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Election 1896 Results

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1896 presidential election in Pennsylvania

William McKinley (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1896, 61.0% to 36.3%, a margin of 24.7 points and 295,072 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 20.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+4.3.

The Republican hold continued from 1892, when Benjamin Harrison won.

Republicans led in 55 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 12. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 244,887 votes and went to the Republican by 46.2 points. The closest was Sullivan, where 41 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 728,300 61.0%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 433,228 36.3%
All other candidates 32,827 2.7%
Total1,194,355

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 63,323 25.9% 176,462 72.1% 5,102 244,887 R+46.2
Allegheny 28,782 26.6% 76,691 70.9% 2,701 108,174 R+44.3
Luzerne 16,867 40.9% 22,599 54.8% 1,782 41,248 R+13.9
Lancaster 8,145 24.3% 24,337 72.7% 1,008 33,490 R+48.3
Berks 18,099 54.7% 14,318 43.3% 665 33,082 D+11.4
Schuylkill 14,552 44.9% 16,985 52.4% 870 32,407 R+7.5
Lackawanna 11,645 36.8% 18,654 59.0% 1,306 31,605 R+22.2
Montgomery 9,985 35.3% 17,329 61.2% 980 28,294 R+26.0
Westmoreland 10,529 39.7% 14,899 56.1% 1,118 26,546 R+16.5
York 12,911 49.5% 12,223 46.9% 926 26,060 D+2.6
Dauphin 6,366 28.8% 14,679 66.5% 1,024 22,069 R+37.7
Erie 8,556 39.6% 11,755 54.4% 1,281 21,592 R+14.8
Chester 5,904 28.1% 14,188 67.6% 898 20,990 R+39.5
Northampton 10,032 48.9% 9,762 47.6% 717 20,511 D+1.3
Lehigh 9,318 47.9% 9,497 48.8% 628 19,443 R+0.9
Washington 7,128 38.2% 10,764 57.7% 748 18,640 R+19.5
Delaware 4,071 21.9% 13,952 75.1% 549 18,572 R+53.2
Fayette 8,157 45.2% 9,218 51.1% 680 18,055 R+5.9
Bucks 6,685 39.3% 9,798 57.6% 524 17,007 R+18.3
Northumberland 7,159 42.7% 8,620 51.4% 977 16,756 R+8.7
Lycoming 7,128 42.8% 8,045 48.3% 1,495 16,668 R+5.5
Crawford 8,383 50.5% 7,851 47.3% 377 16,611 D+3.2
Cambria 6,560 40.9% 8,838 55.2% 624 16,022 R+14.2
Blair 4,694 29.6% 10,365 65.4% 792 15,851 R+35.8
Clearfield 6,152 42.4% 7,359 50.7% 997 14,508 R+8.3
Bradford 4,388 30.8% 9,422 66.0% 457 14,267 R+35.3
Mercer 5,500 42.1% 7,262 55.5% 315 13,077 R+13.5
Butler 4,947 40.2% 6,807 55.3% 554 12,308 R+15.1
Cumberland 5,147 43.6% 6,164 52.2% 501 11,812 R+8.6
Franklin 4,335 37.8% 6,726 58.6% 411 11,472 R+20.8
Beaver 3,908 34.2% 6,816 59.7% 688 11,412 R+25.5
Tioga 2,111 19.0% 7,892 71.2% 1,089 11,092 R+52.1
Armstrong 3,738 36.1% 6,309 61.0% 302 10,349 R+24.8
Lebanon 2,751 26.6% 7,268 70.4% 304 10,323 R+43.8
Venango 4,192 40.7% 5,110 49.6% 1,002 10,304 R+8.9
Centre 4,460 45.6% 4,870 49.8% 444 9,774 R+4.2
Jefferson 3,402 35.4% 5,479 57.0% 738 9,619 R+21.6
Lawrence 2,691 28.1% 6,184 64.7% 687 9,562 R+36.5
Susquehanna 3,292 35.2% 5,275 56.4% 793 9,360 R+21.2
Indiana 2,102 23.9% 5,803 65.9% 896 8,801 R+42.1
Bedford 3,554 40.8% 4,980 57.1% 182 8,716 R+16.4
Columbia 4,808 55.4% 3,266 37.6% 610 8,684 D+17.8
McKean 2,777 32.6% 5,046 59.2% 697 8,520 R+26.6
Carbon 3,543 42.1% 4,513 53.7% 351 8,407 R+11.5
Somerset 2,234 26.9% 5,861 70.5% 224 8,319 R+43.6
Warren 3,048 36.9% 4,846 58.7% 361 8,255 R+21.8
Adams 3,767 46.0% 4,167 50.9% 251 8,185 R+4.9
Clarion 3,952 51.6% 3,325 43.4% 385 7,662 D+8.2
Huntingdon 2,157 28.7% 4,956 65.9% 409 7,522 R+37.2
Clinton 3,051 44.8% 3,486 51.2% 267 6,804 R+6.4
Greene 4,102 60.9% 2,438 36.2% 197 6,737 D+24.7
Wayne 2,408 36.8% 3,708 56.6% 436 6,552 R+19.8
Perry 2,423 39.2% 3,526 57.1% 231 6,180 R+17.8
Potter 1,958 33.3% 3,255 55.4% 664 5,877 R+22.1
Elk 2,664 47.0% 2,802 49.5% 197 5,663 R+2.4
Mifflin 2,022 41.2% 2,662 54.2% 226 4,910 R+13.0
Monroe 2,811 61.8% 1,431 31.4% 309 4,551 D+30.3
Wyoming 1,885 42.3% 2,370 53.2% 202 4,457 R+10.9
Snyder 1,286 32.3% 2,564 64.5% 128 3,978 R+32.1
Juniata 1,794 45.3% 2,057 52.0% 106 3,957 R+6.6
Union 1,105 28.1% 2,573 65.3% 261 3,939 R+37.3
Montour 1,694 52.2% 1,381 42.6% 170 3,245 D+9.6
Sullivan 1,247 47.2% 1,206 45.7% 187 2,640 D+1.6
Fulton 1,228 52.0% 1,080 45.7% 55 2,363 D+6.3
Forest 805 38.0% 1,224 57.7% 91 2,120 R+19.8
Pike 1,080 55.7% 775 39.9% 85 1,940 D+15.7
Cameron 556 35.8% 925 59.6% 71 1,552 R+23.8

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4