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Election 1896 Results

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1896 presidential election in South Dakota

William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) beat William McKinley (Republican) in South Dakota in 1896, 49.7% to 49.5%, a margin of 0.2 points and 183 votes.

South Dakota voted 4.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+4.3.

South Dakota changed party: in 1892 it went Republican, for Benjamin Harrison.

Democrats led in 31 of the 54 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 23. The largest, Lawrence, cast 5,151 votes and went to the Democrat by 13.5 points. The closest was Gregory, where 6 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 Jennings Bryan won Democratic 41,225 49.7%
William McKinley Republican 41,042 49.5%
All other candidates 683 0.8%
Total82,950

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Lawrence 2,905 56.4% 2,210 42.9% 36 5,151 D+13.5
Minnehaha 2,667 51.8% 2,429 47.2% 52 5,148 D+4.6
Brown 1,867 53.2% 1,618 46.1% 22 3,507 D+7.1
Lincoln 1,393 47.6% 1,516 51.8% 16 2,925 R+4.2
Union 1,491 53.2% 1,297 46.2% 17 2,805 D+6.9
Yankton 1,330 48.1% 1,423 51.4% 14 2,767 R+3.4
Brookings 1,288 49.9% 1,263 48.9% 32 2,583 D+1.0
Turner 950 36.8% 1,616 62.6% 14 2,580 R+25.8
Day 1,230 50.5% 1,171 48.1% 36 2,437 D+2.4
Clay 1,061 45.7% 1,238 53.3% 22 2,321 R+7.6
Roberts 929 40.8% 1,324 58.2% 22 2,275 R+17.4
Spink 1,061 48.1% 1,132 51.3% 13 2,206 R+3.2
Bon Homme 893 43.3% 1,163 56.4% 7 2,063 R+13.1
Kingsbury 1,051 51.9% 950 46.9% 26 2,027 D+5.0
Grant 902 46.2% 1,029 52.7% 21 1,952 R+6.5
Hutchinson 458 24.3% 1,413 75.0% 14 1,885 R+50.7
Beadle 915 48.8% 935 49.9% 24 1,874 R+1.1
Lake 999 53.3% 864 46.1% 11 1,874 D+7.2
Codington 759 41.6% 1,041 57.1% 23 1,823 R+15.5
Moody 1,012 56.3% 780 43.4% 7 1,799 D+12.9
Pennington 1,038 58.2% 739 41.4% 7 1,784 D+16.8
McCook 1,047 60.3% 678 39.0% 12 1,737 D+21.2
Clark 816 52.8% 695 45.0% 33 1,544 D+7.8
Deuel 668 48.7% 698 50.9% 5 1,371 R+2.2
Davison 733 53.7% 616 45.1% 16 1,365 D+8.6
Meade 802 59.2% 550 40.6% 3 1,355 D+18.6
Charles Mix 594 45.6% 698 53.6% 11 1,303 R+8.0
Miner 705 54.6% 582 45.0% 5 1,292 D+9.5
Hamlin 559 43.9% 702 55.1% 12 1,273 R+11.2
Marshall 694 55.0% 553 43.8% 15 1,262 D+11.2
Brule 668 60.0% 441 39.6% 5 1,114 D+20.4
Fall River 555 51.0% 530 48.7% 4 1,089 D+2.3
Hanson 658 60.7% 420 38.7% 6 1,084 D+22.0
Sanborn 500 47.9% 530 50.8% 14 1,044 R+2.9
Hand 567 55.3% 451 44.0% 7 1,025 D+11.3
Custer 515 54.4% 429 45.3% 3 947 D+9.1
Douglas 380 41.4% 533 58.1% 5 918 R+16.7
Edmunds 510 57.4% 371 41.8% 7 888 D+15.7
McPherson 361 41.1% 512 58.2% 6 879 R+17.2
Aurora 479 54.6% 387 44.1% 12 878 D+10.5
Campbell 369 44.9% 449 54.7% 3 821 R+9.7
Hughes 327 41.3% 462 58.3% 3 792 R+17.0
Potter 390 53.6% 333 45.7% 5 728 D+7.8
Faulk 237 35.3% 430 64.1% 4 671 R+28.8
Jerauld 336 54.5% 274 44.5% 6 616 D+10.1
Walworth 286 52.9% 250 46.2% 5 541 D+6.7
Butte 286 56.1% 222 43.5% 2 510 D+12.5
Sully 198 42.8% 262 56.6% 3 463 R+13.8
Hyde 121 35.0% 223 64.5% 2 346 R+29.5
Stanley 140 60.6% 89 38.5% 2 231 D+22.1
Gregory 116 51.3% 110 48.7% 226 D+2.7
Lyman 78 40.4% 114 59.1% 1 193 R+18.7
Buffalo 79 53.7% 68 46.3% 147 D+7.5
Jackson 30 62.5% 18 37.5% 48 D+25.0

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.

South Dakota in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+29.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+26.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+29.8
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+18.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+8.4
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+21.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+22.7
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+3.5
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+26.5
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.5
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.6
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+11.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+11.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+16.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+16.8
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.5
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+16.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.8
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+29.2
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+21.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+36.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+49.4
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+0.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+36.6