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The1896 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Vermont overwhelmingly voted for theRepublican nominees, formergovernor of OhioWilliam McKinley and his running mateGarret Hobart ofNew Jersey. They defeated theDemocratic andPopulist nominees, formerrepresentative fromNebraskaWilliam Jennings Bryan and his running mateArthur Sewall ofMaine.
With 80.08% of the popular vote, Vermont would be McKinley's strongest victory in the 1896 presidential election in terms of percentage in the popular vote, and remains the best performance of any presidential candidate in Vermont to date.[1] McKinley won Vermont by a landslide margin of 63.42%, which is the second-best performance by the Republican Party in a state in any presidential election behind onlyBarry Goldwaterin Mississippi in 1964 – ironicallythe first election when Vermont voted for a Democratic candidate.[2]
Bryan, running on a platform offree silver, appealed strongly toWestern miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had practically no appeal in theNortheastern state of Vermont. In fact, with only 16.66% of the popular vote Bryan's performance in Vermont was the second weakest of any Democratic presidential candidate to date only afterJohn W. Davis' 15.67% in1924.
Bryan would lose Vermont to McKinley againfour years later and would later lose the state again in1908 toWilliam Howard Taft.
| 1896 United States presidential election in Vermont[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | William McKinley | 51,127 | 80.08% | 4 | |
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 10,179 | 15.94% | 0 | |
| Populist | William Jennings Bryan | 461 | 0.72% | 0 | |
| Total | William Jennings Bryan | 10,640 | 16.66% | 0 | |
| National Democratic | John M. Palmer | 1,331 | 2.08% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Joshua Levering | 733 | 1.15% | 0 | |
| No party | Write-ins | 16 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Invalid or blank votes | — | ||||
| Totals | 63,847 | 100.00% | 4 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | William McKinley Republican | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | John McAuley Palmer[4] National Democratic | Joshua Levering[4] Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Addison | 4,314 | 89.17% | 404 | 8.35% | 36 | 0.74% | 81 | 1.68% | 3,910 | 80.82% | 4,838 |
| Bennington | 3,086 | 80.39% | 656 | 17.09% | 61 | 1.59% | 36 | 0.94% | 2,430 | 63.30% | 3,839 |
| Caledonia | 3,474 | 78.65% | 729 | 16.50% | 120 | 2.72% | 94 | 2.13% | 2,745 | 62.15% | 4,417 |
| Chittenden | 4,743 | 75.26% | 1,416 | 22.47% | 89 | 1.41% | 54 | 0.86% | 3,327 | 52.79% | 6,302 |
| Essex | 873 | 72.99% | 277 | 23.16% | 33 | 2.76% | 13 | 1.09% | 596 | 49.83% | 1,196 |
| Franklin | 3,444 | 72.16% | 1,150 | 24.09% | 107 | 2.24% | 72 | 1.51% | 2,294 | 48.06% | 4,773 |
| Grand Isle | 426 | 69.04% | 158 | 25.61% | 31 | 5.02% | 2 | 0.32% | 268 | 43.44% | 617 |
| Lamoille | 2,061 | 80.79% | 440 | 17.25% | 23 | 0.90% | 27 | 1.06% | 1,621 | 63.54% | 2,551 |
| Orange | 3,067 | 80.20% | 567 | 14.83% | 121 | 3.16% | 69 | 1.80% | 2,500 | 65.38% | 3,824 |
| Orleans | 3,412 | 86.25% | 442 | 11.17% | 56 | 1.42% | 46 | 1.16% | 2,970 | 75.08% | 3,956 |
| Rutland | 6,794 | 78.00% | 1,661 | 19.07% | 161 | 1.85% | 89 | 1.02% | 5,133 | 58.93% | 8,710 |
| Washington | 4,476 | 73.10% | 1,396 | 22.80% | 177 | 2.89% | 66 | 1.08% | 3,080 | 50.30% | 6,123 |
| Windham | 4,829 | 84.14% | 670 | 11.67% | 190 | 3.31% | 50 | 0.87% | 4,159 | 72.47% | 5,739 |
| Windsor | 6,128 | 88.02% | 674 | 9.68% | 126 | 1.81% | 34 | 0.49% | 5,454 | 78.34% | 6,962 |
| Totals | 51,127 | 80.08% | 10,640 | 16.66% | 1,331 | 2.08% | 733 | 1.15% | 40,487 | 63.41% | 63,847 |
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