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1896 Maine gubernatorial election Maine Transparent.png presidential no 1894 Maine gubernatorial election 1894 1898 Maine gubernatorial election 1898 September 14, 1896 x150px Llewellyn Powers Republican Party (United States) 82,596 66.84% x100px Melvin P. Frank Democratic Party (United States) 34,350 27.80% 1896 Maine gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 300px County resultsPowers: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #D72F30 70–80% Governor Henry B. Cleaves Republican Party (United States) Llewellyn Powers Republican Party (United States)
The 1896 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 14, 1896.
Incumbent Governor Henry B. Cleaves did not seek re-election. Republican candidate Llewellyn Powers defeated Democratic candidate Melvin B. Frank.
Results
1896 Maine gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=266630 ME Governor, 1896 Our Campaigns 23 December 2021Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II CQ Press 2005 1499 https://archive.org/details/guidetouselectio00cqpr/page/1499 978-1-56802-981-8 5 September 2021 registrationGlashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT 1979 126–127 0-930466-17-9Dubin Michael J. 2010 United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911 https://books.google.com/books?id=WYJAIOabIPgC&pg=PA10 Jefferson, NC McFarland & Co. 20 978-0-7864-4722-0 Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. 1977 American State Governors, 1776-1976 I Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Oceana Publications, Inc. 244 0-379-00665-0 1924 Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual 55 https://archive.org/details/maineregistersta1924unse/page/273/mode/1up Portland, Maine Portland Directory Company 273 The Maine Senate Journal records the result as Powers 82,876, Frank 34,453, Bateman 3,306, Ladd 2,714, Clifford 610, scattering 31. Legislative Record of the Sixty-Eighth Legislature of the State of Maine. 1897 Senate http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/LegRec/_68/Senate/LegRec_1897-01-07_SP_p0008-0010.pdf 8
Republican Party (United States) Llewellyn Powers 82,596 66.84%
Democratic Party (United States) Melvin P. Frank 34,350 27.80%
People's Party (United States) Luther C. Bateman 3,292 2.66%
Prohibition Party Ammi S. Ladd 2,669 2.16%
National Democratic Party (United States) William H. Clifford 609 0.49%
Scattering 48 0.04%
48,246 39.05%
123,564
Republican Party (United States)
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