The 1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Massachusetts overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, PresidentWilliam McKinley, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Massachusetts by a margin of 19.74% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.
McKinley was able to win 13 out of the 14 counties in the state of Massachusetts. The only county that went to Bryan was Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston. Bryan had previously lost the county to McKinley in 1896 and would lose it again to William Howard Taft in 1908.
Results[]
1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts[2]
Party
Candidate
Running mate
Popular vote
Electoral vote
Count
%
Count
%
Republican
William McKinley of Ohio
Theodore Roosevelt of New York
238,866
57.59%
15
100.00%
Democratic
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I of Illinois
156,997
37.85%
0
0.00%
Socialist
Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana
Job Harriman of California
9,607
2.32%
0
0.00%
Prohibition
John Granville Woolley of Illinois
Henry Brewer Metcalf of Rhode Island
6,202
1.50%
0
0.00%
Socialist Labor
Joseph Francis Malloney of Massachusetts
Valentine Remmel of Pennsylvania
2,599
0.86%
0
0.00%
N/A
Others
Others
533
0.13%
0
0.00%
Total
414,804
100.00%
15
100.00%
See also[]
United States presidential elections in Massachusetts
References[]
^Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.