1900 United States presidential election in Oregon

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1900 United States presidential election in Oregon
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Nominee William McKinley William Jennings Bryan
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Ohio Nebraska
Running mate Theodore Roosevelt Adlai Stevenson I
Electoral vote40
Popular vote46,17232,810
Percentage55.46%39.41%
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County Results
President before election

William McKinley
Republican

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

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

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A return to prosperity, continued American expansion in the Philippines, [1] and the fading of the Populist revolt that had spread into Southern Oregon during the previous decade ensured that incumbent President William McKinley would not have any trouble carrying the state. [2]

Indeed, the Populist voters during the 1890s from southern and Eastern Oregon – who had been historically Democratic [2] since before statehood [3] when they were substantially settled by Upland Southerners from the Ozarks and Appalachia (in contrast to the already Republican, Yankee-settled Willamette Valley) [4] – turned in substantial numbers to McKinley, [2] so that Jackson County and also Umatilla County voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time ever and Josephine County for only the second after 1888. [5] These results were also replicated in lower-level elections, so that at state level Oregon would remain, with a very brief New Deal interlude, a one-party state dominated by the Republican Party until the “Revolution of 1954”. [6] Consequently, this would prove the last time until Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 landslide that any Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson carried any of Oregon's counties in a presidential election. [5]

Bryan had previously lost Oregon to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again a third time in 1908 to William Howard Taft.

Results

1900 United States presidential election in Oregon [7]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican William McKinley (incumbent)46,17255.46%4
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 32,81039.41%0
Prohibition John G. Woolley 2,5363.05%0
Social Democratic Eugene V. Debs 1,4641.76%0
Populist Wharton Barker 2690.32%0
Totals83,251100.00%4
Voter turnout—

Results by county

CountyWilliam McKinley
Republican		William Jennings Bryan
Democratic		John Granville Woolley [8]
Prohibition		Eugene Victor Debs [8]
Social Democratic		Wharton Barker [8]
Populist		MarginTotal votes cast [9]
# %# %# %# %# %# %
Baker 1,45846.14%1,61551.11%401.27%401.27%40.13%-157-4.97%3,160
Benton 93152.13%76442.78%814.54%70.39%40.22%1679.35%1,786
Clackamas 2,23453.86%1,64139.56%1182.84%1253.01%220.53%59314.30%4,148
Clatsop 1,32962.48%68832.35%381.79%622.91%50.24%64130.14%2,127
Columbia 86364.79%40330.26%312.33%292.18%50.38%46034.53%1,332
Coos 1,15353.90%88841.51%532.48%301.40%150.70%26512.39%2,139
Crook 47452.96%38142.57%161.79%192.12%30.34%9310.39%895
Curry 30866.09%15232.62%30.64%20.43%10.21%15633.48%466
Douglas 1,91051.92%1,62444.14%752.04%511.39%170.46%2867.77%3,679
Gilliam 41952.97%34343.36%222.78%60.76%20.25%769.61%791
Grant 91158.03%61339.04%150.96%251.59%50.32%29818.98%1,570
Harney 37247.27%38749.17%20.25%222.80%70.89%-15-1.91%787
Jackson 1,56548.17%1,52546.94%682.09%722.22%250.77%401.23%3,249
Josephine 91952.51%74442.51%452.57%362.06%20.11%17510.00%1,750
Klamath 42855.44%32441.97%81.04%30.39%70.91%10413.47%772
Lake 45665.71%23333.57%10.14%00.00%10.14%22332.13%694
Lane 2,52153.12%2,03742.92%1332.80%470.99%70.15%48410.20%4,746
Lincoln 47259.97%26633.80%81.02%334.19%50.64%20626.18%787
Linn 1,92745.13%1,99746.77%2285.34%942.20%270.63%-70-1.64%4,270
Malheur 47848.04%48648.84%181.81%60.60%50.50%-8-0.80%995
Marion 3,11254.36%2,31840.49%1873.27%851.48%210.37%79413.87%5,725
Morrow 72362.65%35831.02%413.55%272.34%30.26%36531.63%1,154
Multnomah 9,94865.46%4,43629.19%4552.99%3542.33%120.08%5,51236.27%15,198
Polk 1,16350.61%99143.12%1024.44%180.78%251.09%1727.48%2,298
Sherman 45148.65%38541.53%828.85%60.65%10.11%667.12%927
Tillamook 62360.19%31330.24%737.05%242.32%20.19%31029.95%1,035
Umatilla 1,97552.06%1,63843.17%1303.43%451.19%70.18%3378.88%3,794
Union 1,51245.93%1,64650.00%571.73%662.00%100.30%-134-4.07%3,292
Wallowa 65152.33%55944.94%211.69%70.56%50.40%927.40%1,244
Wasco 1,57657.37%1,03837.79%853.09%351.27%180.66%53819.59%2,747
Washington 1,65556.14%1,11437.79%1264.27%471.59%60.20%54118.35%2,948
Wheeler 42662.01%24335.37%101.46%50.73%30.44%18326.64%687
Yamhill 1,58352.35%1,23540.84%1645.42%361.19%30.10%34811.51%3,024
Totals46,52655.25%33,38539.64%2,5363.01%1,4641.74%2850.34%13,14115.60%84,216

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    2. 1 2 3 See Lalande, Jeff; ‘A “Little Kansas” in Southern Oregon The Course and Character of Populism in Jackson County, 1890-1900’; Pacific Historical Review, vol. 63, no. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 149-176
    3. ↑ Owens, Kenneth N.; ‘Pattern and Structure in Western Territorial Politics’, Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 4 (October 1970), pp. 373-392
    4. ↑ Pollard, Lancaster; ‘The Pacific Northwest: A Regional Study’; Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4 (December 1951), pp. 211-234
    5. 1 2 Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 284-286 ISBN   0786422173
    6. ↑ Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN   0313213798
    7. ↑ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – Oregon
    8. 1 2 3 Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1900 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
    9. ↑ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 305-308 ISBN   9780804716963
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