1896 United States presidential election in Alabama
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 County results Bryan 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% 90–100% | McKinley 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% |
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The1896 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1896 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
Alabama was won by theDemocratic nominees,former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Jennings Bryan ofNebraska and his running mateArthur Sewall ofMaine. They defeated theRepublican nominees, formerGovernor of OhioWilliam McKinley and his running mateGarret Hobart ofNew Jersey. Bryan won the state by a margin of 38.35%.
Despite losing by more than a two-to-one margin, this would prove the last time a Republican wonColbert County untilRichard Nixon in1972.[1]
Bryan would defeat McKinley in Alabama againfour years later and would later win the state again in1908 againstWilliam Howard Taft.
| County | William Jennings Bryan
Democratic | William McKinley
Republican | John M. Palmer[3]
National Democratic | Joshua Levering[3]
Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast[4] |
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % |
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| Autauga | 1,281 | 76.25% | 289 | 17.20% | 99 | 5.89% | 11 | 0.65% | 992 | 59.05% | 1,680 |
| Baldwin | 726 | 61.47% | 404 | 34.21% | 34 | 2.88% | 17 | 1.44% | 322 | 27.27% | 1,181 |
| Barbour | 2,657 | 59.87% | 1,437 | 32.38% | 315 | 7.10% | 29 | 0.65% | 1,220 | 27.49% | 4,438 |
| Bibb | 1,516 | 67.83% | 650 | 29.08% | 39 | 1.74% | 30 | 1.34% | 866 | 38.75% | 2,235 |
| Blount | 2,422 | 47.39% | 2,619 | 51.24% | 40 | 0.78% | 30 | 0.59% | −197 | −3.85% | 5,111 |
| Bullock | 1,867 | 67.57% | 749 | 27.11% | 131 | 4.74% | 16 | 0.58% | 1,118 | 40.46% | 2,763 |
| Butler | 1,809 | 65.31% | 846 | 30.54% | 88 | 3.18% | 27 | 0.97% | 963 | 34.77% | 2,770 |
| Calhoun | 2,788 | 64.90% | 1,222 | 28.45% | 171 | 3.98% | 115 | 2.68% | 1,566 | 36.45% | 4,296 |
| Chambers | 2,010 | 63.67% | 1,057 | 33.48% | 63 | 2.00% | 27 | 0.86% | 953 | 30.19% | 3,157 |
| Cherokee | 1,776 | 71.47% | 602 | 24.23% | 89 | 3.58% | 18 | 0.72% | 1,174 | 47.24% | 2,485 |
| Chilton | 1,131 | 74.65% | 310 | 20.46% | 52 | 3.43% | 22 | 1.45% | 821 | 54.19% | 1,515 |
| Choctaw | 1,485 | 78.03% | 357 | 18.76% | 50 | 2.63% | 11 | 0.58% | 1,128 | 59.27% | 1,903 |
| Clarke | 2,243 | 80.34% | 502 | 17.98% | 25 | 0.90% | 22 | 0.79% | 1,741 | 62.36% | 2,792 |
| Clay | 1,410 | 71.90% | 489 | 24.94% | 37 | 1.89% | 25 | 1.27% | 921 | 46.97% | 1,961 |
| Cleburne | 993 | 65.37% | 472 | 31.07% | 21 | 1.38% | 33 | 2.17% | 521 | 34.30% | 1,519 |
| Coffee | 1,494 | 88.72% | 114 | 6.77% | 52 | 3.09% | 24 | 1.43% | 1,380 | 81.95% | 1,684 |
| Colbert | 1,658 | 47.12% | 1,754 | 49.84% | 93 | 2.64% | 14 | 0.40% | −96 | −2.73% | 3,519 |
| Conecuh | 931 | 46.36% | 881 | 43.87% | 155 | 7.72% | 41 | 2.04% | 50 | 2.49% | 2,008 |
| Coosa | 1,293 | 68.78% | 499 | 26.54% | 49 | 2.61% | 39 | 2.07% | 794 | 42.23% | 1,880 |
| Covington | 1,097 | 91.57% | 69 | 5.76% | 16 | 1.34% | 16 | 1.34% | 1,028 | 85.81% | 1,198 |
| Crenshaw | 1,808 | 77.56% | 330 | 14.16% | 164 | 7.04% | 28 | 1.20% | 1,478 | 63.41% | 2,331 |
| Cullman | 1,202 | 66.19% | 447 | 24.61% | 140 | 7.71% | 27 | 1.49% | 755 | 41.57% | 1,816 |
| Dale | 2,155 | 83.27% | 289 | 11.17% | 94 | 3.63% | 50 | 1.93% | 1,866 | 72.10% | 2,588 |
| Dallas | 4,091 | 87.56% | 519 | 11.11% | 52 | 1.11% | 10 | 0.21% | 3,572 | 76.46% | 4,672 |
| DeKalb | 1,586 | 51.06% | 1,446 | 46.56% | 46 | 1.48% | 28 | 0.90% | 140 | 4.51% | 3,106 |
| Elmore | 1,923 | 55.47% | 1,379 | 39.78% | 119 | 3.43% | 46 | 1.33% | 544 | 15.69% | 3,467 |
| Escambia | 914 | 61.01% | 482 | 32.18% | 82 | 5.47% | 20 | 1.34% | 432 | 28.84% | 1,498 |
| Etowah | 1,782 | 63.64% | 873 | 31.18% | 109 | 3.89% | 36 | 1.29% | 909 | 32.46% | 2,800 |
| Fayette | 1,222 | 71.21% | 441 | 25.70% | 39 | 2.27% | 14 | 0.82% | 781 | 45.51% | 1,716 |
| Franklin | 1,108 | 67.52% | 483 | 29.43% | 33 | 2.01% | 17 | 1.04% | 625 | 38.09% | 1,641 |
| Geneva | 1,246 | 92.16% | 46 | 3.40% | 39 | 2.88% | 21 | 1.55% | 1,200 | 88.76% | 1,352 |
| Greene | 1,864 | 77.47% | 503 | 20.91% | 24 | 1.00% | 15 | 0.62% | 1,361 | 56.57% | 2,406 |
| Hale | 2,906 | 73.40% | 933 | 23.57% | 77 | 1.94% | 43 | 1.09% | 1,973 | 49.84% | 3,959 |
| Henry | 3,060 | 75.99% | 675 | 16.76% | 246 | 6.11% | 46 | 1.14% | 2,385 | 59.23% | 4,027 |
| Jackson | 3,556 | 81.21% | 675 | 15.41% | 117 | 2.67% | 31 | 0.71% | 2,881 | 65.79% | 4,379 |
| Jefferson | 8,819 | 67.67% | 3,394 | 26.04% | 450 | 3.45% | 369 | 2.83% | 5,425 | 41.63% | 13,032 |
| Lamar | 1,263 | 67.79% | 509 | 27.32% | 69 | 3.70% | 22 | 1.18% | 754 | 40.47% | 1,863 |
| Lauderdale | 2,300 | 67.97% | 1,024 | 30.26% | 45 | 1.33% | 15 | 0.44% | 1,276 | 37.71% | 3,384 |
| Lawrence | 1,248 | 41.48% | 1,685 | 56.00% | 31 | 1.03% | 45 | 1.50% | −437 | −14.52% | 3,009 |
| Lee | 1,737 | 51.06% | 1,491 | 43.83% | 133 | 3.91% | 41 | 1.21% | 246 | 7.23% | 3,402 |
| Limestone | 1,812 | 53.58% | 1,520 | 44.94% | 27 | 0.80% | 23 | 0.68% | 292 | 8.63% | 3,382 |
| Lowndes | 3,001 | 81.35% | 642 | 17.40% | 40 | 1.08% | 6 | 0.16% | 2,359 | 63.95% | 3,689 |
| Macon | 1,043 | 76.52% | 259 | 19.00% | 56 | 4.11% | 5 | 0.37% | 784 | 57.52% | 1,363 |
| Madison | 4,056 | 60.06% | 2,548 | 37.73% | 103 | 1.53% | 46 | 0.68% | 1,508 | 22.33% | 6,753 |
| Marengo | 3,168 | 79.80% | 764 | 19.24% | 25 | 0.63% | 13 | 0.33% | 2,404 | 60.55% | 3,970 |
| Marion | 1,201 | 69.46% | 502 | 29.03% | 23 | 1.33% | 3 | 0.17% | 699 | 40.43% | 1,729 |
| Marshall | 1,944 | 76.72% | 520 | 20.52% | 37 | 1.46% | 33 | 1.30% | 1,424 | 56.20% | 2,534 |
| Mobile | 3,948 | 53.66% | 2,778 | 37.76% | 482 | 6.55% | 149 | 2.03% | 1,170 | 15.90% | 7,357 |
| Montgomery | 2,653 | 63.17% | 977 | 23.26% | 526 | 12.52% | 44 | 1.05% | 1,676 | 39.90% | 4,200 |
| Morgan | 2,128 | 55.46% | 1,462 | 38.10% | 195 | 5.08% | 52 | 1.36% | 666 | 17.36% | 3,837 |
| Perry | 2,682 | 84.10% | 463 | 14.52% | 34 | 1.07% | 10 | 0.31% | 2,219 | 69.58% | 3,189 |
| Pickens | 2,210 | 88.26% | 211 | 8.43% | 66 | 2.64% | 17 | 0.68% | 1,999 | 79.83% | 2,504 |
| Pike | 2,077 | 63.44% | 862 | 26.33% | 292 | 8.92% | 43 | 1.31% | 1,215 | 37.11% | 3,274 |
| Randolph | 1,442 | 62.13% | 802 | 34.55% | 55 | 2.37% | 22 | 0.95% | 640 | 27.57% | 2,321 |
| Russell | 1,645 | 66.98% | 773 | 31.47% | 35 | 1.43% | 3 | 0.12% | 872 | 35.50% | 2,456 |
| Shelby | 1,582 | 58.23% | 1,051 | 38.68% | 65 | 2.39% | 19 | 0.70% | 531 | 19.54% | 2,717 |
| St. Clair | 1,604 | 70.38% | 603 | 26.46% | 47 | 2.06% | 25 | 1.10% | 1,001 | 43.92% | 2,279 |
| Sumter | 1,834 | 52.44% | 1,459 | 41.72% | 186 | 5.32% | 18 | 0.51% | 375 | 10.72% | 3,497 |
| Talladega | 1,854 | 64.78% | 922 | 32.22% | 49 | 1.71% | 40 | 1.40% | 932 | 32.56% | 2,862 |
| Tallapoosa | 2,691 | 75.53% | 685 | 19.23% | 106 | 2.98% | 81 | 2.27% | 2,006 | 56.30% | 3,563 |
| Tuscaloosa | 2,151 | 66.27% | 965 | 29.73% | 79 | 2.43% | 51 | 1.57% | 1,186 | 36.54% | 3,246 |
| Walker | 1,248 | 52.15% | 1,101 | 46.01% | 22 | 0.92% | 22 | 0.92% | 147 | 6.14% | 2,393 |
| Washington | 642 | 69.63% | 224 | 24.30% | 46 | 4.99% | 10 | 1.08% | 418 | 45.34% | 922 |
| Wilcox | 2,956 | 96.95% | 45 | 1.48% | 45 | 1.48% | 3 | 0.10% | 2,911 | 95.47% | 3,049 |
| Winston | 349 | 36.78% | 589 | 62.07% | 6 | 0.63% | 5 | 0.53% | −240 | −25.29% | 949 |
| Monroe[a] | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| Totals | 130,298 | 66.96% | 55,673 | 28.61% | 6,375 | 3.28% | 2,234 | 1.15% | 74,625 | 38.35% | 194,578 |
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- ^No returns for Monroe County were given in the Register and no explanations were given as to where the county's voters were recorded.
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