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 County results Durbin: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% Kern: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% | |||||||||||||||||
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The1900 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1900, in all 92 counties in the state ofIndiana. GovernorJames 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 theIndiana 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 citysolicitor ofIndianapolis, 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.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Winfield T. Durbin | 331,531 | 50.5 | |
| Democratic | John W. Kern | 306,272 | 46.7 | |
| Prohibition | Charles N. Eckhart | 13,453 | 2.1 | |
| Populist | A.G. Burkhart | 1,504 | 0.2 | |
