1892 U.S. Presidential Election Results:
A split within the Republican Party resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Democratic Party candidate. , What happened with the Republicans was a battle between the incumbent President Taft and the ex-president Theodore Roosevelt. Taft won the nomination, so Roosevelt founded another party and ran anyway. He did better than Taft, but the split threw the election to the Democrat,New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson.
The Election of 1912 was the last U. S. Presidential election in which the second place finisher was the nominee of a party other than the Democratic or Republican Parties.
1912 U. S. Presidential / Vice Presidential Election Results:
1912 U. S. Presidential / Vice Presidential Election Results:
435 votes (81.9%) - Gov. Woodrow Wilson of NJ / Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of IN (Democratic Party)
88 votes (16.6%) - Fmr. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt of NY / Gov. Hiram Johnson of CA (Progressive Party)
8 votes (1.5%) - Pres. William Howard Taft of OH / Columbia Univ. Pres. Nicholas Murray Butler of NY (Republican Party)
(Nicholas Murray Butler was selected after Election Day to receive the votes of the states in which the popular vote for vice president was won by V.P. James Sherman, who died about a week before Election Day.)
1896 U.S. Presidential Election Results:
Congressman Bryan was one of only three people to receive the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination more than twice (1896, 1900 & 1908), the others being Grover Cleveland (1884, 1888 & 1892) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932, 1936, 1940 & 1944).
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William McKinley won the 1896 presidential election defeating William J. Bryan. In the 1896 presidential election William McKinley received 271 electoral votes and William Bryan received 176 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were McKinley 7,108,480 and Bryan 6,511,495.
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Election of 1896
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The 1896 United States presidential election was a contest between William McKinley, representing the Republican Party, and William J. Bryan, representing the Democratic Party. McKinley won the election.
The UNIVAC I was used by the Census Bureau to predict the outcome of the 1952 presidential election.
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William McKinley won the 1896 presidential election defeating William J. Bryan. In the 1896 presidential election William McKinley received 271 electoral votes and William Bryan received 176 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were McKinley 7,108,480 and Bryan 6,511,495.
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