 11 | 0.38% | 1,599 | 54.59% | 2,929 |
Craighead | 1,890 | 84.98% | 329 | 14.79% | 2 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.13% | 1,561 | 70.19% | 2,224 |
Crawford | 1,870 | 58.46% | 1,311 | 40.98% | 8 | 0.25% | 10 | 0.31% | 559 | 17.47% | 3,199 |
Crittenden | 625 | 69.99% | 258 | 28.89% | 5 | 0.56% | 5 | 0.56% | 367 | 41.10% | 893 |
Cross | 908 | 80.14% | 224 | 19.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.09% | 684 | 60.37% | 1,133 |
Dallas | 1,032 | 67.98% | 479 | 31.55% | 5 | 0.33% | 2 | 0.13% | 553 | 36.43% | 1,518 |
Desha | 396 | 55.31% | 290 | 40.50% | 21 | 2.93% | 9 | 1.26% | 106 | 14.80% | 716 |
Drew | 1,754 | 74.07% | 603 | 25.46% | 5 | 0.21% | 6 | 0.25% | 1,151 | 48.61% | 2,368 |
Faulkner | 2,044 | 75.31% | 556 | 20.49% | 6 | 0.23% | 8 | 0.31% | 1,488 | 54.83% | 2,714 |
Franklin | 1,746 | 78.19% | 424 | 18.99% | 25 | 1.12% | 38 | 1.70% | 1,322 | 59.20% | 2,233 |
Fulton | 1,259 | 78.93% | 333 | 20.88% | 2 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.06% | 926 | 58.06% | 1,595 |
Garland | 1,465 | 65.29% | 703 | 31.33% | 40 | 1.78% | 36 | 1.60% | 762 | 33.96% | 2,244 |
Grant | 801 | 86.04% | 125 | 13.43% | 2 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.32% | 676 | 72.61% | 931 |
Greene | 1,627 | 85.63% | 262 | 13.79% | 7 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.21% | 1,365 | 71.84% | 1,900 |
Hempstead | 1,832 | 59.79% | 1,203 | 39.26% | 10 | 0.33% | 19 | 0.62% | 629 | 20.53% | 3,064 |
Hot Spring | 1,331 | 80.96% | 292 | 17.76% | 9 | 0.55% | 12 | 0.73% | 1,039 | 63.20% | 1,644 |
Howard | 1,392 | 82.42% | 294 | 17.41% | 1 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.12% | 1,098 | 65.01% | 1,689 |
Independence | 2,089 | 78.06% | 567 | 21.19% | 9 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.41% | 1,522 | 56.88% | 2,676 |
Izard | 1,507 | 82.98% | 285 | 15.69% | 11 | 0.61% | 13 | 0.72% | 1,222 | 67.29% | 1,816 |
Jackson | 1,585 | 72.64% | 588 | 26.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 9 | 0.41% | 997 | 45.69% | 2,182 |
Jefferson | 1,653 | 60.11% | 1,050 | 38.18% | 27 | 0.98% | 20 | 0.73% | 603 | 21.93% | 2,750 |
Johnson | 1,831 | 78.55% | 491 | 21.06% | 3 | 0.13% | 6 | 0.26% | 1,340 | 57.49% | 2,331 |
Lafayette | 608 | 58.69% | 423 | 40.83% | 2 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.29% | 185 | 17.86% | 1,036 |
Lawrence | 1,679 | 81.78% | 337 | 16.42% | 23 | 1.12% | 14 | 0.68% | 1,342 | 65.37% | 2,053 |
Lee | 1,946 | 88.41% | 213 | 9.68% | 23 | 1.04% | 19 | 0.86% | 1,733 | 78.74% | 2,201 |
Lincoln | 1,026 | 81.11% | 236 | 18.66% | 2 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.08% | 790 | 62.45% | 1,265 |
Little River | 852 | 74.80% | 273 | 23.97% | 7 | 0.61% | 7 | 0.61% | 579 | 50.83% | 1,139 |
Logan | 1,786 | 65.16% | 946 | 34.51% | 6 | 0.22% | 3 | 0.11% | 840 | 30.65% | 2,741 |
Lonoke | 2,300 | 83.27% | 437 | 15.82% | 12 | 0.43% | 13 | 0.47% | 1,863 | 67.45% | 2,762 |
Madison | 1,689 | 56.64% | 1,260 | 42.25% | 16 | 0.54% | 17 | 0.57% | 429 | 14.39% | 2,982 |
Marion | 1,212 | 76.90% | 336 | 21.32% | 25 | 1.59% | 3 | 0.19% | 876 | 55.58% | 1,576 |
Miller | 1,073 | 65.07% | 565 | 34.26% | 6 | 0.36% | 5 | 0.30% | 508 | 30.81% | 1,649 |
Mississippi | 815 | 82.74% | 168 | 17.06% | 2 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 647 | 65.69% | 985 |
Monroe | 1,019 | 64.01% | 436 | 27.39% | 77 | 4.84% | 60 | 3.77% | 583 | 36.62% | 1,592 |
Montgomery | 1,008 | 82.08% | 220 | 17.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 788 | 64.17% | 1,228 |
Nevada | 1,669 | 77.66% | 469 | 21.82% | 4 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.33% | 1,200 | 55.84% | 2,149 |
Newton | 659 | 46.94% | 733 | 52.21% | 4 | 0.28% | 8 | 0.57% | -74 | -5.27% | 1,404 |
Ouachita | 1,366 | 56.77% | 1,029 | 42.77% | 2 | 0.08% | 9 | 0.37% | 337 | 14.01% | 2,406 |
Perry | 678 | 75.25% | 217 | 24.08% | 4 | 0.44% | 2 | 0.22% | 461 | 51.17% | 901 |
Phillips | 1,085 | 54.85% | 815 | 41.20% | 43 | 2.17% | 35 | 1.77% | 270 | 13.65% | 1,978 |
Pike | 864 | 78.69% | 231 | 21.04% | 2 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.09% | 633 | 57.65% | 1,098 |
Poinsett | 572 | 80.34% | 130 | 18.26% | 3 | 0.42% | 7 | 0.98% | 442 | 62.08% | 712 |
Polk | 1,004 | 94.10% | 51 | 4.78% | 4 | 0.37% | 8 | 0.75% | 953 | 89.32% | 1,067 |
Pope | 2,315 | 74.75% | 762 | 24.60% | 13 | 0.42% | 7 | 0.23% | 1,553 | 50.15% | 3,097 |
Prairie | 1,145 | 64.22% | 633 | 35.50% | 3 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.11% | 512 | 28.72% | 1,783 |
Pulaski | 3,021 | 61.73% | 1,754 | 35.84% | 74 | 1.51% | 45 | 0.92% | 1,267 | 25.89% | 4,894 |
Randolph | 1,915 | 86.03% | 307 | 13.79% | 4 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,608 | 72.24% | 2,226 |
St. Francis | 1,087 | 70.13% | 455 | 29.35% | 2 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 632 | 40.77% | 1,550 |
Saline | 1,417 | 84.00% | 268 | 15.89% | 31 | 1.99% | 6 | 0.38% | 1,149 | 68.11% | 1,687 |
Scott | 1,260 | 80.72% | 264 | 16.91% | 2 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.15% | 996 | 63.81% | 1,561 |
Searcy | 615 | 45.35% | 737 | 54.35% | 12 | 0.33% | 17 | 0.46% | -122 | -9.00% | 1,356 |
Sebastian | 2,622 | 71.64% | 1,009 | 27.57% | 4 | 0.30% | 3 | 0.22% | 1,613 | 44.07% | 3,660 |
Sevier | 1,166 | 86.82% | 170 | 12.66% | 1 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.12% | 996 | 74.16% | 1,343 |
Sharp | 1,383 | 85.58% | 230 | 14.23% | 3 | 0.19% | 5 | 0.32% | 1,153 | 71.35% | 1,616 |
Stone | 728 | 80.26% | 172 | 18.96% | 5 | 0.55% | 2 | 0.22% | 556 | 61.30% | 907 |
Union | 1,749 | 89.37% | 148 | 7.56% | 29 | 1.48% | 31 | 1.58% | 1,601 | 81.81% | 1,957 |
Van Buren | 846 | 67.90% | 374 | 30.02% | 20 | 1.61% | 6 | 0.48% | 472 | 37.88% | 1,246 |
Washington | 3,208 | 72.17% | 1,197 | 26.93% | 17 | 0.38% | 23 | 0.52% | 2,011 | 45.24% | 4,445 |
White | 2,876 | 83.12% | 559 | 16.16% | 17 | 0.49% | 8 | 0.23% | 2,317 | 66.97% | 3,460 |
Woodruff | 1,478 | 70.15% | 620 | 29.43% | 5 | 0.24% | 4 | 0.19% | 858 | 40.72% | 2,107 |
Yell | 2,261 | 73.29% | 812 | 26.32% | 4 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.26% | 1,449 | 46.97% | 3,085 |
Totals[lower-alpha 1] | 110,103 | 73.65% | 37,512 | 25.09% | 892 | 0.60% | 889 | 0.60% | 72,591 | 48.56% | 149,496 |
Notes
- Totals from Géoelections differ from those in Dave Leip’s Atlas and The Presidential Vote.
References
- See Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger; Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71, p. 32 ISBN 1557282005
- Perman, Michael; Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908, p. 65 ISBN 0807860255
- Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Arkansas
- Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
- Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 139-145 ISBN 9780804716963