1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota
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Elections in South Dakota |
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The 1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. South Dakota voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
McKinley won the state by a margin of 15.59 percentage points. McKinley had previously lost the state to William Jennings Bryan four years earlier, who in turn would lose the state to William Howard Taft in 1908.
Results[]
1900 United States presidential election in South Dakota[1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | William McKinley | 54,530 | 56.73% | 4 | |
Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 39,544 | 41.14% | 0 | |
Prohibition | John Woolley | 1,542 | 1.60% | 0 | |
Populist | Wharton Barker | 339 | 0.35% | 0 | |
Social Democratic | Eugene Debs | 169 | 0.18% | 0 | |
Totals | 96,124 | 100.00% | 4 | ||
Voter turnout | — |
Results by county[]
County[2] | William McKinley Republican |
William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
John Granville Woolley Prohibition |
Wharton Barker Populist |
Eugene Victor Debs Social Democratic |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Aurora | 503 | 49.75% | 486 | 48.07% | 22 | 2.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 17 | 1.68% | 1,011 |
Beadle | 1,220 | 55.53% | 915 | 41.65% | 55 | 2.50% | 7 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 305 | 13.88% | 2,197 |
Bon Homme | 1,271 | 54.93% | 1,028 | 44.43% | 9 | 0.39% | 4 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.09% | 243 | 10.50% | 2,314 |
Brookings | 1,707 | 57.36% | 1,084 | 36.42% | 171 | 5.75% | 8 | 0.27% | 6 | 0.20% | 623 | 20.93% | 2,976 |
Brown | 2,197 | 54.42% | 1,722 | 42.66% | 64 | 1.59% | 25 | 0.62% | 29 | 0.72% | 475 | 11.77% | 4,037 |
Brule | 644 | 46.00% | 746 | 53.29% | 5 | 0.36% | 4 | 0.29% | 1 | 0.07% | -102 | -7.29% | 1,400 |
Buffalo | 87 | 46.28% | 100 | 53.19% | 1 | 0.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -13 | -6.91% | 188 |
Butte | 492 | 53.25% | 420 | 45.45% | 1 | 0.11% | 9 | 0.97% | 2 | 0.22% | 72 | 7.79% | 924 |
Campbell | 626 | 70.42% | 250 | 28.12% | 6 | 0.67% | 5 | 0.56% | 2 | 0.22% | 376 | 42.29% | 889 |
Charles Mix | 1,108 | 50.43% | 1,058 | 48.16% | 17 | 0.77% | 5 | 0.23% | 9 | 0.41% | 50 | 2.28% | 2,197 |
Clark | 996 | 54.16% | 752 | 40.89% | 86 | 4.68% | 5 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 244 | 13.27% | 1,839 |
Clay | 1,387 | 56.43% | 1,037 | 42.19% | 30 | 1.22% | 2 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.08% | 350 | 14.24% | 2,458 |
Codington | 1,225 | 58.28% | 805 | 38.30% | 69 | 3.28% | 2 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.05% | 420 | 19.98% | 2,102 |
Custer | 483 | 53.37% | 415 | 45.86% | 3 | 0.33% | 3 | 0.33% | 1 | 0.11% | 68 | 7.51% | 905 |
Davison | 853 | 50.27% | 782 | 46.08% | 47 | 2.77% | 12 | 0.71% | 3 | 0.18% | 71 | 4.18% | 1,697 |
Day | 1,558 | 56.37% | 1,092 | 39.51% | 105 | 3.80% | 5 | 0.18% | 4 | 0.14% | 466 | 16.86% | 2,764 |
Deuel | 1,052 | 62.77% | 604 | 36.04% | 9 | 0.54% | 9 | 0.54% | 2 | 0.12% | 448 | 26.73% | 1,676 |
Douglas | 649 | 52.85% | 567 | 46.17% | 10 | 0.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.16% | 82 | 6.68% | 1,228 |
Edmunds | 621 | 51.97% | 553 | 46.28% | 16 | 1.34% | 4 | 0.33% | 1 | 0.08% | 68 | 5.69% | 1,195 |
Fall River | 521 | 54.96% | 421 | 44.41% | 3 | 0.32% | 3 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 100 | 10.55% | 948 |
Faulk | 618 | 65.05% | 302 | 31.79% | 22 | 2.32% | 7 | 0.74% | 1 | 0.11% | 316 | 33.26% | 950 |
Grant | 1,305 | 62.86% | 716 | 34.49% | 47 | 2.26% | 6 | 0.29% | 2 | 0.10% | 589 | 28.37% | 2,076 |
Gregory | 323 | 55.03% | 259 | 44.12% | 4 | 0.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.17% | 64 | 10.90% | 587 |
Hamlin | 928 | 62.79% | 509 | 34.44% | 35 | 2.37% | 6 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 419 | 28.35% | 1,478 |
Hand | 592 | 49.05% | 594 | 49.21% | 18 | 1.49% | 1 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.17% | -2 | -0.17% | 1,207 |
Hanson | 607 | 49.07% | 607 | 49.07% | 21 | 1.70% | 2 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,237 |
Hughes | 537 | 65.73% | 272 | 33.29% | 4 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.24% | 265 | 32.44% | 817 |
Hutchinson | 1,528 | 73.39% | 534 | 25.65% | 15 | 0.72% | 5 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 994 | 47.74% | 2,082 |
Hyde | 286 | 69.76% | 115 | 28.05% | 7 | 1.71% | 2 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 171 | 41.71% | 410 |
Jerauld | 374 | 48.57% | 357 | 46.36% | 37 | 4.81% | 2 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 17 | 2.21% | 770 |
Kingsbury | 1,330 | 58.10% | 868 | 37.92% | 75 | 3.28% | 5 | 0.22% | 11 | 0.48% | 462 | 20.18% | 2,289 |
Lake | 1,172 | 55.57% | 901 | 42.72% | 32 | 1.52% | 2 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.09% | 271 | 12.85% | 2,109 |
Lawrence | 3,435 | 55.96% | 2,619 | 42.67% | 24 | 0.39% | 41 | 0.67% | 19 | 0.31% | 816 | 13.29% | 6,138 |
Lincoln | 1,908 | 59.96% | 1,226 | 38.53% | 27 | 0.85% | 18 | 0.57% | 3 | 0.09% | 682 | 21.43% | 3,182 |
Lyman | 429 | 66.61% | 210 | 32.61% | 3 | 0.47% | 2 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 219 | 34.01% | 644 |
Marshall | 829 | 51.91% | 728 | 45.59% | 30 | 1.88% | 9 | 0.56% | 1 | 0.06% | 101 | 6.32% | 1,597 |
McCook | 978 | 49.07% | 989 | 49.62% | 19 | 0.95% | 4 | 0.20% | 3 | 0.15% | -11 | -0.55% | 1,993 |
McPherson | 898 | 74.15% | 297 | 24.53% | 5 | 0.41% | 11 | 0.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 601 | 49.63% | 1,211 |
Meade | 550 | 48.89% | 565 | 50.22% | 2 | 0.18% | 5 | 0.44% | 3 | 0.27% | -15 | -1.33% | 1,125 |
Miner | 662 | 48.01% | 697 | 50.54% | 15 | 1.09% | 2 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.22% | -35 | -2.54% | 1,379 |
Minnehaha | 3,410 | 57.04% | 2,440 | 40.82% | 109 | 1.82% | 7 | 0.12% | 12 | 0.20% | 970 | 16.23% | 5,978 |
Moody | 1,190 | 56.91% | 875 | 41.85% | 15 | 0.72% | 8 | 0.38% | 3 | 0.14% | 315 | 15.06% | 2,091 |
Pennington | 898 | 52.92% | 784 | 46.20% | 5 | 0.29% | 4 | 0.24% | 6 | 0.35% | 114 | 6.72% | 1,697 |
Potter | 375 | 47.95% | 381 | 48.72% | 23 | 2.94% | 2 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.13% | -6 | -0.77% | 782 |
Roberts | 1,875 | 62.11% | 1,067 | 35.34% | 43 | 1.42% | 30 | 0.99% | 4 | 0.13% | 808 | 26.76% | 3,019 |
Sanborn | 628 | 51.56% | 549 | 45.07% | 39 | 3.20% | 1 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.08% | 79 | 6.49% | 1,218 |
Spink | 1,496 | 56.41% | 1,087 | 40.99% | 40 | 1.51% | 15 | 0.57% | 14 | 0.53% | 409 | 15.42% | 2,652 |
Stanley | 254 | 49.51% | 252 | 49.12% | 7 | 1.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.39% | 513 |
Sully | 294 | 64.90% | 152 | 33.55% | 4 | 0.88% | 1 | 0.22% | 2 | 0.44% | 142 | 31.35% | 453 |
Turner | 1,977 | 68.22% | 871 | 30.06% | 31 | 1.07% | 13 | 0.45% | 6 | 0.21% | 1,106 | 38.16% | 2,898 |
Union | 1,571 | 53.00% | 1,358 | 45.82% | 23 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.30% | 3 | 0.10% | 213 | 7.19% | 2,964 |
Walworth | 478 | 61.92% | 282 | 36.53% | 7 | 0.91% | 4 | 0.52% | 1 | 0.13% | 196 | 25.39% | 772 |
Yankton | 1,639 | 55.77% | 1,268 | 43.14% | 24 | 0.82% | 5 | 0.17% | 3 | 0.10% | 371 | 12.62% | 2,939 |
Totals | 54,574 | 56.73% | 39,568 | 41.13% | 1,541 | 1.60% | 343 | 0.36% | 176 | 0.18% | 15,006 | 15.60% | 96,202 |
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1900 (.xlsx file for €30)
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