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Apresidential election was held inPennsylvania on November 6, 1900, as part of the1900 United States presidential election. Voters selected 32 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Pennsylvania voted for theRepublican nominee,PresidentWilliam McKinley, over theDemocratic nominee, formerU.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan. McKinley won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 24.31% 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.
With 60.74% of the popular vote, Pennsylvania was McKinley's fourth-strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote followingVermont,North Dakota andMaine.[1]
Bryan previously lost Pennsylvania to McKinleyfour years earlier and would later lose the state again in1908 toWilliam Howard Taft.
| 1900 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | William McKinley (incumbent) | 712,665 | 60.74% | 32 | |
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 424,232 | 36.16% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | John G. Woolley | 27,908 | 2.38% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 4,831 | 0.41% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Joseph F. Maloney | 2,936 | 0.25% | 0 | |
| People's | Wharton Barker | 638 | 0.05% | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,173,210 | 100.00% | 35 | ||
| County | William McKinley Republican | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 3,718 | 47.47% | 3,967 | 50.65% | 147 | 1.88% | -249 | -3.18% | 7,832 |
| Allegheny | 71,780 | 69.94% | 27,311 | 26.61% | 3,533 | 3.44% | 44,469 | 43.33% | 102,624 |
| Armstrong | 6,443 | 63.58% | 3,438 | 33.93% | 252 | 2.49% | 3,005 | 29.66% | 10,133 |
| Beaver | 6,759 | 60.11% | 4,076 | 36.25% | 409 | 3.64% | 2,683 | 23.86% | 11,244 |
| Bedford | 4,790 | 57.24% | 3,445 | 41.17% | 133 | 1.59% | 1,345 | 16.07% | 8,368 |
| Berks | 13,952 | 41.53% | 19,013 | 56.60% | 628 | 1.87% | -5,061 | -15.07% | 33,593 |
| Blair | 9,749 | 65.81% | 4,528 | 30.57% | 537 | 3.62% | 5,221 | 35.24% | 14,814 |
| Bradford | 8,625 | 64.05% | 4,211 | 31.27% | 631 | 4.69% | 4,414 | 32.78% | 13,467 |
| Bucks | 9,263 | 55.13% | 7,287 | 43.37% | 253 | 1.51% | 1,976 | 11.76% | 16,803 |
| Butler | 6,303 | 55.85% | 4,465 | 39.57% | 517 | 4.58% | 1,838 | 16.29% | 11,285 |
| Cambria | 10,476 | 57.99% | 7,168 | 39.68% | 420 | 2.33% | 3,308 | 18.31% | 18,064 |
| Cameron | 971 | 63.59% | 514 | 33.66% | 42 | 2.75% | 457 | 29.93% | 1,527 |
| Carbon | 4,222 | 48.81% | 4,149 | 47.97% | 278 | 3.21% | 73 | 0.84% | 8,649 |
| Centre | 4,684 | 50.64% | 4,339 | 46.91% | 226 | 2.44% | 345 | 3.73% | 9,249 |
| Chester | 13,809 | 66.20% | 6,214 | 29.79% | 835 | 4.00% | 7,595 | 36.41% | 20,858 |
| Clarion | 3,002 | 44.69% | 3,472 | 51.68% | 244 | 3.63% | -470 | -7.00% | 6,718 |
| Clearfield | 7,955 | 53.55% | 6,066 | 40.84% | 833 | 5.61% | 1,889 | 12.72% | 14,854 |
| Clinton | 3,157 | 50.58% | 2,879 | 46.13% | 205 | 3.28% | 278 | 4.45% | 6,241 |
| Columbia | 2,954 | 35.21% | 4,982 | 59.38% | 454 | 5.41% | -2,028 | -24.17% | 8,390 |
| Crawford | 7,705 | 49.97% | 7,000 | 45.40% | 713 | 4.62% | 705 | 4.57% | 15,418 |
| Cumberland | 5,587 | 49.06% | 5,428 | 47.66% | 374 | 3.28% | 159 | 1.40% | 11,389 |
| Dauphin | 14,673 | 64.23% | 7,390 | 32.35% | 783 | 3.43% | 7,283 | 31.88% | 22,846 |
| Delaware | 13,794 | 74.96% | 4,249 | 23.09% | 358 | 1.95% | 9,545 | 51.87% | 18,401 |
| Elk | 3,254 | 50.06% | 3,105 | 47.77% | 141 | 2.17% | 149 | 2.29% | 6,500 |
| Erie | 11,816 | 58.47% | 7,281 | 36.03% | 1,110 | 5.49% | 4,535 | 22.44% | 20,207 |
| Fayette | 9,637 | 53.54% | 7,650 | 42.50% | 712 | 3.96% | 1,987 | 11.04% | 17,999 |
| Forest | 1,309 | 61.25% | 714 | 33.41% | 114 | 5.33% | 595 | 27.84% | 2,137 |
| Franklin | 6,483 | 57.98% | 4,500 | 40.24% | 199 | 1.78% | 1,983 | 17.73% | 11,182 |
| Fulton | 1,039 | 45.27% | 1,224 | 53.33% | 32 | 1.39% | -185 | -8.06% | 2,295 |
| Greene | 2,427 | 39.02% | 3,674 | 59.07% | 119 | 1.91% | -1,247 | -20.05% | 6,220 |
| Huntingdon | 4,645 | 67.91% | 1,989 | 29.08% | 206 | 3.01% | 2,656 | 38.83% | 6,840 |
| Indiana | 5,687 | 72.25% | 1,767 | 22.45% | 417 | 5.30% | 3,920 | 49.80% | 7,871 |
| Jefferson | 5,950 | 62.38% | 3,063 | 32.11% | 525 | 5.50% | 2,887 | 30.27% | 9,538 |
| Juniata | 1,805 | 51.50% | 1,621 | 46.25% | 79 | 2.25% | 184 | 5.25% | 3,505 |
| Lackawanna | 16,763 | 51.56% | 14,728 | 45.30% | 1,019 | 3.13% | 2,035 | 6.26% | 32,510 |
| Lancaster | 23,230 | 71.77% | 8,437 | 26.07% | 701 | 2.17% | 14,793 | 45.70% | 32,368 |
| Lawrence | 6,343 | 61.39% | 2,754 | 26.66% | 1,235 | 11.95% | 3,589 | 34.74% | 10,332 |
| Lebanon | 7,089 | 66.76% | 3,050 | 28.72% | 479 | 4.51% | 4,039 | 38.04% | 10,618 |
| Lehigh | 9,775 | 47.64% | 10,438 | 50.87% | 304 | 1.48% | -663 | -3.23% | 20,517 |
| Luzerne | 21,793 | 54.87% | 16,470 | 41.47% | 1,454 | 3.66% | 5,323 | 13.40% | 39,717 |
| Lycoming | 7,750 | 47.53% | 7,427 | 45.55% | 1,127 | 6.91% | 323 | 1.98% | 16,304 |
| McKean | 6,319 | 61.39% | 3,427 | 33.29% | 547 | 5.31% | 2,892 | 28.10% | 10,293 |
| Mercer | 6,950 | 55.94% | 4,916 | 39.57% | 559 | 4.50% | 2,034 | 16.37% | 12,425 |
| Mifflin | 2,594 | 56.48% | 1,842 | 40.10% | 157 | 3.42% | 752 | 16.37% | 4,593 |
| Monroe | 1,264 | 27.99% | 3,054 | 67.63% | 198 | 4.38% | -1,790 | -39.64% | 4,516 |
| Montgomery | 17,051 | 59.10% | 11,208 | 38.85% | 590 | 2.05% | 5,843 | 20.25% | 28,849 |
| Montour | 1,292 | 39.89% | 1,875 | 57.89% | 72 | 2.22% | -583 | -18.00% | 3,239 |
| Northampton | 9,849 | 45.14% | 11,412 | 52.31% | 556 | 2.55% | -1,563 | -7.16% | 21,817 |
| Northumberland | 8,366 | 49.35% | 7,989 | 47.13% | 596 | 3.52% | 377 | 2.22% | 16,951 |
| Perry | 3,400 | 57.41% | 2,440 | 41.20% | 82 | 1.38% | 960 | 16.21% | 5,922 |
| Philadelphia | 173,657 | 73.93% | 58,179 | 24.77% | 3,053 | 1.30% | 115,478 | 49.16% | 234,889 |
| Pike | 694 | 35.30% | 1,236 | 62.87% | 36 | 1.83% | -542 | -27.57% | 1,966 |
| Potter | 3,224 | 56.29% | 2,147 | 37.49% | 356 | 6.22% | 1,077 | 18.81% | 5,727 |
| Schuylkill | 15,327 | 50.73% | 14,496 | 47.98% | 392 | 1.30% | 831 | 2.75% | 30,215 |
| Snyder | 2,517 | 64.85% | 1,319 | 33.99% | 45 | 1.16% | 1,198 | 30.87% | 3,881 |
| Somerset | 6,677 | 73.30% | 2,151 | 23.61% | 281 | 3.08% | 4,526 | 49.69% | 9,109 |
| Sullivan | 1,266 | 45.46% | 1,376 | 49.41% | 143 | 5.13% | -110 | -3.95% | 2,785 |
| Susquehanna | 5,019 | 55.24% | 3,527 | 38.82% | 539 | 5.93% | 1,492 | 16.42% | 9,085 |
| Tioga | 7,458 | 71.02% | 2,638 | 25.12% | 406 | 3.87% | 4,820 | 45.90% | 10,502 |
| Union | 2,810 | 65.82% | 1,359 | 31.83% | 100 | 2.34% | 1,451 | 33.99% | 4,269 |
| Venango | 5,931 | 52.75% | 4,014 | 35.70% | 1,299 | 11.55% | 1,917 | 17.05% | 11,244 |
| Warren | 5,609 | 64.88% | 2,500 | 28.92% | 536 | 6.20% | 3,109 | 35.96% | 8,645 |
| Washington | 10,408 | 59.40% | 6,380 | 36.41% | 733 | 4.18% | 4,028 | 22.99% | 17,521 |
| Wayne | 3,229 | 50.91% | 2,647 | 41.74% | 466 | 7.35% | 582 | 9.18% | 6,342 |
| Westmoreland | 16,014 | 57.00% | 11,010 | 39.19% | 1,072 | 3.82% | 5,004 | 17.81% | 28,096 |
| Wyoming | 2,247 | 52.61% | 1,875 | 43.90% | 149 | 3.49% | 372 | 8.71% | 4,271 |
| York | 12,327 | 46.29% | 13,732 | 51.56% | 572 | 2.15% | -1,405 | -5.28% | 26,631 |
| Totals | 712,665 | 60.74% | 424,232 | 36.16% | 36,313 | 3.10% | 288,433 | 24.58% | 1,173,210 |
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