1896 United States presidential election in Indiana

1896 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 3, 1896
 
Nominee William McKinley William Jennings Bryan
Party Republican Democratic
Alliance Populist
Home state Ohio Nebraska
Running mate Garret Hobart Arthur Sewall
Electoral vote 15 0
Popular vote 323,754 305,573
Percentage 50.8% 48.0%
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Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the former governor of Ohio William McKinley and the former president of the New Jersey Senate Garret Hobart defeated the Democratic and Populist ticket of the former U.S. representative from Nebraska's 1st congressional district William Jennings Bryan and the president of the Maine Central Railroad Arthur Sewall. McKinley defeated Bryan in the national election with 271 electoral votes.[1]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose 15 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. This table reflects the statewide popular vote as calculated by Svend Petersen.[2]

1896 United States presidential election in Indiana[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican William McKinley
Garret Hobart 		323,754 50.81 4.80
Democratic—Populist William Jennings Bryan
Arthur Sewall 		305,573 47.96 3.67
Prohibition Joshua Levering
Hale Johnson 		3,056 0.48 1.88
National Charles E. Bentley
James H. Southgate 		2,267 0.36 0.36
National Democratic John M. Palmer
Simon Bolivar Buckner 		2,145 0.34 0.34
Socialist Labor Charles Matchett
Matthew Maguire 		329 0.05 0.05
Total votes 637,124 100.00

Results

1896 United States presidential election in Indiana[4]
Party Candidate Votes
Republican Henry G. Thayer 323,754
Republican Charles F. Jones 321,363
Republican William C. Mason 321,315
Republican Donald McCallum 321,303
Republican William C. Hall 321,299
Republican Edmund A. Maginness 321,289
Republican Eugene C. Thompson 321,279
Republican Samuel W. Gould 321,272
Republican Caldwell W. Tuttle 321,271
Republican Jehu Z. Powell 321,266
Republican Benjamin G. Shinn 321,264
Republican James R. Christian 321,263
Republican D. McA. Williams 321,261
Republican Addison C. Harris 321,241
Republican William C. Mason 321,236
Democratic—Populist John B. Stoll 305,573
Democratic—Populist Parda D. Drain 303,038
Democratic—Populist Delano E. Williamson 303,032
Democratic—Populist James W. Henson 303,027
Democratic—Populist Elisha A. Riggins 303,017
Democratic—Populist George B. McIntyre 303,010
Democratic—Populist Townsend Cope 303,001
Democratic—Populist George W. Pigman 302,983
Democratic—Populist Maurice Donnelly 302,979
Democratic—Populist Bartlett H. Campbell 302,972
Democratic—Populist William C. Smith 302,970
Democratic—Populist James W. Pierce 302,958
Democratic—Populist Meredith H. Kidd 302,949
Democratic—Populist John S. Bender 302,946
Democratic—Populist Frank B. Van Auken 302,939
Prohibition Benjamin F. Watson 3,056
Prohibition Lorenzo D. Crooks 2,930
Prohibition Jason Henley 2,930
Prohibition David W. Welch 2,930
Prohibition Charles W. Culbertson 2,929
Prohibition James H. McCully 2,928
Prohibition Basil L. Allen 2,926
Prohibition Wilhelm Krensel 2,926
Prohibition Frank Williamson 2,926
Prohibition William S. Ferrier 2,925
Prohibition Frederick L. Ray 2,925
Prohibition Robert M. Brotherton 2,924
Prohibition Abraham Huntsinger 2,922
Prohibition Melvin T. Bishop 2,921
Prohibition Benjamin F. Nichols 2,921
National John L. Shields 2,267
National Samuel L. Carter 2,222
National Wharton Benton 2,223
National Joseph L. Dunlap 2,222
National Will V. King 2,222
National Lewis A. Morgan 2,222
National William J. Trout 2,222
National John M. Daniel 2,221
National George W. Hagan 2,221
National William L. Northam 2,220
National William S. Elliott 2,219
National Owen Switzer 2,219
National Frank P. Taggart 2,218
National Joe Pauley 2,217
National Democratic John C. Robinson 2,145
National Democratic Thomas J. Terhune 2,089
National Democratic Charles P. Bacon 2,068
National Democratic Robert N. Palmer 2,066
National Democratic Alexander A. Davison 2,063
National Democratic Leonidas A. Rizer 2,063
National Democratic John Scofield 2,063
National Democratic Richard J. Wilson 2,063
National Democratic Jasper N. Davidson 2,062
National Democratic Dayton L. Heritage 2,062
National Democratic Malcolm A. McDonald 2,062
National Democratic William F. Carson 2,061
National Democratic Francis T. Hord 2,061
National Democratic John F. W. Meyer 2,061
National Democratic Melville W. Mix 2,061
Socialist Labor Ernest Viewehg 329
Socialist Labor Christ Schaad 324
Total
≈637,124

Results by county

1896 United States presidential election in Indiana by county[5]
County William McKinley
Republican 		William Jennings Bryan
Democratic 		Others Margin Total
Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes Percent
Adams 1,613 32.09% 3,340 66.45% 73 1.45% -1,727 -34.36% 5,026
Allen 8,467 45.44% 9,909 53.18% 256 1.37% -1,442 -7.74% 18,632
Bartholomew 3,264 50.03% 3,198 49.02% 62 0.95% 66 1.01% 6,524
Benton 1,998 55.29% 1,572 43.50% 44 1.22% 426 11.79% 3,614
Blackford 2,154 47.86% 2,272 50.48% 75 1.67% -118 -2.62% 4,501
Boone 3,449 47.23% 3,800 52.03% 54 0.74% -351 -4.81% 7,303
Brown 726 32.63% 1,480 66.52% 19 0.85% -754 -33.89% 2,225
Carroll 2,546 47.43% 2,764 51.49% 58 1.08% -218 -4.06% 5,368
Cass 4,392 46.88% 4,851 51.78% 126 1.34% -459 -4.90% 9,369
Clark 3,897 50.23% 3,785 48.79% 76 0.98% 112 1.44% 7,758
Clay 3,823 45.55% 4,482 53.40% 88 1.05% -659 -7.85% 8,393
Clinton 3,607 48.38% 3,747 50.26% 101 1.35% -140 -1.88% 7,455
Crawford 1,490 47.27% 1,655 52.51% 7 0.22% -165 -5.23% 3,152
Daviess 3,120 45.00% 3,785 54.59% 29 0.42% -665 -9.59% 6,934
De Kalb 3,137 45.56% 3,678 53.41% 71 1.03% -541 -7.86% 6,886
Dearborn 2,714 44.75% 3,313 54.62% 38 0.63% -599 -9.88% 6,065
Decatur 2,848 52.56% 2,520 46.50% 51 0.94% 328 6.05% 5,419
Delaware 7,340 62.29% 4,253 36.09% 191 1.62% 3,087 26.20% 11,784
Dubois 1,215 28.64% 3,005 70.82% 23 0.54% -1,790 -42.19% 4,243
Elkhart 6,150 54.08% 4,986 43.85% 235 2.07% 1,164 10.24% 11,371
Fayette 2,145 56.70% 1,609 42.53% 29 0.77% 536 14.17% 3,783
Floyd 3,874 51.74% 3,544 47.34% 69 0.92% 330 4.41% 7,487
Fountain 2,809 47.99% 2,997 51.20% 47 0.80% -188 -3.21% 5,853
Franklin 1,760 38.07% 2,844 61.52% 19 0.41% -1,084 -23.45% 4,623
Fulton 2,349 49.00% 2,409 50.25% 36 0.75% -60 -1.25% 4,794
Gibson 3,471 48.38% 3,622 50.48% 82 1.14% -151 -2.10% 7,175
Grant 7,723 58.95% 5,072 38.72% 305 2.33% 2,651 20.24% 13,100
Greene 3,434 50.28% 3,344 48.96% 52 0.76% 90 1.32% 6,830
Hamilton 4,643 59.82% 2,947 37.97% 171 2.20% 1,696 21.85% 7,761
Hancock 2,236 43.22% 2,886 55.79% 51 0.99% -650 -12.57% 5,173
Harrison 2,486 46.48% 2,813 52.59% 50 0.93% -327 -6.11% 5,349
Hendricks 3,409 58.06% 2,365 40.28% 98 1.67% 1,044 17.78% 5,872
Henry 4,001 56.43% 2,980 42.03% 109 1.54% 1,021 14.40% 7,090
Howard 4,195 55.59% 3,191 42.29% 160 2.12% 1,004 13.31% 7,546
Huntington 4,117 51.31% 3,750 46.73% 157 1.96% 367 4.57% 8,024
Jackson 2,670 42.43% 3,574 56.79% 49 0.78% -904 -14.37% 6,293
Jasper 2,032 55.05% 1,608 43.57% 51 1.38% 424 11.49% 3,691
Jay 3,473 47.66% 3,680 50.50% 134 1.84% -207 -2.84% 7,287
Jefferson 3,636 57.30% 2,645 41.69% 64 1.01% 991 15.62% 6,345
Jennings 2,040 52.00% 1,850 47.16% 33 0.84% 190 4.84% 3,923
Johnson 2,288 41.92% 3,083 56.49% 87 1.59% -795 -14.57% 5,458
Knox 3,480 43.87% 4,349 54.83% 103 1.30% -869 -10.96% 7,932
Kosciusko 4,342 55.61% 3,372 43.19% 94 1.20% 970 12.42% 7,808
La Porte 4,691 50.28% 4,511 48.35% 127 1.36% 180 1.93% 9,329
Lagrange 2,442 58.97% 1,665 40.21% 34 0.82% 777 18.76% 4,141
Lake 4,883 58.11% 3,418 40.68% 102 1.21% 1,465 17.43% 8,403
Lawrence 3,103 55.70% 2,421 43.46% 47 0.84% 682 12.24% 5,571
Madison 8,388 51.96% 7,590 47.02% 164 1.02% 798 4.94% 16,142
Marion 27,353 55.98% 20,654 42.27% 853 1.75% 6,699 13.71% 48,860
Marshall 2,938 44.45% 3,588 54.29% 83 1.26% -650 -9.84% 6,609
Martin 1,384 44.37% 1,719 55.11% 16 0.51% -335 -10.74% 3,119
Miami 3,396 47.54% 3,602 50.43% 145 2.03% -206 -2.88% 7,143
Monroe 2,510 50.20% 2,422 48.44% 68 1.36% 88 1.76% 5,000
Montgomery 4,353 50.60% 4,183 48.62% 67 0.78% 170 1.98% 8,603
Morgan 2,688 52.23% 2,414 46.91% 44 0.86% 274 5.32% 5,146
Newton 1,545 55.64% 1,204 43.36% 28 1.01% 341 12.28% 2,777
Noble 3,372 51.78% 3,071 47.16% 69 1.06% 301 4.62% 6,512
Ohio 705 52.61% 634 47.31% 1 0.07% 71 5.30% 1,340
Orange 2,044 52.80% 1,797 46.42% 30 0.77% 247 6.38% 3,871
Owen 1,751 45.45% 2,070 53.72% 32 0.83% -319 -8.28% 3,853
Parke 2,847 49.74% 2,777 48.52% 100 1.75% 70 1.22% 5,724
Perry 2,139 49.94% 2,109 49.24% 35 0.82% 30 0.70% 4,283
Pike 2,332 47.42% 2,557 51.99% 29 0.59% -225 -4.58% 4,918
Porter 2,853 58.06% 2,026 41.23% 35 0.71% 827 16.83% 4,914
Posey 2,526 44.50% 3,103 54.66% 48 0.85% -577 -10.16% 5,677
Pulaski 1,345 39.97% 1,964 58.37% 56 1.66% -619 -18.40% 3,365
Putnam 2,622 44.37% 3,218 54.46% 69 1.17% -596 -10.09% 5,909
Randolph 4,674 62.77% 2,677 35.95% 95 1.28% 1,997 26.82% 7,446
Ripley 2,690 49.60% 2,714 50.05% 19 0.35% -24 -0.44% 5,423
Rush 2,891 51.88% 2,602 46.69% 80 1.44% 289 5.19% 5,573
Scott 837 40.07% 1,237 59.21% 15 0.72% -400 -19.15% 2,089
Shelby 3,219 44.62% 3,828 53.06% 167 2.31% -609 -8.44% 7,214
Spencer 3,047 52.34% 2,745 47.15% 30 0.52% 302 5.19% 5,822
St. Joseph 7,138 52.79% 6,247 46.20% 136 1.01% 891 6.59% 13,521
Starke 1,289 51.01% 1,214 48.04% 24 0.95% 75 2.97% 2,527
Steuben 2,655 60.16% 1,674 37.93% 84 1.90% 981 22.23% 4,413
Sullivan 2,317 36.15% 4,010 62.57% 82 1.28% -1,693 -26.42% 6,409
Switzerland 1,637 48.27% 1,742 51.37% 12 0.35% -105 -3.10% 3,391
Tippecanoe 6,239 56.77% 4,639 42.21% 111 1.01% 1,600 14.56% 10,989
Tipton 2,263 44.07% 2,816 54.84% 56 1.09% -553 -10.77% 5,135
Union 1,118 54.06% 915 44.25% 35 1.69% 203 9.82% 2,068
Vanderburgh 8,068 52.74% 7,132 46.62% 97 0.63% 936 6.12% 15,297
Vermillion 2,141 53.61% 1,814 45.42% 39 0.98% 327 8.19% 3,994
Vigo 8,020 51.17% 7,558 48.23% 94 0.60% 462 2.95% 15,672
Wabash 4,319 59.04% 2,891 39.52% 105 1.44% 1,428 19.52% 7,315
Warren 2,045 64.27% 1,100 34.57% 37 1.16% 945 29.70% 3,182
Warrick 2,482 45.78% 2,902 53.52% 38 0.70% -420 -7.75% 5,422
Washington 2,214 45.52% 2,613 53.72% 37 0.76% -399 -8.20% 4,864
Wayne 6,841 61.67% 4,098 36.94% 154 1.39% 2,743 24.73% 11,093
Wells 2,212 36.63% 3,728 61.74% 98 1.62% -1,516 -25.11% 6,038
White 2,383 47.57% 2,537 50.65% 89 1.78% -154 -3.07% 5,009
Whitley 2,242 46.85% 2,494 52.12% 49 1.02% -252 -5.27% 4,785
Totals 323,754 50.82% 305,573 47.96% 7,792 1.22% 18,181 2.85% 637,119

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Petersen 1963, p. 64.
  2. ^ Petersen 1963, pp. vii, 64–65.
  3. ^ Petersen 1963, pp. 64–65.
  4. ^ Owen 1897, pp. 229–33.
  5. ^ Owen 1897, pp. 226–28.

Bibliography

  • Owen, William D. (1897). Biennial Report of William D. Owen, Secretary of State of the State of Indiana [...]. Indianapolis.
  • Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN 62-21786.
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