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| 2 | William Jennings Bryan 1896 presidential campaign - Results |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | Running mate | Running mate |
| 4 | Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Count | Percentage | Electoral vote | Vice-presidential candidate | - | - |
| 5 | William McKinley | Republican | Ohio | 7,102,246 | 51.0% | 271 | Garret A. Hobart | New Jersey | 271 |
| 6 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic/ Populist | Nebraska | 6,492,559 | 46.7% | 176 | Arthur Sewall | Maine | 149 |
| 7 | William Jennings Bryan | Democratic/ Populist | Nebraska | 6,492,559 | 46.7% | 176 | Thomas E. Watson | Georgia | 27 |
| 8 | John M. Palmer | National Democratic | Illinois | 133,537 | 0.96% | 0 | Simon Bolivar Buckner | Kentucky | 0 |
| 9 | Joshua Levering | Prohibition | Maryland | 124,896 | 0.90% | 0 | Hale Johnson | Illinois | 0 |
| 10 | Charles Matchett | Socialist Labor | New York | 36,359 | 0.26% | 0 | Matthew Maguire | New Jersey | 0 |
| 11 | Charles Eugene Bentley | National Prohibition | Nebraska | 19,367 | 0.14% | 0 | James Southgate | North Carolina | 0 |
| 12 | Other | Other | Other | 1,570 | 0.0% | — | Other | Other | — |
| 13 | Total | Total | Total | 13,905,691 | 100% | 447 | - | - | 447 |
| 14 | Needed to win | Needed to win | Needed to win | Needed to win | Needed to win | 224 | - | - | 224 |

Question: How close was the election for William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential campaign?
Answer: In the 1896 presidential campaign, the electoral vote was not as close: 271 for McKinley to 176 for William Jennings Bryan.