Election Name: | 1900 Indiana gubernatorial election |
Country: | Indiana |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1896 Indiana gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1896 |
Next Election: | 1904 Indiana gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1904 |
Nominee1: | Winfield T. Durbin |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 331,531 |
Percentage1: | 50.5% |
Nominee2: | John W. Kern |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 306,272 |
Percentage2: | 46.7% |
Map Size: | 250px |
Governor | |
Before Election: | James A. Mount |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Winfield T. Durbin |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1900 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900 in all 92 counties in the state of Indiana. Governor James A. Mount could not succeed himself to a second term. Winfield T. Durbin was elected governor over his Democratic opponent, John W. Kern. Mount died from a heart-attack just 2 days after Durbin's inauguration.
Durbin (member of the Indiana Republican Central Committee) was nominated to run for governor in 1900, and easily won the convention vote.
Opinion was strongly against Democrats, and the leading members of the party refused to run for governor that year. The party fielded John Kern, a former state senator serving at the time as city solicitor of Indianapolis, to oppose Durbin.
Durbin became the first governor to win by majority in twenty-five years. Durbin's primary goal as governor was to bring efficiency to the state, and reform the government to function more economically, and to enact progressive legislation.