1896 United States presidential election in New York

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1896 United States presidential election in New York

November 3, 1896
Turnout	84.3% 2.0 pp
Nominee William McKinley William J. Bryan Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio Nebraska Running mate Garret Hobart Arthur Sewall Electoral vote 36 0 Popular vote 819,838 551,369 Percentage 57.58% 38.72%
440px County Results   Bryan—50-60%   McKinley—50-60%   McKinley—60-70%   McKinley—70-80%
President before election Grover Cleveland Democratic Elected President William McKinley Republican

The 1896 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. New York voters chose 36 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

New York was won by the Republican nominees, former Governor William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate corporate lawyer Garret Hobart of New Jersey. McKinley and Hobart defeated the Democratic nominees, former Congressman William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate industrialist Arthur Sewall of Maine. Bryan also ran and received votes on the Populist Party line, with running mate Congressman Thomas E. Watson of Georgia.

Also in the running was the National Democratic Party (Gold Democrat) candidate, John M. Palmer of Illinois, who ran with former Governor of Kentucky Simon Bolivar Buckner on a platform advocating for the gold standard.

McKinley carried New York State with 57.58% of the vote to Bryan’s 38.72%, a victory margin of 18.85%. Palmer came in a distant third, with 1.33%.

New York weighed in for this election as about fourteen percent more Republican than the national average.

Bryan, running on a platform of free silver, appealed strongly to Western miners and farmers in the 1896 election, but had little appeal in Northeastern states like New York. Consequently, he performed especially weakly for a Democrat in New York, losing every county in the state except for Schoharie County upstate. This included New York City, where McKinley outpolled Bryan by about 60,000 votes. McKinley would lose New York City to Bryan in their 1900 rematch 4 years later and Bryan would later win the city again against William Howard Taft in 1908. New York City would not vote Republican again until Warren Harding won it in 1920.

Results

1896 United States presidential election in New York
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	William McKinley	819,838	57.58%	36
	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan	551,369	38.72%	0
	National Democratic	John M. Palmer	18,950	1.33%	0
	Socialist Labor	Charles H. Matchett	17,667	1.24%	0
	Prohibition	Joshua Levering	16,052	1.13%	0
Totals			1,423,876	100.0%	36

Results by county

County	McKinley#	McKinley%	Bryan#	Bryan%	Others#	Others%	Total votes cast
Albany	22,263	54.52%	17,818	43.64%	753	1.84%	40,834
Allegany	7,079	61.51%	3,895	33.85%	534	4.64%	11,508
Broome	10,630	63.75%	5,461	32.75%	583	3.50%	16,674
Cattaraugus	9,337	58.76%	6,088	38.32%	464	2.92%	15,889
Cayuga	10,024	61.38%	5,846	35.80%	460	2.82%	16,330
Chautauqua	14,325	66.61%	6,581	30.60%	601	2.79%	21,507
Chemung	7,926	58.34%	5,259	38.71%	401	2.95%	13,586
Chenango	6,338	59.09%	3,973	37.04%	415	3.87%	10,726
Clinton	6,005	65.35%	3,074	33.45%	110	1.20%	9,189
Columbia	6,654	58.46%	4,373	38.42%	355	3.12%	11,382
Cortland	4,939	63.39%	2,574	33.04%	278	3.57%	7,791
Delaware	7,790	61.75%	4,450	35.28%	375	2.97%	12,615
Dutchess	12,127	62.44%	6,634	34.16%	661	3.40%	19,422
Erie	45,612	58.57%	30,172	38.74%	2,095	2.69%	77,879
Essex	5,356	74.24%	1,760	24.40%	98	1.36%	7,214
Franklin	6,118	69.29%	2,490	28.20%	221	2.50%	8,829
Fulton/Hamilton	7,704	63.44%	3,849	31.70%	590	4.86%	12,143
Genesee	5,190	61.50%	3,004	35.60%	245	2.90%	8,439
Greene	4,540	53.46%	3,688	43.43%	264	3.11%	8,492
Herkimer	8,096	59.77%	5,027	37.11%	422	3.12%	13,545
Jefferson	11,411	60.88%	6,644	35.45%	689	3.68%	18,744
Kings	109,135	56.35%	76,882	39.70%	7,659	3.95%	193,676
Lewis	4,461	58.70%	3,042	40.03%	97	1.28%	7,600
Livingston	5,608	56.72%	3,877	39.21%	402	4.07%	9,887
Madison	7,174	63.37%	3,673	32.44%	474	4.19%	11,321
Monroe	26,288	58.66%	17,158	38.28%	1,372	3.06%	44,818
Montgomery	7,082	58.39%	4,759	39.24%	288	2.37%	12,129
New York	156,359	50.73%	135,624	44.00%	16,249	5.27%	308,232
Niagara	8,626	55.69%	6,441	41.58%	423	2.73%	15,490
Oneida	18,855	60.81%	11,003	35.49%	1,149	3.71%	31,007
Onondaga	25,032	62.36%	13,695	34.12%	1,414	3.52%	40,141
Ontario	7,506	56.30%	5,485	41.14%	341	2.56%	13,332
Orange	14,086	59.52%	8,971	37.91%	610	2.58%	23,667
Orleans	4,664	58.97%	2,993	37.84%	252	3.19%	7,909
Oswego	11,411	62.81%	6,401	35.23%	356	1.96%	18,168
Otsego	8,161	56.37%	5,820	40.20%	496	3.43%	14,477
Putnam	2,364	67.64%	1,027	29.38%	104	2.98%	3,495
Queens	18,694	58.03%	11,980	37.19%	1,539	4.78%	32,213
Rensselaer	17,221	55.71%	13,119	42.44%	574	1.86%	30,914
Richmond	6,170	55.10%	4,452	39.76%	576	5.14%	11,198
Rockland	4,336	56.95%	3,002	39.43%	276	3.62%	7,614
St. Lawrence	15,287	70.97%	5,749	26.69%	505	2.34%	21,541
Saratoga	9,638	63.57%	4,987	32.89%	536	3.54%	15,161
Schenectady	4,903	55.05%	3,711	41.66%	293	3.29%	8,907
Schoharie	3,838	46.58%	4,203	51.01%	199	2.42%	8,240
Schuyler	2,692	59.89%	1,619	36.02%	184	4.09%	4,495
Seneca	3,853	53.53%	3,213	44.64%	132	1.83%	7,198
Steuben	12,958	59.65%	7,971	36.70%	793	3.65%	21,722
Suffolk	9,388	66.60%	3,872	27.47%	837	5.94%	14,097
Sullivan	4,589	58.35%	3,073	39.08%	202	2.57%	7,864
Tioga	4,849	61.06%	2,824	35.56%	268	3.37%	7,941
Tompkins	5,342	58.07%	3,506	38.11%	352	3.83%	9,200
Ulster	11,100	56.31%	8,140	41.30%	471	2.39%	19,711
Warren	4,685	65.51%	2,269	31.73%	198	2.77%	7,152
Washington	8,139	69.12%	3,239	27.51%	397	3.37%	11,775
Wayne	8,039	63.81%	4,254	33.77%	305	2.42%	12,598
Westchester	19,337	59.62%	11,752	36.23%	1,345	4.15%	32,434
Wyoming	4,967	62.28%	2,706	33.93%	302	3.79%	7,975
Yates	3,370	59.86%	2,086	37.05%	174	3.09%	5,630
Totals	819,671	57.57%	551,238	38.72%	52,758	3.71%	1,423,667

See also

• Presidency of William McKinley