1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky

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1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky
  1896 November 6, 1900 1904  
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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Theodore Roosevelt
Electoral vote130
Popular vote235,126227,132
Percentage50.21%48.51%

Kentucky Presidential Election Results 1900.svg
County Results

President before election

William McKinley
Republican

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

The 1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Contents

Kentucky was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate, former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I. They defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Bryan won the state by a narrow margin of 1.7%.

Ever since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, [1] although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during the Third Party System. [2] However, the Democratic Party in the state was heavily divided over free silver and the role of corporations in the middle 1890s, and it lost the governorship for the first time in forty years in 1895 due to Populist defections. [3] In 1896, the state's growing urban and coal mining areas, which unlike most parts of the South had developed economic ties with the Midwest and Northeast and thus opposed free silver, [4] gave William McKinley sufficient support to become the first Republican presidential candidate to win Kentucky, winning it by a very narrow margin of 277 votes in what remains the seventh-closest vote for presidential electors on record. [lower-alpha 1]

For the rematch in 1900, an early poll had the state in doubt. [5] By the final week of October, polls generally had returning Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan carrying the state, [6] and this he did by a 1.7 percent margin. His win was generally attributed to the fact that urban and coal counties were more tolerant of anti-imperialism (directed against American colonialism in the Pacific islands) than free silver. [4] This was the only state that had backed McKinley four years prior that Bryan managed to flip.

Bryan would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky [7]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 235,12650.21%13
Republican William McKinley (incumbent)227,13248.51%0
Prohibition John G. Woolley 2,8900.62%0
Populist Wharton Barker 1,9610.42%0
Social Democratic Eugene V. Debs 7660.16%0
Socialist Labor Joseph F. Malloney 3900.08%0
Totals468,265100.00%13
Voter turnout

Results by county

CountyWilliam Jennings Bryan [8]
Democratic
William McKinley [8]
Republican
John Granville Woolley [8]
Prohibition
Eugene Victor Debs [8]
Socialist
Various candidates [8]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%#%#%
Adair 1,45245.53%1,71353.72%180.56%00.00%60.19%-261-8.18%3,189
Allen 1,49445.67%1,72552.74%220.67%30.09%270.83%-231-7.06%3,271
Anderson 1,48555.91%1,14843.22%150.56%10.04%70.26%33712.69%2,656
Ballard 1,87772.84%67026.00%120.47%00.00%180.70%1,20746.84%2,577
Barren 3,17057.77%2,23440.71%400.73%20.04%410.75%93617.06%5,487
Bath 1,83652.22%1,65447.04%150.43%00.00%110.31%1825.18%3,516
Bell 74825.70%2,14273.58%180.62%10.03%20.07%-1,394-47.89%2,911
Boone 2,30274.89%75924.69%120.39%00.00%10.03%1,54350.20%3,074
Bourbon 2,41150.66%2,21746.59%290.61%60.13%962.02%1944.08%4,759
Boyd 1,51442.84%1,99556.45%180.51%10.03%60.17%-481-13.61%3,534
Boyle 1,57748.15%1,64650.26%411.25%00.00%110.34%-69-2.11%3,275
Bracken 1,86958.13%1,31841.00%210.65%10.03%60.19%55117.14%3,215
Breathitt 1,57364.63%85034.92%90.37%20.08%00.00%72329.70%2,434
Breckinridge 2,23146.11%2,53452.38%260.54%00.00%470.97%-303-6.26%4,838
Bullitt 1,44264.69%77234.63%110.49%10.04%30.13%67030.06%2,229
Butler 1,13132.20%2,33366.43%310.88%00.00%170.48%-1,202-34.23%3,512
Caldwell 1,47546.62%1,62251.26%150.47%10.03%511.61%-147-4.65%3,164
Calloway 2,87675.62%84422.19%200.53%00.00%631.66%2,03253.43%3,803
Campbell 5,14146.52%5,56750.38%680.62%2081.88%660.60%-426-3.86%11,050
Carlisle 1,58773.20%53324.58%371.71%00.00%110.51%1,05448.62%2,168
Carroll 1,80869.97%74928.99%261.01%00.00%10.04%1,05940.98%2,584
Carter 1,72040.99%2,45258.44%160.38%10.02%70.17%-732-17.45%4,196
Casey 1,30241.89%1,78657.46%150.48%00.00%50.16%-484-15.57%3,108
Christian 3,26441.93%4,47357.46%280.36%00.00%200.26%-1,209-15.53%7,785
Clark 2,30254.41%1,90044.91%220.52%10.02%60.14%4029.50%4,231
Clay 68125.71%1,94873.54%90.34%10.04%100.38%-1,267-47.83%2,649
Clinton 41427.01%1,10772.21%40.26%10.07%70.46%-693-45.21%1,533
Crittenden 1,51744.21%1,86554.36%230.67%00.00%260.76%-348-10.14%3,431
Cumberland 66034.38%1,24164.64%140.73%00.00%50.26%-581-30.26%1,920
Daviess 4,91055.36%3,73842.14%1501.69%20.02%700.79%1,17213.21%8,870
Edmonson 91443.84%1,15655.44%60.29%00.00%90.43%-242-11.61%2,085
Elliott 1,36768.52%62431.28%20.10%00.00%20.10%74337.24%1,995
Estill 1,00042.07%1,32955.91%170.72%00.00%311.30%-329-13.84%2,377
Fayette 4,29344.36%5,30254.78%670.69%20.02%140.14%-1,009-10.43%9,678
Fleming 2,18050.35%2,10948.71%400.92%00.00%10.02%711.64%4,330
Floyd 1,61557.15%1,19742.36%90.32%20.07%30.11%41814.79%2,826
Franklin 2,94660.80%1,86338.45%170.35%50.10%140.29%1,08322.35%4,845
Fulton 1,48770.81%58127.67%221.05%10.05%90.43%90643.14%2,100
Gallatin 1,01871.24%40428.27%70.49%00.00%00.00%61442.97%1,429
Garrard 1,31244.58%1,59254.09%341.16%00.00%50.17%-280-9.51%2,943
Grant 2,03957.79%1,46541.52%220.62%00.00%20.06%57416.27%3,528
Graves 4,75968.30%2,07329.75%400.57%100.14%861.23%2,68638.55%6,968
Grayson 1,93845.61%2,21352.08%90.21%00.00%892.09%-275-6.47%4,249
Green 1,24346.71%1,39952.57%100.38%00.00%90.34%-156-5.86%2,661
Greenup 1,43041.45%1,98257.45%270.78%00.00%110.32%-552-16.00%3,450
Hancock 98946.26%1,11352.06%200.94%00.00%160.75%-124-5.80%2,138
Hardin 3,05958.75%2,05339.43%420.81%60.12%470.90%1,00619.32%5,207
Harlan 28015.03%1,57784.65%30.16%10.05%20.11%-1,297-69.62%1,863
Harrison 2,80159.91%1,84339.42%260.56%10.02%40.09%95820.49%4,675
Hart 1,93747.24%2,14052.20%160.39%00.00%70.17%-203-4.95%4,100
Henderson 3,93757.07%2,86541.53%660.96%120.17%180.26%1,07215.54%6,898
Henry 2,36658.94%1,60940.08%260.65%00.00%130.32%75718.86%4,014
Hickman 1,87667.43%86230.98%281.01%00.00%160.58%1,01436.45%2,782
Hopkins 3,32151.05%3,02446.48%821.26%40.06%751.15%2974.57%6,506
Jackson 25812.68%1,77086.98%20.10%00.00%50.25%-1,512-74.30%2,035
Jefferson 21,10745.36%24,90653.52%1690.36%1780.38%1760.38%-3,799-8.16%46,536
Jessamine 1,56552.59%1,32644.56%802.69%10.03%40.13%2398.03%2,976
Johnson 1,02534.80%1,89764.41%50.17%00.00%180.61%-872-29.61%2,945
Kenton 7,26354.74%5,65042.58%830.63%2411.82%310.23%1,61312.16%13,268
Knott 1,01570.15%42929.65%10.07%00.00%20.14%58640.50%1,447
Knox 97627.15%2,60672.49%50.14%00.00%80.22%-1,630-45.34%3,595
Larue 1,42057.49%1,03641.94%80.32%00.00%60.24%38415.55%2,470
Laurel 1,19834.36%2,24164.27%170.49%170.49%140.40%-1,043-29.91%3,487
Lawrence 1,94648.44%2,05251.08%110.27%10.02%70.17%-106-2.64%4,017
Lee 63742.21%85756.79%120.80%00.00%30.20%-220-14.58%1,509
Leslie 1108.46%1,18691.23%20.15%00.00%20.15%-1,076-82.77%1,300
Letcher 50131.97%1,06267.77%30.19%00.00%10.06%-561-35.80%1,567
Lewis 1,48238.48%2,31160.01%370.96%00.00%210.55%-829-21.53%3,851
Lincoln 1,87149.21%1,92550.63%00.00%20.05%40.11%-54-1.42%3,802
Livingston 1,51561.89%90637.01%100.41%10.04%160.65%60924.88%2,448
Logan 3,39255.26%2,62442.75%280.46%20.03%921.50%76812.51%6,138
Lyon 1,00554.65%78942.90%130.71%10.05%311.69%21611.75%1,839
Madison 3,04649.15%3,08449.77%540.87%00.00%130.21%-38-0.61%6,197
Magoffin 95541.87%1,32157.91%30.13%10.04%10.04%-366-16.05%2,281
Marion 2,07057.77%1,49141.61%130.36%20.06%70.20%57916.16%3,583
Marshall 1,59458.28%99736.45%291.06%00.00%1154.20%59721.83%2,735
Martin 24623.08%81276.17%40.38%00.00%40.38%-566-53.10%1,066
Mason 2,95254.19%2,45545.06%300.55%20.04%90.17%4979.12%5,448
McCracken 3,02053.39%2,50644.31%560.99%60.11%681.20%5149.09%5,656
McLean 1,46350.96%1,34446.81%280.98%00.00%361.25%1194.14%2,871
Meade 1,47060.72%91937.96%70.29%80.33%170.70%55122.76%2,421
Menifee 84563.92%47035.55%30.23%00.00%40.30%37528.37%1,322
Mercer 1,78449.15%1,77548.90%431.18%20.06%260.72%90.25%3,630
Metcalfe 1,05047.15%1,16252.18%70.31%00.00%80.36%-112-5.03%2,227
Monroe 86733.09%1,72465.80%90.34%10.04%190.73%-857-32.71%2,620
Montgomery 1,58950.62%1,53348.84%150.48%10.03%10.03%561.78%3,139
Morgan 1,73261.03%1,09338.51%90.32%00.00%40.14%63922.52%2,838
Muhlenberg 1,85742.12%2,49356.54%280.64%00.00%310.70%-636-14.43%4,409
Nelson 2,43863.01%1,40736.37%140.36%20.05%80.21%1,03126.65%3,869
Nicholas 1,87959.27%1,26239.81%270.85%10.03%10.03%61719.46%3,170
Ohio 2,89146.29%3,25152.06%450.72%10.02%570.91%-360-5.76%6,245
Oldham 1,06260.65%66738.09%181.03%00.00%40.23%39522.56%1,751
Owen 3,38074.24%1,12424.69%330.72%10.02%150.33%2,25649.55%4,553
Owsley 25518.53%1,11581.03%30.22%00.00%30.22%-860-62.50%1,376
Pendleton 1,86253.35%1,58045.27%340.97%50.14%90.26%2828.08%3,490
Perry 46731.32%1,01968.34%40.27%00.00%10.07%-552-37.02%1,491
Pike 1,97946.02%2,29053.26%210.49%00.00%100.23%-311-7.23%4,300
Powell 78852.57%69646.43%80.53%10.07%60.40%926.14%1,499
Pulaski 2,17834.32%4,08464.35%811.28%40.06%00.00%-1,906-30.03%6,347
Robertson 71858.80%49440.46%90.74%00.00%00.00%22418.35%1,221
Rockcastle 1,01037.98%1,63761.56%80.30%00.00%40.15%-627-23.58%2,659
Rowan 79046.36%90553.11%70.41%00.00%20.12%-115-6.75%1,704
Russell 78039.08%1,20660.42%70.35%00.00%30.15%-426-21.34%1,996
Scott 2,53954.17%2,10744.95%350.75%00.00%60.13%4329.22%4,687
Shelby 2,79458.59%1,97541.41%00.00%00.00%00.00%81917.17%4,769
Simpson 1,57163.04%86634.75%341.36%00.00%210.84%70528.29%2,492
Spencer 1,17466.63%58233.03%40.23%00.00%20.11%59233.60%1,762
Taylor 1,28652.15%1,13145.86%210.85%10.04%271.09%1556.29%2,466
Todd 1,86850.12%1,82548.97%170.46%00.00%170.46%431.15%3,727
Trigg 1,53349.84%1,45547.30%120.39%10.03%752.44%782.54%3,076
Trimble 1,43776.03%43723.12%140.74%00.00%20.11%1,00052.91%1,890
Union 3,10467.46%1,43731.23%290.63%00.00%310.67%1,66736.23%4,601
Warren 3,45553.48%2,92845.33%410.63%40.06%320.50%5278.16%6,460
Washington 1,66950.59%1,60048.50%170.52%10.03%120.36%692.09%3,299
Wayne 1,37346.39%1,57453.18%60.20%00.00%70.24%-201-6.79%2,960
Webster 2,48156.31%1,84941.97%370.84%00.00%390.89%63214.34%4,406
Whitley 98921.24%3,63478.05%270.58%00.00%60.13%-2,645-56.81%4,656
Wolfe 95956.98%71242.31%60.36%00.00%60.36%24714.68%1,683
Woodford 1,71250.97%1,61748.14%240.71%00.00%60.18%952.83%3,359
Totals235,12350.21%227,12848.51%2,8900.62%7660.16%2,3460.50%7,9951.71%468,253

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