1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota County Results
Bryan
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
McKinley
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
Tie
50%
The1896 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1896 United States presidential election . Voters chose four electors to theElectoral College , which selected thepresident andvice president .
South Dakota was won by thePopulist nominees,[ a] former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan ofNebraska and his running mateArthur Sewall ofMaine . Two electors cast their vice presidential ballots forThomas E. Watson .
Bryan won the state by a very narrow margin of 0.22 percentage points, becoming the first national Democratic presidential candidate to win the state. Bryan would later lose the state toRepublican incumbent presidentWilliam McKinley four years later and would later lose the state again toWilliam Howard Taft in1908 . The state would not vote Democratic again until 1932. As of the2020 election , this is the only time that a Republican candidate has won the presidency without carrying South Dakota.
1896 United States Presidential Election in South Dakota (By County)[ 2] County[ 2] William McKinley William Jennings Bryan Joshua Levering Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Aurora 387 44.08% 479 54.56% 12 1.37% -92 -10.48% 878 Beadle 935 49.84% 915 48.77% 26 1.39% 20 1.07% 1,876 Bon Homme 1,163 56.37% 893 43.29% 7 0.34% 270 13.09% 2,063 Brookings 1,263 48.71% 1,288 49.67% 42 1.62% -25 -0.96% 2,593 Brown 1,618 46.15% 1,867 53.25% 21 0.60% -249 -7.10% 3,506 Brule 441 39.59% 668 59.96% 5 0.45% -227 -20.38% 1,114 Buffalo 68 46.26% 79 53.74% 0 0.00% -11 -7.48% 147 Butte 222 43.53% 286 56.08% 2 0.39% -64 -12.55% 510 Campbell 449 54.62% 369 44.89% 4 0.49% 80 9.73% 822 Charles Mix 698 53.57% 594 45.59% 11 0.84% 104 7.98% 1,303 Clark 695 45.01% 816 52.85% 33 2.14% -121 -7.84% 1,544 Clay 1,238 53.36% 1,061 45.73% 21 0.91% 177 7.63% 2,320 Codington 1,041 57.10% 759 41.63% 23 1.26% 282 15.47% 1,823 Custer 429 45.30% 515 54.38% 3 0.32% -86 -9.08% 947 Davison 616 45.13% 733 53.70% 16 1.17% -117 -8.57% 1,365 Day 1,171 48.07% 1,230 50.49% 35 1.44% -59 -2.42% 2,436 Deuel 698 50.95% 668 48.76% 4 0.29% 30 2.19% 1,370 Douglas 533 58.06% 380 41.39% 5 0.54% 153 16.67% 918 Edmunds 371 41.78% 510 57.43% 7 0.79% -139 -15.65% 888 Fall River 532 48.76% 555 50.87% 4 0.37% -23 -2.11% 1,091 Faulk 430 64.08% 237 35.32% 4 0.60% 193 28.76% 671 Grant 1,029 52.72% 902 46.21% 21 1.08% 127 6.51% 1,952 Gregory 110 48.67% 116 51.33% 0 0.00% -6 -2.65% 226 Hamlin 702 55.10% 559 43.88% 13 1.02% 143 11.22% 1,274 Hand 451 43.96% 567 55.26% 8 0.78% -116 -11.31% 1,026 Hanson 420 38.75% 658 60.70% 6 0.55% -238 -21.96% 1,084 Hughes 462 58.33% 327 41.29% 3 0.38% 135 17.05% 792 Hutchinson 1,413 74.96% 458 24.30% 14 0.74% 955 50.66% 1,885 Hyde 223 64.45% 121 34.97% 2 0.58% 102 29.48% 346 Jerauld 274 44.48% 336 54.55% 6 0.97% -62 -10.06% 616 Kingsbury 950 46.82% 1,051 51.80% 28 1.38% -101 -4.98% 2,029 Lake 864 46.10% 999 53.31% 11 0.59% -135 -7.20% 1,874 Lawrence 2,210 42.91% 2,905 56.41% 35 0.68% -695 -13.50% 5,150 Lincoln 1,516 51.86% 1,393 47.66% 14 0.48% 123 4.21% 2,923 Lyman 114 59.07% 78 40.41% 1 0.52% 36 18.65% 193 Marshall 553 43.78% 694 54.95% 16 1.27% -141 -11.16% 1,263 McCook 678 39.03% 1,047 60.28% 12 0.69% -369 -21.24% 1,737 McPherson 512 58.25% 361 41.07% 6 0.68% 151 17.18% 879 Meade 550 40.56% 802 59.14% 4 0.29% -252 -18.58% 1,356 Miner 582 45.05% 705 54.57% 5 0.39% -123 -9.52% 1,292 Minnehaha 2,429 47.15% 2,667 51.77% 56 1.09% -238 -4.62% 5,152 Moody 780 43.36% 1,012 56.25% 7 0.39% -232 -12.90% 1,799 Pennington 739 41.40% 1,038 58.15% 8 0.45% -299 -16.75% 1,785 Potter 333 45.74% 390 53.57% 5 0.69% -57 -7.83% 728 Roberts 1,324 58.20% 929 40.84% 22 0.97% 395 17.36% 2,275 Sanborn 530 50.72% 500 47.85% 15 1.44% 30 2.87% 1,045 Spink 1,132 51.31% 1,061 48.10% 13 0.59% 71 3.22% 2,206 Stanley 89 38.53% 140 60.61% 2 0.87% -51 -22.08% 231 Sully 262 56.34% 198 42.58% 5 1.08% 64 13.76% 465 Turner 1,616 62.47% 950 36.72% 21 0.81% 666 25.74% 2,587 Union 1,297 46.24% 1,491 53.16% 17 0.61% -194 -6.92% 2,805 Walworth 250 46.21% 286 52.87% 5 0.92% -36 -6.65% 541 Yankton 1,423 51.39% 1,330 48.03% 16 0.58% 93 3.36% 2,769 Unorganized 337 47.73% 368 52.12% 1 0.14% -31 -4.39% 706 Totals 41,152 49.48% 41,341 49.70% 683 0.82% -189 -0.23% 83,176
^ Although Bryan ran nationally as theDemocratic nominee, that party was so weak in South Dakota that Bryan was instead endorsed by the state’s Populist Party, which was the major competitor with the GOP.
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