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1900 United States presidential election
1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina South Carolina presidential no 1896 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1896 1904 United States presidential election in South Carolina 1904 November 6, 1900 x200px WilliamJBryan1902 3x4.jpg William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party (United States) Nebraska Adlai Stevenson I 9 47,233 92.96% Mckinley (cropped).jpg William McKinley Republican Party (United States) Ohio Theodore Roosevelt 0 3,579 7.04% 1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina results map by county.svg 325px County results
Bryan
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McKinley
#e27f90 50–60% President William McKinley Republican Party (United States) William McKinley Republican Party (United States)
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.
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.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1900&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1900 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05
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.
Additionally, between 1900 and 1940, South Carolina gave at least 90% of the vote to the Democratic candidate, the longest streak for any state, even including D.C.
Results
1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina1900 Presidential General Election Results – South Carolina http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=45&year=1900&f=1&off=0 U.S. Election Atlas 23 December 2013
Democratic Party (United States)
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I
Illinois
47,233
92.96%
9
100.00%
Republican Party (United States)
William McKinley
Ohio (incumbent)
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
3,579
7.04%
0
0.00%
50,812
100.00%
9
100.00%
Results by county
County William Jennings BryanDemocratic William McKinleyRepublican Margin Total votes castRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 314-317 9780804716963 # % # % # % Abbeville 1,366 99.42% 8 0.58% 1,358 98.84% 1,374 Aiken 1,470 96.52% 53 3.48% 1,417 93.04% 1,523 Anderson 1,858 96.47% 68 3.53% 1,790 92.94% 1,926 Bamberg 793 95.66% 36 4.34% 757 91.31% 829 Barnwell 1,356 95.97% 57 4.03% 1,299 91.93% 1,413 Beaufort 378 49.54% 385 50.46% -7 -0.92% 763 Berkeley 472 80.82% 112 19.18% 360 61.64% 584 Charleston 1,729 86.45% 271 13.55% 1,458 72.90% 2,000 Cherokee 1,084 96.53% 39 3.47% 1,045 93.05% 1,123 Chester 836 97.66% 20 2.34% 816 95.33% 856 Chesterfield 1,314 95.91% 56 4.09% 1,258 91.82% 1,370 Clarendon 1,130 93.16% 83 6.84% 1,047 86.31% 1,213 Colleton 889 88.02% 121 11.98% 768 76.04% 1,010 Darlington 1,230 93.68% 83 6.32% 1,147 87.36% 1,313 Dorchester 770 94.71% 43 5.29% 727 89.42% 813 Edgefield 919 98.18% 17 1.82% 902 96.37% 936 Fairfield 670 97.53% 17 2.47% 653 95.05% 687 Florence 1,290 94.57% 74 5.43% 1,216 89.15% 1,364 Georgetown 446 49.72% 451 50.28% -5 -0.56% 897 Greenville 1,777 97.42% 47 2.58% 1,730 94.85% 1,824 Greenwood 1,482 99.73% 4 0.27% 1,478 99.46% 1,486 Hampton 936 99.89% 1 0.11% 935 99.79% 937 Horry 1,330 94.39% 79 5.61% 1,251 88.79% 1,409 Kershaw 910 95.49% 43 4.51% 867 90.98% 953 Lancaster 1,300 94.89% 70 5.11% 1,230 89.78% 1,370 Laurens 1,540 98.09% 30 1.91% 1,510 96.18% 1,570 Lexington 1,302 97.75% 30 2.25% 1,272 95.50% 1,332 Marion 1,296 91.59% 119 8.41% 1,177 83.18% 1,415 Marlboro 714 95.33% 35 4.67% 679 90.65% 749 Newberry 1,367 97.16% 40 2.84% 1,327 94.31% 1,407 Oconee 873 92.68% 69 7.32% 804 85.35% 942 Orangeburg 2,457 93.64% 167 6.36% 2,290 87.27% 2,624 Pickens 933 93.96% 60 6.04% 873 87.92% 993 Richland 445 87.77% 62 12.23% 383 75.54% 507 Saluda 1,269 99.45% 7 0.55% 1,262 98.90% 1,276 Spartanburg 2,467 96.07% 101 3.93% 2,366 92.13% 2,568 Sumter 1,199 88.88% 150 11.12% 1,049 77.76% 1,349 Union 1,182 92.85% 91 7.15% 1,091 85.70% 1,273 Williamsburg 1,256 79.54% 323 20.46% 933 59.09% 1,579 York 1,198 97.00% 37 3.00% 1,161 94.01% 1,235Totals47,23392.99%3,5597.01%43,67485.99%50,792
See also
United States presidential elections in South Carolina
References
South Carolina
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