1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1900 South Carolina Democratic gubernatorial primary runoff South Carolina presidential no 1898 South Carolina gubernatorial election 1898 September 11, 1900 1902 South Carolina gubernatorial election 1902 x150px Miles Benjamin McSweeney.jpg Miles Benjamin McSweeney Democratic Party (United States) 51,363 57.86% James A. Hoyt Democratic Party (United States) 37,412 42.14% 1900 South Carolina gubernatorial Democratic primary election results map by county.svg 230px County resultsMcSweeney: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Hoyt: #d3bc5f 50–60% Governor William Haselden Ellerbe Democratic Party (United States) Miles Benjamin McSweeney Democratic Party (United States) The 1900 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor Miles Benjamin McSweeney won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to win a term for governor in his own right. Democratic primary The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 28 and incumbent Governor McSweeney was the frontrunner. McSweeney favored the continuation of the state Dispensary which brought the backing of influential Senator and former Governor Ben Tillman. Prohibitionist James A. Hoyt won second place in the primary to advance to the runoff on September 11, but could not overcome McSweeney because the voters of the state simply did not want any alteration of an institution set up by Ben Tillman. Democratic PrimaryCandidateVotes% Miles Benjamin McSweeney 39,097 42.3 James A. Hoyt 33,833 36.6 Frank B. Gary 12,956 14.0 A. Howard Patterson 6,052 6.6 G. Walton Whitman 491 0.6 Democratic Primary RunoffCandidateVotes%±% Miles Benjamin McSweeney 51,363 57.9 +15.6 James A. Hoyt 37,412 42.1 +5.5 General election The general election was held on November 6, 1900 and Miles Benjamin McSweeney was elected to a second term as governor of South Carolina without opposition. Turnout greatly increased over the previous gubernatorial election because there was also a presidential election on the ballot. South Carolina Gubernatorial Election, 1900 Democratic Party (United States) Miles Benjamin McSweeney (incumbent) 46,457 99.96 0.0 No party Write-Ins 18 0.04 0.0 46,439 99.92 0.0 46,475 |- | Democratic Party (United States) | colspan=5 |Democratic hold |- #00f 65+% won by McSweeney See also Governor of South Carolina List of governors of South Carolina South Carolina gubernatorial elections References William Watts Ball The State That Forgot; South Carolina's Surrender to Democracy 1932 The Bobbs-Merrill Company 255 Official Count Declared The News and Courier 15 September 1900 2 Results of the First Primary The News and Courier 1 September 1900 1 Jordan Frank E The Primary State: A History of the Democratic Party in South Carolina, 1876–1962 21–22 Francis Butler Simkins The Tillman movement in South Carolina 1964 Duke University Press 231 "Report of M.R. Cooper, Secretary of State, to the General Assembly of South Carolina." Reports and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. Volume I. Columbia, South Carolina: The State Company, 1901, pp. 82–83. External links SCIway Biography of Miles Benjamin McSweeney 1898 South Carolina gubernatorial elections 1902 Category:1900 United States gubernatorial elections 1900 1900 Gubernatorial Category:November 1900 in the United States