1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky

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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William McKinley Party Democratic Republican Home state Nebraska Ohio Running mate Adlai Stevenson I Theodore Roosevelt Electoral vote 13 0 Popular vote 235,126 227,132 Percentage 50.21% 48.51%

County Results Bryan   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% McKinley   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100%

President before election William McKinley Republican Elected President William McKinley Republican

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The1900 United States presidential election in Kentucky 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.

Kentucky 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 narrow margin of 1.7%.

Ever since theCivil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war betweensecessionist, Democratic counties andUnionist, Republican ones,^[1] although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP would never carry the state during theThird Party System.^[2] However, the Democratic Party in the state was heavily divided overfree silver and the role of corporations in the middle 1890s, and it lost the governorship for the first time in forty years in 1895 due toPopulist defections.^[3] In1896, the state's growing urban andcoal mining areas, which unlike most parts of the South had developed economic ties with the Midwest and Northeast and thus opposed free silver,^[4] gave William McKinley sufficient support to become the first Republican presidential candidate to win Kentucky, winning it by a very narrow margin of 277 votes in what remains the seventh-closest vote for presidential electors on record.^[a]

For the rematch in 1900, an early poll had the state in doubt.^[5] By the final week of October, polls generally had returning Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan carrying the state,^[6] and this he did by a 1.7 percent margin. His win was generally attributed to the fact that urban and coal counties were more tolerant of anti-imperialism (directed against American colonialism in the Pacific islands) than free silver.^[4] This was the only state that had backed McKinleyfour years prior that Bryan managed to flip.

Bryan would later win the state again in1908 againstWilliam Howard Taft.

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