The1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsinwas held on November 6, 1900 as part of the1900 United States presidential election.State voters chose 12 electors to theElectoral College,who voted forpresidentandvice president.
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Wisconsinduring theThird Party Systemwas a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historicallyanti-Civil WarGerman Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly RepublicanYankeeareas.[1]However, followingthe Populist movement,whose inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics,[2]Wisconsin’s upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled fromWilliam Jennings Bryan’s agrarian andfree silversympathies.[3]Although in1892Grover Clevelandhad become the first Democrat to carry the state since the formation of the Republican Party, in1896Wisconsin would prove RepublicanWilliam McKinley’s strongest state outsidethe Northeast,as Bryan’sfree silvermonetary policy gained little support from dairy farmers who were less affected by drought or debt than wheat growers.[4]
Wisconsin would henceforth become almost a one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party.[5]The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside the previously anti-Yankee areas adjoiningLake Michiganin the eastern part of the state. In response to Democratic strength weakening severely after 1894, however, challenges within the state Republican Party fromRobert M. La Follettewould emerge rapidly, with the progressive reformer being electedGovernorcoincident with the presidential election.[6]
Despite McKinley’s large win in 1896, Wisconsin was considered doubtful at the beginning of the 1900 campaign.[7]However, by the middle of October expert opinion suggested strongly that McKinley would carry the state, and that the state’s Democrats were abandoning nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryanfor the second consecutive election.[8]This was confirmed by polls just before Election Day,[9]and as it turned out McKinley essentially repeated his three-to-two success of 1896, winning by 24,09 points and carrying all but four counties.
Bryan had previous lost Wisconsin to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again in1908toWilliam Howard Taft.
Results
edit1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin[10] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | William McKinley(incumbent) | 265,760 | 60.06% | 12 | |
Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 159,163 | 35.97% | 0 | |
Prohibition | John G. Woolley | 10,027 | 2.27% | 0 | |
Social Democratic | Eugene V. Debs | 7,048 | 1.59% | 0 | |
Socialist Labor | Joseph F. Maloney | 503 | 0.11% | 0 | |
Totals | 442,501 | 100.0% | 12 |
Results by county
editCounty | William McKinley Republican |
William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
John Granville Woolley Prohibition |
Eugene Victor Debs Social Democratic |
Joseph Francis Maloney Socialist Labor |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 1,513 | 77.47% | 409 | 20.94% | 29 | 1.48% | 2 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,104 | 56.53% | 1,953 |
Ashland | 3,034 | 63.97% | 1,557 | 32.83% | 103 | 2.17% | 42 | 0.89% | 7 | 0.15% | 1,477 | 31.14% | 4,743 |
Barron | 2,950 | 72.77% | 943 | 23.26% | 158 | 3.90% | 3 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,007 | 49.51% | 4,054 |
Bayfield | 2,428 | 76.93% | 632 | 20.03% | 80 | 2.53% | 8 | 0.25% | 8 | 0.25% | 1,796 | 56.91% | 3,156 |
Brown | 4,934 | 56.80% | 3,588 | 41.30% | 133 | 1.53% | 27 | 0.31% | 5 | 0.06% | 1,346 | 15.49% | 8,687 |
Buffalo | 2,091 | 62.40% | 1,205 | 35.96% | 55 | 1.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 886 | 26.44% | 3,351 |
Burnett | 1,112 | 80.23% | 218 | 15.73% | 48 | 3.46% | 2 | 0.14% | 6 | 0.43% | 894 | 64.50% | 1,386 |
Calumet | 1,631 | 45.11% | 1,910 | 52.82% | 54 | 1.49% | 21 | 0.58% | 0 | 0.00% | -279 | -7.72% | 3,616 |
Chippewa | 4,215 | 61.88% | 2,446 | 35.91% | 140 | 2.06% | 9 | 0.13% | 2 | 0.03% | 1,769 | 25.97% | 6,812 |
Clark | 3,864 | 74.78% | 1,157 | 22.39% | 124 | 2.40% | 15 | 0.29% | 7 | 0.14% | 2,707 | 52.39% | 5,167 |
Columbia | 4,763 | 65.71% | 2,181 | 30.09% | 282 | 3.89% | 21 | 0.29% | 2 | 0.03% | 2,582 | 35.62% | 7,249 |
Crawford | 2,333 | 62.53% | 1,353 | 36.26% | 44 | 1.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.03% | 980 | 26.27% | 3,731 |
Dane | 9,396 | 58.41% | 6,129 | 38.10% | 512 | 3.18% | 46 | 0.29% | 4 | 0.02% | 3,267 | 20.31% | 16,087 |
Dodge | 4,780 | 44.35% | 5,813 | 53.93% | 177 | 1.64% | 8 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,033 | -9.58% | 10,778 |
Door | 2,362 | 76.29% | 674 | 21.77% | 57 | 1.84% | 2 | 0.06% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,688 | 54.52% | 3,096 |
Douglas | 4,450 | 63.85% | 2,187 | 31.38% | 178 | 2.55% | 133 | 1.91% | 22 | 0.32% | 2,263 | 32.47% | 6,970 |
Dunn | 3,046 | 70.79% | 1,110 | 25.80% | 144 | 3.35% | 3 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,936 | 44.99% | 4,303 |
Eau Claire | 4,378 | 66.44% | 1,967 | 29.85% | 181 | 2.75% | 61 | 0.93% | 2 | 0.03% | 2,411 | 36.59% | 6,589 |
Florence | 514 | 79.57% | 110 | 17.03% | 17 | 2.63% | 3 | 0.46% | 2 | 0.31% | 404 | 62.54% | 646 |
Fond du Lac | 6,258 | 53.82% | 5,140 | 44.20% | 210 | 1.81% | 19 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,118 | 9.61% | 11,628 |
Forest | 378 | 76.83% | 95 | 19.31% | 18 | 3.66% | 1 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 283 | 57.52% | 492 |
Grant | 5,609 | 61.15% | 3,254 | 35.48% | 284 | 3.10% | 22 | 0.24% | 3 | 0.03% | 2,355 | 25.68% | 9,172 |
Green | 2,996 | 60.21% | 1,776 | 35.69% | 164 | 3.30% | 40 | 0.80% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,220 | 24.52% | 4,976 |
Green Lake | 2,081 | 56.41% | 1,522 | 41.26% | 81 | 2.20% | 4 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.03% | 559 | 15.15% | 3,689 |
Iowa | 3,270 | 62.51% | 1,743 | 33.32% | 203 | 3.88% | 15 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,527 | 29.19% | 5,231 |
Iron | 1,318 | 76.81% | 356 | 20.75% | 38 | 2.21% | 3 | 0.17% | 1 | 0.06% | 962 | 56.06% | 1,716 |
Jackson | 2,639 | 77.73% | 651 | 19.18% | 103 | 3.03% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,988 | 58.56% | 3,395 |
Jefferson | 3,729 | 46.25% | 4,127 | 51.18% | 199 | 2.47% | 8 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | -398 | -4.94% | 8,063 |
Juneau | 2,914 | 63.35% | 1,586 | 34.48% | 98 | 2.13% | 2 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,328 | 28.87% | 4,600 |
Kenosha | 3,078 | 58.37% | 2,101 | 39.84% | 63 | 1.19% | 28 | 0.53% | 3 | 0.06% | 977 | 18.53% | 5,273 |
Kewaunee | 1,750 | 49.81% | 1,729 | 49.22% | 31 | 0.88% | 3 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 21 | 0.60% | 3,513 |
La Crosse | 5,324 | 58.24% | 3,609 | 39.48% | 198 | 2.17% | 9 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,715 | 18.76% | 9,141 |
Lafayette | 2,852 | 55.83% | 2,100 | 41.11% | 153 | 3.00% | 2 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.02% | 752 | 14.72% | 5,108 |
Langlade | 1,596 | 58.38% | 1,080 | 39.50% | 48 | 1.76% | 5 | 0.18% | 5 | 0.18% | 516 | 18.87% | 2,734 |
Lincoln | 2,147 | 56.71% | 1,552 | 40.99% | 70 | 1.85% | 15 | 0.40% | 2 | 0.05% | 595 | 15.72% | 3,786 |
Manitowoc | 4,317 | 49.50% | 4,167 | 47.78% | 65 | 0.75% | 169 | 1.94% | 4 | 0.05% | 150 | 1.72% | 8,722 |
Marathon | 4,717 | 54.32% | 3,768 | 43.40% | 132 | 1.52% | 28 | 0.32% | 38 | 0.44% | 949 | 10.93% | 8,683 |
Marinette | 4,237 | 70.98% | 1,535 | 25.72% | 176 | 2.95% | 17 | 0.28% | 4 | 0.07% | 2,702 | 45.27% | 5,969 |
Marquette | 1,560 | 63.08% | 866 | 35.02% | 47 | 1.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 694 | 28.06% | 2,473 |
Milwaukee | 34,790 | 52.52% | 25,596 | 38.64% | 751 | 1.13% | 4,874 | 7.36% | 232 | 0.35% | 9,194 | 13.88% | 66,243 |
Monroe | 3,709 | 60.31% | 2,247 | 36.54% | 194 | 3.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,462 | 23.77% | 6,150 |
Oconto | 2,754 | 69.72% | 1,117 | 28.28% | 74 | 1.87% | 3 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.05% | 1,637 | 41.44% | 3,950 |
Oneida | 1,802 | 70.34% | 708 | 27.63% | 37 | 1.44% | 13 | 0.51% | 2 | 0.08% | 1,094 | 42.70% | 2,562 |
Outagamie | 5,245 | 55.15% | 4,008 | 42.14% | 224 | 2.36% | 30 | 0.32% | 4 | 0.04% | 1,237 | 13.01% | 9,511 |
Ozaukee | 1,280 | 38.42% | 1,992 | 59.78% | 37 | 1.11% | 22 | 0.66% | 1 | 0.03% | -712 | -21.37% | 3,332 |
Pepin | 1,099 | 68.35% | 470 | 29.23% | 39 | 2.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 629 | 39.12% | 1,608 |
Pierce | 3,433 | 72.95% | 1,041 | 22.12% | 224 | 4.76% | 7 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,392 | 50.83% | 4,706 |
Polk | 2,735 | 77.48% | 694 | 19.66% | 72 | 2.04% | 16 | 0.45% | 13 | 0.37% | 2,041 | 57.82% | 3,530 |
Portage | 3,285 | 54.60% | 2,633 | 43.77% | 92 | 1.53% | 4 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.03% | 652 | 10.84% | 6,016 |
Price | 1,725 | 74.16% | 529 | 22.74% | 55 | 2.36% | 14 | 0.60% | 3 | 0.13% | 1,196 | 51.42% | 2,326 |
Racine | 5,925 | 58.37% | 3,855 | 37.98% | 233 | 2.30% | 133 | 1.31% | 5 | 0.05% | 2,070 | 20.39% | 10,151 |
Richland | 2,593 | 59.51% | 1,524 | 34.98% | 230 | 5.28% | 10 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,069 | 24.54% | 4,357 |
Rock | 8,249 | 69.97% | 3,094 | 26.24% | 403 | 3.42% | 36 | 0.31% | 8 | 0.07% | 5,155 | 43.72% | 11,790 |
Sauk | 4,329 | 60.89% | 2,491 | 35.04% | 276 | 3.88% | 11 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,838 | 25.85% | 7,110 |
Sawyer | 723 | 68.53% | 305 | 28.91% | 23 | 2.18% | 4 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 418 | 39.62% | 1,055 |
Shawano | 3,243 | 67.30% | 1,504 | 31.21% | 68 | 1.41% | 3 | 0.06% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,739 | 36.09% | 4,819 |
Sheboygan | 5,927 | 53.77% | 4,049 | 36.73% | 123 | 1.12% | 876 | 7.95% | 48 | 0.44% | 1,878 | 17.04% | 11,023 |
St. Croix | 3,368 | 58.98% | 2,076 | 36.36% | 202 | 3.54% | 53 | 0.93% | 11 | 0.19% | 1,292 | 22.63% | 5,710 |
Taylor | 1,420 | 57.51% | 1,012 | 40.99% | 22 | 0.89% | 14 | 0.57% | 1 | 0.04% | 408 | 16.52% | 2,469 |
Trempealeau | 3,364 | 71.23% | 1,190 | 25.20% | 167 | 3.54% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,174 | 46.03% | 4,723 |
Vernon | 4,463 | 75.59% | 1,268 | 21.48% | 155 | 2.63% | 16 | 0.27% | 2 | 0.03% | 3,195 | 54.12% | 5,904 |
Vilas | 1,208 | 69.27% | 488 | 27.98% | 37 | 2.12% | 10 | 0.57% | 1 | 0.06% | 720 | 41.28% | 1,744 |
Walworth | 5,102 | 71.41% | 1,742 | 24.38% | 293 | 4.10% | 6 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.03% | 3,360 | 47.03% | 7,145 |
Washburn | 808 | 73.99% | 253 | 23.17% | 29 | 2.66% | 1 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.09% | 555 | 50.82% | 1,092 |
Washington | 2,614 | 50.24% | 2,524 | 48.51% | 56 | 1.08% | 7 | 0.13% | 2 | 0.04% | 90 | 1.73% | 5,203 |
Waukesha | 5,127 | 60.91% | 3,016 | 35.83% | 252 | 2.99% | 19 | 0.23% | 4 | 0.05% | 2,111 | 25.08% | 8,418 |
Waupaca | 5,284 | 76.29% | 1,383 | 19.97% | 253 | 3.65% | 2 | 0.03% | 4 | 0.06% | 3,901 | 56.32% | 6,926 |
Waushara | 2,990 | 82.03% | 525 | 14.40% | 127 | 3.48% | 3 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,465 | 67.63% | 3,645 |
Winnebago | 7,467 | 55.67% | 5,605 | 41.78% | 306 | 2.28% | 27 | 0.20% | 9 | 0.07% | 1,862 | 13.88% | 13,414 |
Wood | 3,135 | 61.10% | 1,878 | 36.60% | 76 | 1.48% | 35 | 0.68% | 7 | 0.14% | 1,257 | 24.50% | 5,131 |
Totals | 265,760 | 60.06% | 159,163 | 35.97% | 10,027 | 2.27% | 7,048 | 1.59% | 503 | 0.11% | 106,597 | 24.09% | 442,501 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Phillips, Kevin P.;The Emerging Republican Majority,pp. 381-382, 414ISBN978-0-691-16324-6
- ^Phillips;The Emerging Republican Majority,p. 384
- ^Sundquist, James;Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years,p. 526ISBN0815719094
- ^Barry Eichengreen; Michael R. Haines; Matthew S. Jaremski; David Leblang."Populists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election"(PDF).National Bureau of Economic Research.
- ^Burnham, Walter Dean; 'TheSystem of 1896:An Analysis'; inThe Evolution of American Electoral Systems,pp. 178-179ISBN0313213798
- ^Cooper, John Milton jr.; ‘Why Wisconsin? The Badger State in the Progressive Era’;The Wisconsin Magazine of History,Vol. 87, No. 3 (Spring, 2004), pp. 14-25
- ^‘An Election Forecast’;Courier-Democrat (Langdon, North Dakota),September 6, 1900, p. 4
- ^‘Wisconsin Democrats Abandining Bryan’;The Craig News (Craig, Nebraska),October 19, 1900, p. 7
- ^‘Four Years More of M‘Kinley’;Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa);November 6, 1900, p. 1
- ^Leip, Dave."1900 Presidential General Election Results – Wisconsin".Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.RetrievedAugust 18,2016.
- ^"Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1900".Géoelections.(.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)