1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin explained

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Election Name:	1900 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Country:	Wisconsin
Flag Year:	1866
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1896 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Previous Year:	1896
Next Election:	1904 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
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:	12
Popular Vote1:	265,756
Percentage1:	60.04%
Nominee2:	William Jennings Bryan
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Nebraska
Running Mate2:	Adlai Stevenson I
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	159,279
Percentage2:	35.99%
Map Size:	300px
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 Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1900 as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Wisconsin during the Third Party System was a Republican-leaning but competitive state whereby historically anti-Civil War German Catholic counties stood opposed to highly pro-war and firmly Republican Yankee areas.^[1] However, following the Populist movement, whose inflationary monetary policies were opposed by almost all urban classes and viewed as dangerously radical by rural German Catholics,^[2] Wisconsin’s upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled from William Jennings Bryan’s agrarian and free silver sympathies.^[3] Although in 1892 Grover Cleveland had become the first Democrat to carry the state since the formation of the Republican Party, in 1896 Wisconsin would prove to be Republican William McKinley’s strongest state outside the Northeast, as Bryan’s free silver monetary policy gained little support from dairy farmers who were less affected by drought or debt than wheat growers.^[4]

Wisconsin would henceforth become almost a one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party.^[5] The Democratic Party became entirely noncompetitive outside the previously anti-Yankee areas adjoining Lake Michigan in the eastern part of the state. In response to Democratic strength weakening severely after 1894, however, challenges within the state Republican Party from Robert M. La Follette would emerge rapidly, with the progressive reformer being elected Governor coincident with the presidential election.^[6]

Despite McKinley’s large win in 1896, Wisconsin was considered doubtful at the beginning of the 1900 campaign.^[7] However, by the middle of October expert opinion suggested strongly that McKinley would carry the state, and that the state’s Democrats were abandoning nominee William Jennings Bryan for the second consecutive election.^[8] This was confirmed by polls just before Election Day,^[9] and as it turned out McKinley essentially repeated his three-to-two success of 1896, winning by 24.05% and carrying all but four counties. McKinley's popular vote share of 60.04% broke his own record from the previous election for the largest by any candidate in Wisconsin to that point. Once again, this record would be broken in the next election.

Bryan had previously lost Wisconsin to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again in 1908 to William Howard Taft.

Results

+ General Election Results^[10]	Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Willard A. Van Brunt	265,756
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Henry E. Roethe	265,710
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Whitman A. Barber	265,694
	Republican Party	William McKinley	William H. J. Kieckhefer	265,686
	Republican Party	William McKinley	John Schuette	265,664
	Republican Party	William McKinley	John Ochsner	265,651
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Charles M. Fenelon	265,586
	Republican Party	William McKinley	John D. Nelsenius	265,562
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Atley Peterson	265,556
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Fred A. Severance	265,546
	Republican Party	William McKinley	George A. Yule	265,534
	Republican Party	William McKinley	Augustus G. Wiessert	265,506
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	Patrick O'Meara	159,279
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	John Rosch	159,136
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	Frederick W. Von Cotzhausen	159,134
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	George W. Stevenson	159,133
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	Benjamin F. Sherman	159,109
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	John Berger	159,090
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	Henry J. Millman	159,081
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	William N. Coffland	159,048
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	George D. Cline	159,047
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	Stephen Richmond	159,043
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	August C. Voshardt	159,031
	Democratic Party	William Jennings Bryan	Amos Holgate	159,020
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	Samuel D. Hastings	10,022
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	John W. Evans	10,010
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	William A. McKillop	10,003
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	Chris Solum	9,992
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	Benjamin F. Thomas	9,991
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	William Ager	9,989
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	Benjamin F. Parker	9,989
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	Lorenzo D. Fargo	9,979
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	James S. Thompson	9,979
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	Joshua H. Berkey	9,978
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	James P. Corse	9,974
	Prohibition Party	John G. Woolley	George I. Constance	9,940
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	August Mohr	7,051
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Frederic Heath	7,048
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	William Anderson	7,043
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Joseph Braun	7,043
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Frank J. Ira	7,041
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Fred W. Rehfeld	7,030
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Jacob Hunger	7,022
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	E. P. Hassinger	7,018
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Frank Gutheil	7,014
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Frederic Althen	7,010
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Otto Kundert	7,005
	Social Democratic Party	Eugene V. Debs	Vincent Bezucha	6,984
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Otto E. Harder	505
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Ernst Pagel	505
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Max Boehme	504
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Hy. Mensing Sr.	503
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Joseph Petersen	503
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Ernst Koch	502
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	John Meyer	502
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Charles Slaby	502
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Louis Brand	500
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Albert Roeder	498
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Carl Korn	497
	Socialist Labor Party	Joseph F. Maloney	Louis Schienbein	496
Votes cast				442,613

Results by county

County	William McKinley Republican		William Jennings Bryan Democratic		John G. Woolley Prohibition		Eugene V. Debs Social Democratic		Joseph F. Maloney Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast
County		%		%		%		%		%		%	Total votes cast
	Adams		1,513		77.47%		409		20.94%		29		1.48%	2	0.10%	0	0.00%	1,104	56.53%	1,953
	Ashland		3,032		63.93%		1,559		32.87%		103		2.17%	42	0.89%	7	0.15%	1,473	31.06%	4,743
	Barron		2,949		72.89%		944		23.33%		149		3.68%	4	0.10%	0	0.00%	2,005	49.56%	4,046
	Bayfield		2,426		76.92%		632		20.04%		80		2.54%	8	0.25%	8	0.25%	1,794	56.88%	3,154
	Brown		4,938		56.82%		3,585		41.25%		133		1.53%	28	0.32%	6	0.07%	1,353	15.57%	8,690
	Buffalo		2,093		62.44%		1,204		35.92%		55		1.64%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	889	26.52%	3,352
	Burnett		1,108		80.29%		216		15.65%		48		3.48%	2	0.14%	6	0.43%	892	64.64%	1,380
	Calumet		1,629		45.14%		1,905		52.78%		54		1.50%	21	0.58%	0	0.00%	-276	-7.65%	3,609
	Chippewa		4,215		61.90%		2,443		35.88%		140		2.06%	9	0.13%	2	0.03%	1,772	26.02%	6,809
	Clark		3,865		74.80%		1,156		22.37%		124		2.40%	15	0.29%	7	0.14%	2,709	52.43%	5,167
	Columbia		4,756		65.64%		2,184		30.14%		282		3.89%	22	0.30%	2	0.03%	2,572	35.50%	7,246
	Crawford		2,333		62.48%		1,356		36.31%		44		1.18%	0	0.00%	1	0.03%	977	26.16%	3,734
	Dane		9,396		58.41%		6,129		38.10%		512		3.18%	44	0.27%	4	0.02%	3,267	20.31%	16,085
	Dodge		4,785		44.37%		5,813		53.90%		177		1.64%	9	0.08%	1	0.01%	-1,028	-9.53%	10,785
	Door		2,363		76.23%		677		21.84%		57		1.84%	2	0.06%	1	0.03%	1,686	54.39%	3,100
	Douglas		4,448		63.80%		2,191		31.43%		178		2.55%	133	1.91%	22	0.32%	2,257	32.37%	6,972
	Dunn		3,044		70.79%		1,110		25.81%		144		3.35%	2	0.05%	0	0.00%	1,934	44.98%	4,300
	Eau Claire		4,379		66.45%		1,966		29.83%		181		2.75%	61	0.93%	3	0.05%	2,413	36.62%	6,590
	Florence		514		79.57%		110		17.03%		17		2.63%	3	0.46%	2	0.31%	404	62.54%	646
	Fond du Lac		6,257		53.82%		5,137		44.19%		210		1.81%	20	0.17%	1	0.01%	1,120	9.63%	11,625
	Forest		378		76.99%		94		19.14%		18		3.67%	1	0.20%	0	0.00%	284	57.84%	491
	Grant		5,610		61.18%		3,250		35.45%		284		3.10%	22	0.24%	3	0.03%	2,360	25.74%	9,169
	Green		2,996		60.21%		1,776		35.69%		164		3.30%	40	0.80%	0	0.00%	1,220	24.52%	4,976
	Green Lake		2,084		56.46%		1,521		41.21%		81		2.19%	4	0.11%	1	0.03%	563	15.25%	3,691
	Iowa		3,270		62.49%		1,746		33.37%		203		3.88%	14	0.27%	0	0.00%	1,524	29.12%	5,233
	Iron		1,318		76.76%		357		20.79%		38		2.21%	3	0.17%	1	0.06%	961	55.97%	1,717
	Jackson		2,639		77.75%		650		19.15%		103		3.03%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	1,989	58.60%	3,394
	Jefferson		3,725		46.20%		4,131		51.23%		199		2.47%	8	0.10%	0	0.00%	-406	-5.04%	8,063
	Juneau		2,914		63.35%		1,586		34.48%		98		2.13%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	1,328	28.87%	4,600
	Kenosha		3,077		58.38%		2,101		39.86%		63		1.20%	27	0.51%	3	0.06%	976	18.52%	5,271
	Kewaunee		1,750		49.86%		1,726		49.17%		31		0.88%	3	0.09%	0	0.00%	24	0.68%	3,510
	La Crosse		5,326		58.28%		3,605		39.45%		198		2.17%	9	0.10%	1	0.01%	1,721	18.83%	9,139
	Lafayette		2,852		55.82%		2,101		41.12%		153		2.99%	2	0.04%	1	0.02%	751	14.70%	5,109
	Langlade		1,595		58.23%		1,085		39.61%		48		1.75%	5	0.18%	6	0.22%	510	18.62%	2,739
	Lincoln		2,146		56.68%		1,553		41.02%		70		1.85%	15	0.40%	2	0.05%	593	15.66%	3,786
	Manitowoc		4,319		49.52%		4,162		47.72%		65		0.75%	171	1.96%	4	0.05%	157	1.80%	8,721
	Marathon		4,716		54.33%		3,767		43.40%		132		1.52%	28	0.32%	37	0.43%	949	10.93%	8,680
	Marinette		4,239		70.96%		1,538		25.74%		176		2.95%	17	0.28%	4	0.07%	2,701	45.21%	5,974
	Marquette		1,558		63.05%		866		35.05%		47		1.90%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	692	28.00%	2,471
	Milwaukee		34,809		52.56%		25,558		38.59%		751		1.13%	4,874	7.36%	235	0.35%	9,251	13.97%	66,227
	Monroe		3,713		60.32%		2,248		36.52%		194		3.15%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1,465	23.80%	6,155
	Oconto		2,753		69.71%		1,117		28.29%		74		1.87%	3	0.08%	2	0.05%	1,636	41.43%	3,949
	Oneida		1,801		70.24%		711		27.73%		37		1.44%	13	0.51%	2	0.08%	1,090	42.51%	2,564
	Outagamie		5,244		55.15%		4,009		42.16%		224		2.36%	28	0.29%	3	0.03%	1,235	12.99%	9,508
	Ozaukee		1,281		38.76%		1,965		59.46%		37		1.12%	21	0.64%	1	0.03%	-684	-20.70%	3,305
	Pepin		1,097		68.31%		470		29.27%		39		2.43%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	627	39.04%	1,606
	Pierce		3,432		72.94%		1,042		22.15%		224		4.76%	6	0.13%	1	0.02%	2,390	50.80%	4,705
	Polk		2,735		77.48%		694		19.66%		72		2.04%	16	0.45%	13	0.37%	2,041	57.82%	3,530
	Portage		3,283		54.57%		2,635		43.80%		92		1.53%	4	0.07%	2	0.03%	648	10.77%	6,016
	Price		1,725		74.32%		525		22.62%		55		2.37%	14	0.60%	2	0.09%	1,200	51.70%	2,321
	Racine		5,921		58.36%		3,853		37.98%		233		2.30%	133	1.31%	5	0.05%	2,068	20.38%	10,145
	Richland		2,594		59.54%		1,523		34.96%		230		5.28%	10	0.23%	0	0.00%	1,071	24.58%	4,357
	Rock		8,247		69.95%		3,096		26.26%		403		3.42%	36	0.31%	8	0.07%	5,151	43.69%	11,790
	Sauk		4,326		60.84%		2,493		35.06%		276		3.88%	12	0.17%	3	0.04%	1,833	25.78%	7,110
	Sawyer		723		68.40%		307		29.04%		23		2.18%	4	0.38%	0	0.00%	416	39.36%	1,057
	Shawano		3,242		67.29%		1,504		31.22%		68		1.41%	3	0.06%	1	0.02%	1,738	36.07%	4,818
	Sheboygan		5,930		53.79%		4,044		36.68%		123		1.12%	880	7.98%	48	0.44%	1,886	17.11%	11,025
	St. Croix		3,369		59.00%		2,076		36.36%		202		3.54%	52	0.91%	11	0.19%	1,293	22.64%	5,710
	Taylor		1,419		57.47%		1,012		40.99%		22		0.89%	15	0.61%	1	0.04%	407	16.48%	2,469
	Trempealeau		3,362		71.21%		1,190		25.21%		167		3.54%	1	0.02%	1	0.02%	2,172	46.01%	4,721
	Vernon		4,463		75.58%		1,270		21.51%		154		2.61%	16	0.27%	2	0.03%	3,193	54.07%	5,905
	Vilas		1,208		69.35%		486		27.90%		37		2.12%	10	0.57%	1	0.06%	722	41.45%	1,742
	Walworth		5,104		71.42%		1,741		24.36%		293		4.10%	6	0.08%	2	0.03%	3,363	47.06%	7,146
	Washburn		807		74.24%		249		22.91%		29		2.67%	1	0.09%	1	0.09%	558	51.33%	1,087
	Washington		2,615		50.27%		2,522		48.48%		56		1.08%	7	0.13%	2	0.04%	93	1.79%	5,202
	Waukesha		5,126		60.90%		3,016		35.83%		252		2.99%	19	0.23%	4	0.05%	2,110	25.07%	8,417
	Waupaca		5,283		76.24%		1,382		19.95%		258		3.72%	3	0.04%	3	0.04%	3,901	56.30%	6,929
	Waushara		2,990		82.03%		525		14.40%		127		3.48%	3	0.08%	0	0.00%	2,465	67.63%	3,645
	Winnebago		7,464		55.69%		5,598		41.77%		306		2.28%	27	0.20%	8	0.06%	1,866	13.92%	13,403
	Wood		3,134		61.12%		1,877		36.60%		76		1.48%	34	0.66%	7	0.14%	1,257	24.51%	5,128
Total	265,756	60.04%	159,279	35.99%	10,022	2.27%	7,051	1.59%	505	0.11%	106,480	24.05%	442,613

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Lincoln

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Notes and References

[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips, Kevin P.]
Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 384
Sundquist, James; Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years, p. 526
Web site: Populists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election. National Bureau of Economic Research. Barry Eichengreen. Michael R. Haines. Matthew S. Jaremski. David Leblang.
Burnham, Walter Dean; 'The System of 1896: An Analysis'; in The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 178-179
Cooper, John Milton jr.; ‘Why Wisconsin? The Badger State in the Progressive Era’; The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Spring, 2004), pp. 14-25
‘An Election Forecast’; Courier-Democrat (Langdon, North Dakota), September 6, 1900, p. 4
‘Wisconsin Democrats Abandining Bryan’; The Craig News (Craig, Nebraska), October 19, 1900, p. 7
‘Four Years More of M‘Kinley’; Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa); November 6, 1900, p. 1
Wisconsin Historical Society, Tabular Statement of votes given for President and Vice President of the United States at the general election held in the several towns, wards, villages, and election districts in the several counties of the State of Wisconsin, on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday, being the sixth day of November A.D. 1900