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1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina

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1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina

← 1892 November 3, 1896 1900 →
 
Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Arthur Sewall Garret Hobart
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 58,801 9,313
Percentage 85.30% 13.51%

County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

The 1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 3, 1896, as part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

South Carolina overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative from Nebraska William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, former governor of Ohio William McKinley. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 71.79%. However, McKinley's performance would actually prove to be a high water mark for Republicans going into the 20th century; he was the last Republican to win even 10% of the state's vote until Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.

With 85.3% of the popular vote, South Carolina would prove to be Bryan's second strongest state in the 1896 presidential election only after Mississippi.[1]

Bryan would later defeat McKinley in South Carolina again four years later and would win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

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1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina[2]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska Arthur Sewall of Maine 58,801 85.30% 9 100.00%
Republican William McKinley of Ohio Garret Hobart of New Jersey 9,313 13.51% 0 0.00%
National Democratic John McAuley Palmer of Illinois Simon Bolivar Buckner of Kentucky 824 1.20% 0 0.00%
Total 68,938 100.00% 9 100.00%

Results by county

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County William Jennings Bryan
Democratic
William McKinley
Republican
John McAuley Palmer
National Democratic
Margin Total votes cast[3]
# % # % # % # %
Abbeville 2,473 87.98% 337 11.99% 1 0.04% 2,136 75.99% 2,811
Aiken 1,819 92.48% 137 6.96% 11 0.56% 1,682 85.51% 1,967
Anderson 3,109 88.98% 368 10.53% 17 0.49% 2,741 78.45% 3,494
Barnwell 2,385 90.79% 239 9.10% 3 0.11% 2,146 81.69% 2,627
Beaufort 289 39.43% 444 60.57% 0 0.00% -155 -21.15% 733
Berkeley 513 72.77% 183 25.96% 9 1.28% 330 46.81% 705
Charleston 1,660 47.82% 1,262 36.36% 549 15.82% 398 11.47% 3,471
Chester 1,254 93.58% 76 5.67% 10 0.75% 1,178 87.91% 1,340
Chesterfield 1,465 86.94% 220 13.06% 0 0.00% 1,245 73.89% 1,685
Clarendon 1,450 87.51% 207 12.49% 0 0.00% 1,243 75.02% 1,657
Colleton 1,646 82.51% 343 17.19% 6 0.30% 1,303 65.31% 1,995
Darlington 1,625 87.98% 201 10.88% 21 1.14% 1,424 77.10% 1,847
Edgefield 1,532 87.29% 216 12.31% 7 0.40% 1,316 74.99% 1,755
Fairfield 1,078 95.23% 54 4.77% 0 0.00% 1,024 90.46% 1,132
Florence 1,530 89.95% 136 8.00% 35 2.06% 1,394 81.95% 1,701
Georgetown 459 37.35% 734 59.72% 36 2.93% -275 -22.38% 1,229
Greenville 2,718 89.38% 288 9.47% 35 1.15% 2,430 79.91% 3,041
Hampton 1,072 97.72% 25 2.28% 0 0.00% 1,047 95.44% 1,097
Horry 1,372 87.50% 196 12.50% 0 0.00% 1,176 75.00% 1,568
Kershaw 1,191 89.41% 139 10.44% 2 0.15% 1,052 78.98% 1,332
Lancaster 1,557 89.79% 177 10.21% 0 0.00% 1,380 79.58% 1,734
Laurens 1,943 94.60% 111 5.40% 0 0.00% 1,832 89.19% 2,054
Lexington 1,672 89.46% 197 10.54% 0 0.00% 1,475 78.92% 1,869
Marion 1,936 85.66% 313 13.85% 11 0.49% 1,623 71.81% 2,260
Marlboro 1,232 83.70% 237 16.10% 3 0.20% 995 67.60% 1,472
Newberry 1,525 95.43% 64 4.01% 9 0.56% 1,461 91.43% 1,598
Oconee 1,392 87.49% 199 12.51% 0 0.00% 1,193 74.98% 1,591
Orangeburg 2,729 90.63% 282 9.37% 0 0.00% 2,447 81.27% 3,011
Pickens 1,261 88.12% 170 11.88% 0 0.00% 1,091 76.24% 1,431
Richland 925 65.05% 468 32.91% 29 2.04% 457 32.14% 1,422
Saluda 1,241 95.39% 60 4.61% 0 0.00% 1,181 90.78% 1,301
Spartanburg 4,234 94.49% 247 5.51% 0 0.00% 3,987 88.98% 4,481
Sumter 1,550 81.58% 326 17.16% 24 1.26% 1,224 64.42% 1,900
Union 1,379 89.60% 158 10.27% 2 0.13% 1,221 79.34% 1,539
Williamsburg 1,570 81.73% 347 18.06% 4 0.21% 1,223 63.66% 1,921
York 2,013 92.81% 152 7.01% 4 0.18% 1,861 85.80% 2,169
Totals 58,799 87.70% 9,313 13.51% 824 1.23% 49,486 71.78% 68,940

See also

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Notes

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References

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  1. ^ "1896 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "1896 Presidential General Election Results - South Carolina". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)