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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1900, in 34 states, concurrent with theHouse,Senate elections andpresidential election, on November 6, 1900 (except in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Vermont, which held early elections).
Alabama held its last gubernatorial election in August, while Rhode Island held its last in April. In both cases the next gubernatorial election would be held onthe same day as federal elections: in Alabama in1902 and in Rhode Island in1901. There was a change in Alabama's governorships in 1902, when governors served four-year terms instead of two-year terms.
InFlorida, the gubernatorial election was held onthe same day as federal elections, having been held in October since1892.[1]
InNorth Carolina gubernatorial elections had been held onthe same day as federal elections since 1876, but in 1900 the election was moved to August. It would revert to November from1904.
| State | Incumbent | Party | Status | Opposing candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama (held, 6 August 1900) | Joseph F. Johnston | Democratic | Retired torun for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | William J. Samford (Democratic) 71.57% John A. Steele (Republican) 17.59% Grattan B. Crowe (Populist) 10.84% [2] |
| Arkansas (held, 3 September 1900) | Daniel Webster Jones | Democratic | Retired torun for U.S. Senate, Democratic victory | Jeff Davis (Democratic) 66.66% Harmon L. Remmel (Republican) 30.61% Abner W. Files[3] (Populist) 2.74% [4][5] |
| Colorado | Charles S. Thomas | Democratic | [data missing] | James Bradley Orman (Democratic)[d] 53.78% Frank C. Goudy (Republican) 43.53% James R. Wylie (Prohibition) 1.68% DeWitt Copley (Socialist Labor) 0.45% S. B. Hutchinson (Social Democrat) 0.38% James T. Pearson (Populist) 0.19% [6] |
| Connecticut | George E. Lounsbury | Republican | [data missing] | George P. McLean (Republican) 53.02% Samuel L. Bronson (Democratic) 45.05% Charles E. Steele (Prohibition) 0.86% George A. Sweetland (Social Democrat) 0.58% Adam Marx (Socialist Labor) 0.49% [7] |
| Delaware | Ebe W. Tunnell | Democratic | Retired, Republican victory | John Hunn (Republican) 53.57% Peter J. Ford (Democratic) 44.93% Richard W. Cooper (Prohibition) 1.37% Gustave E. Reinicke (Socialist) 0.13% [8] |
| Florida | William D. Bloxham | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William Sherman Jennings (Democratic) 80.98% Matthew B. MacFarlane (Republican) 17.27% A.M. Morton (Populist) 1.75% [9] |
| Georgia (held, 3 October 1900) | Allen D. Candler | Democratic | Re-elected, 78.57% | George W. Trayler[e] (Populist) 21.43% [10] |
| Idaho | Frank Steunenberg | Democratic | Retired, Democratic victory | Frank W. Hunt (Democratic)[f] 50.87% D. W. Standrod (Republican) 47.04% Silas Luttrell (Prohibition) 1.84% Scattering 0.25% [13] |
| Illinois | John Riley Tanner | Republican | Retired torun for U.S. Senate, Republican victory | Richard Yates Jr. (Republican) 51.49% Samuel Alschuler (Democratic) 46.06% Visscher Vare Barnes (Prohibition) 1.39% Herman C. Perry (Social Democrat) 0.76% Louis P. Hoffman (Socialist Labor) 0.12% Alfred Cheesbrough Van Tine (Populist) 0.10% Lloyd G. Spencer (Union Reform) 0.06% John Cordingly (United Christian) 0.03% [14] |
| Indiana | James A. Mount | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Winfield T. Durbin (Republican) 50.54% John W. Kern (Democratic) 46.70% Charles Eckhart (Prohibition) 2.05% John W. Kelly (Social Democrat) 0.34% A. G. Burkhart (Populist) 0.23% Philip H. More (Socialist Labor) 0.10% M. A. Wilson (Union Reform) 0.04% Scattering 0.00% [15] |
| Kansas | William Eugene Stanley | Republican | Re-elected, 52.25% | John W. Breidenthal (Populist) 47.33% G. C. Clemens (Social Democrat) 0.36% Frank Holsinger (Prohibition) 0.06% Scattering 0.00% [16] |
| Kentucky (special election) | J. C. W. Beckham | Democratic | Re-elected, 49.89% | John W. Yerkes (Republican) 49.09% John D. White (Prohibition) 0.49% A. H. Cardin (Populist) 0.36% Walter T. Roberts (Social Democrat) 0.10% James Doyle (Socialist Labor) 0.09% [17] |
| Louisiana (held, 17 April 1900) | Murphy J. Foster | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | William Wright Heard (Democratic) 78.32% Donaldson Caffery III (Fusion)[g] 18.49% Eugene S. Reems (Republican) 3.19% [18] |
| Maine (held, 10 September 1900) | Llewellyn Powers | Republican | [data missing] | John Fremont Hill (Republican) 62.33% Samuel L. Lord (Democratic) 34.01% Grant Rogers (Prohibition) 3.10% Norman Wallace Lermond (Socialist) 0.55% Scattering 0.02% [19] |
| Massachusetts | Winthrop M. Crane | Republican | Re-elected, 59.06% | Robert Treat Paine (Democratic) 33.69% Charles H. Bradley (Social Democrat) 3.43% Michael T. Berry (Socialist Labor) 2.28% John M. Fisher (Prohibition) 1.54% Scattering 0.00% [20] |
| Michigan | Hazen S. Pingree | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Aaron T. Bliss (Republican) 55.75% William C. Maybury (Democratic) 41.27% Frederic S. Goodrich (Prohibition) 2.16% Henry Ramsay (Social Democrat) 0.49% Henry Ulbricht (Socialist Labor) 0.18% Daniel Thompson (Populist) 0.16% Scattering 0.00% [21] |
| Minnesota | John Lind | Democratic[h] | Defeated, 47.95% | Samuel Rinnah Van Sant (Republican) 48.67% Bernt B. Haugan (Prohibition) 1.73% Thomas H. Lucas (Social Democrat) 1.13% Edward Kriz (Socialist Labor) 0.28% Sylvester M. Fairchild (Midroad-Populist) 0.24% [22] |
| Missouri | Lon Vest Stephens | Democratic | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Alexander Monroe Dockery (Democratic) 51.15% Joseph Flory (Republican) 46.46% Caleb Lipscomb (Social Democrat) 0.82% Charles E. Stokes (Prohibition) 0.76% J. H. Hillis (People's Progressive) 0.64% Louis C. Fry (Socialist Labor) 0.18% [23] |
| Montana | Robert Burns Smith | Democratic[i] | Retired, Democratic victory | Joseph Toole (Democratic) 49.24% David S. Folsom (Republican) 35.56% Thomas S. Hogan (Independent Democrat) 14.40% J. F. Fox (Social Democrat) 0.79% [24] |
| Nebraska | William A. Poynter | Populist[j] | Defeated, 48.51% | Charles Henry Dietrich (Republican) 48.88% Lucius O. Jones (Prohibition) 1.85% Taylor Flick (Midroad-Populist) 0.47% Theodore Kharas (Socialist) 0.29% [25] |
| New Hampshire | Frank W. Rollins | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Chester B. Jordan (Republican) 59.36% Frederick E. Potter (Democratic) 38.50% Josiah M. Fletcher (Prohibition) 1.30% Sumner F. Claflin (Social Democrat) 0.83% Scattering 0.01% [26] |
| New York | Theodore Roosevelt | Republican | Retired torun for U.S. Vice President, Republican victory | Benjamin Odell (Republican) 51.98% John B. Stanchfield (Democratic) 44.80% William T. Wardwell (Prohibition) 1.47% Charles Hunter Corregan (Socialist Labor) 0.89% Ben Hanford (Social Democrat) 0.87% [27] |
| North Carolina (held, 2 August 1900)[28][29] | Daniel Lindsay Russell | Republican | Term-limited, Democratic victory | Charles Brantley Aycock (Democratic) 59.57% Spencer B. Adams (Republican) 40.31% Henry Sheets (Prohibition) 0.11% Scattering 0.00% [30] |
| North Dakota | Frederick B. Fancher | Republican | Retired,[31] Republican victory | Frank White (Republican) 59.20% Max Wipperman (Democratic)[k] 38.72% Delevan Carlton (Prohibition) 0.97% George F. Poague (Socialist) 0.74% O. G. Major (Populist) 0.37% [32] |
| Rhode Island (held, 4 April 1900) | Elisha Dyer, Jr. | Republican | [data missing] | William Gregory (Republican) 54.33% Nathan W. Littlefield (Democratic) 35.85% James P. Reid (Socialist Labor) 5.96% Henry B. Metcalf (Prohibition) 3.86% [33] |
| South Carolina | Miles Benjamin McSweeney | Democratic | Re-elected, 100.00%[34] | (Democratic primary run-off results) Miles Benjamin McSweeney 57.86% James A. Hoyt 42.14% [35] |
| South Dakota | Andrew E. Lee | Populist | Retired torun for U.S. House, Republican victory | Charles N. Herreid (Republican) 56.31% Burre H. Lien (Democratic)[l] 41.97% F. J. Carlisle (Prohibition) 1.39% L. E. Stair (Midroad-Populist) 0.33% [36] |
| Tennessee | Benton McMillin | Democratic | Re-elected, 53.86% | John E. McCall (Republican) 44.29% R. S. Cheves (Prohibition) 1.28% H. J. Mullens (Populist) 0.47% Charles H. Stockwell (Social Democrat) 0.10% [37] |
| Texas | Joseph D. Sayers | Democratic | Re-elected, 67.56% | R. E. Hanney (Republican) 25.12% T. J. McMinn (Populist) 5.92% G. H. Royal (Socialist Labor) 0.03% Scattering 1.37% [38] |
| Utah | Heber Manning Wells | Republican | Re-elected, 51.71% | James Henry Moyle (Democratic) 48.29% [39] |
| Vermont (held, 4 September 1902) | Edward Curtis Smith | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | William W. Stickney (Republican) 72.19% John H. Senter (Democratic) 25.53% Henry C. Barnes (Prohibition) 1.42% James Pirie (Social Democrat) 0.85% Scattering 0.02% [40] |
| Washington | John Rankin Rogers | Populist[m] | Re-elected as a Democrat, 48.86% | John M. Frink (Republican) 46.81% Robert E. Dunlap (Prohibition) 1.97% William C. B. Randolph (Social Democrat) 1.57% William McCormick (Socialist Labor) 0.79% [41] |
| West Virginia | George W. Atkinson | Republican | Term-limited, Republican victory | Albert B. White (Republican) 53.84% John H. Holt (Democratic) 45.43% Thomas Carskadon (Prohibition) 0.60% H. T. Houston (Populist) 0.14% [42] |
| Wisconsin | Edward Scofield | Republican | Retired, Republican victory | Robert M. LaFollette (Republican) 59.84% Louis G. Bomrich (Democratic) 36.36% J. Burritt Smith (Prohibition) 2.20% Howard Tuttle (Social Democrat) 1.49% Frank Wilke (Socialist Labor) 0.12% Scattering 0.00% [43] |
