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The1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted for thePresident andVice President.
South Carolina overwhelmingly voted for theDemocratic nominee, formerU.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nomineeWilliam Jennings Bryan, over theRepublican nominee,PresidentWilliam McKinley. Bryan won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 85.92% in this rematch of the1896 presidential election. Despite McKinley's decisive victory nationwide as a result of the return of economic prosperity and recent victory in theSpanish–American War, South Carolina proved to be his weakest state as well as Bryan's strongest state, due to the nearly complete disfranchisement of the black majority that was the party's sole support in the state.[1][2]
This would be the last election when the Republican Party won any county in South Carolina untilDwight D. Eisenhower in1952, and the last when any county voted against the Democrats untilDixiecratStrom Thurmond carried every county exceptAnderson andSpartanburg in1948.
Bryan had previously won South Carolina against McKinleyfour years earlier and would later win the state again in1908 againstWilliam Howard Taft.
Additionally, between 1900 and 1940, South Carolina gave at least 90% of the vote to the Democratic canidiate, the longest streak for any state, even including D.C.
| 1900 United States presidential election in South Carolina[3] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan ofNebraska | Adlai Ewing Stevenson I ofIllinois | 47,233 | 92.96% | 9 | 100.00% | ||
| Republican | William McKinley ofOhio (incumbent) | Theodore Roosevelt ofNew York | 3,579 | 7.04% | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Total | 50,812 | 100.00% | 9 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | William McKinley Republican | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Abbeville | 1,366 | 99.42% | 8 | 0.58% | 1,358 | 98.84% | 1,374 |
| Aiken | 1,470 | 96.52% | 53 | 3.48% | 1,417 | 93.04% | 1,523 |
| Anderson | 1,858 | 96.47% | 68 | 3.53% | 1,790 | 92.94% | 1,926 |
| Bamberg | 793 | 95.66% | 36 | 4.34% | 757 | 91.31% | 829 |
| Barnwell | 1,356 | 95.97% | 57 | 4.03% | 1,299 | 91.93% | 1,413 |
| Beaufort | 378 | 49.54% | 385 | 50.46% | -7 | -0.92% | 763 |
| Berkeley | 472 | 80.82% | 112 | 19.18% | 360 | 61.64% | 584 |
| Charleston | 1,729 | 86.45% | 271 | 13.55% | 1,458 | 72.90% | 2,000 |
| Cherokee | 1,084 | 96.53% | 39 | 3.47% | 1,045 | 93.05% | 1,123 |
| Chester | 836 | 97.66% | 20 | 2.34% | 816 | 95.33% | 856 |
| Chesterfield | 1,314 | 95.91% | 56 | 4.09% | 1,258 | 91.82% | 1,370 |
| Clarendon | 1,130 | 93.16% | 83 | 6.84% | 1,047 | 86.31% | 1,213 |
| Colleton | 889 | 88.02% | 121 | 11.98% | 768 | 76.04% | 1,010 |
| Darlington | 1,230 | 93.68% | 83 | 6.32% | 1,147 | 87.36% | 1,313 |
| Dorchester | 770 | 94.71% | 43 | 5.29% | 727 | 89.42% | 813 |
| Edgefield | 919 | 98.18% | 17 | 1.82% | 902 | 96.37% | 936 |
| Fairfield | 670 | 97.53% | 17 | 2.47% | 653 | 95.05% | 687 |
| Florence | 1,290 | 94.57% | 74 | 5.43% | 1,216 | 89.15% | 1,364 |
| Georgetown | 446 | 49.72% | 451 | 50.28% | -5 | -0.56% | 897 |
| Greenville | 1,777 | 97.42% | 47 | 2.58% | 1,730 | 94.85% | 1,824 |
| Greenwood | 1,482 | 99.73% | 4 | 0.27% | 1,478 | 99.46% | 1,486 |
| Hampton | 936 | 99.89% | 1 | 0.11% | 935 | 99.79% | 937 |
| Horry | 1,330 | 94.39% | 79 | 5.61% | 1,251 | 88.79% | 1,409 |
| Kershaw | 910 | 95.49% | 43 | 4.51% | 867 | 90.98% | 953 |
| Lancaster | 1,300 | 94.89% | 70 | 5.11% | 1,230 | 89.78% | 1,370 |
| Laurens | 1,540 | 98.09% | 30 | 1.91% | 1,510 | 96.18% | 1,570 |
| Lexington | 1,302 | 97.75% | 30 | 2.25% | 1,272 | 95.50% | 1,332 |
| Marion | 1,296 | 91.59% | 119 | 8.41% | 1,177 | 83.18% | 1,415 |
| Marlboro | 714 | 95.33% | 35 | 4.67% | 679 | 90.65% | 749 |
| Newberry | 1,367 | 97.16% | 40 | 2.84% | 1,327 | 94.31% | 1,407 |
| Oconee | 873 | 92.68% | 69 | 7.32% | 804 | 85.35% | 942 |
| Orangeburg | 2,457 | 93.64% | 167 | 6.36% | 2,290 | 87.27% | 2,624 |
| Pickens | 933 | 93.96% | 60 | 6.04% | 873 | 87.92% | 993 |
| Richland | 445 | 87.77% | 62 | 12.23% | 383 | 75.54% | 507 |
| Saluda | 1,269 | 99.45% | 7 | 0.55% | 1,262 | 98.90% | 1,276 |
| Spartanburg | 2,467 | 96.07% | 101 | 3.93% | 2,366 | 92.13% | 2,568 |
| Sumter | 1,199 | 88.88% | 150 | 11.12% | 1,049 | 77.76% | 1,349 |
| Union | 1,182 | 92.85% | 91 | 7.15% | 1,091 | 85.70% | 1,273 |
| Williamsburg | 1,256 | 79.54% | 323 | 20.46% | 933 | 59.09% | 1,579 |
| York | 1,198 | 97.00% | 37 | 3.00% | 1,161 | 94.01% | 1,235 |
| Totals | 47,233 | 92.99% | 3,559 | 7.01% | 43,674 | 85.99% | 50,792 |
State and district results of the1900 United States presidential election | ||
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