The 1900 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Vermont overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominees, incumbent President William McKinley of Ohio and his running mate Theodore Roosevelt of New York. They defeated the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan and his running mate, former Vice President Adlai Stevenson I. McKinley won Vermont by a landslide margin of 52.87% in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election. The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.
Four years earlier, McKinley had won Vermont with 80.08% of the popular vote, making it his strongest victory in the 1896 presidential election in terms of percentage in the popular vote as well as the best performance of any presidential candidate in Vermont to date. Vermont would once again be McKinley's strongest state in popular vote percentage, though with a slightly reduced margin of 75.73%.
Bryan had previously lost Vermont to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again in 1908 to William Howard Taft.
Results
Results by county County William McKinleyRepublican William Jennings BryanDemocratic Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 352-354 # % # % # % # % Addison 3,286 86.41% 467 12.28% 50 1.31% 2,819 74.13% 3,803 Bennington 2,666 74.57% 871 24.36% 38 1.06% 1,795 50.21% 3,575 Caledonia 2,957 76.79% 817 21.22% 77 2.00% 2,140 55.57% 3,851 Chittenden 3,907 67.26% 1,822 31.37% 80 1.38% 2,085 35.89% 5,809 Essex 758 67.50% 358 31.88% 7 0.62% 400 35.62% 1,123 Franklin 2,738 66.38% 1,316 31.90% 71 1.72% 1,422 34.47% 4,125 Grand Isle 356 68.86% 146 28.24% 15 2.90% 210 40.62% 517 Lamoille 1,742 79.15% 418 18.99% 41 1.86% 1,324 60.15% 2,201 Orange 2,515 75.32% 740 22.16% 84 2.52% 1,775 53.16% 3,339 Orleans 2,749 85.24% 441 13.67% 35 1.09% 2,308 71.57% 3,225 Rutland 5,901 74.66% 1,874 23.71% 129 1.63% 4,027 50.95% 7,904 Washington 3,819 68.94% 1,622 29.28% 99 1.79% 2,197 39.66% 5,540 Windham 3,948 79.02% 1,014 20.30% 34 0.68% 2,934 58.73% 4,996 Windsor 5,227 84.25% 943 15.20% 34 0.55% 4,284 69.05% 6,204Totals42,56975.73%12,84922.86%7941.41%29,72052.87%56,212
See also United States presidential elections in Vermont
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