1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina

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J 3x4.jpg William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party (United States) Nebraska Arthur Sewall 9 58,801 85.30% William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896 Alt Trim Edit 3x4.jpg William McKinley Republican Party (United States) Ohio Garret Hobart 0 9,313 13.51% 1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina results map by county.svg 325px County results Bryan #b9d7ff 40–50% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% McKinley #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) William McKinley Republican Party (United States) 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.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1896&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1896 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 This election marked the end of Reconstruction in South Carolina, following the 1895 state constitutional convention that disenfranchised African Americans in South Carolina.Benjamin Tillman Speech of Senator Benjamin R. Tillman March 23, 1900 Congressional Record, 56th Congress, 1st Session 3223–3224 (Reprinted in Richard Purday, ed., Document Sets for the South in U. S. History [Lexington, MA.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1991], p. 147.) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/55/ The multiple-ballot box law was challenged in court. On May 8, 1895, Judge Nathan Goff of the United States Circuit Court declared the provision unconstitutional and enjoined the state from taking further action under it. But in June 1895, the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Goff and dissolved the injunction,Judge Goff Reversed https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/72086813/ November 30, 2020 Richmond Planet June 22, 1895 Richmond, Virginia 2 subscription leaving the way open for a convention. The constitutional convention met on September 10 and adjourned on December 4, 1895. By the new constitution, South Carolina adopted the Mississippi Plan until January 1, 1898. Any male citizen could be registered who was able to read a section of the constitution or to satisfy the election officer that he understood it when read to him. Those thus registered were to remain voters for life. Under the new constitution and application of literacy practices, black voters were dropped in great numbers from the registration rolls: by 1896, in a state where according to the 1890 census blacks numbered 728,934 and comprised nearly sixty percent of the total population, George C. and C. James Taylor Jr. Rogers A South Carolina Chronology 1497–1992 1994 University of South Carolina Press 978-0-87249-971-3 only 5,500 black voters had succeeded in registering.Richard H. Pildes, "Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon", 2000, p.12, accessed 10 Mar 2008 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 1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina1896 Presidential General Election Results – South Carolina http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1896&fips=45&f=1&off=0&elect=0 U.S. Election Atlas 23 December 2013 Democratic Party (United States) William Jennings Bryan Nebraska Arthur Sewall Maine 58,801 85.30% 9 100.00% Republican Party (United States) William McKinley Ohio Garret Hobart New Jersey 9,313 13.51% 0 0.00% National Democratic Party (United States) John McAuley Palmer Illinois Simon Bolivar Buckner Kentucky 824 1.20% 0 0.00% 68,938 100.00% 9 100.00% Results by county County William Jennings BryanDemocratic William McKinleyRepublican John McAuley PalmerNational Democratic Margin Total votes castGéoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures) # % # % # % # % 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% 2,169Totals58,79987.70%9,31313.51%8241.23%49,48671.78%68,940 See also United States presidential elections in South Carolina Notes References South Carolina 1896 Category:1896 South Carolina elections