1900 United States presidential election in Georgia explained

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Election Name:	1900 United States presidential election in Georgia
Country:	Georgia (U.S. state)
Flag Year:	1879
Type:	presidential
Vote Type:	Popular
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1896 United States presidential election in Georgia
Previous Year:	1896
Next Election:	1904 United States presidential election in Georgia
Next Year:	1904
Image1:	WilliamJBryan1902 3x4.jpg
Nominee1:	William Jennings Bryan
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	Nebraska
Running Mate1:	Adlai Stevenson I
Electoral Vote1:	13
Popular Vote1:	81,180
Percentage1:	66.86%
Nominee2:	William McKinley
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	Ohio
Running Mate2:	Theodore Roosevelt
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	34,260
Percentage2:	28.22%
Map Size:	290px
President
Before Election:	William McKinley
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
Posttitle:	Elected President
After Election:	William McKinley
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1900 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Following Reconstruction, Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and many poor whites, doing so in the early 1870s.^[1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantial Civil War Unionist sentiment – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns.^[2] The Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction, and the main competition became Democratic primaries, which were restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.^[3] This restriction was originally done by local laws and from 1898 by statewide party laws.^[4]

However, politics after the first demobilization by a cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly the Populist Party, gained support amongst the remaining poor white and black voters in opposition to the planter elite.^[5] The fact that Georgia had already substantially reduced its poor white and black electorate two decades ago, alongside pressure from urban elites in Atlanta,^[5] and the decline of isolationism due to the success of the Spanish–American War,^[6] meant the Populist movement substantially faded in the late 1890s,^[7] especially after the dominant Democratic Party instituted a statewide requirement to use primaries rather than conventions.^[4]

Georgia was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate, former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I. They defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 38.64%.

Neither candidate campaigned in the state, despite McKinley’s efforts to establish the GOP amongst white southerners during the preceding election.^[8] Polls just before election day gave Bryan a majority of between forty thousand^[9] and sixty thousand,^[10] and this proved accurate, for Bryan won by nearly forty-seven thousand votes or by thirty-eight percent. Bryan even won fifty-nine percent of the ballots in what was typically the state’s most Republican county – Fannin – possibly due to his opposition to imperialist adventures in the Pacific. He is alongside Samuel J. Tilden and Jimmy Carter one of only three post-Civil War candidates to win a majority in Fannin County.

With 66.86% of the popular vote, Georgia would prove to be Bryan's fifth strongest state in the 1900 presidential election only after South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.^[11]

Bryan had previously defeated McKinley in Georgia four years earlier and would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.

Results

1900 United States presidential election in Georgia^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan	81,180	66.86%	13
	Republican	William McKinley (inc.)	34,260	28.22%	0
	People's	Wharton Barker	4,568	3.76%	0
	Prohibition	John G. Woolley	1,402	1.15%	0

Results by county

County	William Jennings Bryan^[13] Democratic		William McKinley Republican		Wharton Barker Populist		John Granville Woolley Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"			data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%
	Appling		477		50.37%		446		47.10%		4		0.42%		20		2.11%		31		3.27%		947
	Baker		478		84.45%		87		15.37%		1		0.18%		0		0.00%		391		69.08%		566
	Baldwin		500		81.30%		76		12.36%		35		5.69%		4		0.65%		424		68.94%		615
	Banks		402		50.50%		269		33.79%		110		13.82%		15		1.88%		133		16.71%		796
	Bartow		891		50.20%		823		46.37%		33		1.86%		28		1.58%		68		3.83%		1,775
	Berrien		509		80.67%		101		16.01%		10		1.58%		11		1.74%		408		64.66%		631
	Bibb		1,897		86.66%		250		11.42%		9		0.41%		33		1.51%		1,647		75.24%		2,189
	Brooks		429		77.44%		103		18.59%		19		3.43%		3		0.54%		326		58.84%		554
	Bryan		246		58.99%		165		39.57%		0		0.00%		6		1.44%		81		19.42%		417
	Bulloch		767		78.99%		178		18.33%		10		1.03%		16		1.65%		589		60.66%		971
	Burke		620		79.49%		157		20.13%		0		0.00%		3		0.38%		463		59.36%		780
	Butts		563		80.77%		104		14.92%		20		2.87%		10		1.43%		459		65.85%		697
	Calhoun		289		71.71%		97		24.07%		13		3.23%		4		0.99%		192		47.64%		403
	Camden		350		54.69%		210		32.81%		64		10.00%		16		2.50%		140		21.88%		640
	Campbell		350		60.03%		233		39.97%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		117		20.07%		583
	Carroll		1,270		64.57%		697		35.43%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		573		29.13%		1,967
	Catoosa		399		70.49%		144		25.44%		8		1.41%		15		2.65%		255		45.05%		566
	Charlton		168		71.79%		64		27.35%		1		0.43%		1		0.43%		104		44.44%		234
	Chatham		3,352		78.41%		916		21.43%		0		0.00%		7		0.16%		2,436		56.98%		4,275
	Chattahoochee		114		45.97%		117		47.18%		16		6.45%		1		0.40%		-3		-1.21%		248
	Chattooga		601		55.70%		440		40.78%		19		1.76%		19		1.76%		161		14.92%		1,079
	Cherokee		535		46.81%		550		48.12%		42		3.67%		16		1.40%		-15		-1.31%		1,143
	Clarke		672		73.93%		199		21.89%		34		3.74%		4		0.44%		473		52.04%		909
	Clay		271		71.13%		81		21.26%		26		6.82%		3		0.79%		190		49.87%		381
	Clayton		346		61.90%		179		32.02%		27		4.83%		7		1.25%		167		29.87%		559
	Clinch		290		58.47%		203		40.93%		0		0.00%		3		0.60%		87		17.54%		496
	Cobb		1,156		73.35%		311		19.73%		70		4.44%		39		2.47%		845		53.62%		1,576
	Coffee		402		39.57%		614		60.43%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-212		-20.87%		1,016
	Colquitt		310		57.62%		217		40.33%		2		0.37%		9		1.67%		93		17.29%		538
	Columbia		215		80.22%		42		15.67%		4		1.49%		7		2.61%		173		64.55%		268
	Coweta		1,063		81.64%		232		17.82%		6		0.46%		1		0.08%		831		63.82%		1,302
	Crawford		344		86.43%		30		7.54%		17		4.27%		7		1.76%		314		78.89%		398
	Dade		235		69.53%		73		21.60%		21		6.21%		9		2.66%		162		47.93%		338
	Dawson		224		52.96%		194		45.86%		1		0.24%		4		0.95%		30		7.09%		423
	De Kalb		756		72.34%		216		20.67%		46		4.40%		27		2.58%		540		51.67%		1,045
	Decatur		1,007		73.24%		260		18.91%		102		7.42%		6		0.44%		747		54.33%		1,375
	Dodge		541		71.37%		211		27.84%		3		0.40%		3		0.40%		330		43.54%		758
	Dooly		720		84.81%		3		0.35%		22		2.59%		104		12.25%		616		72.56%		849
	Dougherty		360		91.84%		29		7.40%		0		0.00%		3		0.77%		331		84.44%		392
	Douglas		345		46.75%		300		40.65%		77		10.43%		16		2.17%		45		6.10%		738
	Early		355		80.50%		42		9.52%		41		9.30%		3		0.68%		313		70.98%		441
	Echols		130		77.38%		38		22.62%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		92		54.76%		168
	Effingham		387		83.77%		65		14.07%		8		1.73%		2		0.43%		322		69.70%		462
	Elbert		782		93.54%		7		0.84%		33		3.95%		14		1.67%		749		89.59%		836
	Emanuel		513		47.54%		444		41.15%		111		10.29%		11		1.02%		69		6.39%		1,079
	Fannin		533		59.22%		367		40.78%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		166		18.44%		900
	Fayette		471		74.06%		141		22.17%		17		2.67%		7		1.10%		330		51.89%		636
	Floyd		1,450		67.92%		638		29.88%		31		1.45%		16		0.75%		812		38.03%		2,135
	Forsyth		318		50.08%		270		42.52%		38		5.98%		9		1.42%		48		7.56%		635
	Franklin		530		51.86%		176		17.22%		297		29.06%		19		1.86%		233		22.80%		1,022
	Fulton		5,075		74.35%		1,676		24.55%		8		0.12%		67		0.98%		3,399		49.79%		6,826
	Gilmer		502		50.45%		493		49.55%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		9		0.90%		995
	Glascock		157		64.61%		62		25.51%		10		4.12%		14		5.76%		95		39.09%		243
	Glynn		674		71.86%		254		27.08%		6		0.64%		4		0.43%		420		44.78%		938
	Gordon		637		52.95%		504		41.90%		48		3.99%		14		1.16%		133		11.06%		1,203
	Greene		493		60.49%		303		37.18%		7		0.86%		12		1.47%		190		23.31%		815
	Gwinnett		1,052		63.45%		373		22.50%		200		12.06%		33		1.99%		679		40.95%		1,658
	Habersham		589		67.01%		218		24.80%		32		3.64%		40		4.55%		371		42.21%		879
	Hall		880		72.97%		262		21.72%		31		2.57%		33		2.74%		618		51.24%		1,206
	Hancock		526		95.29%		16		2.90%		3		0.54%		7		1.27%		510		92.39%		552
	Haralson		458		38.13%		666		55.45%		61		5.08%		16		1.33%		-208		-17.32%		1,201
	Harris		636		57.30%		422		38.02%		47		4.23%		5		0.45%		214		19.28%		1,110
	Hart		639		73.36%		185		21.24%		29		3.33%		18		2.07%		454		52.12%		871
	Heard		548		93.52%		32		5.46%		2		0.34%		4		0.68%		516		88.05%		586
	Henry		639		59.78%		378		35.36%		51		4.77%		1		0.09%		261		24.42%		1,069
	Houston		798		89.76%		81		9.11%		4		0.45%		6		0.67%		717		80.65%		889
	Irwin		700		53.76%		583		44.78%		2		0.15%		17		1.31%		117		8.99%		1,302
	Jackson		836		51.32%		477		29.28%		302		18.54%		14		0.86%		359		22.04%		1,629
	Jasper		630		93.61%		32		4.75%		6		0.89%		5		0.74%		598		88.86%		673
	Jefferson		394		72.29%		128		23.49%		9		1.65%		14		2.57%		266		48.81%		545
	Johnson		276		41.63%		321		48.42%		50		7.54%		16		2.41%		-45		-6.79%		663
	Jones		408		69.62%		166		28.33%		9		1.54%		3		0.51%		242		41.30%		586
	Laurens		942		62.67%		395		26.28%		152		10.11%		14		0.93%		547		36.39%		1,503
	Lee		269		63.59%		149		35.22%		2		0.47%		3		0.71%		120		28.37%		423
	Liberty		248		41.82%		304		51.26%		37		6.24%		4		0.67%		-56		-9.44%		593
	Lincoln		173		80.84%		4		1.87%		28		13.08%		9		4.21%		145		67.76%		214
	Lowndes		444		60.08%		277		37.48%		5		0.68%		13		1.76%		167		22.60%		739
	Lumpkin		410		56.87%		308		42.72%		0		0.00%		3		0.42%		102		14.15%		721
	Macon		464		67.84%		182		26.61%		24		3.51%		14		2.05%		282		41.23%		684
	Madison		754		90.41%		66		7.91%		9		1.08%		5		0.60%		688		82.49%		834
	Marion		280		65.27%		116		27.04%		31		7.23%		2		0.47%		164		38.23%		429
	McDuffie		178		38.12%		289		61.88%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-111		-23.77%		467
	McIntosh		259		51.80%		211		42.20%		18		3.60%		12		2.40%		48		9.60%		500
	Meriwether		734		72.24%		234		23.03%		31		3.05%		17		1.67%		500		49.21%		1,016
	Miller		183		78.21%		19		8.12%		29		12.39%		3		1.28%		154		65.81%		234
	Milton		308		63.24%		116		23.82%		55		11.29%		8		1.64%		192		39.43%		487
	Mitchell		465		62.42%		274		36.78%		0		0.00%		6		0.81%		191		25.64%		745
	Monroe		810		89.01%		92		10.11%		8		0.88%		0		0.00%		718		78.90%		910
	Montgomery		608		71.95%		232		27.46%		0		0.00%		5		0.59%		376		44.50%		845
	Morgan		484		66.57%		222		30.54%		15		2.06%		6		0.83%		262		36.04%		727
	Murray		361		45.18%		360		45.06%		73		9.14%		5		0.63%		1		0.13%		799
	Muscogee		1,245		81.91%		272		17.89%		0		0.00%		3		0.20%		973		64.01%		1,520
	Newton		790		71.36%		294		26.56%		18		1.63%		5		0.45%		496		44.81%		1,107
	Oconee		251		49.70%		148		29.31%		93		18.42%		13		2.57%		103		20.40%		505
	Oglethorpe		625		94.55%		20		3.03%		9		1.36%		7		1.06%		605		91.53%		661
	Paulding		496		37.46%		609		46.00%		215		16.24%		4		0.30%		-113		-8.53%		1,324
	Pickens		295		32.63%		599		66.26%		6		0.66%		4		0.44%		-304		-33.63%		904
	Pierce		267		46.76%		290		50.79%		10		1.75%		4		0.70%		-23		-4.03%		571
	Pike		759		78.98%		168		17.48%		20		2.08%		14		1.46%		591		61.50%		961
	Polk		490		31.67%		1,019		65.87%		21		1.36%		17		1.10%		-529		-34.20%		1,547
	Pulaski		631		94.04%		26		3.87%		8		1.19%		6		0.89%		605		90.16%		671
	Putnam		331		95.94%		8		2.32%		0		0.00%		6		1.74%		323		93.62%		345
	Quitman		173		66.54%		84		32.31%		2		0.77%		1		0.38%		89		34.23%		260
	Rabun		244		77.46%		70		22.22%		0		0.00%		1		0.32%		174		55.24%		315
	Randolph		602		82.58%		108		14.81%		19		2.61%		0		0.00%		494		67.76%		729
	Richmond		2,045		88.84%		215		9.34%		29		1.26%		13		0.56%		1,830		79.50%		2,302
	Rockdale		393		62.28%		184		29.16%		52		8.24%		2		0.32%		209		33.12%		631
	Schley		221		51.40%		163		37.91%		44		10.23%		2		0.47%		58		13.49%		430
	Screven		488		48.46%		376		37.34%		133		13.21%		10		0.99%		112		11.12%		1,007
	Spalding		782		90.20%		82		9.46%		0		0.00%		3		0.35%		700		80.74%		867
	Stewart		471		72.24%		170		26.07%		7		1.07%		4		0.61%		301		46.17%		652
	Sumter		780		77.53%		216		21.47%		8		0.80%		2		0.20%		564		56.06%		1,006
	Talbot		405		77.29%		107		20.42%		11		2.10%		1		0.19%		298		56.87%		524
	Taliaferro		216		55.53%		100		25.71%		60		15.42%		13		3.34%		116		29.82%		389
	Tattnall		738		50.03%		611		41.42%		106		7.19%		20		1.36%		127		8.61%		1,475
	Taylor		298		76.61%		79		20.31%		4		1.03%		8		2.06%		219		56.30%		389
	Telfair		568		80.68%		122		17.33%		0		0.00%		14		1.99%		446		63.35%		704
	Terrell		679		73.33%		213		23.00%		25		2.70%		9		0.97%		466		50.32%		926
	Thomas		1,146		70.96%		432		26.75%		19		1.18%		18		1.11%		714		44.21%		1,615
	Towns		295		46.90%		326		51.83%		4		0.64%		4		0.64%		-31		-4.93%		629
	Troup		837		90.00%		60		6.45%		29		3.12%		4		0.43%		777		83.55%		930
	Twiggs		321		84.70%		56		14.78%		0		0.00%		2		0.53%		265		69.92%		379
	Union		417		49.47%		397		47.09%		25		2.97%		4		0.47%		20		2.37%		843
	Upson		468		59.85%		133		17.01%		173		22.12%		8		1.02%		295		37.72%		782
	Walker		752		54.81%		566		41.25%		43		3.13%		11		0.80%		186		13.56%		1,372
	Walton		836		62.25%		385		28.67%		108		8.04%		14		1.04%		451		33.58%		1,343
	Ware		601		84.89%		107		15.11%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		494		69.77%		708
	Warren		317		50.24%		230		36.45%		73		11.57%		11		1.74%		87		13.79%		631
	Washington		720		64.75%		282		25.36%		82		7.37%		28		2.52%		438		39.39%		1,112
	Wayne		363		60.00%		213		35.21%		20		3.31%		9		1.49%		150		24.79%		605
	Webster		204		75.28%		66		24.35%		1		0.37%		0		0.00%		138		50.92%		271
	White		191		57.88%		100		30.30%		21		6.36%		18		5.45%		91		27.58%		330
	Whitfield		587		52.27%		412		36.69%		106		9.44%		18		1.60%		175		15.58%		1,123
	Wilcox		407		63.69%		228		35.68%		2		0.31%		2		0.31%		179		28.01%		639
	Wilkes		581		89.80%		4		0.62%		57		8.81%		5		0.77%		524		80.99%		647
	Wilkinson		422		67.95%		184		29.63%		10		1.61%		5		0.81%		238		38.33%		621
	Worth		599		55.93%		430		40.15%		20		1.87%		22		2.05%		169		15.78%		1,071
Totals	81,201	66.87%	34,255	28.21%	4,575	3.77%	1,402	1.15%	46,946	38.66%	121,433

See also

• United States presidential elections in Georgia

Notes and References

1. Mickey, Robert W.; Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972, p. 76
2. [Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips, Kevin P.]
3. Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155
4. Kousser, J. Morgan; The Shaping of Southern Politics Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910, p. 217
5. Mickey, Robert W.; ‘The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944-1948’; Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 22 (Fall 2008), pp. 143-182.
6. Coleman, Kenneth; Georgia History in Outline, p. 85
7. Perman, Michael; Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908; p. 274
8. ‘Georgia’, in ‘An Election Forecast: The Situation as Viewed by Both Parties’; The Norfolk Landmark, November 4, 1900, p. 1
9. ‘A Republican Victory’; Orleans County Monitor, November 7, 1900, p. 1
10. ‘Bryan’s Expected Majority in Georgia about 55,000’; The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 5, 1900, p. 2
11. Web site: 1900 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.
12. Web site: Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. 1900 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia.
13. Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1900 (.xlsx file for €30)