The 1900 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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 County Results
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Arkansas was won by the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate Adlai Stevenson I of Illinois. They defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 28.42%.
Bryan had previously won Arkansas against McKinley four years earlier and would later win the state again in 1908 against William Howard Taft.
Results
edit| 1900 United States presidential election in Arkansas[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan | 81,142 | 63.46% | 8 | |
| Republican | William McKinley (incumbent) | 44,800 | 35.04% | 0 | |
| Populist | Wharton Barker | 972 | 0.76% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | John G. Woolley | 584 | 0.46% | 0 | |
| Union Reform | Seth H. Ellis | 341 | 0.27% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | Scattered | 27 | 0.02% | 0 | |
| Totals | 127,866 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
Results by county
edit| County | William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
William McKinley Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Arkansas | 990 | 61.76% | 598 | 37.31% | 15 | 0.94% | 392 | 24.45% | 1,603 |
| Ashley | 1,381 | 71.63% | 524 | 27.18% | 23 | 1.19% | 857 | 44.45% | 1,928 |
| Baxter | 723 | 71.23% | 287 | 28.28% | 5 | 0.49% | 436 | 42.96% | 1,015 |
| Benton | 2,980 | 72.30% | 1,087 | 26.37% | 55 | 1.33% | 1,893 | 45.92% | 4,122 |
| Boone | 1,338 | 67.24% | 641 | 32.21% | 11 | 0.55% | 697 | 35.03% | 1,990 |
| Bradley | 842 | 83.61% | 153 | 15.19% | 12 | 1.19% | 689 | 68.42% | 1,007 |
| Calhoun | 654 | 72.67% | 244 | 27.11% | 2 | 0.22% | 410 | 45.56% | 900 |
| Carroll | 1,205 | 60.67% | 735 | 37.01% | 46 | 2.32% | 470 | 23.67% | 1,986 |
| Chicot | 269 | 37.73% | 430 | 60.31% | 14 | 1.96% | -161 | -22.58% | 713 |
| Clark | 1,232 | 58.14% | 753 | 35.54% | 134 | 6.32% | 479 | 22.61% | 2,119 |
| Clay | 1,195 | 65.09% | 627 | 34.15% | 14 | 0.76% | 568 | 30.94% | 1,836 |
| Cleburne | 520 | 63.49% | 205 | 25.03% | 94 | 11.48% | 315 | 38.46% | 819 |
| Cleveland | 876 | 74.81% | 286 | 24.42% | 9 | 0.77% | 590 | 50.38% | 1,171 |
| Columbia | 1,440 | 69.84% | 606 | 29.39% | 16 | 0.78% | 834 | 40.45% | 2,062 |
| Conway | 1,635 | 66.46% | 805 | 32.72% | 20 | 0.81% | 830 | 33.74% | 2,460 |
| Craighead | 1,326 | 70.68% | 489 | 26.07% | 61 | 3.25% | 837 | 44.62% | 1,876 |
| Crawford | 1,449 | 57.27% | 1,060 | 41.90% | 21 | 0.83% | 389 | 15.38% | 2,530 |
| Crittenden | 327 | 45.67% | 381 | 53.21% | 8 | 1.12% | -54 | -7.54% | 716 |
| Cross | 638 | 66.95% | 312 | 32.74% | 3 | 0.31% | 326 | 34.21% | 953 |
| Dallas | 746 | 58.56% | 514 | 40.35% | 14 | 1.10% | 232 | 18.21% | 1,274 |
| Desha | 328 | 64.95% | 168 | 33.27% | 9 | 1.78% | 160 | 31.68% | 505 |
| Drew | 1,099 | 65.22% | 569 | 33.77% | 17 | 1.01% | 530 | 31.45% | 1,685 |
| Faulkner | 1,191 | 62.32% | 682 | 35.69% | 38 | 1.99% | 509 | 26.64% | 1,911 |
| Franklin | 1,367 | 72.56% | 485 | 25.74% | 32 | 1.70% | 882 | 46.82% | 1,884 |
| Fulton | 984 | 70.74% | 397 | 28.54% | 10 | 0.72% | 587 | 42.20% | 1,391 |
| Garland | 940 | 56.59% | 708 | 42.62% | 13 | 0.78% | 232 | 13.97% | 1,661 |
| Grant | 574 | 76.64% | 175 | 23.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 399 | 53.27% | 749 |
| Greene | 1,091 | 71.45% | 419 | 27.44% | 17 | 1.11% | 672 | 44.01% | 1,527 |
| Hempstead | 1,352 | 49.93% | 1,330 | 49.11% | 26 | 0.96% | 22 | 0.81% | 2,708 |
| Hot Spring | 763 | 63.69% | 423 | 35.31% | 12 | 1.00% | 340 | 28.38% | 1,198 |
| Howard | 986 | 61.09% | 585 | 36.25% | 43 | 2.66% | 401 | 24.85% | 1,614 |
| Independence | 1,526 | 63.85% | 782 | 32.72% | 82 | 3.43% | 744 | 31.13% | 2,390 |
| Izard | 1,119 | 73.72% | 381 | 25.10% | 18 | 1.19% | 738 | 48.62% | 1,518 |
| Jackson | 1,050 | 63.29% | 598 | 36.05% | 11 | 0.66% | 452 | 27.25% | 1,659 |
| Jefferson | 1,363 | 47.93% | 1,477 | 51.93% | 4 | 0.14% | -114 | -4.01% | 2,844 |
| Johnson | 1,317 | 69.90% | 552 | 29.30% | 15 | 0.80% | 765 | 40.61% | 1,884 |
| Lafayette | 422 | 48.45% | 448 | 51.44% | 1 | 0.11% | -26 | -2.99% | 871 |
| Lawrence | 958 | 66.34% | 476 | 32.96% | 10 | 0.69% | 482 | 33.38% | 1,444 |
| Lee | 2,850 | 68.74% | 1,296 | 31.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,554 | 37.48% | 4,146 |
| Lincoln | 794 | 66.11% | 392 | 32.64% | 15 | 1.25% | 402 | 33.47% | 1,201 |
| Little River | 751 | 72.28% | 281 | 27.05% | 7 | 0.67% | 470 | 45.24% | 1,039 |
| Logan | 1,557 | 64.05% | 848 | 34.88% | 26 | 1.07% | 709 | 29.16% | 2,431 |
| Lonoke | 1,337 | 65.28% | 679 | 33.15% | 32 | 1.56% | 658 | 32.13% | 2,048 |
| Madison | 1,475 | 53.23% | 1,289 | 46.52% | 7 | 0.25% | 186 | 6.71% | 2,771 |
| Marion | 905 | 70.37% | 375 | 29.16% | 6 | 0.47% | 530 | 41.21% | 1,286 |
| Miller | 855 | 51.23% | 759 | 45.48% | 55 | 3.30% | 96 | 5.75% | 1,669 |
| Mississippi | 591 | 60.99% | 378 | 39.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 213 | 21.98% | 969 |
| Monroe | 708 | 63.73% | 403 | 36.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 305 | 27.45% | 1,111 |
| Montgomery | 468 | 60.94% | 293 | 38.15% | 7 | 0.91% | 175 | 22.79% | 768 |
| Nevada | 732 | 46.65% | 744 | 47.42% | 93 | 5.93% | -12 | -0.76% | 1,569 |
| Newton | 443 | 39.00% | 690 | 60.74% | 3 | 0.26% | -247 | -21.74% | 1,136 |
| Ouachita | 1,120 | 49.17% | 1,143 | 50.18% | 15 | 0.66% | -23 | -1.01% | 2,278 |
| Perry | 459 | 60.24% | 293 | 38.45% | 10 | 1.31% | 166 | 21.78% | 762 |
| Phillips | 1,349 | 77.31% | 388 | 22.23% | 8 | 0.46% | 961 | 55.07% | 1,745 |
| Pike | 566 | 57.81% | 413 | 42.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 153 | 15.63% | 979 |
| Poinsett | 520 | 74.07% | 180 | 25.64% | 2 | 0.28% | 340 | 48.43% | 702 |
| Polk | 922 | 66.47% | 411 | 29.63% | 54 | 3.89% | 511 | 36.84% | 1,387 |
| Pope | 1,871 | 68.74% | 835 | 30.68% | 16 | 0.59% | 1,036 | 38.06% | 2,722 |
| Prairie | 856 | 62.89% | 496 | 36.44% | 9 | 0.66% | 360 | 26.45% | 1,361 |
| Pulaski | 2,609 | 56.68% | 1,932 | 41.97% | 62 | 1.35% | 677 | 14.71% | 4,603 |
| Randolph | 1,385 | 75.93% | 428 | 23.46% | 11 | 0.60% | 957 | 52.47% | 1,824 |
| St. Francis | 634 | 46.76% | 703 | 51.84% | 19 | 1.40% | -69 | -5.09% | 1,356 |
| Saline | 811 | 68.79% | 342 | 29.01% | 26 | 2.21% | 469 | 39.78% | 1,179 |
| Scott | 733 | 68.83% | 313 | 29.39% | 19 | 1.78% | 420 | 39.44% | 1,065 |
| Searcy | 567 | 39.48% | 869 | 60.52% | 0 | 0.00% | -302 | -21.03% | 1,436 |
| Sebastian | 2,094 | 67.79% | 964 | 31.21% | 31 | 1.00% | 1,130 | 36.58% | 3,089 |
| Sevier | 772 | 67.36% | 360 | 31.41% | 14 | 1.22% | 412 | 35.95% | 1,146 |
| Sharp | 1,059 | 72.14% | 394 | 26.84% | 15 | 1.02% | 665 | 45.30% | 1,468 |
| Stone | 520 | 68.24% | 231 | 30.31% | 11 | 1.44% | 289 | 37.93% | 762 |
| Union | 1,238 | 77.57% | 336 | 21.05% | 22 | 1.38% | 902 | 56.52% | 1,596 |
| Van Buren | 599 | 55.06% | 445 | 40.90% | 44 | 4.04% | 154 | 14.15% | 1,088 |
| Washington | 2,658 | 64.33% | 1,347 | 32.60% | 127 | 3.07% | 1,311 | 31.73% | 4,132 |
| White | 1,694 | 63.21% | 811 | 30.26% | 175 | 6.53% | 883 | 32.95% | 2,680 |
| Woodruff | 990 | 64.04% | 549 | 35.51% | 7 | 0.45% | 441 | 28.53% | 1,546 |
| Yell | 1,554 | 65.68% | 798 | 33.73% | 14 | 0.59% | 756 | 31.95% | 2,366 |
| Totals | 81,242 | 63.50% | 44,800 | 35.02% | 1,897 | 1.48% | 36,442 | 28.48% | 127,939 |
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ "1900 Presidential General Election Results – Arkansas". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene. The Presidential Vote 1896-1932. pp. 139–145. ISBN 9780804716963.