President Elect

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William
McKINLEY
Garret Augustus Hobart

Party: REPUBLICAN
Home State:

PR: OH; VP: NJ
Electoral Votes: 271
Pop. Vote: 7,104,779 (50.2%)

William Jennings
BRYAN
Arthur Sewall /
Thomas Edward Watson

Party:

PR: DEMOCRATIC and

POPULIST (aka PEOPLE'S)

VP: DEM / POP
Home State:

PR: NE; VP: ME / GA
Electoral Votes:

PR: 176; VP: 149 / 27
Pop. Vote:

DEM: 6,502,925 (46.0%)

POP: 222,583 (1.6%)

Other Candidates
National Democratic, Prohibition, Socialist Labor, National

Party: SEVERAL
Electoral Votes: 0 Pop. Vote: 315,398 (2.2%)

Total electoral votes - 447 (from 45 states)
Majority needed to win - 224
Total popular vote - 14,145,685

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Candidate Party Votes

John McAuley Palmer (IL) /
Simon Bolivar Buckner (KY) National Democratic 133,148

Joshua Levering (MD) /
Hale Johnson (IL) Prohibition 132,007

Charles Horatio Matchett (NY) /
Matthew Maguire (NJ) Socialist Labor 36,274

Charles Eugene Bentley (NE) /
James Haywood Southgate (NC) National 13,969

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