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The1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Massachusetts overwhelmingly voted for theRepublican nominee,PresidentWilliam McKinley, over theDemocratic nominee, formerU.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Massachusetts by a margin of 19.74% 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.
McKinley was able to win 13 out of the 14 counties in the state of Massachusetts. The only county that went to Bryan wasSuffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city,Boston. Bryan had previously lost the county to McKinley in1896 and would lose it again toWilliam Howard Taft in1908. Bryan had previously lost Massachusetts to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again to Taft in 1908.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Massachusetts[2] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | William McKinley ofOhio(incumbent) | Theodore Roosevelt ofNew York | 238,866 | 57.59% | 15 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan ofNebraska | Adlai Ewing Stevenson I ofIllinois | 156,997 | 37.85% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs ofIndiana | Job Harriman ofCalifornia | 9,607 | 2.32% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | John Granville Woolley ofIllinois | Henry Brewer Metcalf ofRhode Island | 6,202 | 1.50% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist Labor | Joseph Francis Malloney ofMassachusetts | Valentine Remmel ofPennsylvania | 2,599 | 0.86% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| N/A | Others | Others | 533 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 414,804 | 100.00% | 15 | 100.00% | ||||
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