1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina
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  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 vote110
Popular vote157,733132,997
Percentage53.92%45.47%

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County Results

President before election

William McKinley
Republican

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

The 1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

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In the period between this election and that of 1896, North Carolina had seen the overthrow of its Populist/Republican fusion government by white Democrats in the 1898 Wilmington coup d'état. Following this momentous event, the state would see a radical restructuring of its politics due to the disenfranchisement of its large African-American population, who had provided a substantial – but unlike many Deep South states not overwhelming [1] – proportion of Republican Party support ever since that party first appeared in the state following Reconstruction.

At the same time, the state's Republican Party, now confined to the mountain and northwestern Piedmont areas that had resisted secession and viewed the Democratic Party as a “war party”, [2] would turn almost overnight towards a “lily-white” strategy based on attempting to appeal to businessmen who found the Democratic Party too anti-business and too favorable to using of low-cost black labor instead of whites. [3] The GOP had to some extent followed this strategy in the years before black disenfranchisement because it wanted to appeal to the state's budding industrialists, who were critical of Democratic policies favoring free trade over high tariffs. [4]

Despite the radical changes in the electorate over this and the following election, there was relatively little change in the overall statewide vote in a rematch between Democrat William Jennings Bryan and incumbent Republican President McKinley. Although McKinley lost almost all the GOP's black belt support as its black voters could no longer vote (such as Northampton County, a majority black county which has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the 1896 election), he did make extensive gains in majority-white and formerly Democratic regions of the Piedmont and secessionist parts of the mountains. Consequently, thirty-four of the state's ninety-seven counties switched parties despite a minimal statewide vote share change. [5] McKinley was the first Republican to carry Alexander County, Caldwell County, Graham County, Lincoln County, Macon County, Swain County and Yancey County in historically secessionist parts of the mountains and northwestern Piedmont, and also Orange County in the eastern Piedmont. [6]

In addition, Republicans made strong and persistent gains in historically secessionist Sampson County, home of Populist Senator Marion Butler, a key architect of both the Populist-Republican fusion at the state level in North Carolina and the Populist-Democratic fusion at the national level in 1896 with Bryan's nomination. In 1896 Sampson County overwhelmingly voted for Bryan as the Populist fusion candidate, but with the backlash to the overthrow of the Populist-Republican fusion state government, Sampson County swung heavily to the Republican McKinley, as a 67.63%-30.82% Bryan lead over McKinley in 1896 became a 58.64%-36.82% victory for McKinley over Bryan in 1900. Sampson County would remain an isolated island of Republican support down east for decades.

Along with having defeated McKinley in North Carolina four years earlier, Bryan would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina [7]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 157,73353.92%11
Republican William McKinley (incumbent)132,99745.47%0
Prohibition John G. Woolley 9900.34%0
Populist Wharton Barker 7980.27%0
Totals292,518100.00%11
Voter turnout

Results by county

1900 United States presidential election in North Carolina by county
County William Jennings Bryan [8]
Democratic
William McKinley [8]
Republican
John Granville Woolley [8]
Prohibition
Wharton Barker [8]
Populist
Margin
%#%#%#%#%#
New Hanover 97.40%2,2472.60%600.00%00.00%094.80%2,187
Scotland 95.26%9254.53%440.21%20.00%090.73%881
Robeson 74.14%3,28025.86%1,1440.00%00.00%048.28%2,136
Anson 73.24%1,85626.56%6730.00%00.20%546.69%1,183
Richmond 71.29%1,26428.43%5040.28%50.00%042.87%760
Wilson 70.19%2,81629.76%1,1940.05%20.00%040.43%1,622
Bertie 69.40%2,42030.60%1,0670.00%00.00%038.80%1,353
Onslow 68.14%1,32231.86%6180.00%00.00%036.29%704
Currituck 68.06%92731.94%4350.00%00.00%036.12%492
Pender 67.40%1,13732.19%5430.30%50.12%235.21%594
Union 66.89%1,79032.29%8640.00%00.82%2234.60%926
Gates 66.61%1,12533.39%5640.00%00.00%033.21%561
Nash 66.04%2,60033.96%1,3370.00%00.00%032.08%1,263
Edgecombe 64.78%3,00935.20%1,6350.02%10.00%029.58%1,374
Halifax 64.73%3,99035.27%2,1740.00%00.00%029.46%1,816
Hertford 64.62%1,33735.38%7320.00%00.00%029.24%605
Duplin 63.05%1,87936.28%1,0810.00%00.67%2026.78%798
Franklin 62.45%2,78135.98%1,6020.29%131.28%5726.48%1,179
Cleveland 62.25%2,22836.63%1,3110.59%210.53%1925.62%917
Greene 62.61%1,38537.07%8200.00%00.32%725.54%565
Mecklenburg 62.09%3,78636.63%2,2340.77%470.51%3125.45%1,552
Martin 62.57%1,81937.43%1,0880.00%00.00%025.15%731
Stanly 61.50%1,26538.50%7920.00%00.00%022.99%473
Lenoir 61.34%1,94238.66%1,2240.00%00.00%022.68%718
Johnston 61.03%3,15438.64%1,9970.02%10.31%1622.39%1,157
Wayne 60.79%3,10438.48%1,9650.72%370.00%022.31%1,139
Rowan 57.34%2,46036.25%1,5556.06%2600.35%1521.10%905
Pitt 59.82%3,26439.52%2,1560.27%150.38%2120.31%1,108
Granville 58.80%2,28840.79%1,5870.05%20.36%1418.02%701
Vance 56.98%1,23340.71%8810.09%22.22%4816.27%352
Haywood 57.62%1,73541.75%1,2570.43%130.20%615.88%478
Carteret 57.57%1,04642.21%7670.00%00.22%415.35%279
Craven 57.45%2,02842.55%1,5020.00%00.00%014.90%526
Cabarrus 56.29%1,48542.15%1,1120.61%160.95%2514.14%373
Columbus 56.75%1,62343.25%1,2370.00%00.00%013.50%386
Beaufort 56.28%2,31643.72%1,7990.00%00.00%012.56%517
Northampton 55.66%1,99244.34%1,5870.00%00.00%011.32%405
Burke 55.25%1,38944.15%1,1100.28%70.32%811.10%279
Iredell 54.32%2,52344.00%2,0440.37%171.31%6110.31%479
Dare 54.97%40445.03%3310.00%00.00%09.93%73
Tyrrell 54.89%46645.11%3830.00%00.00%09.78%83
Wake 54.65%4,77445.18%3,9470.17%150.00%09.47%827
Montgomery 54.43%1,10045.52%9200.05%10.00%08.91%180
Jones 54.26%71445.74%6020.00%00.00%08.51%112
Gaston 53.42%1,93144.98%1,6261.38%500.22%88.44%305
Rockingham 54.05%2,65245.89%2,2520.06%30.00%08.15%400
Warren 54.05%1,57345.95%1,3370.00%00.00%08.11%236
Durham 53.71%2,37345.86%2,0260.32%140.11%57.85%347
Person 53.37%1,46646.38%1,2740.00%00.25%76.99%192
Harnett 52.79%1,34247.17%1,1990.04%10.00%05.63%143
Hyde 52.01%86747.87%7980.00%00.12%24.14%69
Alleghany 51.71%70948.29%6620.00%00.00%03.43%47
Washington 51.55%83448.45%7840.00%00.00%03.09%50
Catawba 48.97%1,61246.23%1,5221.91%632.89%952.73%90
Caswell 51.20%1,34248.72%1,2770.08%20.00%02.48%65
Rutherford 51.22%2,08148.76%1,9810.02%10.00%02.46%100
Jackson 50.30%1,08048.77%1,0470.00%00.93%201.54%33
Clay 50.63%40449.37%3940.00%00.00%01.25%10
Guilford 49.96%3,33549.37%3,2960.67%450.00%00.58%39
Orange 49.71%1,27549.90%1,2800.00%00.39%10-0.19%-5
McDowell 49.34%1,01449.83%1,0240.44%90.39%8-0.49%-10
Perquimans 49.52%83050.48%8460.00%00.00%0-0.95%-16
Chowan 49.07%89850.93%9320.00%00.00%0-1.86%-34
Forsyth 48.70%2,48250.77%2,5880.53%270.00%0-2.08%-106
Macon 48.46%97751.34%1,0350.00%00.20%4-2.88%-58
Pasquotank 48.26%1,19651.74%1,2820.00%00.00%0-3.47%-86
Camden 48.21%49851.79%5350.00%00.00%0-3.58%-37
Bladen 47.62%1,10251.51%1,1920.00%00.86%20-3.89%-90
Graham 48.05%35851.95%3870.00%00.00%0-3.89%-29
Cumberland 47.75%1,96451.98%2,1380.24%100.02%1-4.23%-174
Randolph 47.37%2,26452.04%2,4870.59%280.00%0-4.67%-223
Buncombe 47.15%3,72452.41%4,1400.42%330.03%2-5.27%-416
Yancey 46.86%95453.14%1,0820.00%00.00%0-6.29%-128
Alamance 45.60%1,92353.50%2,2560.76%320.14%6-7.90%-333
Transylvania 45.84%52953.90%6220.26%30.00%0-8.06%-93
Caldwell 45.11%1,11153.47%1,3171.14%280.28%7-8.36%-206
Alexander 44.53%77453.97%9381.50%260.00%0-9.44%-164
Brunswick 43.97%52553.85%6430.00%02.18%26-9.88%-118
Pamlico 45.02%59754.98%7290.00%00.00%0-9.95%-132
Stokes 44.52%1,44355.48%1,7980.00%00.00%0-10.95%-355
Moore 44.04%1,60655.63%2,0290.05%20.27%10-11.60%-423
Lincoln 43.58%89255.35%1,1330.15%30.93%19-11.77%-241
Davidson 43.44%1,82355.49%2,3290.45%190.62%26-12.06%-506
Ashe 43.83%1,51356.11%1,9370.06%20.00%0-12.28%-424
Surry 43.64%1,89856.36%2,4510.00%00.00%0-12.72%-553
Swain 43.00%59057.00%7820.00%00.00%0-13.99%-192
Polk 42.34%48457.04%6520.61%70.00%0-14.70%-168
Davie 39.11%83158.87%1,2511.74%370.28%6-19.76%-420
Cherokee 39.96%77459.73%1,1570.00%00.31%6-19.77%-383
Chatham 39.65%1,48959.65%2,2400.05%20.64%24-20.00%-751
Henderson 39.63%97360.37%1,4820.00%00.00%0-20.73%-509
Sampson 36.82%1,25758.64%2,0021.46%503.08%105-21.82%-745
Watauga 39.04%92360.87%1,4390.08%20.00%0-21.83%-516
Wilkes 37.48%1,70462.47%2,8400.04%20.00%0-24.99%-1,136
Yadkin 35.32%95064.42%1,7330.26%70.00%0-29.11%-783
Madison 34.79%1,26865.21%2,3770.00%00.00%0-30.43%-1,109
Mitchell 20.05%49179.95%1,9580.00%00.00%0-59.90%-1,467

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