1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1900 United States presidential election 1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana Louisiana 1861b presidential no 1896 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1896 1904 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1904 November 6, 1900 x200px WilliamJBryan1902 3x4.jpg William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party (United States) Nebraska Adlai Stevenson I 8 53,668 79.03% Mckinley (cropped).jpg William McKinley Republican Party (United States) Ohio Theodore Roosevelt 0 14,234 20.96% 1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg 350px Parish results Bryan #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% McKinley #e27f90 50–60% President William McKinley Republican Party (United States) William McKinley Republican Party (United States) The 1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Following the overthrow of Reconstruction Republican government, Louisiana, like most of the former Confederacy, established a Democratic-dominated but highly fraudulent political system that would, from 1890, be challenged by the rise of the Populist Party due to declining conditions for farmers.Hair William Ivy Bourbonism and agrarian protest; Louisiana politics, 1877-1900 1969 0807109088 114–115 Louisiana State University Press Both the Populists and the earlier Greenback Party — who shared key leaders like James B. Weaver — would be supported by the state Republican Party.Kousser J. Morgan The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 1975 Yale University Press New Haven, Connecticut 0-300-01973-4 25 Second Printing At the same time, outside of Acadiana — where French Catholic beliefs produced less hardline attitudes towards black votingHoward Perry H. 1954 Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior 112–113 A New Look at Reconstruction LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses 8115 — intimidation was already drastically reducing the number of black voters. Although the state GOP was deeply divided between “black and tans” and an insurgent “lily white” faction led by Acadian sugar planters,Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffrey A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 March 19, 2020 265–266 Cambridge University Press 978-1107158436 a multi-party fusion candidacy in the 1896 gubernatorial election gave a strong showing against the Democratic Party, being denied according to most analyses by the persistent fraud.Kousser. The Shaping of Southern Politics, p. 41 Fear of a return to “carpetbag” and black rule amongst the state's plantation elite was so strong that this group radically rewrote the state's constitution in the ensuing gubernatorial term. A poll tax, a literacy test, a grandfather clause, and a secret ballot all made voting by the lower classes much more difficult, producing a reduction in the number of registered black voters by 96 percent,Lewinson Paul Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South 1965 Grosset & Dunlap New York City 81 and virtual elimination of black voting in Acadiana until the 1950s. In the remainder of the state very few blacks could vote until after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Subcommittee No. 5 1965 1965 Voting Rights Act Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives 4, 139–201 In Louisiana, the Republican party lacked any white base because Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority November 23, 2014 208, 210 Princeton University Press 9780691163246 Consequently, the state after the elimination of its black electorate became a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. After 1900, not until 1964 would another Republican serve in the state legislature.Kang Michael S. Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering Boston College Law Review May 29, 2019 69 1395 Louisiana was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. They defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Bryan won the state by a landslide margin of 58.07%. With 79.03% of the popular vote, Louisiana would prove to be Bryan's third strongest state in the 1900 presidential election only after South Carolina and Mississippi.https://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 Bryan had previously won Louisiana against McKinley four years earlier and would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft. This is the last time a Republican won two terms without ever winning the state. Results + General Election ResultsParty Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Robert H. Snyder53,671The parish figures add up to 53,668 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan William O. Hart53,594 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Thomas H. Lewis53,593 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Charles J. Theard53,591 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Edward McCollom53,588 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan S. D. Ellis53,563 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan Allen Barksdale53,561 Democratic Party William Jennings Bryan H. T. Liverman53,559 Republican Party William McKinley W. G. Wyly14,233The parish figures add up to 14,234 Republican Party William McKinley Henry McCall14,228 Republican Party William McKinley Vincent Foulon14,211 Republican Party William McKinley Jacob Libermuth14,211 Republican Party William McKinley R. R. Stone14,209 Republican Party William McKinley J. B. Slattery14,207 Republican Party William McKinley Henry W. Robinson14,205 Republican Party William McKinley James C. Weaks14,202 Write-in Scattering4Votes castBased on totals for highest elector on each ticket 67,908 Results by parish 1900 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish Michel John T. May 12, 1902 Secretary of State of the State of Louisiana https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101035373057&seq=594 Report of the Secretary of State to His Excellency W. W. Heard, Governor of the State of Louisiana 584-585ParishWilliam Jennings BryanDemocraticWilliam McKinleyRepublicanScatteringMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % Acadia 577 70.02% 247 29.98% 0 0.00% 330 40.05% 824 Ascension 824 56.36% 638 43.64% 0 0.00% 186 12.72% 1,462 Assumption 584 53.53% 507 46.47% 0 0.00% 77 7.06% 1,091 Avoyelles 951 85.06% 167 14.94% 0 0.00% 784 70.13% 1,118 Bienville 889 93.19% 65 6.81% 0 0.00% 824 86.37% 954 Bossier 635 99.06% 6 0.94% 0 0.00% 629 98.13% 641 Caddo 1,338 96.05% 55 3.95% 0 0.00% 1,283 92.10% 1,393 Calcasieu 1,559 70.93% 639 29.07% 0 0.00% 920 41.86% 2,198 Caldwell 283 80.63% 68 19.37% 0 0.00% 215 61.25% 351 Cameron 185 71.98% 72 28.02% 0 0.00% 113 43.97% 257 Catahoula 526 78.51% 144 21.49% 0 0.00% 382 57.01% 670 Claiborne 885 96.30% 34 3.70% 0 0.00% 851 92.60% 919 Concordia 362 95.51% 17 4.49% 0 0.00% 345 91.03% 379 De Soto 923 98.19% 17 1.81% 0 0.00% 906 96.38% 940 East Baton Rouge 837 84.89% 149 15.11% 0 0.00% 688 69.78% 986 East Carroll 176 95.65% 8 4.35% 0 0.00% 168 91.30% 184 East Feliciana 551 96.50% 20 3.50% 0 0.00% 531 92.99% 571 Franklin 362 92.35% 30 7.65% 0 0.00% 332 84.69% 392 Grant 350 69.17% 156 30.83% 0 0.00% 194 38.34% 506 Iberia 1,030 60.66% 668 39.34% 0 0.00% 362 21.32% 1,698 Iberville 674 64.50% 371 35.50% 0 0.00% 303 29.00% 1,045 Jackson 333 80.24% 82 19.76% 0 0.00% 251 60.48% 415 Jefferson 1,282 95.60% 59 4.40% 0 0.00% 1,223 91.20% 1,341 Lafayette 696 67.31% 338 32.69% 0 0.00% 358 34.62% 1,034 Lafourche 1,230 59.77% 828 40.23% 0 0.00% 402 19.53% 2,058 Lincoln 517 89.45% 61 10.55% 0 0.00% 456 78.89% 578 Livingston 399 96.38% 15 3.62% 0 0.00% 384 92.75% 414 Madison 153 96.84% 5 3.16% 0 0.00% 148 93.67% 158 Morehouse 461 98.29% 8 1.71% 0 0.00% 453 96.59% 469 Natchitoches 845 88.20% 113 11.80% 0 0.00% 732 76.41% 958 Orleans 18,168 79.98% 4,549 20.02% 0 0.00% 13,619 59.95% 22,717 Ouachita 663 93.51% 46 6.49% 0 0.00% 617 87.02% 709 Plaquemines 567 83.14% 115 16.86% 0 0.00% 452 66.28% 682 Pointe Coupee 586 96.38% 22 3.62% 0 0.00% 564 92.76% 608 Rapides 1,420 81.52% 319 18.31% 3 0.17% 1,101 63.21% 1,742 Red River 462 98.51% 6 1.28% 1 0.21% 456 97.23% 469 Richland 304 95.90% 13 4.10% 0 0.00% 291 91.80% 317 Sabine 543 91.26% 52 8.74% 0 0.00% 491 82.52% 595 Saint Bernard 398 89.64% 46 10.36% 0 0.00% 352 79.28% 444 Saint Charles 435 90.25% 47 9.75% 0 0.00% 388 80.50% 482 Saint James 395 48.59% 418 51.41% 0 0.00% -23 -2.83% 813 Saint John the Baptist 331 78.62% 90 21.38% 0 0.00% 241 57.24% 421 Saint Landry 1,297 84.99% 229 15.01% 0 0.00% 1,068 69.99% 1,526 Saint Martin 538 82.64% 113 17.36% 0 0.00% 425 65.28% 651 Saint Mary 818 57.44% 606 42.56% 0 0.00% 212 14.89% 1,424 Saint Tammany 515 76.41% 159 23.59% 0 0.00% 356 52.82% 674 Tangipahoa 938 80.38% 229 19.62% 0 0.00% 709 60.75% 1,167 Tensas 212 97.70% 5 2.30% 0 0.00% 207 95.39% 217 Terrebonne 740 60.16% 490 39.84% 0 0.00% 250 20.33% 1,230 Union 750 87.72% 105 12.28% 0 0.00% 645 75.44% 855 Vermilion 625 62.75% 371 37.25% 0 0.00% 254 25.50% 996 Vernon 522 66.67% 261 33.33% 0 0.00% 261 33.33% 783 Washington 449 89.26% 54 10.74% 0 0.00% 395 78.53% 503 Webster 604 98.53% 9 1.47% 0 0.00% 595 97.06% 613 West Baton Rouge 185 82.96% 38 17.04% 0 0.00% 147 65.92% 223 West Carroll 173 98.86% 2 1.14% 0 0.00% 171 97.71% 175 West Feliciana 320 94.40% 19 5.60% 0 0.00% 301 88.79% 339 Winn 293 55.60% 234 44.40% 0 0.00% 59 11.20% 527Saint HelenaNo returns were canvassed for Saint Helena ParishN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/ATotals53,66879.03%14,23420.96%40.01%39,43458.07%67,906 See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana Notes References 2 Louisiana 1900 Category:1900 Louisiana elections