1896 Maine gubernatorial election

Maine gubernatorial election

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September 14, 1896

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Nominee	Llewellyn Powers	Melvin P. Frank
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	82,596	34,350
Percentage	66.84%	27.80%

Governor before election

Henry B. Cleaves
Republican

Elected Governor

Llewellyn Powers
Republican

The 1896 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 14, 1896.

Incumbent Governor Henry B. Cleaves did not seek re-election. Republican candidate Llewellyn Powers defeated Democratic candidate Melvin B. Frank.

Results

1896 Maine gubernatorial election^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[a]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Llewellyn Powers	82,596	66.84%
	Democratic	Melvin P. Frank	34,350	27.80%
	Populist	Luther C. Bateman	3,292	2.66%
	Prohibition	Ammi S. Ladd	2,669	2.16%
	National Democratic	William H. Clifford	609	0.49%
	Scattering		48	0.04%
Majority			48,246	39.05%
Turnout			123,564
	Republican hold		Swing

Notes

^ The Maine Senate Journal records the result as Powers 82,876, Frank 34,453, Bateman 3,306, Ladd 2,714, Clifford 610, scattering 31.^[7]

References

^ "ME Governor, 1896". Our Campaigns. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
^ Guide to US Elections, Fifth Edition, Volume II. CQ Press. 2005. p. 1499. ISBN 978-1-56802-981-8. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
^ Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 126–127. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.
^ Dubin, Michael J. (2010). United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861-1911. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7864-4722-0.
^ Kallenbach, Joseph E.; Kallenbach, Jessamine S., eds. (1977). American State Governors, 1776-1976. Vol. I. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc. p. 244. ISBN 0-379-00665-0.
^ Maine Register, State Year-Book and Legislative Manual. Vol. 55. Portland, Maine: Portland Directory Company. 1924. p. 273.
^ "Senate". Legislative Record of the Sixty-Eighth Legislature of the State of Maine. 1897 (PDF). p. 8.

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