1896 United States presidential election in Kansas

The 1896 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

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1896 United States presidential election in Kansas
November 3, 1896
 
Nominee William J. Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 10 0
Popular vote 171,675 159,345
Percentage 51.32% 47.63%
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Grover Cleveland
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 Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

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Kansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine.

With his win in the state, Bryan became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Kansas. Bryan would later lose Kansas to Republican William McKinley four years later during their rematch and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908. This is also the only election since Kansas statehood in which the Republican candidate won the presidency without Kansas. Until 2020, this is the last election in which the majority of Johnson County voted Democratic.

Results
1896 United States presidential election in Kansas[1]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 171,675 51.32% 10
Republican William McKinley 159,345 47.63% 0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 1,698 0.51% 0
National Democratic John M. Palmer 1,209 0.36% 0
National Prohibition Charles Bentley 620 0.19% 0
Totals 334,547 100.00% 10
Voter turnout —

Results by county
County William Jennings Bryan
Democratic		 William McKinley
Republican		 Joshua Levering[2]
Prohibition		 John McAuley Palmer[2]
National Democratic		 Charles Eugene Bentley[2]
National Prohibition		 Margin Total votes cast[3]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Allen 1,656 46.45% 1,833 51.42% 21 0.59% 22 0.62% 20 0.56% -177 -4.96% 3,565
Anderson 1,890 50.41% 1,780 47.48% 35 0.93% 14 0.37% 23 0.61% 110 2.93% 3,749
Atchison 2,963 46.84% 3,326 52.58% 10 0.16% 16 0.25% 2 0.03% -363 -5.74% 6,326
Barber 729 54.04% 597 44.26% 10 0.74% 4 0.30% 3 0.22% 132 9.79% 1,349
Barton 1,616 56.39% 1,215 42.39% 4 0.14% 18 0.63% 2 0.07% 401 13.99% 2,866
Bourbon 3,067 50.85% 2,900 48.08% 20 0.33% 28 0.46% 6 0.10% 167 2.77% 6,032
Brown 2,618 46.69% 2,879 51.35% 49 0.87% 20 0.36% 9 0.16% -261 -4.65% 5,607
Butler 2,926 54.28% 2,414 44.78% 22 0.41% 9 0.17% 5 0.09% 512 9.50% 5,391
Chase 981 54.05% 812 44.74% 12 0.66% 8 0.44% 2 0.11% 169 9.31% 1,815
Chautauqua 1,293 48.17% 1,359 50.63% 5 0.19% 10 0.37% 2 0.07% -66 -2.46% 2,684
Cherokee 5,108 58.14% 3,505 39.90% 44 0.50% 46 0.52% 17 0.19% 1,603 18.25% 8,785
Cheyenne 322 48.42% 327 49.17% 4 0.60% 4 0.60% 3 0.45% -5 -0.75% 665
Clark 191 50.80% 182 48.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1 0.27% 9 2.39% 376
Clay 1,929 52.99% 1,655 45.47% 32 0.88% 7 0.19% 11 0.30% 274 7.53% 3,640
Cloud 2,129 54.60% 1,718 44.06% 21 0.54% 9 0.23% 14 0.36% 411 10.54% 3,899
Coffey 2,194 51.24% 2,000 46.71% 32 0.75% 36 0.84% 8 0.19% 194 4.53% 4,282
Comanche 172 54.26% 142 44.79% 0 0.00% 2 0.63% 0 0.00% 30 9.46% 317
Cowley 3,410 53.22% 2,871 44.81% 51 0.80% 20 0.31% 7 0.11% 539 8.41% 6,407
Crawford 4,757 54.17% 3,868 44.05% 24 0.27% 38 0.43% 24 0.27% 889 10.12% 8,781
Decatur 1,032 63.00% 594 36.26% 3 0.18% 4 0.24% 0 0.00% 438 26.74% 1,638
Dickinson 2,399 50.47% 2,291 48.20% 28 0.59% 16 0.34% 8 0.17% 108 2.27% 4,753
Doniphan 1,332 34.02% 2,549 65.11% 6 0.15% 8 0.20% 4 0.10% -1,217 -31.09% 3,915
Douglas 2,573 41.08% 3,582 57.19% 42 0.67% 17 0.27% 28 0.45% -1,009 -16.11% 6,263
Edwards 479 58.85% 322 39.56% 5 0.61% 2 0.25% 0 0.00% 157 19.29% 814
Elk 1,464 51.97% 1,339 47.53% 7 0.25% 4 0.14% 1 0.04% 125 4.44% 2,817
Ellis 1,051 68.29% 460 29.89% 9 0.59% 13 0.85% 0 0.00% 591 38.40% 1,539
Ellsworth 992 48.09% 1,048 50.80% 5 0.24% 7 0.34% 6 0.29% -56 -2.71% 2,063
Finney 366 41.69% 505 57.52% 1 0.11% 1 0.11% 0 0.00% -139 -15.83% 878
Ford 643 52.88% 555 45.64% 6 0.49% 3 0.25% 6 0.49% 88 7.24% 1,216
Franklin 3,152 54.18% 2,609 44.84% 23 0.40% 9 0.15% 19 0.33% 543 9.33% 5,818
Geary 1,171 52.02% 1,051 46.69% 16 0.71% 8 0.35% 2 0.09% 120 5.33% 2,251
Gove 204 39.77% 279 54.39% 4 0.78% 14 2.73% 3 0.58% -75 -14.62% 513
Graham 648 64.61% 343 34.20% 3 0.30% 3 0.30% 2 0.20% 305 30.41% 1,003
Grant 60 53.57% 51 45.54% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 9 8.04% 112
Gray 133 46.50% 153 53.50% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -20 -6.99% 286
Greeley 76 38.00% 121 60.50% 2 1.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -45 -22.50% 200
Greenwood 2,064 52.48% 1,835 46.66% 12 0.31% 10 0.25% 1 0.03% 229 5.82% 3,933
Hamilton 216 53.20% 185 45.57% 1 0.25% 3 0.74% 1 0.25% 31 7.64% 406
Harper 1,332 61.27% 812 37.35% 13 0.60% 11 0.51% 5 0.23% 520 23.92% 2,174
Harvey 1,678 43.79% 2,082 54.33% 24 0.63% 17 0.44% 14 0.37% -404 -10.54% 3,832
Haskell 54 39.13% 81 58.70% 0 0.00% 3 2.17% 0 0.00% -27 -19.57% 138
Hodgeman 224 45.81% 262 53.58% 2 0.41% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -38 -7.77% 489
Jackson 1,955 47.03% 2,158 51.91% 20 0.48% 11 0.26% 3 0.07% -203 -4.88% 4,157
Jefferson 2,276 48.86% 2,322 49.85% 25 0.54% 19 0.41% 5 0.11% -46 -0.99% 4,658
Jewell 2,342 54.57% 1,902 44.32% 19 0.44% 7 0.16% 14 0.33% 440 10.25% 4,292
Johnson 2,462 50.71% 2,313 47.64% 30 0.62% 23 0.47% 9 0.19% 149 3.07% 4,855
Kearny 175 50.29% 172 49.43% 0 0.00% 1 0.29% 0 0.00% 3 0.86% 348
Kingman 1,393 57.56% 988 40.83% 16 0.66% 12 0.50% 6 0.25% 405 16.74% 2,420
Kiowa 245 48.04% 250 49.02% 1 0.20% 3 0.59% 3 0.59% -5 -0.98% 510
Labette 3,669 52.65% 3,206 46.01% 34 0.49% 20 0.29% 9 0.13% 463 6.64% 6,968
Lane 191 43.51% 241 54.90% 5 1.14% 2 0.46% 0 0.00% -50 -11.39% 439
Leavenworth 4,665 53.27% 4,004 45.72% 45 0.51% 21 0.24% 4 0.05% 661 7.55% 8,758
Lincoln 1,385 63.04% 787 35.82% 8 0.36% 12 0.55% 0 0.00% 598 27.22% 2,197
Linn 2,424 52.37% 2,153 46.51% 16 0.35% 21 0.45% 3 0.06% 271 5.85% 4,629
Logan 175 38.46% 274 60.22% 2 0.44% 3 0.66% 0 0.00% -99 -21.76% 455
Lyon 3,276 52.53% 2,860 45.86% 70 1.12% 8 0.13% 14 0.22% 416 6.67% 6,236
Marion 1,699 41.90% 2,285 56.35% 23 0.57% 26 0.64% 4 0.10% -586 -14.45% 4,055
Marshall 2,776 46.80% 3,052 51.45% 25 0.42% 29 0.49% 16 0.27% -276 -4.65% 5,932
McPherson 2,324 49.91% 2,269 48.73% 28 0.60% 14 0.30% 3 0.06% 55 1.18% 4,656
Meade 195 48.39% 203 50.37% 2 0.50% 1 0.25% 1 0.25% -8 -1.99% 403
Miami 2,812 51.77% 2,541 46.78% 13 0.24% 23 0.42% 7 0.13% 271 4.99% 5,432
Mitchell 1,889 56.29% 1,428 42.55% 22 0.66% 1 0.03% 7 0.21% 461 13.74% 3,356
Montgomery 3,132 52.88% 2,714 45.82% 15 0.25% 27 0.46% 6 0.10% 418 7.06% 5,923
Morris 1,456 48.79% 1,484 49.73% 15 0.50% 15 0.50% 4 0.13% -28 -0.94% 2,984
Morton 36 40.00% 52 57.78% 1 1.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -16 -17.78% 90
Nemaha 2,478 48.46% 2,568 50.22% 26 0.51% 11 0.22% 3 0.06% -90 -1.76% 5,113
Neosho 2,601 53.77% 2,177 45.01% 17 0.35% 16 0.33% 4 0.08% 424 8.77% 4,837
Ness 526 57.17% 354 38.48% 16 1.74% 1 0.11% 10 1.09% 172 18.70% 920
Norton 1,260 56.12% 941 41.92% 26 1.16% 3 0.13% 9 0.40% 319 14.21% 2,245
Osage 3,481 53.65% 2,903 44.74% 48 0.74% 5 0.08% 17 0.26% 578 8.91% 6,488
Osborne 1,403 50.60% 1,325 47.78% 21 0.76% 17 0.61% 3 0.11% 78 2.81% 2,773
Ottawa 1,486 53.53% 1,256 45.24% 13 0.47% 5 0.18% 14 0.50% 230 8.29% 2,776
Pawnee 635 54.98% 499 43.20% 6 0.52% 11 0.95% 2 0.17% 136 11.77% 1,155
Phillips 1,507 51.52% 1,374 46.97% 15 0.51% 10 0.34% 4 0.14% 133 4.55% 2,925
Pottawatomie 2,276 49.20% 2,308 49.89% 13 0.28% 23 0.50% 1 0.02% -32 -0.69% 4,626
Pratt 820 55.97% 621 42.39% 10 0.68% 2 0.14% 1 0.07% 199 13.58% 1,465
Rawlins 609 57.62% 439 41.53% 1 0.09% 2 0.19% 0 0.00% 170 16.08% 1,057
Reno 3,051 46.90% 3,373 51.84% 28 0.43% 22 0.34% 17 0.26% -322 -4.95% 6,506
Republic 1,910 47.74% 2,033 50.81% 17 0.43% 11 0.28% 21 0.53% -123 -3.07% 4,001
Rice 1,731 48.68% 1,729 48.62% 59 1.66% 19 0.53% 11 0.31% 2 0.06% 3,556
Riley 1,443 42.65% 1,890 55.87% 20 0.59% 20 0.59% 8 0.24% -447 -13.21% 3,383
Rooks 971 53.41% 817 44.94% 7 0.39% 5 0.28% 12 0.66% 154 8.47% 1,818
Rush 643 54.72% 515 43.83% 4 0.34% 4 0.34% 2 0.17% 128 10.89% 1,175
Russell 823 46.76% 902 51.25% 19 1.08% 5 0.28% 0 0.00% -79 -4.49% 1,760
Saline 2,334 57.33% 1,706 41.91% 9 0.22% 10 0.25% 3 0.07% 628 15.43% 4,071
Scott 161 63.39% 91 35.83% 1 0.39% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 70 27.56% 254
Sedgwick 5,434 56.11% 4,122 42.57% 53 0.55% 17 0.18% 33 0.34% 1,312 13.55% 9,684
Seward 78 43.33% 100 55.56% 1 0.56% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -22 -12.22% 180
Shawnee 5,536 43.67% 6,958 54.89% 78 0.62% 31 0.24% 12 0.09% -1,422 -11.22% 12,676
Sheridan 384 54.94% 282 40.34% 2 0.29% 28 4.01% 1 0.14% 102 14.59% 699
Sherman 437 59.70% 291 39.75% 2 0.27% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 146 19.95% 732
Smith 2,019 58.45% 1,385 40.10% 29 0.84% 7 0.20% 4 0.12% 634 18.36% 3,454
Stafford 1,276 63.42% 710 35.29% 18 0.89% 1 0.05% 4 0.20% 566 28.13% 2,012
Stanton 57 50.44% 55 48.67% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 1.77% 113
Stevens 101 67.79% 48 32.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 53 35.57% 149
Sumner 3,048 54.04% 2,515 44.59% 37 0.66% 12 0.21% 7 0.12% 533 9.45% 5,640
Thomas 490 61.10% 304 37.91% 2 0.25% 2 0.25% 2 0.25% 186 23.19% 802
Trego 340 56.76% 256 42.74% 3 0.50% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 84 14.02% 599
Wabaunsee 1,442 46.89% 1,586 51.58% 18 0.58% 12 0.39% 6 0.19% -144 -4.68% 3,075
Wallace 124 39.87% 181 58.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -57 -18.33% 311
Washington 2,391 47.98% 2,514 50.45% 11 0.22% 39 0.78% 8 0.16% -123 -2.47% 4,983
Wichita 192 46.94% 214 52.32% 3 0.74% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -22 -5.38% 409
Wilson 1,959 51.04% 1,852 48.25% 7 0.18% 7 0.18% 3 0.08% 107 2.79% 3,838
Woodson 1,189 47.33% 1,288 51.27% 10 0.40% 7 0.28% 4 0.16% -99 -3.94% 2,512
Wyandotte 6,882 49.38% 6,852 49.16% 30 0.22% 80 0.57% 17 0.12% 30 0.22% 13,938
Totals171,77451.12%159,48447.46%1,7230.51%1,2090.36%6200.18%12,2903.66%336,050

Notes

    References
    1. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Kansas
    2. Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
    3. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 200-208 ISBN 9780804716963
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