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The1900 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 theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Following Reconstruction,Georgia would be the first former Confederate state to substantially disenfranchise its newly enfranchised freedmen and manypoor whites, doing so in the early 1870s.[1] This largely limited the Republican Party to a few North Georgia counties with substantialCivil WarUnionist sentiment – chieflyFannin but also to a lesser extentPickens,Gilmer andTowns.[2] The Democratic Party served as the guardian ofwhite supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories ofReconstruction, and the main competition becameDemocratic 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 bya cumulative poll tax was chaotic. Third-party movements, chiefly thePopulist Party, gained support amongst the remaining poor white and black voters in opposition tothe 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 theSpanish–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 theDemocratic nominees, formerU.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan and his running mate, formerVice PresidentAdlai Stevenson I. They defeated theRepublican nominees, incumbent PresidentWilliam McKinley ofOhio and his running mateTheodore Roosevelt ofNew 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 alongsideSamuel J. Tilden andJimmy 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 afterSouth Carolina,Mississippi,Louisiana andFlorida.[11] Bryan had previously defeated McKinley in Georgiafour years earlier and would later win the state again in1908 againstWilliam Howard Taft.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Georgia[12] | |||||
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| 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 | |
| County | William Jennings Bryan[13] Democratic | William McKinley[13] Republican | Wharton Barker[13] Populist | John Granville Woolley[13] Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| 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[a] | 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[b] | 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[b] | 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[b] | 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[b] | 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[b] | 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[b] | 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 |
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