Presidential election in the United States 1900

‹  1896  •   •  1904 ›
29th presidential election
November 6, 1900
			Republican Party
			William McKinley / Theodore Roosevelt
			electors					292
			be right				7,228,864
									51.6%
			Democratic Party
			William J. Bryan / Adlai Stevenson
			electors					155
			be right				6,370,932
									45.5%
Election results by state
28 states   McKinley / Roosevelt						17 states   Bryan / Stevenson
President of the United States
Before the election William McKinley Republican Party						Elected William McKinley Republican Party

In the US presidential election of 1900 , held on November 6, 1900 , there was a new edition of the presidential election of 1896 with the candidates William McKinley ( Republicans ) and William Jennings Bryan ( Democrats ) . The victory in the Spanish-American War and the increase in economic prosperity helped McKinley to take up his second term.

Nominations

Republican Party

The 926 delegates to the Republican Convention in Philadelphia reappointed William McKinley as a presidential candidate. Under pressure from leading New York party members, Theodore Roosevelt , Governor of New York , was delegated as a candidate for the office of Vice President , replacing Garret Hobart , who had died in 1899.

Democratic Party

William Jennings Bryan was elected by 936 delegates to the Kansas City Democratic Convention . As a candidate for the office of Vice President, Adlai Stevenson was able to prevail against three other candidates.

Populist party

The Populist Party did not support William Jennings Bryan as it did in 1896, but instead put its own candidate in Wharton Barker .

Social Democratic Party

The Social Democratic Party also put forward its own candidate: Eugene V. Debs was nominated.

Result

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
William McKinley	republican	7,228,864	51.6%	292
William Jennings Bryan	democrat	6,370,932	45.5%	155
John Granville Woolley	Prohibitionist	210.864	1.5%	0
Eugene V. Debs	Social democrat	87,945	0.6%	0
Wharton Barker	populist	50,989	0.4%	0
Joseph F. Maloney	socialist	40,943	0.3%	0
total		13,997,426	100%	447

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 267-275 (= Chapter 31: William McKinley's Reelection. ).

Web links

Commons : United States presidential election, 1900  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dave Leips: Atlas of US Presidential Elections