1896 United States presidential election in Missouri

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1896 United States presidential election in Missouri
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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Alliance Populist
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall
(Democratic)
Thomas E. Watson
(Populist) 		Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 17 0
Popular vote 363,667 304,940
Percentage 53.96% 45.25%
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Grover Cleveland
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William McKinley
Republican

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The 1896 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters in Missouri chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Missouri was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine. Four electors cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson. Unlike in the more easterly border states, Bryan's "free silver" platform had very substantial appeal in the Unionist but highly populist Ozark "Bible Belt".[1] This was seen in that Missouri had in Richard P. Bland that earliest advocate of that monetary policy in Congress,[2] and that only one vote had been cast in 1893 in Missouri against free silver, and that in St. Louis.[3] Although all but one of Missouri's pro-silver members had reversed course by the time of the presidential election, the state was still hit much more than the Old Northwest and upper Mississippi Valley by farmers' debts from falling prices and crop failures since 1887.[4] Despite opposition by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat to Bryan's free silver policies,[4] Bryan gained strongly via capture of James B. Weaver's support base from the 1892 and 1880 elections in the strongly Baptist southwest, which was enough to counter Catholic defections from Grover Cleveland in St. Louis and surrounds.[5] Bryan won Missouri by a margin of 8.71%.

This is the only election since the Civil War where Douglas County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[6] Bryan was also the first Democrat since James Buchanan in 1856 to carry Dade, Dallas, Jasper, Lawrence, Polk and Wright Counties.[5]

Bryan would win Missouri again against McKinley four years later but would later lose the state in 1908 to William Howard Taft.

Results

1896 United States presidential election in Missouri[7]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 363,667 53.96% 13
Populist William Jennings Bryan 0 0.00% 4
Total William Jennings Bryan 363,667 53.96% 17
Republican William McKinley 304,940 45.25% 0
National Democratic John M. Palmer 2,365 0.35% 0
Prohibition Joshua Levering 2,043 0.30% 0
Socialist Labor Charles H. Matchett 599 0.09% 0
National Prohibition Charles E. Bentley 292 0.04% 0
Totals 673,906 100.00% 17
Voter turnout —

Results by county

1896 United States presidential election in Missouri by county[8]
County William Jennings Bryan
Democratic 		William McKinley
Republican 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Adair 2,311 48.71% 2,402 50.63% 31 0.65% -91 -1.92% 4,744
Andrew 2,191 48.90% 2,252 50.26% 38 0.85% -61 -1.36% 4,481
Atchison 2,272 58.18% 1,587 40.64% 46 1.18% 685 17.54% 3,905
Audrain 3,984 70.79% 1,609 28.59% 35 0.62% 2,375 42.20% 5,628
Barry 3,151 57.37% 2,320 42.24% 21 0.38% 831 15.13% 5,492
Barton 2,824 64.02% 1,496 33.92% 91 2.06% 1,328 30.11% 4,411
Bates 5,073 65.64% 2,522 32.63% 133 1.72% 2,551 33.01% 7,728
Benton 1,762 46.59% 1,957 51.75% 63 1.67% -195 -5.16% 3,782
Bollinger 1,485 53.77% 1,272 46.05% 5 0.18% 213 7.71% 2,762
Boone 5,075 74.39% 1,705 24.99% 42 0.62% 3,370 49.40% 6,822
Buchanan 7,336 51.17% 6,854 47.81% 147 1.03% 482 3.36% 14,337
Butler 1,743 51.37% 1,635 48.19% 15 0.44% 108 3.18% 3,393
Caldwell 2,053 48.71% 2,115 50.18% 47 1.12% -62 -1.47% 4,215
Callaway 4,358 69.42% 1,849 29.45% 71 1.13% 2,509 39.96% 6,278
Camden 1,287 48.92% 1,326 50.40% 18 0.68% -39 -1.48% 2,631
Cape Girardeau 2,473 49.42% 2,482 49.60% 49 0.98% -9 -0.18% 5,004
Carroll 3,555 50.91% 3,363 48.16% 65 0.93% 192 2.75% 6,983
Carter 611 55.19% 483 43.63% 13 1.17% 128 11.56% 1,107
Cass 3,975 63.31% 2,229 35.50% 75 1.19% 1,746 27.81% 6,279
Cedar 2,400 55.87% 1,881 43.78% 15 0.35% 519 12.08% 4,296
Chariton 4,321 64.49% 2,359 35.21% 20 0.30% 1,962 29.28% 6,700
Christian 1,729 46.49% 1,983 53.32% 7 0.19% -254 -6.83% 3,719
Clark 2,107 51.67% 1,953 47.89% 18 0.44% 154 3.78% 4,078
Clay 4,071 80.42% 924 18.25% 67 1.32% 3,147 62.17% 5,062
Clinton 2,610 58.74% 1,792 40.33% 41 0.92% 818 18.41% 4,443
Cole 2,198 51.39% 2,033 47.53% 46 1.08% 165 3.86% 4,277
Cooper 3,028 52.56% 2,711 47.06% 22 0.38% 317 5.50% 5,761
Crawford 1,383 48.66% 1,447 50.91% 12 0.42% -64 -2.25% 2,842
Dade 2,363 56.54% 1,797 43.00% 19 0.45% 566 13.54% 4,179
Dallas 1,525 50.71% 1,466 48.75% 16 0.53% 59 1.96% 3,007
Daviess 3,125 56.77% 2,330 42.33% 50 0.91% 795 14.44% 5,505
DeKalb 2,167 57.24% 1,590 42.00% 29 0.77% 577 15.24% 3,786
Dent 1,493 57.69% 1,087 42.00% 8 0.31% 406 15.69% 2,588
Douglas 1,700 51.41% 1,598 48.32% 9 0.27% 102 3.08% 3,307
Dunklin 2,975 75.47% 961 24.38% 6 0.15% 2,014 51.09% 3,942
Franklin 2,904 43.18% 3,797 56.46% 24 0.36% -893 -13.28% 6,725
Gasconade 515 18.88% 2,185 80.10% 28 1.03% -1,670 -61.22% 2,728
Gentry 2,906 58.67% 2,000 40.38% 47 0.95% 906 18.29% 4,953
Greene 6,327 51.83% 5,808 47.58% 72 0.59% 519 4.25% 12,207
Grundy 1,675 37.41% 2,778 62.05% 24 0.54% -1,103 -24.64% 4,477
Harrison 2,582 46.30% 2,956 53.00% 39 0.70% -374 -6.71% 5,577
Henry 4,442 57.41% 3,234 41.79% 62 0.80% 1,208 15.61% 7,738
Hickory 1,045 46.51% 1,194 53.14% 8 0.36% -149 -6.63% 2,247
Holt 2,036 45.40% 2,397 53.44% 52 1.16% -361 -8.05% 4,485
Howard 3,317 70.60% 1,353 28.80% 28 0.60% 1,964 41.81% 4,698
Howell 2,373 55.21% 1,892 44.02% 33 0.77% 481 11.19% 4,298
Iron 1,016 62.33% 607 37.24% 7 0.43% 409 25.09% 1,630
Jackson 20,705 51.94% 18,711 46.94% 446 1.12% 1,994 5.00% 39,862
Jasper 7,026 58.69% 4,835 40.39% 111 0.93% 2,191 18.30% 11,972
Jefferson 2,785 48.87% 2,876 50.46% 38 0.67% -91 -1.60% 5,699
Johnson 4,240 56.48% 3,219 42.88% 48 0.64% 1,021 13.60% 7,507
Knox 2,185 63.04% 1,246 35.95% 35 1.01% 939 27.09% 3,466
Laclede 2,120 56.52% 1,598 42.60% 33 0.88% 522 13.92% 3,751
Lafayette 4,463 56.49% 3,375 42.72% 63 0.80% 1,088 13.77% 7,901
Lawrence 3,369 52.85% 2,962 46.46% 44 0.69% 407 6.38% 6,375
Lewis 2,624 61.87% 1,581 37.28% 36 0.85% 1,043 24.59% 4,241
Lincoln 3,003 65.51% 1,564 34.12% 17 0.37% 1,439 31.39% 4,584
Linn 3,327 52.07% 3,015 47.18% 48 0.75% 312 4.88% 6,390
Livingston 3,351 57.81% 2,377 41.00% 69 1.19% 974 16.80% 5,797
Macon 4,473 55.88% 3,475 43.41% 57 0.71% 998 12.47% 8,005
Madison 1,256 61.33% 780 38.09% 12 0.59% 476 23.24% 2,048
Maries 1,385 71.54% 546 28.20% 5 0.26% 839 43.34% 1,936
Marion 4,008 59.30% 2,699 39.93% 52 0.77% 1,309 19.37% 6,759
McDonald 1,676 62.37% 998 37.14% 13 0.48% 678 25.23% 2,687
Mercer 1,405 41.42% 1,958 57.72% 29 0.85% -553 -16.30% 3,392
Miller 1,694 49.62% 1,707 50.00% 13 0.38% -13 -0.38% 3,414
Mississippi 1,673 60.77% 1,074 39.01% 6 0.22% 599 21.76% 2,753
Moniteau 2,096 56.54% 1,580 42.62% 31 0.84% 516 13.92% 3,707
Monroe 4,379 82.72% 892 16.85% 23 0.43% 3,487 65.87% 5,294
Montgomery 2,272 53.41% 1,920 45.13% 62 1.46% 352 8.27% 4,254
Morgan 1,628 54.18% 1,366 45.46% 11 0.37% 262 8.72% 3,005
New Madrid 1,639 77.27% 480 22.63% 2 0.09% 1,159 54.64% 2,121
Newton 3,029 57.50% 2,174 41.27% 65 1.23% 855 16.23% 5,268
Nodaway 4,577 56.68% 3,437 42.56% 61 0.76% 1,140 14.12% 8,075
Oregon 1,783 75.39% 576 24.36% 6 0.25% 1,207 51.04% 2,365
Osage 1,456 45.61% 1,700 53.26% 36 1.13% -244 -7.64% 3,192
Ozark 1,025 46.17% 1,187 53.47% 8 0.36% -162 -7.30% 2,220
Pemiscot 1,260 77.87% 355 21.94% 3 0.19% 905 55.93% 1,618
Perry 1,450 48.17% 1,522 50.56% 38 1.26% -72 -2.39% 3,010
Pettis 4,267 50.40% 4,119 48.65% 81 0.96% 148 1.75% 8,467
Phelps 1,816 63.32% 1,038 36.19% 14 0.49% 778 27.13% 2,868
Pike 3,839 56.78% 2,884 42.66% 38 0.56% 955 14.13% 6,761
Platte 3,191 74.80% 1,044 24.47% 31 0.73% 2,147 50.33% 4,266
Polk 2,711 51.09% 2,564 48.32% 31 0.58% 147 2.77% 5,306
Pulaski 1,410 63.63% 802 36.19% 4 0.18% 608 27.44% 2,216
Putnam 1,376 36.64% 2,363 62.93% 16 0.43% -987 -26.28% 3,755
Ralls 2,297 73.60% 814 26.08% 10 0.32% 1,483 47.52% 3,121
Randolph 4,097 65.01% 2,162 34.31% 43 0.68% 1,935 30.70% 6,302
Ray 3,945 65.60% 2,003 33.31% 66 1.10% 1,942 32.29% 6,014
Reynolds 1,015 72.34% 385 27.44% 3 0.21% 630 44.90% 1,403
Ripley 1,442 65.69% 749 34.12% 4 0.18% 693 31.57% 2,195
Saint Charles 2,448 43.32% 3,173 56.15% 30 0.53% -725 -12.83% 5,651
Saint Clair 2,686 59.19% 1,829 40.30% 23 0.51% 857 18.88% 4,538
Saint Francois 2,245 57.17% 1,664 42.37% 18 0.46% 581 14.80% 3,927
Saint Louis County 3,403 35.12% 6,210 64.09% 76 0.78% -2,807 -28.97% 9,689
Saint Louis City 50,091 42.81% 65,708 56.16% 1,197 1.02% -15,617 -13.35% 116,996
Sainte Genevieve 1,245 57.83% 903 41.94% 5 0.23% 342 15.88% 2,153
Saline 5,615 64.16% 3,050 34.85% 87 0.99% 2,565 29.31% 8,752
Schuyler 1,592 57.87% 1,131 41.11% 28 1.02% 461 16.76% 2,751
Scotland 2,077 62.96% 1,203 36.47% 19 0.58% 874 26.49% 3,299
Scott 1,906 71.60% 751 28.21% 5 0.19% 1,155 43.39% 2,662
Shannon 1,186 63.09% 689 36.65% 5 0.27% 497 26.44% 1,880
Shelby 2,850 68.56% 1,275 30.67% 32 0.77% 1,575 37.89% 4,157
Stoddard 2,968 64.90% 1,584 34.64% 21 0.46% 1,384 30.26% 4,573
Stone 827 42.89% 1,094 56.74% 7 0.36% -267 -13.85% 1,928
Sullivan 2,451 50.26% 2,393 49.07% 33 0.68% 58 1.19% 4,877
Taney 925 47.29% 1,024 52.35% 7 0.36% -99 -5.06% 1,956
Texas 2,672 59.67% 1,785 39.86% 21 0.47% 887 19.81% 4,478
Vernon 5,133 69.12% 2,230 30.03% 63 0.85% 2,903 39.09% 7,426
Warren 691 29.06% 1,680 70.65% 7 0.29% -989 -41.59% 2,378
Washington 1,458 48.45% 1,547 51.41% 4 0.13% -89 -2.96% 3,009
Wayne 1,568 52.13% 1,418 47.14% 22 0.73% 150 4.99% 3,008
Webster 1,985 54.12% 1,666 45.42% 17 0.46% 319 8.70% 3,668
Worth 1,248 58.21% 885 41.28% 11 0.51% 363 16.93% 2,144
Wright 1,777 50.20% 1,755 49.58% 8 0.23% 22 0.62% 3,540
Totals 363,667 53.96% 304,930 45.24% 5,422 0.80% 58,737 8.71% 674,019

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ Hoffmann, Charles; 'The Depression of the Nineties'; Journal of Economic History (1956); vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 137-164
  2. ^ Clevenger, Homer; 'Missouri Becomes a Doubtful State'; The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 29, no. 4 (March 1943), pp. 541-556
  3. ^ Haynes, Frederick Emory; 'The New Sectionalism'; The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 10, no. 3 (April 1896), pp. 269-295
  4. ^ a b Fite, Gilbert C.; 'Republican Strategy and the Farm Vote in the Presidential Campaign of 1896'; The American Historical Review, vol. 65, no. 4 (July 1960), pp. 787-806
  5. ^ a b Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 31 ISBN 0786422173
  6. ^ Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 239-246
  7. ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Missouri
  8. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 247-256 ISBN 9780804716963