1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina

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1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina
Flag of South Carolina.svg
  1896 November 6, 1900 1904  
  WilliamJBryan1902 3x4.jpg Mckinley (cropped).jpg
Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Theodore Roosevelt
Electoral vote90
Popular vote47,2333,579
Percentage92.96%7.04%

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County Results

President before election

William McKinley
Republican

Elected President

William McKinley
Republican

The 1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President.

Contents

South Carolina overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, President William McKinley. Bryan won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 85.92% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. Despite McKinley's decisive victory nationwide as a result of the return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War, South Carolina proved to be his weakest state as well as Bryan's strongest state, due to the nearly complete disfranchisement of the black majority that was the party's sole support in the state. [1] [2]

This would be the last election when the Republican Party won any county in South Carolina until Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and the last when any county voted against the Democrats until Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond carried every county except Anderson and Spartanburg in 1948.

Bryan had previously won South Carolina against McKinley four years earlier and would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina [3]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska Adlai Ewing Stevenson I of Illinois 47,23392.96%9100.00%
Republican William McKinley of Ohio (incumbent) Theodore Roosevelt of New York 3,5797.04%00.00
Total50,812100.00%9100.00%

Results by county

CountyWilliam Jennings Bryan
Democratic
William McKinley
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast [4]
# %# %# %
Abbeville 1,36699.42%80.58%1,35898.84%1,374
Aiken 1,47096.52%533.48%1,41793.04%1,523
Anderson 1,85896.47%683.53%1,79092.94%1,926
Bamberg 79395.66%364.34%75791.31%829
Barnwell 1,35695.97%574.03%1,29991.93%1,413
Beaufort 37849.54%38550.46%-7-0.92%763
Berkeley 47280.82%11219.18%36061.64%584
Charleston 1,72986.45%27113.55%1,45872.90%2,000
Cherokee 1,08496.53%393.47%1,04593.05%1,123
Chester 83697.66%202.34%81695.33%856
Chesterfield 1,31495.91%564.09%1,25891.82%1,370
Clarendon 1,13093.16%836.84%1,04786.31%1,213
Colleton 88988.02%12111.98%76876.04%1,010
Darlington 1,23093.68%836.32%1,14787.36%1,313
Dorchester 77094.71%435.29%72789.42%813
Edgefield 91998.18%171.82%90296.37%936
Fairfield 67097.53%172.47%65395.05%687
Florence 1,29094.57%745.43%1,21689.15%1,364
Georgetown 44649.72%45150.28%-5-0.56%897
Greenville 1,77797.42%472.58%1,73094.85%1,824
Greenwood 1,48299.73%40.27%1,47899.46%1,486
Hampton 93699.89%10.11%93599.79%937
Horry 1,33094.39%795.61%1,25188.79%1,409
Kershaw 91095.49%434.51%86790.98%953
Lancaster 1,30094.89%705.11%1,23089.78%1,370
Laurens 1,54098.09%301.91%1,51096.18%1,570
Lexington 1,30297.75%302.25%1,27295.50%1,332
Marion 1,29691.59%1198.41%1,17783.18%1,415
Marlboro 71495.33%354.67%67990.65%749
Newberry 1,36797.16%402.84%1,32794.31%1,407
Oconee 87392.68%697.32%80485.35%942
Orangeburg 2,45793.64%1676.36%2,29087.27%2,624
Pickens 93393.96%606.04%87387.92%993
Richland 44587.77%6212.23%38375.54%507
Saluda 1,26999.45%70.55%1,26298.90%1,276
Spartanburg 2,46796.07%1013.93%2,36692.13%2,568
Sumter 1,19988.88%15011.12%1,04977.76%1,349
Union 1,18292.85%917.15%1,09185.70%1,273
Williamsburg 1,25679.54%32320.46%93359.09%1,579
York 1,19897.00%373.00%1,16194.01%1,235
Totals47,23392.99%3,5597.01%43,67485.99%50,792

See also

References

  1. Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 ISBN   9780691163246
  2. "1900 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  3. "1900 Presidential General Election Results – South Carolina". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  4. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 314-317 ISBN   9780804716963