1900 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1900 Presidential election year November 6 Republican Party (US)William McKinley (R) 57th Republican hold William McKinley (R) 292 William Jennings Bryan (D) 155 Republican +6.1% 1900 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by McKinley, blue denotes states won by Bryan. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. 30 of 90 seatsNot counting special elections. Republican hold Democratic +2Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. 400px Results of the elections:#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#e3406f Silver Republican gain #F3D9DF Silver Republican hold#000000 Legislature failed to elect All 357 voting members Republican hold Republican +13 34 Republican +3 400px 1900 gubernatorial election results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold Elections were held for the 57th United States Congress. The election was held during the Fourth Party System. The Republicans retained control of the presidency and both houses of Congress, while the third parties suffered defeats. In a re-match of the 1896 presidential election, the Republican President William McKinley defeated Democratic former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska.1900 Presidential Election http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1900 The American Presidency Project 25 June 2014 McKinley's previous running mate, Vice President Garret Hobart, had died in office, so the Republicans nominated New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt as their vice presidential candidate. McKinley again won by a comfortable margin in both the popular vote and the electoral college, and he picked up a handful of states in the Western United States and the Midwestern United States. McKinley's win made him the first sitting president to win re-election since Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. Republicans won minor gains in the House, maintaining their majority.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 In the Senate, the Democrats made moderate gains while the Populist Party lost three seats. Republicans continued to maintain a commanding majority in the chamber.Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 See also 1900 United States presidential election 1900 United States House of Representatives elections 1900–01 United States Senate elections References Further reading Bailey John W. Jr. 1973 The Presidential Election of 1900 in Nebraska: McKinley over Bryan Nebraska History 54 4 561–584 0028-1859 Thomas A. Bailey Thomas A. Bailey Was the Presidential Election of 1900 a Mandate on Imperialism? 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Mississippi Valley Historical Review 42.3 (1955): 466–489. online Hair, William Ivy. Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877--1900 (LSU Press, 1969). Harrington Fred H. Fred Harvey Harrington 1935 The Anti-Imperialist Movement in the United States, 1898–1900 Mississippi Valley Historical Review 22 2 211–230 10.2307/1898467 1898467 Hilpert, John M. (2015) American Cyclone: Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign (U Press of Mississippi, 2015), 349 pp. Kalisch, Philip A. "The Black Death in Chinatown: Plague and Politics in San Francisco 1900-1904." Arizona and the West 14.2 (1972): 113–136. online McKinney, Gordon B. Southern Mountain Republicans 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community (U North Carolina Press, 1978). Moneyhon, Carl H. "Black Politics in Arkansas during the Gilded Age, 1876-1900." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 44.3 (1985): 222–245. online Morgan H. Wayne 1966 William McKinley as a Political Leader Review of Politics 28 4 417–432 1405280 10.1017/S0034670500013188 145544412 Quince, Charles. Resistance to the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars: Anti-imperialism and the Role of the Press, 1895-1902 (McFarland, 2017). Schlup Leonard 1986 In the Shadow of Bryan: Adlai E. Stevenson and the Resurgence of Conservatism at the 1900 Convention Nebraska History 67 3 224–238 0028-1859 Thelen, David Paul. The new citizenship: Origins of progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 (U of Missouri Press, 1972). Tompkins E. Berkeley 1967 Scilla and Charybdis: the Anti-imperialist Dilemma in the Election of 1900 Pacific Historical Review 36 2 143–161 10.2307/3636719 3636719 Primary sources Bryan, William Jennings. "The Election of 1900," pp. 788–801 Bryan gives his analysis of why he lost Stevenson, Adlai E., et al. "Bryan or McKinley? The Present Duty of American Citizens," The North American Review Vol. 171, No. 527 (Oct. 1900), pp. 433–516 in JSTOR political statements by politicians on all sides, including Adlai E. Stevenson, B. R. Tillman, Edward M. Shepard, Richard Croker, Erving Winslow, Charles Emory Smith, G. F. Hoar, T. C. Platt, W. M. Stewart, Andrew Carnegie, and James H. Eckels Category:1900 elections in the United States 1900