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 County Results Bryan 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% 90–100%
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The1900 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
Mississippi was won by theDemocratic nominees,former U.S. RepresentativeWilliam Jennings Bryan ofNebraska and his running mateAdlai Stevenson I ofIllinois. They defeated theRepublican nominees, incumbent PresidentWilliam McKinley ofOhio and his running mateTheodore Roosevelt ofNew York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 77.9%.
With 87.56% of the popular vote, Mississippi would prove to be Bryan's second strongest state in the 1900 presidential election only afterSouth Carolina.[1]
Bryan had previously won Mississippi against McKinleyfour years earlier and would later win the state again in1908 againstWilliam Howard Taft.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Mississippi[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 51,706 | 87.56% | 9 | |
| Republican | William McKinley (incumbent) | 5,707 | 9.66% | 0 | |
| Populist | Wharton Barker | 1,642 | 2.78% | 0 | |
| Totals | 59,055 | 100.00% | 9 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | William McKinley Republican | Wharton Barker Populist | Margin | Total votes cast[3][a] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 500 | 80.26% | 113 | 18.14% | 10 | 1.61% | 387 | 62.12% | 623 |
| Alcorn | 770 | 89.22% | 88 | 10.20% | 5 | 0.58% | 682 | 79.03% | 863 |
| Amite | 771 | 91.57% | 27 | 3.21% | 44 | 5.23% | 727[b] | 86.34% | 842 |
| Attala | 1,111 | 87.21% | 122 | 9.58% | 41 | 3.22% | 989 | 77.63% | 1,274 |
| Benton | 621 | 90.00% | 64 | 9.28% | 5 | 0.72% | 557 | 80.72% | 690 |
| Bolivar | 380 | 65.86% | 194 | 33.62% | 3 | 0.52% | 186 | 32.24% | 577 |
| Calhoun | 853 | 89.13% | 77 | 8.05% | 27 | 2.82% | 776 | 81.09% | 957 |
| Carroll | 710 | 83.04% | 69 | 8.07% | 76 | 8.89% | 634[b] | 74.15% | 855 |
| Chickasaw | 460 | 70.77% | 52 | 8.00% | 138 | 21.23% | 322[b] | 49.54% | 650 |
| Choctaw | 584 | 74.58% | 101 | 12.90% | 98 | 12.52% | 483 | 61.69% | 783 |
| Claiborne | 373 | 94.43% | 18 | 4.56% | 4 | 1.01% | 355 | 89.87% | 395 |
| Clarke | 674 | 96.84% | 15 | 2.16% | 7 | 1.01% | 659 | 94.68% | 696 |
| Clay | 668 | 95.02% | 16 | 2.28% | 19 | 2.70% | 649[b] | 92.32% | 703 |
| Coahoma | 266 | 76.66% | 77 | 22.19% | 4 | 1.15% | 189 | 54.47% | 347 |
| Copiah | 1,314 | 92.80% | 54 | 3.81% | 48 | 3.39% | 1,260 | 88.98% | 1,416 |
| Covington | 442 | 67.48% | 208 | 31.76% | 5 | 0.76% | 234 | 35.73% | 655 |
| DeSoto | 734 | 92.91% | 51 | 6.46% | 5 | 0.63% | 683 | 86.46% | 790 |
| Franklin | 397 | 83.58% | 37 | 7.79% | 41 | 8.63% | 356[b] | 74.95% | 475 |
| Greene | 136 | 67.00% | 66 | 32.51% | 1 | 0.49% | 70 | 34.48% | 203 |
| Grenada | 478 | 93.18% | 29 | 5.65% | 6 | 1.17% | 449 | 87.52% | 513 |
| Hancock | 310 | 80.10% | 71 | 18.35% | 6 | 1.55% | 239 | 61.76% | 387 |
| Harrison | 611 | 79.77% | 150 | 19.58% | 5 | 0.65% | 461 | 60.18% | 766 |
| Hinds | 1,365 | 92.29% | 100 | 6.76% | 14 | 0.95% | 1,265 | 85.53% | 1,479 |
| Holmes | 900 | 94.44% | 39 | 4.09% | 14 | 1.47% | 861 | 90.35% | 953 |
| Issaquena | 84 | 83.17% | 17 | 16.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 67 | 66.34% | 101 |
| Itawamba | 821 | 86.79% | 110 | 11.63% | 15 | 1.59% | 711 | 75.16% | 946 |
| Jackson | 425 | 71.19% | 166 | 27.81% | 6 | 1.01% | 259 | 43.38% | 597 |
| Jasper | 734 | 93.15% | 33 | 4.19% | 21 | 2.66% | 701 | 88.96% | 788 |
| Jefferson | 491 | 96.27% | 18 | 3.53% | 1 | 0.20% | 473 | 92.75% | 510 |
| Jones | 637 | 71.98% | 194 | 21.92% | 54 | 6.10% | 443 | 50.06% | 885 |
| Kemper | 680 | 81.73% | 86 | 10.34% | 66 | 7.93% | 594 | 71.39% | 832 |
| Lafayette | 1,020 | 90.83% | 91 | 8.10% | 12 | 1.07% | 929 | 82.72% | 1,123 |
| Lauderdale | 1,390 | 92.98% | 57 | 3.81% | 48 | 3.21% | 1,333 | 89.16% | 1,495 |
| Lawrence | 527 | 79.25% | 120 | 18.05% | 18 | 2.71% | 407 | 61.20% | 665 |
| Leake | 990 | 95.56% | 26 | 2.51% | 20 | 1.93% | 964 | 93.05% | 1,036 |
| Lee | 1,031 | 91.73% | 63 | 5.60% | 30 | 2.67% | 968 | 86.12% | 1,124 |
| Leflore | 430 | 98.40% | 6 | 1.37% | 1 | 0.23% | 424 | 97.03% | 437 |
| Lincoln | 530 | 69.01% | 225 | 29.30% | 13 | 1.69% | 305 | 39.71% | 768 |
| Lowndes | 746 | 96.63% | 21 | 2.72% | 5 | 0.65% | 725 | 93.91% | 772 |
| Madison | 663 | 90.33% | 67 | 9.13% | 4 | 0.54% | 596 | 81.20% | 734 |
| Marion | 487 | 71.51% | 182 | 26.73% | 12 | 1.76% | 305 | 44.79% | 681 |
| Marshall | 1,085 | 92.18% | 91 | 7.73% | 1 | 0.08% | 994 | 84.45% | 1,177 |
| Monroe | 1,272 | 93.81% | 62 | 4.57% | 22 | 1.62% | 1,210 | 89.23% | 1,356 |
| Montgomery | 825 | 94.72% | 28 | 3.21% | 18 | 2.07% | 797 | 91.50% | 871 |
| Neshoba | 793 | 86.10% | 41 | 4.45% | 87 | 9.45% | 706[b] | 76.66% | 921 |
| Newton | 1,183 | 98.42% | 16 | 1.33% | 3 | 0.25% | 1,167 | 97.09% | 1,202 |
| Noxubee | 626 | 96.90% | 7 | 1.08% | 13 | 2.01% | 613[b] | 94.89% | 646 |
| Oktibbeha | 663 | 96.23% | 14 | 2.03% | 12 | 1.74% | 649 | 94.19% | 689 |
| Panola | 1,042 | 96.13% | 33 | 3.04% | 9 | 0.83% | 1,009 | 93.08% | 1,084 |
| Pearl River | 201 | 82.38% | 41 | 16.80% | 2 | 0.82% | 160 | 65.57% | 244 |
| Perry | 417 | 66.30% | 197 | 31.32% | 15 | 2.38% | 220 | 34.98% | 629 |
| Pike | 1,244 | 90.28% | 131 | 9.51% | 3 | 0.22% | 1,113 | 80.77% | 1,378 |
| Pontotoc | 732 | 75.31% | 182 | 18.72% | 58 | 5.97% | 550 | 56.58% | 972 |
| Prentiss | 902 | 79.75% | 210 | 18.57% | 19 | 1.68% | 692 | 61.18% | 1,131 |
| Quitman | 114 | 76.51% | 34 | 22.82% | 1 | 0.67% | 80 | 53.69% | 149 |
| Rankin | 814 | 93.46% | 45 | 5.17% | 12 | 1.38% | 769 | 88.29% | 871 |
| Scott | 659 | 94.41% | 17 | 2.44% | 22 | 3.15% | 637[b] | 91.26% | 698 |
| Sharkey | 186 | 88.57% | 18 | 8.57% | 6 | 2.86% | 168 | 80.00% | 210 |
| Simpson | 487 | 83.82% | 74 | 12.74% | 20 | 3.44% | 413 | 71.08% | 581 |
| Smith | 542 | 87.99% | 73 | 11.85% | 1 | 0.16% | 469 | 76.14% | 616 |
| Sunflower | 337 | 97.12% | 8 | 2.31% | 2 | 0.58% | 329 | 94.81% | 347 |
| Tallahatchie | 503 | 96.92% | 16 | 3.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 487 | 93.83% | 519 |
| Tate | 1,030 | 95.99% | 38 | 3.54% | 5 | 0.47% | 992 | 92.45% | 1,073 |
| Tippah | 931 | 88.50% | 106 | 10.08% | 15 | 1.43% | 825 | 78.42% | 1,052 |
| Tishomingo | 704 | 85.02% | 123 | 14.86% | 1 | 0.12% | 581 | 70.17% | 828 |
| Tunica | 197 | 83.83% | 36 | 15.32% | 2 | 0.85% | 161 | 68.51% | 235 |
| Union | 1,151 | 84.69% | 189 | 13.91% | 19 | 1.40% | 962 | 70.79% | 1,359 |
| Warren | 804 | 85.08% | 136 | 14.39% | 5 | 0.53% | 668 | 70.69% | 945 |
| Washington | 580 | 82.62% | 122 | 17.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 458 | 65.24% | 702 |
| Wayne | 422 | 81.47% | 74 | 14.29% | 22 | 4.25% | 348 | 67.18% | 518 |
| Webster | 683 | 77.97% | 156 | 17.81% | 37 | 4.22% | 527 | 60.16% | 876 |
| Wilkinson | 482 | 93.05% | 31 | 5.98% | 5 | 0.97% | 451 | 87.07% | 518 |
| Winston | 597 | 87.92% | 42 | 6.19% | 40 | 5.89% | 555 | 81.74% | 679 |
| Yalobusha | 931 | 91.63% | 68 | 6.69% | 17 | 1.67% | 863 | 84.94% | 1,016 |
| Yazoo | 916 | 95.42% | 15 | 1.56% | 29 | 3.02% | 887[b] | 92.40% | 960 |
| Totals | 51,169 | 87.56% | 5,794 | 9.91% | 1,475 | 2.52% | 45,375 | 77.65% | 58,438 |
State and district results of the1900 United States presidential election | ||
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