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The1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
This election marks the establishment of one-party hegemony in every county in Arkansas exceptUnionistOzarkNewton andSearcy where Republicans would control local government permanently.[1] The new secret ballot and an onerous poll tax had already severely reduced black and poor white voting at the time of this election,[2] in the process largely eliminating opposition party challenges.
Arkansas was won by theDemocratic nominees,former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Jennings Bryan ofNebraska and his running mateArthur Sewall ofMaine. Three electors cast their vice presidential ballots forThomas E. Watson. They defeatedRepublican nominees,former Ohio GovernorWilliam McKinley and his running mateGarret Hobart ofNew Jersey. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 48.6%.
Bryan would later defeat McKinley again in Arkansasfour years later and would later win the state againstWilliam Howard Taft in1908.
| 1896 United States presidential election in Arkansas[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 110,103 | 73.72% | 8 | |
| Republican | William McKinley | 37,512 | 25.12% | 0 | |
| National Prohibition | Charles Eugene Bentley | 893 | 0.60% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Joshua Levering | 839 | 0.56% | 0 | |
| Totals | 149,347 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | William McKinley Republican | Charles Eugene Bentley National Prohibition | Joshua Levering Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Arkansas | 1,175 | 67.45% | 550 | 31.57% | 6 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.63% | 625 | 35.88% | 1,742 |
| Ashley | 1,760 | 78.05% | 405 | 17.96% | 18 | 0.80% | 72 | 3.19% | 1,355 | 60.09% | 2,255 |
| Baxter | 980 | 78.78% | 262 | 21.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.16% | 718 | 57.72% | 1,244 |
| Benton | 3,548 | 83.15% | 685 | 16.05% | 13 | 0.30% | 21 | 0.49% | 2,863 | 67.10% | 4,267 |
| Boone | 1,730 | 74.50% | 573 | 24.68% | 6 | 0.26% | 13 | 0.56% | 1,157 | 49.83% | 2,322 |
| Bradley | 976 | 83.70% | 185 | 15.87% | 3 | 0.26% | 2 | 0.17% | 791 | 67.84% | 1,166 |
| Calhoun | 910 | 80.53% | 216 | 19.12% | 2 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.18% | 694 | 61.42% | 1,130 |
| Carroll | 1,790 | 66.08% | 875 | 32.30% | 23 | 0.85% | 21 | 0.78% | 915 | 33.78% | 2,709 |
| Chicot | 418 | 55.00% | 258 | 33.95% | 17 | 2.24% | 67 | 8.82% | 160 | 21.05% | 760 |
| Clark | 1,910 | 67.61% | 833 | 29.49% | 57 | 2.02% | 25 | 0.88% | 1,077 | 38.12% | 2,825 |
| Clay | 1,537 | 75.57% | 475 | 23.35% | 10 | 0.49% | 12 | 0.59% | 1,062 | 52.21% | 2,034 |
| Cleburne | 1,047 | 89.79% | 108 | 9.26% | 7 | 0.60% | 4 | 0.34% | 939 | 80.53% | 1,166 |
| Cleveland | 1,269 | 83.71% | 231 | 15.24% | 8 | 0.53% | 8 | 0.53% | 1,038 | 68.47% | 1,516 |
| Columbia | 2,159 | 79.76% | 537 | 19.84% | 4 | 0.15% | 7 | 0.26% | 1,622 | 59.92% | 2,707 |
| Conway | 2,255 | 76.99% | 656 | 22.40% | 7 | 0.24% | 11 | 0.38% | 1,599 | 54.59% | 2,929 |
| Craighead | 1,890 | 84.98% | 329 | 14.79% | 2 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.13% | 1,561 | 70.19% | 2,224 |
| Crawford | 1,870 | 58.46% | 1,311 | 40.98% | 8 | 0.25% | 10 | 0.31% | 559 | 17.47% | 3,199 |
| Crittenden | 625 | 69.99% | 258 | 28.89% | 5 | 0.56% | 5 | 0.56% | 367 | 41.10% | 893 |
| Cross | 908 | 80.14% | 224 | 19.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.09% | 684 | 60.37% | 1,133 |
| Dallas | 1,032 | 67.98% | 479 | 31.55% | 5 | 0.33% | 2 | 0.13% | 553 | 36.43% | 1,518 |
| Desha | 396 | 55.31% | 290 | 40.50% | 21 | 2.93% | 9 | 1.26% | 106 | 14.80% | 716 |
| Drew | 1,754 | 74.07% | 603 | 25.46% | 5 | 0.21% | 6 | 0.25% | 1,151 | 48.61% | 2,368 |
| Faulkner | 2,044 | 75.31% | 556 | 20.49% | 6 | 0.23% | 8 | 0.31% | 1,488 | 54.83% | 2,714 |
| Franklin | 1,746 | 78.19% | 424 | 18.99% | 25 | 1.12% | 38 | 1.70% | 1,322 | 59.20% | 2,233 |
| Fulton | 1,259 | 78.93% | 333 | 20.88% | 2 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.06% | 926 | 58.06% | 1,595 |
| Garland | 1,465 | 65.29% | 703 | 31.33% | 40 | 1.78% | 36 | 1.60% | 762 | 33.96% | 2,244 |
| Grant | 801 | 86.04% | 125 | 13.43% | 2 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.32% | 676 | 72.61% | 931 |
| Greene | 1,627 | 85.63% | 262 | 13.79% | 7 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.21% | 1,365 | 71.84% | 1,900 |
| Hempstead | 1,832 | 59.79% | 1,203 | 39.26% | 10 | 0.33% | 19 | 0.62% | 629 | 20.53% | 3,064 |
| Hot Spring | 1,331 | 80.96% | 292 | 17.76% | 9 | 0.55% | 12 | 0.73% | 1,039 | 63.20% | 1,644 |
| Howard | 1,392 | 82.42% | 294 | 17.41% | 1 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.12% | 1,098 | 65.01% | 1,689 |
| Independence | 2,089 | 78.06% | 567 | 21.19% | 9 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.41% | 1,522 | 56.88% | 2,676 |
| Izard | 1,507 | 82.98% | 285 | 15.69% | 11 | 0.61% | 13 | 0.72% | 1,222 | 67.29% | 1,816 |
| Jackson | 1,585 | 72.64% | 588 | 26.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 9 | 0.41% | 997 | 45.69% | 2,182 |
| Jefferson | 1,653 | 60.11% | 1,050 | 38.18% | 27 | 0.98% | 20 | 0.73% | 603 | 21.93% | 2,750 |
| Johnson | 1,831 | 78.55% | 491 | 21.06% | 3 | 0.13% | 6 | 0.26% | 1,340 | 57.49% | 2,331 |
| Lafayette | 608 | 58.69% | 423 | 40.83% | 2 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.29% | 185 | 17.86% | 1,036 |
| Lawrence | 1,679 | 81.78% | 337 | 16.42% | 23 | 1.12% | 14 | 0.68% | 1,342 | 65.37% | 2,053 |
| Lee | 1,946 | 88.41% | 213 | 9.68% | 23 | 1.04% | 19 | 0.86% | 1,733 | 78.74% | 2,201 |
| Lincoln | 1,026 | 81.11% | 236 | 18.66% | 2 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.08% | 790 | 62.45% | 1,265 |
| Little River | 852 | 74.80% | 273 | 23.97% | 7 | 0.61% | 7 | 0.61% | 579 | 50.83% | 1,139 |
| Logan | 1,786 | 65.16% | 946 | 34.51% | 6 | 0.22% | 3 | 0.11% | 840 | 30.65% | 2,741 |
| Lonoke | 2,300 | 83.27% | 437 | 15.82% | 12 | 0.43% | 13 | 0.47% | 1,863 | 67.45% | 2,762 |
| Madison | 1,689 | 56.64% | 1,260 | 42.25% | 16 | 0.54% | 17 | 0.57% | 429 | 14.39% | 2,982 |
| Marion | 1,212 | 76.90% | 336 | 21.32% | 25 | 1.59% | 3 | 0.19% | 876 | 55.58% | 1,576 |
| Miller | 1,073 | 65.07% | 565 | 34.26% | 6 | 0.36% | 5 | 0.30% | 508 | 30.81% | 1,649 |
| Mississippi | 815 | 82.74% | 168 | 17.06% | 2 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 647 | 65.69% | 985 |
| Monroe | 1,019 | 64.01% | 436 | 27.39% | 77 | 4.84% | 60 | 3.77% | 583 | 36.62% | 1,592 |
| Montgomery | 1,008 | 82.08% | 220 | 17.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 788 | 64.17% | 1,228 |
| Nevada | 1,669 | 77.66% | 469 | 21.82% | 4 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.33% | 1,200 | 55.84% | 2,149 |
| Newton | 659 | 46.94% | 733 | 52.21% | 4 | 0.28% | 8 | 0.57% | -74 | -5.27% | 1,404 |
| Ouachita | 1,366 | 56.77% | 1,029 | 42.77% | 2 | 0.08% | 9 | 0.37% | 337 | 14.01% | 2,406 |
| Perry | 678 | 75.25% | 217 | 24.08% | 4 | 0.44% | 2 | 0.22% | 461 | 51.17% | 901 |
| Phillips | 1,085 | 54.85% | 815 | 41.20% | 43 | 2.17% | 35 | 1.77% | 270 | 13.65% | 1,978 |
| Pike | 864 | 78.69% | 231 | 21.04% | 2 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.09% | 633 | 57.65% | 1,098 |
| Poinsett | 572 | 80.34% | 130 | 18.26% | 3 | 0.42% | 7 | 0.98% | 442 | 62.08% | 712 |
| Polk | 1,004 | 94.10% | 51 | 4.78% | 4 | 0.37% | 8 | 0.75% | 953 | 89.32% | 1,067 |
| Pope | 2,315 | 74.75% | 762 | 24.60% | 13 | 0.42% | 7 | 0.23% | 1,553 | 50.15% | 3,097 |
| Prairie | 1,145 | 64.22% | 633 | 35.50% | 3 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.11% | 512 | 28.72% | 1,783 |
| Pulaski | 3,021 | 61.73% | 1,754 | 35.84% | 74 | 1.51% | 45 | 0.92% | 1,267 | 25.89% | 4,894 |
| Randolph | 1,915 | 86.03% | 307 | 13.79% | 4 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,608 | 72.24% | 2,226 |
| St. Francis | 1,087 | 70.13% | 455 | 29.35% | 2 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 632 | 40.77% | 1,550 |
| Saline | 1,417 | 84.00% | 268 | 15.89% | 31 | 1.99% | 6 | 0.38% | 1,149 | 68.11% | 1,687 |
| Scott | 1,260 | 80.72% | 264 | 16.91% | 2 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.15% | 996 | 63.81% | 1,561 |
| Searcy | 615 | 45.35% | 737 | 54.35% | 12 | 0.33% | 17 | 0.46% | -122 | -9.00% | 1,356 |
| Sebastian | 2,622 | 71.64% | 1,009 | 27.57% | 4 | 0.30% | 3 | 0.22% | 1,613 | 44.07% | 3,660 |
| Sevier | 1,166 | 86.82% | 170 | 12.66% | 1 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.12% | 996 | 74.16% | 1,343 |
| Sharp | 1,383 | 85.58% | 230 | 14.23% | 3 | 0.19% | 5 | 0.32% | 1,153 | 71.35% | 1,616 |
| Stone | 728 | 80.26% | 172 | 18.96% | 5 | 0.55% | 2 | 0.22% | 556 | 61.30% | 907 |
| Union | 1,749 | 89.37% | 148 | 7.56% | 29 | 1.48% | 31 | 1.58% | 1,601 | 81.81% | 1,957 |
| Van Buren | 846 | 67.90% | 374 | 30.02% | 20 | 1.61% | 6 | 0.48% | 472 | 37.88% | 1,246 |
| Washington | 3,208 | 72.17% | 1,197 | 26.93% | 17 | 0.38% | 23 | 0.52% | 2,011 | 45.24% | 4,445 |
| White | 2,876 | 83.12% | 559 | 16.16% | 17 | 0.49% | 8 | 0.23% | 2,317 | 66.97% | 3,460 |
| Woodruff | 1,478 | 70.15% | 620 | 29.43% | 5 | 0.24% | 4 | 0.19% | 858 | 40.72% | 2,107 |
| Yell | 2,261 | 73.29% | 812 | 26.32% | 4 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.26% | 1,449 | 46.97% | 3,085 |
| Totals[a] | 110,103 | 73.65% | 37,512 | 25.09% | 892 | 0.60% | 889 | 0.60% | 72,591 | 48.56% | 149,496 |
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