1896 United States presidential election in Minnesota

1896 United States presidential election in Minnesota

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Nominee William McKinley William Jennings Bryan
Party Republican Populist
Alliance - Democratic
Home state Ohio Nebraska
Running mate Garret Hobart Arthur Sewall
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 193,503 139,735
Percentage 53.77% 40.89%

County Results

President before election

Grover Cleveland
Democratic

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

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

Minnesota was won by the Republican nominees, former Ohio Governor William McKinley and his running mate Garret Hobart of New Jersey. They defeated the Democratic and Populist nominees, former Representative William Jennings Bryan and his running mate former Representative Thomas E. Watson. McKinley won the state by a margin of 12.88%.

Bryan would lose Minnesota to McKinley again four years later and would later lose the state again in 1908 to William Howard Taft.