Elections / 1896 · President

William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan.

William Jennings Bryan (D) vs William McKinley (R). Every state below links to its full contest page with county-level results.

Nominees: William Jennings Bryan (D) · William McKinley (R)

1896 presidential election

McKinleyR+6.1

1896presidential margin

D+60

R+60

Fifty states and DC, each filled by its 1896 result. Hover any state for the detail and its electoral votes.

Smaller states, enlarged

VTR+63.44 EV NHR+42.84 EV MAR+43.115 EV RIR+41.94 EV CTR+30.76 EV NJR+23.610 EV DER+8.33 EV MDR+12.88 EV

Blue and red show the Democratic-vs-Republican margin; gold marks a state an independent or third-party candidate carried.

Electoral college

447 electors · 224 for a majority

McKinley won 271 of 447 electoral votes.

Bryan176McKinley271

National popular vote

13,347,119 votes counted

Bryan (D)

6,114,419

45.8%

McKinley (R)

6,925,627

51.9%

All others

307,099

2.3%

Margin

R+6.1

The county map

2,484 county-level results on record for 1896

Democrats carried 1,367 counties, Republicans 1,113, third-party candidates 4. 740 counties flipped parties from the previous cycle.

Biggest county swings: Conejos County, CO (D+149.0 swing) · Owyhee County, ID (D+133.7 swing) · Garfield County, CO (D+130.2 swing) · Chaffee County, CO (D+129.4 swing) · Routt County, CO (D+128.9 swing) · Douglas County, CO (D+128.9 swing)

Results by state

Every row links to the state's contest page with its county map.

State	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Alabama	D	+38.4%	130,298	55,673	194,578
Arkansas	D	+48.6%	110,103	37,512	149,396
California	R	−0.6%	144,766	146,688	298,419
Colorado	D	+70.6%	158,821	26,379	187,470
Connecticut	R	−30.7%	56,739	110,282	174,387
Delaware	R	−8.3%	3,826	4,541	8,588
Florida	D	+41.5%	20,648	8,017	30,408
Georgia	D	+21.0%	93,445	59,395	161,993
Iowa	R	−12.6%	223,611	289,463	521,587
Idaho	D	+56.8%	23,192	6,324	29,689
Illinois	R	−13.0%	465,613	607,130	1,090,869
Indiana	R	−2.9%	305,583	323,751	637,126
Kansas	D	+3.7%	171,774	159,484	334,785
Kentucky	R	−0.1%	217,894	218,171	445,928
Louisiana	D	+54.6%	77,172	22,037	101,043
Massachusetts	R	−43.1%	105,711	278,976	401,548
Maryland	R	−12.8%	104,746	136,978	250,877
Maine	R	−38.7%	34,587	80,403	118,419
Michigan	R	−10.3%	237,164	293,338	545,585
Minnesota	R	−15.7%	139,735	193,503	341,762
Missouri	D	+8.7%	363,667	304,940	674,032
Mississippi	D	+84.1%	63,355	4,819	69,585
Montana	D	+60.2%	42,469	10,494	53,149
North Carolina	D	+5.8%	174,408	155,122	331,337
North Dakota	R	−11.9%	20,686	26,335	47,391
Nebraska	D	+5.4%	115,007	103,064	223,181
New Hampshire	R	−42.8%	21,650	57,444	83,670
New Jersey	R	−23.6%	133,675	221,367	371,014
Nevada	D	+62.4%	8,376	1,938	10,314
New York	R	−18.9%	551,369	819,838	1,423,876
Ohio	R	−4.8%	477,497	525,991	1,014,295
Oregon	R	−2.1%	46,745	48,779	97,502
Pennsylvania	R	−24.7%	433,228	728,300	1,194,355
Rhode Island	R	−41.9%	14,459	37,437	54,785
South Carolina	D	+71.8%	58,799	9,313	68,940
South Dakota	D	+0.2%	41,021	40,892	82,590
Tennessee	D	+6.0%	168,176	148,773	322,001
Utah	D	+65.4%	64,607	13,491	78,119
Virginia	D	+6.6%	154,978	135,379	294,837
Vermont	R	−63.4%	10,640	51,127	63,847
Washington	D	+15.1%	53,314	39,153	93,583
Wisconsin	R	−22.9%	165,523	268,135	447,409
West Virginia	R	−5.4%	94,480	105,379	201,757
Wyoming	D	+3.7%	10,862	10,072	21,093