1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1896 United States presidential election 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana Louisiana 1861b presidential no 1892 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1892 1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1900 November 3, 1896 x200px Bryan, Hon. Wm. J 3x4.jpg William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party (United States) Populist Nebraska Arthur Sewall(Democratic)Thomas E. Watson(Populist) 8 77,175 76.38% William McKinley by Courtney Art Studio, 1896 Alt Trim Edit 3x4.jpg William McKinley Republican Party (United States) Ohio Garret Hobart 0 22,037 21.81% 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg 350px Parish results Bryan #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% McKinley #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% President Grover Cleveland Democratic Party (United States) William McKinley Republican Party (United States) The 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 3, 1896. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1896 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political systemHair William Ivy Bourbonism and agrarian protest; Louisiana politics, 1877-1900 1969 0807109088 114–115 Louisiana State University Press that would from 1890 be challenged by the rise of the Populist Party due to declining conditions for farmers. Both the Populists and the earlier Greenback Party — who shared key leaders like James B. Weaver — would be supported by the state Republican Party.Kousser J. Morgan The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 1975 Yale University Press New Haven, Connecticut 0-300-01973-4 25 Second Printing At the same time, outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black votingHoward Perry H. 1954 Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior 112–113 A New Look at Reconstruction LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses — intimidation was already either drastically reducing the number of black voters or counting them for Democrats hostile to their interests.Dethloff Henry C. Jones Robert R. Race Relations in Louisiana, 1877-98 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Autumn 1968 9 4 301–323 Louisiana Historical Association By the 1890s the Louisiana Republican Party was deeply divided between “black and tans” and an insurgent “lily white” faction led by Acadian sugar planters,Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffrey A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 March 19, 2020 265–266 Cambridge University Press 978-1107158436 and the state Democratic Party was divided less deeply between pro- and anti-lottery factions.Hair. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest, pp. 168-169 To avert the fragmented 1892 gubernatorial election, both Republican factions would organize a fusion with the Populist Party, who had run a separate candidate that year. This fusion ticket, headed by sugar planter John Pharr, would be denied according to later analysis by the persistent electoral fraud,Kousser. The Shaping of Southern Politics, p. 41 and in the immediate aftermath of a potential civil war due to a planned Populist march on Baton Rouge, the Democrats would pass laws to disenfranchise the remaining black voters and also many poor whitesHair. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest, pp. 261-268 — which they would complete during the ensuing gubernatorial term.Lewinson Paul Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South 1965 Grosset & Dunlap New York City 81 Louisiana was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine, though four electors would cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson. They defeated the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 54.57%. As this was the last election before disfranchising constitutional conventions ended black voting in Acadiana as well as the rest of the state, McKinley did retain overwhelming support in several sugarcane-growing parishes opposed to the anti-tariff Democratic policy. Bryan would later win Louisiana against McKinley again four years later and would later win it again in 1908 against William Howard Taft. Results 1896 United States presidential election in LouisianaDave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=22&year=1896&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1896 Presidential General Election Results – LouisianaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic William Jennings Bryan 77,175 76.38% 4 Populist William Jennings Bryan 0 0.00% 4 Total William Jennings Bryan 77,175 76.38% 8 Republican William McKinley 22,037 21.81% 0 National Democratic John M. Palmer 1,834 1.82% 0 Totals 101,046 100.00% 8 Voter turnout — Results by parish +1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parishGéoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1896.htm Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)ParishWilliam Jennings BryanDemocraticWilliam McKinleyRepublicanJohn McAuley PalmerNational DemocraticMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % Acadia 1,082 81.54% 234 17.63% 11 0.83% 848 63.90% 1,327 Ascension 737 49.07% 722 48.07% 43 2.86% 15 1.00% 1,502 Assumption 344 23.66% 1,070 73.59% 40 2.75% -726 -49.93% 1,454 Avoyelles 1,657 88.00% 214 11.36% 12 0.64% 1,443 76.63% 1,883 Bienville 1,491 96.01% 51 3.28% 11 0.71% 1,440 92.72% 1,553 Bossier 1,146 97.28% 22 1.87% 10 0.85% 1,124 95.42% 1,178 Caddo 1,812 83.70% 285 13.16% 68 3.14% 1,527 70.53% 2,165 Calcasieu 2,658 74.27% 891 24.90% 30 0.84% 1,767 49.37% 3,579 Caldwell 610 95.46% 26 4.07% 3 0.47% 584 91.39% 639 Cameron 251 85.37% 37 12.59% 6 2.04% 214 72.79% 294 Catahoula 811 91.33% 74 8.33% 3 0.34% 737 83.00% 888 Claiborne 1,757 95.80% 53 2.89% 24 1.31% 1,704 92.91% 1,834 Concordia 1,085 92.58% 80 6.83% 7 0.60% 1,005 85.75% 1,172 De Soto 1,940 91.55% 153 7.22% 26 1.23% 1,787 84.33% 2,119 East Baton Rouge 1,412 68.38% 595 28.81% 58 2.81% 817 39.56% 2,065 East Carroll 235 52.93% 185 41.67% 24 5.41% 50 11.26% 444 East Feliciana 1,548 98.47% 15 0.95% 9 0.57% 1,533 97.52% 1,572 Franklin 871 94.88% 28 3.05% 19 2.07% 843 91.83% 918 Grant 780 85.15% 123 13.43% 13 1.42% 657 71.72% 916 Iberia 939 70.02% 391 29.16% 11 0.82% 548 40.87% 1,341 Iberville 358 36.68% 600 61.48% 18 1.84% -242 -24.80% 976 Jackson 705 97.24% 18 2.48% 2 0.28% 687 94.76% 725 Jefferson 1,383 79.30% 352 20.18% 9 0.52% 1,031 59.12% 1,744 Lafayette 825 81.68% 167 16.53% 18 1.78% 658 65.15% 1,010 Lafourche 1,129 73.94% 386 25.28% 12 0.79% 743 48.66% 1,527 Lincoln 1,241 95.02% 40 3.06% 25 1.91% 1,201 91.96% 1,306 Livingston 693 90.23% 72 9.38% 3 0.39% 621 80.86% 768 Madison 1,248 92.04% 96 7.08% 12 0.88% 1,152 84.96% 1,356 Morehouse 853 94.15% 46 5.08% 7 0.77% 807 89.07% 906 Natchitoches 1,656 98.10% 23 1.36% 9 0.53% 1,633 96.74% 1,688 Orleans 17,487 65.81% 8,295 31.22% 789 2.97% 9,192 34.59% 26,571 Ouachita 2,712 96.31% 93 3.30% 11 0.39% 2,619 93.00% 2,816 Plaquemines 1,502 73.16% 540 26.30% 11 0.54% 962 46.86% 2,053 Pointe Coupee 773 64.04% 410 33.97% 24 1.99% 363 30.07% 1,207 Rapides 2,600 93.56% 142 5.11% 37 1.33% 2,458 88.45% 2,779 Red River 832 96.41% 26 3.01% 5 0.58% 806 93.40% 863 Richland 706 90.75% 61 7.84% 11 1.41% 645 82.90% 778 Sabine 1,469 97.22% 36 2.38% 6 0.40% 1,433 94.84% 1,511 Saint Bernard 569 89.47% 66 10.38% 1 0.16% 503 79.09% 636 Saint Charles 125 29.90% 282 67.46% 11 2.63% -157 -37.56% 418 Saint Helena 522 88.62% 59 10.02% 8 1.36% 463 78.61% 589 Saint James 210 12.57% 1,417 84.85% 43 2.57% -1,207 -72.28% 1,670 Saint John the Baptist 180 24.32% 539 72.84% 21 2.84% -359 -48.51% 740 Saint Landry 1,786 87.04% 242 11.79% 24 1.17% 1,544 75.24% 2,052 Saint Martin 679 89.11% 76 9.97% 7 0.92% 603 79.13% 762 Saint Mary 591 49.25% 580 48.33% 29 2.42% 11 0.92% 1,200 Saint Tammany 636 60.80% 317 30.31% 93 8.89% 319 30.50% 1,046 Tangipahoa 1,429 76.99% 395 21.28% 32 1.72% 1,034 55.71% 1,856 Tensas 1,108 82.13% 236 17.49% 5 0.37% 872 64.64% 1,349 Terrebonne 597 62.12% 348 36.21% 16 1.66% 249 25.91% 961 Union 1,586 93.46% 86 5.07% 25 1.47% 1,500 88.39% 1,697 Vermilion 702 77.40% 196 21.61% 9 0.99% 506 55.79% 907 Vernon 697 94.57% 35 4.75% 5 0.68% 662 89.82% 737 Washington 1,168 95.11% 48 3.91% 12 0.98% 1,120 91.21% 1,228 Webster 774 88.36% 97 11.07% 5 0.57% 677 77.28% 876 West Baton Rouge 237 43.73% 279 51.48% 26 4.80% -42 -7.75% 542 West Carroll 637 99.84% 1 0.16% 0 0.00% 636 99.69% 638 West Feliciana 919 93.58% 44 4.48% 19 1.93% 875 89.10% 982 Winn 682 93.42% 42 5.75% 6 0.82% 640 87.67% 730Totals77,17276.38%22,03721.81%1,8341.82%55,13554.57%101,043 See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana References 2 Louisiana 1896 Category:1896 Louisiana elections