Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political system[1] 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.[2] At the same time, outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black voting[3] — intimidation was already either drastically reducing the number of black voters or counting them for Democrats hostile to their interests.[4]
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,[5] and the state Democratic Party was divided less deeply between pro- and anti-lottery factions.[6] 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,[7] 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 whites[8] — which they would complete during the ensuing gubernatorial term.[9]
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.[3] Four electors cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E. Watson.
^ abHoward, Perry H. (1954). "A New Look at Reconstruction". Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior (Thesis). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. pp. 112–113.
^Dethloff, Henry C.; Jones, Robert R. (Autumn 1968). "Race Relations in Louisiana, 1877-98". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Louisiana Historical Association. 9 (4): 301–323.
^Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffrey A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. pp. 265–266. ISBN1107158435.
^Hair. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest, pp. 168-169
^Hair. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest, pp. 261-268
^Lewinson, Paul (1965). Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. New York City: Grosset & Dunlap. p. 81.
^"1896 Presidential General Election Results – Louisiana". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
^"Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
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1896, united, states, presidential, election, louisiana, main, article, 1896, united, states, presidential, election, 1892, november, 1896, 1900, nominee, william, jennings, bryan, william, mckinleyparty, democratic, republicanhome, state, nebraska, ohiorunnin. Main article 1896 United States presidential election 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1892 November 3 1896 1900 Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinleyParty Democratic RepublicanHome state Nebraska OhioRunning mate Arthur Sewall Garret HobartElectoral vote 8 0Popular vote 77 175 22 037Percentage 76 38 21 81 Parish Results Bryan 40 50 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 90 100 McKinley 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 President before electionGrover ClevelandDemocratic Elected President William McKinleyRepublicanThe 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 system 1 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 2 At the same time outside of Acadiana where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black voting 3 intimidation was already either drastically reducing the number of black voters or counting them for Democrats hostile to their interests 4 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 5 and the state Democratic Party was divided less deeply between pro and anti lottery factions 6 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 7 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 whites 8 which they would complete during the ensuing gubernatorial term 9 Louisiana was won by the Democratic nominees former U S Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Arthur Sewall of Maine 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 3 Four electors cast their vice presidential ballots for Thomas E Watson Bryan would later win Louisiana against McKinley again four years later and would later win it again in 1908 against William Howard Taft Contents 1 Results 1 1 Results by parish 2 See also 3 ReferencesResults edit1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana 10 Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votesDemocratic William Jennings Bryan 77 175 76 38 8Republican William McKinley 22 037 21 81 0National Democratic John M Palmer 1 834 1 82 0Totals 101 046 100 00 8Voter turnout Results by parish edit 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish 11 Parish William Jennings BryanDemocratic William McKinleyRepublican John McAuley PalmerNational Democratic Margin Total votes cast Acadia 1 082 81 54 234 17 63 11 0 83 848 63 90 1 327Ascension 737 49 07 722 48 07 43 2 86 15 1 00 1 502Assumption 344 23 66 1 070 73 59 40 2 75 726 49 93 1 454Avoyelles 1 657 88 00 214 11 36 12 0 64 1 443 76 63 1 883Bienville 1 491 96 01 51 3 28 11 0 71 1 440 92 72 1 553Bossier 1 146 97 28 22 1 87 10 0 85 1 124 95 42 1 178Caddo 1 812 83 70 285 13 16 68 3 14 1 527 70 53 2 165Calcasieu 2 658 74 27 891 24 90 30 0 84 1 767 49 37 3 579Caldwell 610 95 46 26 4 07 3 0 47 584 91 39 639Cameron 251 85 37 37 12 59 6 2 04 214 72 79 294Catahoula 811 91 33 74 8 33 3 0 34 737 83 00 888Claiborne 1 757 95 80 53 2 89 24 1 31 1 704 92 91 1 834Concordia 1 085 92 58 80 6 83 7 0 60 1 005 85 75 1 172De Soto 1 940 91 55 153 7 22 26 1 23 1 787 84 33 2 119East Baton Rouge 1 412 68 38 595 28 81 58 2 81 817 39 56 2 065East Carroll 235 52 93 185 41 67 24 5 41 50 11 26 444East Feliciana 1 548 98 47 15 0 95 9 0 57 1 533 97 52 1 572Franklin 871 94 88 28 3 05 19 2 07 843 91 83 918Grant 780 85 15 123 13 43 13 1 42 657 71 72 916Iberia 939 70 02 391 29 16 11 0 82 548 40 87 1 341Iberville 358 36 68 600 61 48 18 1 84 242 24 80 976Jackson 705 97 24 18 2 48 2 0 28 687 94 76 725Jefferson 1 383 79 30 352 20 18 9 0 52 1 031 59 12 1 744Lafayette 825 81 68 167 16 53 18 1 78 658 65 15 1 010Lafourche 1 129 73 94 386 25 28 12 0 79 743 48 66 1 527Lincoln 1 241 95 02 40 3 06 25 1 91 1 201 91 96 1 306Livingston 693 90 23 72 9 38 3 0 39 621 80 86 768Madison 1 248 92 04 96 7 08 12 0 88 1 152 84 96 1 356Morehouse 853 94 15 46 5 08 7 0 77 807 89 07 906Natchitoches 1 656 98 10 23 1 36 9 0 53 1 633 96 74 1 688Orleans 17 487 65 81 8 295 31 22 789 2 97 9 192 34 59 26 571Ouachita 2 712 96 31 93 3 30 11 0 39 2 619 93 00 2 816Plaquemines 1 502 73 16 540 26 30 11 0 54 962 46 86 2 053Pointe Coupee 773 64 04 410 33 97 24 1 99 363 30 07 1 207Rapides 2 600 93 56 142 5 11 37 1 33 2 458 88 45 2 779Red River 832 96 41 26 3 01 5 0 58 806 93 40 863Richland 706 90 75 61 7 84 11 1 41 645 82 90 778Sabine 1 469 97 22 36 2 38 6 0 40 1 433 94 84 1 511Saint Bernard 569 89 47 66 10 38 1 0 16 503 79 09 636Saint Charles 125 29 90 282 67 46 11 2 63 157 37 56 418Saint Helena 522 88 62 59 10 02 8 1 36 463 78 61 589Saint James 210 12 57 1 417 84 85 43 2 57 1 207 72 28 1 670Saint John the Baptist 180 24 32 539 72 84 21 2 84 359 48 51 740Saint Landry 1 786 87 04 242 11 79 24 1 17 1 544 75 24 2 052Saint Martin 679 89 11 76 9 97 7 0 92 603 79 13 762Saint Mary 591 49 25 580 48 33 29 2 42 11 0 92 1 200Saint Tammany 636 60 80 317 30 31 93 8 89 319 30 50 1 046Tangipahoa 1 429 76 99 395 21 28 32 1 72 1 034 55 71 1 856Tensas 1 108 82 13 236 17 49 5 0 37 872 64 64 1 349Terrebonne 597 62 12 348 36 21 16 1 66 249 25 91 961Union 1 586 93 46 86 5 07 25 1 47 1 500 88 39 1 697Vermilion 702 77 40 196 21 61 9 0 99 506 55 79 907Vernon 697 94 57 35 4 75 5 0 68 662 89 82 737Washington 1 168 95 11 48 3 91 12 0 98 1 120 91 21 1 228Webster 774 88 36 97 11 07 5 0 57 677 77 28 876West Baton Rouge 237 43 73 279 51 48 26 4 80 42 7 75 542West Carroll 637 99 84 1 0 16 0 0 00 636 99 69 638West Feliciana 919 93 58 44 4 48 19 1 93 875 89 10 982Winn 682 93 42 42 5 75 6 0 82 640 87 67 730Totals 77 172 76 38 22 037 21 81 1 834 1 82 55 135 54 57 101 043See also editUnited States presidential elections in LouisianaReferences edit Hair William Ivy 1969 Bourbonism and agrarian protest Louisiana politics 1877 1900 pp 114 115 ISBN 0807109088 Kousser J Morgan 1975 The Shaping of Southern Politics Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One Party South 1880 1910 Second Printing ed New Haven Connecticut Yale University Press p 25 ISBN 0 300 01973 4 a b Howard Perry H 1954 A New Look at Reconstruction Political Tendencies in Louisiana 1812 1952 An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior Thesis LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses pp 112 113 Dethloff Henry C Jones Robert R Autumn 1968 Race Relations in Louisiana 1877 98 Louisiana History The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Louisiana Historical Association 9 4 301 323 Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffrey A Republican Party Politics and the American South 1865 1968 pp 265 266 ISBN 1107158435 Hair Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest pp 168 169 Kousser The Shaping of Southern Politics p 41 Hair Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest pp 261 268 Lewinson Paul 1965 Race class and party a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South New York City Grosset amp Dunlap p 81 1896 Presidential General Election Results Louisiana Dave Leip s U S Election Atlas Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1896 Geoelections xlsx file for 30 including full minor party figures Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana amp oldid 1188030013, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
