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The1900 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
Iowa was won by theRepublican incumbent PresidentWilliam McKinley ofOhio and his running mateTheodore Roosevelt ofNew York. They defeated theDemocratic nominees, formerU.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan and his running mate, formerVice PresidentAdlai Stevenson I. McKinley won the state by a margin of 18.58% in this rematch of the1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in theSpanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.
Bryan had previous lost Iowa to McKinleyfour years earlier and would later lose the state again in1908 toWilliam Howard Taft.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Iowa[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | William McKinley (incumbent) | 307,808 | 58.04% | 13 | |
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 209,265 | 39.46% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | John G. Woolley | 9,502 | 1.79% | 0 | |
| Social Democratic | Eugene V. Debs | 2,742 | 0.52% | 0 | |
| Populist | Wharton Barker | 613 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Joseph F. Malloney | 259 | 0.05% | 0 | |
| United Christian | Jonah Leonard | 166 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Totals | 530,355 | 100.00% | 13 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County[2] | William McKinley Republican | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | John Granville Woolley Prohibition | Eugene Victor Debs Social Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 2,327 | 57.86% | 1,618 | 40.23% | 60 | 1.49% | 7 | 0.17% | 10 | 0.25% | 709 | 17.63% | 4,022 |
| Adams | 1,873 | 55.22% | 1,428 | 42.10% | 82 | 2.42% | 2 | 0.06% | 7 | 0.21% | 445 | 13.12% | 3,392 |
| Allamakee | 2,659 | 58.47% | 1,850 | 40.68% | 30 | 0.66% | 3 | 0.07% | 6 | 0.13% | 809 | 17.79% | 4,548 |
| Appanoose | 3,538 | 55.52% | 2,690 | 42.22% | 33 | 0.52% | 102 | 1.60% | 9 | 0.14% | 848 | 13.31% | 6,372 |
| Audubon | 1,821 | 57.86% | 1,301 | 41.34% | 23 | 0.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.06% | 520 | 16.52% | 3,147 |
| Benton | 3,609 | 56.89% | 2,575 | 40.59% | 101 | 1.59% | 57 | 0.90% | 2 | 0.03% | 1,034 | 16.30% | 6,344 |
| Black Hawk | 5,010 | 64.39% | 2,512 | 32.28% | 237 | 3.05% | 13 | 0.17% | 9 | 0.12% | 2,498 | 32.10% | 7,781 |
| Boone | 4,151 | 61.60% | 2,264 | 33.60% | 205 | 3.04% | 112 | 1.66% | 7 | 0.10% | 1,887 | 28.00% | 6,739 |
| Bremer | 2,178 | 52.46% | 1,929 | 46.46% | 40 | 0.96% | 2 | 0.05% | 3 | 0.07% | 249 | 6.00% | 4,152 |
| Buchanan | 2,958 | 56.96% | 2,053 | 39.53% | 171 | 3.29% | 3 | 0.06% | 8 | 0.15% | 905 | 17.43% | 5,193 |
| Buena Vista | 2,632 | 71.27% | 936 | 25.35% | 98 | 2.65% | 5 | 0.14% | 22 | 0.60% | 1,696 | 45.92% | 3,693 |
| Butler | 2,902 | 70.01% | 1,167 | 28.15% | 70 | 1.69% | 3 | 0.07% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,735 | 41.86% | 4,145 |
| Calhoun | 2,973 | 69.61% | 1,224 | 28.66% | 67 | 1.57% | 6 | 0.14% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,749 | 40.95% | 4,271 |
| Carroll | 2,224 | 47.34% | 2,434 | 51.81% | 29 | 0.62% | 8 | 0.17% | 3 | 0.06% | -210 | -4.47% | 4,698 |
| Cass | 3,128 | 60.12% | 2,010 | 38.63% | 40 | 0.77% | 4 | 0.08% | 21 | 0.40% | 1,118 | 21.49% | 5,203 |
| Cedar | 2,740 | 55.19% | 2,131 | 42.92% | 88 | 1.77% | 4 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.04% | 609 | 12.27% | 4,965 |
| Cerro Gordo | 3,345 | 69.53% | 1,320 | 27.44% | 132 | 2.74% | 11 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.06% | 2,025 | 42.09% | 4,811 |
| Cherokee | 2,432 | 63.10% | 1,253 | 32.51% | 156 | 4.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0.34% | 1,179 | 30.59% | 3,854 |
| Chickasaw | 2,085 | 49.71% | 2,063 | 49.19% | 37 | 0.88% | 3 | 0.07% | 6 | 0.14% | 22 | 0.52% | 4,194 |
| Clarke | 1,800 | 56.69% | 1,322 | 41.64% | 47 | 1.48% | 2 | 0.06% | 4 | 0.13% | 478 | 15.06% | 3,175 |
| Clay | 2,292 | 72.76% | 781 | 24.79% | 64 | 2.03% | 3 | 0.10% | 10 | 0.32% | 1,511 | 47.97% | 3,150 |
| Clayton | 3,366 | 53.07% | 2,884 | 45.47% | 68 | 1.07% | 17 | 0.27% | 7 | 0.11% | 482 | 7.60% | 6,342 |
| Clinton | 5,344 | 51.19% | 4,758 | 45.58% | 63 | 0.60% | 218 | 2.09% | 56 | 0.54% | 586 | 5.61% | 10,439 |
| Crawford | 2,268 | 45.72% | 2,578 | 51.97% | 107 | 2.16% | 2 | 0.04% | 6 | 0.12% | -310 | -6.25% | 4,961 |
| Dallas | 3,601 | 62.35% | 1,940 | 33.59% | 172 | 2.98% | 51 | 0.88% | 11 | 0.19% | 1,661 | 28.76% | 5,775 |
| Davis | 1,656 | 42.76% | 2,155 | 55.64% | 41 | 1.06% | 2 | 0.05% | 19 | 0.49% | -499 | -12.88% | 3,873 |
| Decatur | 2,415 | 53.21% | 2,058 | 45.34% | 42 | 0.93% | 6 | 0.13% | 18 | 0.40% | 357 | 7.87% | 4,539 |
| Delaware | 2,805 | 63.02% | 1,570 | 35.27% | 54 | 1.21% | 17 | 0.38% | 5 | 0.11% | 1,235 | 27.75% | 4,451 |
| Des Moines | 4,315 | 50.72% | 3,909 | 45.94% | 73 | 0.86% | 188 | 2.21% | 23 | 0.27% | 406 | 4.77% | 8,508 |
| Dickinson | 1,352 | 73.16% | 445 | 24.08% | 43 | 2.33% | 6 | 0.32% | 2 | 0.11% | 907 | 49.08% | 1,848 |
| Dubuque | 4,752 | 41.09% | 6,655 | 57.55% | 56 | 0.48% | 75 | 0.65% | 26 | 0.22% | -1,903 | -16.46% | 11,564 |
| Emmet | 1,618 | 70.59% | 595 | 25.96% | 71 | 3.10% | 4 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.17% | 1,023 | 44.63% | 2,292 |
| Fayette | 3,984 | 58.39% | 2,708 | 39.69% | 117 | 1.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 14 | 0.21% | 1,276 | 18.70% | 6,823 |
| Floyd | 2,843 | 67.56% | 1,295 | 30.77% | 57 | 1.35% | 1 | 0.02% | 12 | 0.29% | 1,548 | 36.79% | 4,208 |
| Franklin | 2,537 | 76.37% | 748 | 22.52% | 32 | 0.96% | 2 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,789 | 53.85% | 3,322 |
| Fremont | 2,170 | 46.59% | 2,399 | 51.50% | 73 | 1.57% | 3 | 0.06% | 13 | 0.28% | -229 | -4.92% | 4,658 |
| Greene | 2,777 | 65.88% | 1,360 | 32.27% | 72 | 1.71% | 3 | 0.07% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,417 | 33.62% | 4,215 |
| Grundy | 2,025 | 61.79% | 1,203 | 36.71% | 43 | 1.31% | 4 | 0.12% | 2 | 0.06% | 822 | 25.08% | 3,277 |
| Guthrie | 2,806 | 59.52% | 1,824 | 38.69% | 74 | 1.57% | 5 | 0.11% | 5 | 0.11% | 982 | 20.83% | 4,714 |
| Hamilton | 3,259 | 73.15% | 1,134 | 25.45% | 44 | 0.99% | 10 | 0.22% | 8 | 0.18% | 2,125 | 47.70% | 4,455 |
| Hancock | 2,186 | 71.32% | 827 | 26.98% | 50 | 1.63% | 1 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,359 | 44.34% | 3,065 |
| Hardin | 3,741 | 72.63% | 1,268 | 24.62% | 125 | 2.43% | 8 | 0.16% | 9 | 0.17% | 2,473 | 48.01% | 5,151 |
| Harrison | 3,303 | 52.50% | 2,837 | 45.10% | 106 | 1.68% | 37 | 0.59% | 8 | 0.13% | 466 | 7.41% | 6,291 |
| Henry | 2,794 | 57.64% | 1,907 | 39.34% | 125 | 2.58% | 10 | 0.21% | 11 | 0.23% | 887 | 18.30% | 4,847 |
| Howard | 1,944 | 56.30% | 1,420 | 41.12% | 85 | 2.46% | 3 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.03% | 524 | 15.18% | 3,453 |
| Humboldt | 2,214 | 77.88% | 595 | 20.93% | 29 | 1.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.18% | 1,619 | 56.95% | 2,843 |
| Ida | 1,599 | 54.22% | 1,304 | 44.22% | 40 | 1.36% | 4 | 0.14% | 2 | 0.07% | 295 | 10.00% | 2,949 |
| Iowa | 2,336 | 52.70% | 1,983 | 44.73% | 92 | 2.08% | 12 | 0.27% | 10 | 0.23% | 353 | 7.96% | 4,433 |
| Jackson | 2,964 | 50.66% | 2,854 | 48.78% | 30 | 0.51% | 1 | 0.02% | 2 | 0.03% | 110 | 1.88% | 5,851 |
| Jasper | 3,894 | 54.14% | 3,163 | 43.97% | 98 | 1.36% | 21 | 0.29% | 17 | 0.24% | 731 | 10.16% | 7,193 |
| Jefferson | 2,482 | 58.73% | 1,612 | 38.14% | 118 | 2.79% | 9 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.12% | 870 | 20.59% | 4,226 |
| Johnson | 3,010 | 48.10% | 3,182 | 50.85% | 46 | 0.74% | 15 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.08% | -172 | -2.75% | 6,258 |
| Jones | 3,021 | 58.72% | 2,052 | 39.88% | 72 | 1.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 969 | 18.83% | 5,145 |
| Keokuk | 3,339 | 54.32% | 2,669 | 43.42% | 120 | 1.95% | 11 | 0.18% | 8 | 0.13% | 670 | 10.90% | 6,147 |
| Kossuth | 3,122 | 63.06% | 1,777 | 35.89% | 46 | 0.93% | 3 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,345 | 27.17% | 4,951 |
| Lee | 4,486 | 45.88% | 5,182 | 53.00% | 77 | 0.79% | 19 | 0.19% | 14 | 0.14% | -696 | -7.12% | 9,778 |
| Linn | 7,745 | 59.10% | 5,019 | 38.30% | 236 | 1.80% | 87 | 0.66% | 19 | 0.14% | 2,726 | 20.80% | 13,106 |
| Louisa | 2,185 | 63.30% | 1,172 | 33.95% | 82 | 2.38% | 11 | 0.32% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,013 | 29.35% | 3,452 |
| Lucas | 2,225 | 57.58% | 1,488 | 38.51% | 127 | 3.29% | 21 | 0.54% | 3 | 0.08% | 737 | 19.07% | 3,864 |
| Lyon | 1,666 | 55.00% | 1,289 | 42.56% | 50 | 1.65% | 21 | 0.69% | 3 | 0.10% | 377 | 12.45% | 3,029 |
| Madison | 2,590 | 55.67% | 1,907 | 40.99% | 75 | 1.61% | 9 | 0.19% | 71 | 1.53% | 683 | 14.68% | 4,652 |
| Mahaska | 4,480 | 53.90% | 3,596 | 43.26% | 201 | 2.42% | 23 | 0.28% | 12 | 0.14% | 884 | 10.64% | 8,312 |
| Marion | 2,950 | 48.53% | 2,950 | 48.53% | 153 | 2.52% | 7 | 0.12% | 19 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,079 |
| Marshall | 4,878 | 65.07% | 2,329 | 31.07% | 257 | 3.43% | 27 | 0.36% | 5 | 0.07% | 2,549 | 34.00% | 7,496 |
| Mills | 2,212 | 55.00% | 1,733 | 43.09% | 67 | 1.67% | 3 | 0.07% | 7 | 0.17% | 479 | 11.91% | 4,022 |
| Mitchell | 2,450 | 70.40% | 981 | 28.19% | 47 | 1.35% | 1 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,469 | 42.21% | 3,480 |
| Monona | 2,161 | 51.53% | 1,934 | 46.11% | 79 | 1.88% | 4 | 0.10% | 16 | 0.38% | 227 | 5.41% | 4,194 |
| Monroe | 2,233 | 51.62% | 1,705 | 39.41% | 148 | 3.42% | 218 | 5.04% | 22 | 0.51% | 528 | 12.21% | 4,326 |
| Montgomery | 2,927 | 65.25% | 1,467 | 32.70% | 83 | 1.85% | 4 | 0.09% | 5 | 0.11% | 1,460 | 32.55% | 4,486 |
| Muscatine | 3,905 | 54.92% | 3,021 | 42.49% | 68 | 0.96% | 108 | 1.52% | 8 | 0.11% | 884 | 12.43% | 7,110 |
| O'Brien | 2,386 | 61.16% | 1,461 | 37.45% | 45 | 1.15% | 7 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.05% | 925 | 23.71% | 3,901 |
| Osceola | 1,106 | 56.89% | 799 | 41.10% | 28 | 1.44% | 6 | 0.31% | 5 | 0.26% | 307 | 15.79% | 1,944 |
| Page | 3,424 | 60.68% | 1,889 | 33.48% | 313 | 5.55% | 8 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.16% | 1,535 | 27.20% | 5,643 |
| Palo Alto | 1,908 | 55.47% | 1,477 | 42.94% | 50 | 1.45% | 2 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.09% | 431 | 12.53% | 3,440 |
| Plymouth | 2,712 | 53.03% | 2,307 | 45.11% | 85 | 1.66% | 5 | 0.10% | 5 | 0.10% | 405 | 7.92% | 5,114 |
| Pocahontas | 2,176 | 61.84% | 1,287 | 36.57% | 53 | 1.51% | 1 | 0.03% | 2 | 0.06% | 889 | 25.26% | 3,519 |
| Polk | 12,628 | 64.72% | 6,180 | 31.67% | 460 | 2.36% | 198 | 1.01% | 45 | 0.23% | 6,448 | 33.05% | 19,511 |
| Pottawattamie | 6,525 | 54.14% | 5,373 | 44.58% | 101 | 0.84% | 25 | 0.21% | 28 | 0.23% | 1,152 | 9.56% | 12,052 |
| Poweshiek | 3,199 | 63.05% | 1,765 | 34.79% | 88 | 1.73% | 12 | 0.24% | 10 | 0.20% | 1,434 | 28.26% | 5,074 |
| Ringgold | 2,319 | 62.19% | 1,311 | 35.16% | 79 | 2.12% | 7 | 0.19% | 13 | 0.35% | 1,008 | 27.03% | 3,729 |
| Sac | 2,786 | 67.38% | 1,214 | 29.36% | 124 | 3.00% | 8 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,572 | 38.02% | 4,135 |
| Scott | 6,327 | 52.05% | 5,157 | 42.43% | 66 | 0.54% | 540 | 4.44% | 65 | 0.53% | 1,170 | 9.63% | 12,155 |
| Shelby | 2,182 | 51.47% | 2,010 | 47.42% | 32 | 0.75% | 8 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.17% | 172 | 4.06% | 4,239 |
| Sioux | 3,025 | 61.70% | 1,809 | 36.90% | 52 | 1.06% | 7 | 0.14% | 10 | 0.20% | 1,216 | 24.80% | 4,903 |
| Story | 4,032 | 71.91% | 1,343 | 23.95% | 222 | 3.96% | 8 | 0.14% | 2 | 0.04% | 2,689 | 47.96% | 5,607 |
| Tama | 3,290 | 53.45% | 2,736 | 44.45% | 117 | 1.90% | 7 | 0.11% | 5 | 0.08% | 554 | 9.00% | 6,155 |
| Taylor | 2,792 | 57.25% | 1,984 | 40.68% | 92 | 1.89% | 5 | 0.10% | 4 | 0.08% | 808 | 16.57% | 4,877 |
| Union | 2,462 | 50.86% | 2,218 | 45.82% | 148 | 3.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 10 | 0.21% | 244 | 5.04% | 4,841 |
| Van Buren | 2,547 | 56.40% | 1,893 | 41.92% | 65 | 1.44% | 5 | 0.11% | 6 | 0.13% | 654 | 14.48% | 4,516 |
| Wapello | 4,742 | 53.21% | 3,902 | 43.78% | 85 | 0.95% | 142 | 1.59% | 41 | 0.46% | 840 | 9.43% | 8,912 |
| Warren | 2,966 | 59.15% | 1,876 | 37.42% | 157 | 3.13% | 3 | 0.06% | 12 | 0.24% | 1,090 | 21.74% | 5,014 |
| Washington | 2,844 | 54.26% | 2,234 | 42.63% | 153 | 2.92% | 3 | 0.06% | 7 | 0.13% | 610 | 11.64% | 5,241 |
| Wayne | 2,294 | 51.78% | 2,001 | 45.17% | 132 | 2.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.07% | 293 | 6.61% | 4,430 |
| Webster | 4,221 | 63.31% | 2,266 | 33.99% | 133 | 1.99% | 29 | 0.43% | 18 | 0.27% | 1,955 | 29.32% | 6,667 |
| Winnebago | 2,052 | 79.63% | 474 | 18.39% | 41 | 1.59% | 5 | 0.19% | 5 | 0.19% | 1,578 | 61.23% | 2,577 |
| Winneshiek | 3,486 | 64.72% | 1,835 | 34.07% | 59 | 1.10% | 3 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,651 | 30.65% | 5,386 |
| Woodbury | 7,045 | 57.54% | 4,796 | 39.17% | 357 | 2.92% | 26 | 0.21% | 19 | 0.16% | 2,249 | 18.37% | 12,243 |
| Worth | 1,730 | 77.30% | 475 | 21.22% | 28 | 1.25% | 1 | 0.04% | 4 | 0.18% | 1,255 | 56.08% | 2,238 |
| Wright | 2,990 | 75.07% | 891 | 22.37% | 93 | 2.33% | 7 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,099 | 52.70% | 3,983 |
| Totals | 307,808 | 58.04% | 209,265 | 39.46% | 9,502 | 1.79% | 2,743 | 0.52% | 1,030 | 0.19% | 98,543 | 18.58% | 530,348 |
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