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The1900 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Maine overwhelmingly voted for theRepublican nominee,PresidentWilliam McKinley, over theDemocratic nominee, formerU.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Maine by a margin of 27.85% in this rematch of the1896 United States presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in theSpanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory. Nonetheless, Bryan's narrow victory inKnox County was the only occasion between1884 and1908 that a Democrat carried any of Maine's counties, and one of only two such cases[b] between1856 and 1908 inclusive.[1]
With 61.89% of the popular vote, Maine would be McKinley's third strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote afterVermont andNorth Dakota.[2]
Bryan had previous lost Maine to McKinleyfour years earlier and would later lose the state again in 1908 toWilliam Howard Taft.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Maine[3][a] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | William McKinley ofOhio(incumbent) | Theodore Roosevelt ofNew York | 65,412 | 61.89% | 6 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan ofNebraska | Adlai Ewing Stevenson I ofIllinois | 36,822 | 34.84% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | John Granville Woolley ofIllinois | Henry Brewer Metcalf ofRhode Island | 2,581 | 2.44% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs ofIndiana | Job Harriman ofCalifornia | 878 | 0.83% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 106,093 | 100.00% | 6 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | William McKinley Republican | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | John Granville Woolley[4] Prohibition | Eugene Victor Debs[4] Socialist | Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Androscoggin | 4,648 | 57.44% | 3,182 | 39.32% | 203 | 2.51% | 59 | 0.73% | 1,466 | 18.12% | 8,092 |
| Aroostook | 4,192 | 76.07% | 1,030 | 18.69% | 280 | 5.08% | 9 | 0.16% | 3,162 | 57.38% | 5,511 |
| Cumberland | 8,824 | 58.59% | 5,770 | 38.31% | 337 | 2.24% | 129 | 0.86% | 3,054 | 20.28% | 15,060 |
| Franklin | 2,235 | 65.99% | 1,085 | 32.03% | 65 | 1.92% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,150 | 33.96% | 3,387 |
| Hancock | 3,432 | 63.70% | 1,860 | 34.52% | 69 | 1.28% | 27 | 0.50% | 1,572 | 29.18% | 5,388 |
| Kennebec | 6,228 | 62.60% | 3,410 | 34.27% | 257 | 2.58% | 54 | 0.54% | 2,818 | 28.33% | 9,949 |
| Knox | 2,762 | 48.76% | 2,765 | 48.81% | 74 | 1.31% | 64 | 1.13% | -3 | -0.05% | 5,665 |
| Lincoln | 2,212 | 59.98% | 1,419 | 38.48% | 48 | 1.30% | 9 | 0.24% | 793 | 21.50% | 3,688 |
| Oxford | 3,912 | 64.19% | 2,023 | 33.20% | 146 | 2.40% | 13 | 0.21% | 1,889 | 30.99% | 6,094 |
| Penobscot | 6,873 | 63.87% | 3,615 | 33.59% | 237 | 2.20% | 36 | 0.33% | 3,258 | 30.28% | 10,761 |
| Piscataquis | 2,023 | 67.50% | 824 | 27.49% | 146 | 4.87% | 4 | 0.13% | 1,199 | 40.01% | 2,997 |
| Sagadahoc | 2,245 | 64.49% | 1,025 | 29.45% | 192 | 5.52% | 19 | 0.55% | 1,220 | 35.04% | 3,481 |
| Somerset | 3,727 | 61.21% | 1,949 | 32.01% | 121 | 1.99% | 292 | 4.80% | 1,778 | 29.20% | 6,089 |
| Waldo | 2,469 | 57.96% | 1,710 | 40.14% | 61 | 1.43% | 20 | 0.47% | 759 | 17.82% | 4,260 |
| Washington | 3,682 | 61.60% | 2,109 | 35.29% | 110 | 1.84% | 76 | 1.27% | 1,573 | 26.31% | 5,977 |
| York | 6,949 | 61.52% | 4,046 | 35.82% | 235 | 2.08% | 65 | 0.58% | 2,903 | 25.70% | 11,295 |
| Totals | 66,413 | 61.67% | 37,822 | 35.12% | 2,581 | 2.40% | 878 | 0.82% | 28,591 | 26.55% | 107,694 |
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