See main article: 1900 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1900 United States presidential election in Oregon |
| Country: | Oregon |
| Flag Year: | 1900 |
| Flag Image: | File:Flag of Oregon (1900–1925).gif |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1896 United States presidential election in Oregon |
| Previous Year: | 1896 |
| Next Election: | 1904 United States presidential election in Oregon |
| Next Year: | 1904 |
| Election Date: | November 6, 1900 |
| Image1: | Mckinley (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | William McKinley |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Ohio |
| Running Mate1: | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 46,172 |
| Percentage1: | 55.46% |
| Nominee2: | William Jennings Bryan |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Nebraska |
| Running Mate2: | Adlai Stevenson I |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 32,810 |
| Percentage2: | 39.41% |
| Map Size: | 375px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | William McKinley |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | William McKinley |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1900 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Oregon voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
A return to prosperity, continued American expansion in the Philippines,[1] and the fading of the Populist revolt that had spread into Southern Oregon during the previous decade ensured that incumbent President William McKinley would not have any trouble carrying the state.[2]
Indeed, the Populist voters during the 1890s from southern and Eastern Oregon – who had been historically Democratic[2] since before statehood[3] when they were substantially settled by Upland Southerners from the Ozarks and Appalachia (in contrast to the already Republican, Yankee-settled Willamette Valley)[4] – turned in substantial numbers to McKinley,[2] so that Jackson County and also Umatilla County voted for a Republican presidential candidate for the first time ever and Josephine County for only the second after 1888.[5] These results were also replicated in lower-level elections, so that at state level Oregon would remain, with a very brief New Deal interlude, a one-party state dominated by the Republican Party until the “Revolution of 1954”.[6] Consequently, this would prove the last time until Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 landslide that any Democrat other than Woodrow Wilson carried any of Oregon's counties in a presidential election.[5]
Bryan had previously lost Oregon to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again a third time in 1908 to William Howard Taft.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Oregon[7] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | William McKinley (incumbent) | 46,172 | 55.46% | 4 | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 32,810 | 39.41% | 0 | ||
| Prohibition | John G. Woolley | 2,536 | 3.05% | 0 | ||
| Social Democratic | Eugene V. Debs | 1,464 | 1.76% | 0 | ||
| Populist | Wharton Barker | 269 | 0.32% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 83,251 | 100.00% | 4 | |||
| Voter turnout | — | |||||
| County | William McKinley Republican | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | John Granville Woolley[8] Prohibition | Eugene Victor Debs Social Democratic | Wharton Barker Populist | Margin | Total votes cast[9] | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baker | 1,458 | 46.14% | 1,615 | 51.11% | 40 | 1.27% | 40 | 1.27% | 4 | 0.13% | -157 | -4.97% | 3,160 | ||||||||||||||
| Benton | 931 | 52.13% | 764 | 42.78% | 81 | 4.54% | 7 | 0.39% | 4 | 0.22% | 167 | 9.35% | 1,786 | ||||||||||||||
| Clackamas | 2,234 | 53.86% | 1,641 | 39.56% | 118 | 2.84% | 125 | 3.01% | 22 | 0.53% | 593 | 14.30% | 4,148 | ||||||||||||||
| Clatsop | 1,329 | 62.48% | 688 | 32.35% | 38 | 1.79% | 62 | 2.91% | 5 | 0.24% | 641 | 30.14% | 2,127 | ||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 863 | 64.79% | 403 | 30.26% | 31 | 2.33% | 29 | 2.18% | 5 | 0.38% | 460 | 34.53% | 1,332 | ||||||||||||||
| Coos | 1,153 | 53.90% | 888 | 41.51% | 53 | 2.48% | 30 | 1.40% | 15 | 0.70% | 265 | 12.39% | 2,139 | ||||||||||||||
| Crook | 474 | 52.96% | 381 | 42.57% | 16 | 1.79% | 19 | 2.12% | 3 | 0.34% | 93 | 10.39% | 895 | ||||||||||||||
| Curry | 308 | 66.09% | 152 | 32.62% | 3 | 0.64% | 2 | 0.43% | 1 | 0.21% | 156 | 33.48% | 466 | ||||||||||||||
| Douglas | 1,910 | 51.92% | 1,624 | 44.14% | 75 | 2.04% | 51 | 1.39% | 17 | 0.46% | 286 | 7.77% | 3,679 | ||||||||||||||
| Gilliam | 419 | 52.97% | 343 | 43.36% | 22 | 2.78% | 6 | 0.76% | 2 | 0.25% | 76 | 9.61% | 791 | ||||||||||||||
| Grant | 911 | 58.03% | 613 | 39.04% | 15 | 0.96% | 25 | 1.59% | 5 | 0.32% | 298 | 18.98% | 1,570 | ||||||||||||||
| Harney | 372 | 47.27% | 387 | 49.17% | 2 | 0.25% | 22 | 2.80% | 7 | 0.89% | -15 | -1.91% | 787 | ||||||||||||||
| Jackson | 1,565 | 48.17% | 1,525 | 46.94% | 68 | 2.09% | 72 | 2.22% | 25 | 0.77% | 40 | 1.23% | 3,249 | ||||||||||||||
| Josephine | 919 | 52.51% | 744 | 42.51% | 45 | 2.57% | 36 | 2.06% | 2 | 0.11% | 175 | 10.00% | 1,750 | ||||||||||||||
| Klamath | 428 | 55.44% | 324 | 41.97% | 8 | 1.04% | 3 | 0.39% | 7 | 0.91% | 104 | 13.47% | 772 | ||||||||||||||
| Lake | 456 | 65.71% | 233 | 33.57% | 1 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.14% | 223 | 32.13% | 694 | ||||||||||||||
| Lane | 2,521 | 53.12% | 2,037 | 42.92% | 133 | 2.80% | 47 | 0.99% | 7 | 0.15% | 484 | 10.20% | 4,746 | ||||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 472 | 59.97% | 266 | 33.80% | 8 | 1.02% | 33 | 4.19% | 5 | 0.64% | 206 | 26.18% | 787 | ||||||||||||||
| Linn | 1,927 | 45.13% | 1,997 | 46.77% | 228 | 5.34% | 94 | 2.20% | 27 | 0.63% | -70 | -1.64% | 4,270 | ||||||||||||||
| Malheur | 478 | 48.04% | 486 | 48.84% | 18 | 1.81% | 6 | 0.60% | 5 | 0.50% | -8 | -0.80% | 995 | ||||||||||||||
| Marion | 3,112 | 54.36% | 2,318 | 40.49% | 187 | 3.27% | 85 | 1.48% | 21 | 0.37% | 794 | 13.87% | 5,725 | ||||||||||||||
| Morrow | 723 | 62.65% | 358 | 31.02% | 41 | 3.55% | 27 | 2.34% | 3 | 0.26% | 365 | 31.63% | 1,154 | ||||||||||||||
| Multnomah | 9,948 | 65.46% | 4,436 | 29.19% | 455 | 2.99% | 354 | 2.33% | 12 | 0.08% | 5,512 | 36.27% | 15,198 | ||||||||||||||
| Polk | 1,163 | 50.61% | 991 | 43.12% | 102 | 4.44% | 18 | 0.78% | 25 | 1.09% | 172 | 7.48% | 2,298 | ||||||||||||||
| Sherman | 451 | 48.65% | 385 | 41.53% | 82 | 8.85% | 6 | 0.65% | 1 | 0.11% | 66 | 7.12% | 927 | ||||||||||||||
| Tillamook | 623 | 60.19% | 313 | 30.24% | 73 | 7.05% | 24 | 2.32% | 2 | 0.19% | 310 | 29.95% | 1,035 | ||||||||||||||
| Umatilla | 1,975 | 52.06% | 1,638 | 43.17% | 130 | 3.43% | 45 | 1.19% | 7 | 0.18% | 337 | 8.88% | 3,794 | ||||||||||||||
| Union | 1,512 | 45.93% | 1,646 | 50.00% | 57 | 1.73% | 66 | 2.00% | 10 | 0.30% | -134 | -4.07% | 3,292 | ||||||||||||||
| Wallowa | 651 | 52.33% | 559 | 44.94% | 21 | 1.69% | 7 | 0.56% | 5 | 0.40% | 92 | 7.40% | 1,244 | ||||||||||||||
| Wasco | 1,576 | 57.37% | 1,038 | 37.79% | 85 | 3.09% | 35 | 1.27% | 18 | 0.66% | 538 | 19.59% | 2,747 | ||||||||||||||
| Washington | 1,655 | 56.14% | 1,114 | 37.79% | 126 | 4.27% | 47 | 1.59% | 6 | 0.20% | 541 | 18.35% | 2,948 | ||||||||||||||
| Wheeler | 426 | 62.01% | 243 | 35.37% | 10 | 1.46% | 5 | 0.73% | 3 | 0.44% | 183 | 26.64% | 687 | ||||||||||||||
| Yamhill | 1,583 | 52.35% | 1,235 | 40.84% | 164 | 5.42% | 36 | 1.19% | 3 | 0.10% | 348 | 11.51% | 3,024 | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 46,526 | 55.25% | 33,385 | 39.64% | 2,536 | 3.01% | 1,464 | 1.74% | 285 | 0.34% | 13,141 | 15.60% | 84,216 | ||||||||||||||