1896 United States presidential election in Colorado

none June 2025 September 2023 1896 United States presidential election 1896 United States presidential election in Colorado Colorado 1907 presidential no 1892 United States presidential election in Colorado 1892 1900 United States presidential election in Colorado 1900 November 3, 1896 x200px Bryan, Hon. Wm. J 3x4.jpg William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party (United States) Populist Nebraska Arthur Sewall 4 161,269 84.96% William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896 Alt Trim Edit 3x4.jpg William McKinley Republican Party (United States) Ohio Garret Hobart 0 26,279 13.84% 1896 United States presidential election in Colorado results map by county.svg 280px County results Bryan #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% McKinley #e27f90 50–60% President Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) William McKinley Republican Party (United States) The 1896 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. Voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. In its early days as a state, Colorado had like the Plains States to its east been solidly Republican. However, with crises emerging in its agricultural sector from low wheat pricesGormley, Ken (editor); The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History, p. 299 1479839906 and a severe drought in 1888 and 1889, and the state's underdevelopment leading to resentment of the Northeast,Azari, Julia and Hetherington, Mark J.; ‘Back to the Future? What the Politics of the Late Nineteenth Century Can Tell Us about the 2016 Election’; The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; Vol 667: Elections in America; (September 2016), pp. 92-109 the new Populist Party was able to largely take over the state's politics in the early 1890s. Aided by fusion with the minority Democratic Party and strong support for free silver in this state which produced over half of all American silver,Larson, Robert W.; ‘Populism in the Mountain West: A Mainstream Movement’; Western Historical Quarterly; Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 1982), pp. 143-164 the Populist Party under James B. Weaver in 1892 carried the state's presidential electoral votes and won both its congressional seats. After the Republicans gained a 130-seat majority in the House of Representatives following the 1894 elections, five dissident Republicans from the Mountain States who supported free silver jointed together as the “Silver Republicans”Henry M. Teller of Colorado, Fred T. Dubois of Idaho, Frank J. Cannon of Utah and Thomas H. Carter and Lee Mantle of Montana.Ellis, Elmer; ‘The Silver Republicans in the Election of 1896’; The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 4 (March 1932), pp. 519-534 They supported nominating Centennial State Senator Henry M. Teller for president at first, but ultimately this was viewed as impractical and the Silver Republicans fused with a Democratic/Populist ticket headed by William Jennings Bryan. Bryan's support for free silver against the existing gold standard supported by Republican nominee William McKinley ensured he had virtually unanimous support from Colorado's silver-dependent business elite.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 458 9780691163246 Once a fusion between Democrats, Populists, and Silver Republicans was fully finalized, there was no campaigning in Colorado as all polls showed Bryan would carry the state very easily.‘Ready for the Vote: Campaign Now Closed in Nearly All States of the Union’; Baltimore Sun, November 2, 1896, p. 2 Bryan, in the end, carried Colorado by a margin of 71.12%, by over twenty percent the best performance by any presidential candidate in the history of the state.The second-best Colorado presidential election performance was by Herbert Hoover in 1928, when, aided by powerful anti-Catholic sentiment against Al Smith in the High Plains, he won 64.72 percent of the vote.Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=1896&fips=8&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Colorado This would also prove to be the best result for any post-Civil War presidential candidate in a non-Southern state. Bryan carried all but two of Colorado's counties, and won nineteen with over ninety percent of the vote, with McKinley retaining significant support only on the eastern High Plains, where the power of the silver magnates was much less. With 84.95% of the popular vote, Colorado would prove to be Bryan's third strongest state in the 1896 presidential election only after Mississippi and South Carolina.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 Bryan would win Colorado against William McKinley again in 1900 and would later also win the state against William Howard Taft in 1908, making the state one of just two western states Bryan would carry in all three of his runs (the other being Nevada). This is the first election where the Republican candidate won without the state. Results + General Election ResultsMcGaffey A. B. November 30, 1896 Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of Colorado for the Fiscal Years Ending November 30, 1895 and November 30, 1896 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067867948&seq=298 Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of Colorado 270-281 HathiTrustParty Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan George W. Thatcher158,880 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Ebenezer T. Wells158,729 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Allen T. Gunnell158,674 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Thomas M. Patterson158,616 Republican Party William McKinley Joseph F. Humphrey26,279 Republican Party William McKinley William A. Hamill26,271 Republican Party William McKinley Frederick Walsen26,268 Republican Party William McKinley Charles C. Goodale26,243 National-People's Party William Jennings Bryan Benair C. Sawyer2,389 National-People's Party William Jennings Bryan Louise M. Graves2,382 National-People's Party William Jennings Bryan Horace Y. Nichols2,366 National-People's Party William Jennings Bryan George X. Young2,362 Prohibition Party Joshua Levering John F. White1,724 Prohibition Party Joshua Levering Charlotte S. McKinney1,718 Prohibition Party Joshua Levering Ella W. Chambers1,717 Prohibition Party Joshua Levering David R. Hunter1,714 National Party Charles E. Bentley James Stewart386 National Party Charles E. Bentley Samuel P. Crouch381 National Party Charles E. Bentley Mary O. Mott376 National Party Charles E. Bentley Jacob Saylor366 Socialist Labor Party Charles H. Matchett Adolf F. Filberg160 Socialist Labor Party Charles H. Matchett John P. Meyer160 Socialist Labor Party Charles H. Matchett Henry Warnecke159 Socialist Labor Party Charles H. Matchett Otto H. Viergutz159 National Democratic Party John M. Palmer Edgar W. Conable1 National Democratic Party John M. Palmer James R. Pershing1 National Democratic Party John M. Palmer Francis B. Hill1 National Democratic Party John M. Palmer Philip A. Wieting1Votes castBased on totals for highest elector on each ticket 189,819 Results by county County William Jennings BryanGéoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)Democratic William McKinleyRepublican Joshua LeveringProhibition Various candidatesOther parties Margin%#%#%#%#%# Pitkin 98.97% 3,763 0.71% 27 0.05% 2 0.26% 10 98.26% 3,736 San Juan 98.71% 1,535 1.09% 17 0.13% 2 0.06% 1 97.62% 1,518 Mineral 98.30% 808 1.34% 11 0.24% 2 0.12% 1 96.96% 797 Dolores 98.11% 676 1.60% 11 0.15% 1 0.15% 1 96.52% 665 Ouray 98.08% 2,192 1.70% 38 0.13% 3 0.09% 2 96.38% 2,154 Summit 97.64% 1,243 2.20% 28 0.16% 2 0.00% 0 95.44% 1,215 Clear Creek 96.84% 3,345 2.92% 101 0.23% 8 0.00% 0 93.92% 3,244 Hinsdale 96.40% 697 2.63% 19 0.55% 4 0.41% 3 93.78% 678 La Plata 96.57% 2,729 3.22% 91 0.18% 5 0.04% 1 93.35% 2,638 Montezuma 96.13% 845 3.75% 33 0.11% 1 0.00% 0 92.38% 812 Lake 96.04% 6,518 3.76% 255 0.16% 11 0.04% 3 92.28% 6,263 Conejos 95.98% 2,388 3.86% 96 0.04% 1 0.12% 3 92.12% 2,292 San Miguel 95.70% 2,136 3.90% 87 0.18% 4 0.22% 5 91.80% 2,049 Eagle 95.04% 1,149 4.38% 53 0.41% 5 0.17% 2 90.65% 1,096 Grand 94.72% 251 4.53% 12 0.38% 1 0.38% 1 90.19% 239 Chaffee 94.35% 2,606 5.10% 141 0.25% 7 0.29% 8 89.25% 2,465 Gunnison 93.29% 2,268 6.17% 150 0.25% 6 0.29% 7 87.12% 2,118 Garfield 90.81% 2,065 7.61% 173 1.14% 26 0.44% 10 83.20% 1,892 Delta 89.85% 1,603 7.79% 139 2.13% 38 0.22% 4 82.06% 1,464 Park 90.81% 1,562 8.78% 151 0.35% 6 0.06% 1 82.03% 1,411 Jefferson 88.99% 3,176 8.41% 300 1.79% 64 0.81% 29 80.58% 2,876 Gilpin 89.76% 2,532 9.43% 266 0.64% 18 0.18% 5 80.33% 2,266 Routt 89.62% 1,105 9.89% 122 0.16% 2 0.32% 4 79.72% 983 Rio Blanco 89.55% 454 10.26% 52 0.20% 1 0.00% 0 79.29% 402 Rio Grande 87.71% 1,428 10.81% 176 1.29% 21 0.18% 3 76.90% 1,252 Montrose 86.19% 1,348 11.64% 182 0.96% 15 1.21% 19 74.55% 1,166 Arapahoe 86.54% 42,521 12.33% 6,057 0.76% 374 0.37% 182 74.21% 36,464 Saguache 86.45% 1,155 13.17% 176 0.07% 1 0.30% 4 73.28% 979 Fremont 85.07% 4,267 12.78% 641 2.01% 101 0.14% 7 72.29% 3,626 Pueblo 85.39% 8,373 13.44% 1,318 0.55% 54 0.62% 61 71.95% 7,055 Douglas 85.24% 1,051 13.95% 172 0.65% 8 0.16% 2 71.29% 879 Custer 85.07% 986 14.41% 167 0.35% 4 0.17% 2 70.66% 819 Boulder 83.87% 6,046 14.33% 1,033 1.62% 117 0.18% 13 69.54% 5,013 Weld 82.13% 4,620 15.54% 874 1.69% 95 0.64% 36 66.60% 3,746 Las Animas 82.50% 5,497 16.90% 1,126 0.53% 35 0.08% 5 65.60% 4,371 Mesa 80.04% 2,374 15.81% 469 3.14% 93 1.01% 30 64.23% 1,905 Larimer 78.83% 3,195 18.11% 734 2.79% 113 0.27% 11 60.72% 2,461 Otero 79.12% 2,167 19.13% 524 1.46% 40 0.29% 8 59.99% 1,643 Bent 73.88% 591 24.63% 197 1.38% 11 0.13% 1 49.25% 394 Morgan 72.88% 602 25.54% 211 0.97% 8 0.61% 5 47.34% 391 Costilla 73.36% 1,052 26.08% 374 0.42% 6 0.14% 2 47.28% 678 El Paso 72.84% 17,672 25.75% 6,248 1.22% 296 0.18% 44 47.09% 11,424 Archuleta 73.18% 393 26.26% 141 0.56% 3 0.00% 0 46.93% 252 Elbert 72.70% 751 26.52% 274 0.58% 6 0.19% 2 46.18% 477 Logan 69.23% 603 26.52% 231 3.67% 32 0.57% 5 42.71% 372 Yuma 69.83% 442 28.44% 180 1.74% 11 0.00% 0 41.39% 262 Huerfano 67.45% 1,929 32.48% 929 0.07% 2 0.00% 0 34.97% 1,000 Prowers 63.16% 552 34.78% 304 1.72% 15 0.34% 3 28.38% 248 Lincoln 62.69% 210 36.72% 123 0.30% 1 0.30% 1 25.97% 87 Phillips 62.78% 334 36.84% 196 0.38% 2 0.00% 0 25.94% 138 Sedgwick 60.85% 216 36.62% 130 1.97% 7 0.56% 2 24.23% 86 Cheyenne 54.45% 104 45.55% 87 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 8.90% 17 Kiowa 53.45% 155 45.86% 133 0.69% 2 0.00% 0 7.59% 22 Baca 51.53% 135 47.71% 125 0.76% 2 0.00% 0 3.82% 10 Kit Carson 46.45% 229 51.12% 252 1.62% 8 0.81% 4 -4.67% -23 Washington 42.86% 177 53.75% 222 3.39% 14 0.00% 0 -10.90% -45 Notes References 2 Colorado 1896 Presidential election in Colorado