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Election 1896 Results

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1896 presidential election in New York

William McKinley (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in New York in 1896, 57.6% to 38.7%, a margin of 18.9 points and 268,469 votes.

New York voted 14.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+4.3.

New York changed party: in 1892 it went Democratic, for Grover Cleveland.

Republicans led in 57 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, New York, cast 308,232 votes and went to the Republican by 6.7 points. The closest was Schoharie, where 365 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
William McKinley won Republican 819,838 57.6%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 551,369 38.7%
All other candidates 52,669 3.7%
Total1,423,876

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New York 135,624 44.0% 156,359 50.7% 16,249 308,232 R+6.7
Kings 76,882 39.7% 109,135 56.3% 7,659 193,676 R+16.7
Erie 30,172 38.7% 45,612 58.6% 2,095 77,879 R+19.8
Monroe 17,158 38.3% 26,288 58.7% 1,372 44,818 R+20.4
Albany 17,818 43.6% 22,263 54.5% 753 40,834 R+10.9
Onondaga 13,695 34.1% 25,032 62.4% 1,414 40,141 R+28.2
Westchester 11,752 36.2% 19,337 59.6% 1,345 32,434 R+23.4
Queens 11,980 37.2% 18,694 58.0% 1,539 32,213 R+20.8
Oneida 11,003 35.5% 18,855 60.8% 1,149 31,007 R+25.3
Rensselaer 13,119 42.4% 17,221 55.7% 574 30,914 R+13.3
Orange 8,971 37.9% 14,086 59.5% 610 23,667 R+21.6
Steuben 7,971 36.9% 12,858 59.5% 793 21,622 R+22.6
St. Lawrence 5,749 26.7% 15,287 71.0% 505 21,541 R+44.3
Chautauqua 6,581 30.6% 14,325 66.6% 601 21,507 R+36.0
Ulster 8,140 41.3% 11,100 56.3% 471 19,711 R+15.0
Dutchess 6,634 34.2% 12,127 62.4% 661 19,422 R+28.3
Jefferson 6,644 35.4% 11,411 60.9% 689 18,744 R+25.4
Oswego 6,401 35.2% 11,411 62.8% 356 18,168 R+27.6
Broome 5,461 32.8% 10,630 63.8% 583 16,674 R+31.0
Cayuga 5,846 35.8% 10,024 61.4% 460 16,330 R+25.6
Cattaraugus 6,088 38.3% 9,337 58.8% 464 15,889 R+20.4
Niagara 6,441 41.6% 8,626 55.7% 423 15,490 R+14.1
Saratoga 4,987 32.9% 9,638 63.6% 536 15,161 R+30.7
Otsego 5,820 40.2% 8,161 56.4% 496 14,477 R+16.2
Suffolk 3,872 27.5% 9,388 66.6% 837 14,097 R+39.1
Chemung 5,259 38.7% 7,926 58.3% 401 13,586 R+19.6
Herkimer 5,027 37.1% 8,096 59.8% 422 13,545 R+22.7
Ontario 5,485 41.1% 7,506 56.3% 341 13,332 R+15.2
Delaware 4,450 35.3% 7,790 61.8% 375 12,615 R+26.5
Wayne 4,254 33.8% 8,039 63.8% 305 12,598 R+30.0
Montgomery 4,759 39.2% 7,082 58.4% 288 12,129 R+19.2
Washington 3,239 27.5% 8,139 69.1% 397 11,775 R+41.6
Madison 3,580 30.9% 7,588 65.6% 406 11,574 R+34.6
Allegany 3,895 33.8% 7,079 61.5% 534 11,508 R+27.7
Columbia 4,373 38.4% 6,654 58.5% 355 11,382 R+20.0
Richmond 4,452 39.8% 6,170 55.1% 576 11,198 R+15.3
Chenango 3,973 37.0% 6,338 59.1% 415 10,726 R+22.0
Livingston 4,101 41.4% 5,461 55.2% 334 9,896 R+13.7
Tompkins 3,506 38.1% 5,342 58.1% 352 9,200 R+20.0
Clinton 3,074 33.5% 6,005 65.3% 110 9,189 R+31.9
Schenectady 3,711 41.7% 4,903 55.0% 293 8,907 R+13.4
Franklin 2,490 28.2% 6,118 69.3% 221 8,829 R+41.1
Greene 3,688 43.4% 4,540 53.5% 264 8,492 R+10.0
Genesee 3,004 35.6% 5,190 61.5% 245 8,439 R+25.9
Schoharie 4,203 51.0% 3,838 46.6% 199 8,240 D+4.4
Wyoming 2,706 33.9% 4,967 62.3% 302 7,975 R+28.4
Tioga 2,824 35.6% 4,849 61.1% 268 7,941 R+25.5
Orleans 2,993 37.8% 4,664 59.0% 252 7,909 R+21.1
Sullivan 3,073 39.1% 4,589 58.4% 202 7,864 R+19.3
Cortland 2,574 33.0% 4,939 63.4% 278 7,791 R+30.4
Lewis 3,042 39.8% 4,461 58.3% 144 7,647 R+18.6
Rockland 3,002 39.4% 4,336 56.9% 276 7,614 R+17.5
Essex 1,760 24.4% 5,356 74.2% 98 7,214 R+49.8
Seneca 3,213 44.6% 3,853 53.5% 132 7,198 R+8.9
Warren 2,269 31.7% 4,685 65.5% 198 7,152 R+33.8
Yates 2,086 37.1% 3,370 59.9% 174 5,630 R+22.8
Schuyler 1,619 36.0% 2,692 59.9% 184 4,495 R+23.9
Putnam 1,027 29.4% 2,364 67.6% 104 3,495 R+38.3

Counties as they stood in 1896; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

New York in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+12.6
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+23.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+22.5
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+28.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+26.9
2004 John Kerry (D) D+18.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+25.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+28.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.8
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+8.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.7
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.3
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+19.9
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+12.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+26.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+37.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+7.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+12.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+10.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.3
1896 William McKinley (R) R+18.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+1.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+3.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.5
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.2