1900 United States presidential election in Maine
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The 1900 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Maine overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Maine by a margin of 27.85% in this rematch of the 1896 United States presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory. Nonetheless, Bryan’s narrow victory in Knox County was the only occasion between 1884 and 1908 that a Democrat carried any of Maine’s counties, and one of only two such cases[b] between 1856 and 1908 inclusive.[1]
With 61.89% of the popular vote, Maine would be McKinley's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont and North Dakota.[2]
Results
| 1900 United States presidential election in Maine[3][a] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | William McKinley of Ohio | Theodore Roosevelt of New York | 65,412 | 61.89% | 6 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | Adlai Ewing Stevenson I of Illinois | 36,822 | 34.84% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | John Granville Woolley of Illinois | Henry Brewer Metcalf of Rhode Island | 2,581 | 2.44% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Job Harriman of California | 878 | 0.83% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 106,093 | 100.00% | 6 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county
| County | William McKinley Republican |
William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
John Granville Woolley[4] Prohibition |
Eugene Victor Debs[4] Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Androscoggin | 4,648 | 57.44% | 3,182 | 39.32% | 203 | 2.51% | 59 | 0.73% | 1,466 | 18.12% | 8,092 |
| Aroostook | 4,192 | 76.07% | 1,030 | 18.69% | 280 | 5.08% | 9 | 0.16% | 3,162 | 57.38% | 5,511 |
| Cumberland | 8,824 | 58.59% | 5,770 | 38.31% | 337 | 2.24% | 129 | 0.86% | 3,054 | 20.28% | 15,060 |
| Franklin | 2,235 | 65.99% | 1,085 | 32.03% | 65 | 1.92% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,150 | 33.96% | 3,387 |
| Hancock | 3,432 | 63.70% | 1,860 | 34.52% | 69 | 1.28% | 27 | 0.50% | 1,572 | 29.18% | 5,388 |
| Kennebec | 6,228 | 62.60% | 3,410 | 34.27% | 257 | 2.58% | 54 | 0.54% | 2,818 | 28.33% | 9,949 |
| Knox | 2,762 | 48.76% | 2,765 | 48.81% | 74 | 1.31% | 64 | 1.13% | -3 | -0.05% | 5,665 |
| Lincoln | 2,212 | 59.98% | 1,419 | 38.48% | 48 | 1.30% | 9 | 0.24% | 793 | 21.50% | 3,688 |
| Oxford | 3,912 | 64.19% | 2,023 | 33.20% | 146 | 2.40% | 13 | 0.21% | 1,889 | 30.99% | 6,094 |
| Penobscot | 6,873 | 63.87% | 3,615 | 33.59% | 237 | 2.20% | 36 | 0.33% | 3,258 | 30.28% | 10,761 |
| Piscataquis | 2,023 | 67.50% | 824 | 27.49% | 146 | 4.87% | 4 | 0.13% | 1,199 | 40.01% | 2,997 |
| Sagadahoc | 2,245 | 64.49% | 1,025 | 29.45% | 192 | 5.52% | 19 | 0.55% | 1,220 | 35.04% | 3,481 |
| Somerset | 3,727 | 61.21% | 1,949 | 32.01% | 121 | 1.99% | 292 | 4.80% | 1,778 | 29.20% | 6,089 |
| Waldo | 2,469 | 57.96% | 1,710 | 40.14% | 61 | 1.43% | 20 | 0.47% | 759 | 17.82% | 4,260 |
| Washington | 3,682 | 61.60% | 2,109 | 35.29% | 110 | 1.84% | 76 | 1.27% | 1,573 | 26.31% | 5,977 |
| York | 6,949 | 61.52% | 4,046 | 35.82% | 235 | 2.08% | 65 | 0.58% | 2,903 | 25.70% | 11,295 |
| Totals | 66,413 | 61.67% | 37,822 | 35.12% | 2,581 | 2.40% | 878 | 0.82% | 28,591 | 26.55% | 107,694 |
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c These Results differ slightly from those used by Edgar Eugene Robinson and taken from the Maine Secretary of State
- ^ In 1880, Winfield S. Hancock carried Aroostook County, Knox County, Lincoln County and Waldo County.
References
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 218-219 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1900 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ "1900 Presidential General Election Results - Maine". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ a b Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1900 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
- ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 223-224 ISBN 9780804716963
