1900 United States presidential election in Utah
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1900 United States presidential election in Utah
| country = Utah
| flag_year = 1896
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1896 United States presidential election in Utah
| previous_year = 1896
| next_election = 1904 United States presidential election in Utah
| next_year = 1904
| election_date = November 6, 1900
| image_size = x200px
| image1 = Mckinley (cropped).jpg
| nominee1 = William McKinley
| party1 = Republican Party (United States)
| home_state1 = Ohio
| running_mate1 = Theodore Roosevelt
| electoral_vote1 = 3
| popular_vote1 = 47,139
| percentage1 = 50.65%
| image2 = WilliamJBryan1902 3x4.jpg
| nominee2 = William Jennings Bryan
| party2 = Democratic Party (United States)
| home_state2 = Nebraska
| running_mate2 = Adlai E. Stevenson
| electoral_vote2 = 0
| popular_vote2 = 45,006
| percentage2 = 48.36%
| map_image = Utah Presidential Election Results 1900.svg
| map_size = 250px
| map_caption = County Results
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McKinley
{{legend|#e27f90|50-60%}}
{{legend|#cc2f4a|60-70%}}
{{legend|#d40000|70-80%}}
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Bryan
{{legend|#86b6f2|50-60%}}
{{legend|#1666cb|70-80%}}
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| title = President
| before_election = William McKinley
| before_party = Republican Party (United States)
| after_election = William McKinley
| after_party = Republican Party (United States)
}}
{{Elections in Utah sidebar}}
The 1900 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 1900, as part of the 1900 United States presidential election held in each of the forty-five contemporary states. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
During its years as a territory the Republican Party's ancestral hostility to the polygamy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church),Talbot, Christine; A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890, p. 113 {{ISBN|0252095359}} whose members settled Utah and have dominated the region ever since, meant that Utah territorial politics until 1891 was dominated by the Mormon-hierarchy-controlled "People's Party" and the anti-Mormon "Liberal Party".May, Dean L.; Utah: A People's History, pp. 120-121 {{ISBN|0874802849}} Those Mormons who did affiliate with national parties generally were Democrats, who lacked moral qualms associated with polygamy and slavery – although the Liberal Party did have allies within the GOP.Handy, Robert T.; Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920, p. 55 {{ISBN|1400862361}}
In order to achieve statehood, however, the LDS Church disbanded the "People's Party" in 1891 and most LDS members moved towards the Democratic Party. In Utah's statehood year – 1896 – Democrat/Populist William Jennings Bryan, whose "free silver" platform was immensely attractive to a state with large silver reserves, won the Mormon State by a five-to-one margin. However, by Bryan's 1900 rematch with incumbent Republican President McKinley, the Republican Party's ancestral hostility to Mormonism was beginning to dissipate,Perry, Luke and Cronin, Christopher; Mormons in American Politics: From Persecution to Power, p. 52 {{ISBN|1440804087}} and Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Hanna was able to persuade the Mormon hierarchy that Bryan's policies – financial and otherwise – were unsound.Rutland, Robert Allan (editor); The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush, p. 128 {{ISBN|0826210902}}
Consequently, although the LDS Church had not established the links to the GOP that they were after the Utah legislature elected Reed Smoot, those Utah voters who had supported Bryan overwhelmingly in 1896 deserted him to a degree that narrowly proved sufficient to give the state's three electoral votes to McKinley. Apart from Washington County in the Dixie region, McKinley was competitive everywhere and in Kane County – later a famous Republican bastion – he received over seventy percent. McKinley would win Utah by a narrow margin of 2.29% and this remains easily the closest presidential election in Utah history, and with the state voting essentially as the nation did, it was decisive in placing the Mormon State in the mainstream of US politics,Balmer, Randall and Riess, Janet (editors); Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life), pp. 135-137 {{ISBN|0231540892}} where Utah remained until becoming a Republican bastion in the 1950s and 1960s.
Bryan would later lose Utah again, this time to William Howard Taft in 1908.
Results
{{Election box runningmate begin | title=1900 United States presidential election in Utah{{cite web|title=1900 Presidential General Election Results – Utah|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=49&year=1900&f=0&off=0|publisher=U.S. Election Atlas|access-date=June 10, 2017}}}}
{{Election box US candidate with party link|
|party = Republican Party (United States)
|candidate = William McKinley
|homestate = Ohio (incumbent)
|vp_name = Theodore Roosevelt
|vp_state = New York
|votes = 47,139
|percentage = 50.59%
|ev = 3
|evprct = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box US candidate with party link|
|party = Democratic Party (United States)
|candidate = William Jennings Bryan
|homestate = Nebraska
|vp_name = Adlai Ewing Stevenson I
|vp_state = Illinois
|votes = 45,006
|percentage = 48.30%
|ev = 0
|evprct = 0.00%
}}
{{Election box US candidate with party link|
|party = Socialist Party of America
|candidate = Eugene Victor Debs
|homestate = Indiana
|vp_name = Job Harriman
|vp_state = California
|votes = 720
|percentage = 0.77%
|ev = 0
|evprct = 0.00%
}}
{{Election box US candidate with party link|
|party = Prohibition Party
|candidate = John Granville Woolley
|homestate = Illinois
|vp_name = Henry Brewer Metcalf
|vp_state = Rhode Island
|votes = 209
|percentage = 0.22%
|ev = 0
|evprct = 0.00%
}}
{{Election box US candidate with party link|
|party = Socialist Labor Party of America
|candidate = Joseph Francis Malloney
|homestate = Massachusetts
|vp_name = Valentine Remmel
|vp_state = Pennsylvania
|votes = 106{{efn|name="SocialistLabor"|Neither the 106 votes for Malloney nor the nine write-in votes were tabulated by county, but only for Utah as a whole}}
|percentage = 0.11%
|ev = 0
|evprct = 0.00%
}}
{{Election box US candidate|
|party = N/A
|candidate = Others
|vp_name = Others
|votes = 9{{efn|name="SocialistLabor"}}
|percentage = 0.01%
|ev = 0
|evprct = 0.00%
}}
{{Election runningmate box total|
|votes = 93,189
|percentage = 100.00%
|ev = 3
|evprct = 100.00%
}}
{{Election box end}}
=Results by county=
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! rowspan="2" |County ! colspan="2" |William McKinley ! colspan="2" |William Jennings Bryan ! colspan="2" |Various candidates ! colspan="2" |Margin ! rowspan="2" |Total votes castRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote, 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 223-224 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Beaver | {{party shading/Republican}} | 682 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 51.90% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 629 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 47.87% | {{party shading/Others}} | 3 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.23% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 53 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 4.03% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,314 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Box Elder | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,635 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 52.72% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,460 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 47.08% | {{party shading/Others}} | 6 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.19% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 175 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 5.64% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 3,101 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Cache | {{party shading/Republican}} | 2,820 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 47.59% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 3,082 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 52.02% | {{party shading/Others}} | 23 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.39% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -262 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -4.43% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 5,925 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Carbon | {{party shading/Republican}} | 748 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 54.16% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 621 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 44.97% | {{party shading/Others}} | 12 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.87% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 127 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 9.19% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,381 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Davis | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,238 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 47.05% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,380 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 52.45% | {{party shading/Others}} | 13 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.49% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -142 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -5.40% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 2,631 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Emery | {{party shading/Republican}} | 666 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 45.40% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 798 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 54.40% | {{party shading/Others}} | 3 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.20% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -132 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -9.00% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,467 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Garfield | {{party shading/Republican}} | 649 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 62.16% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 395 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 37.84% | {{party shading/Others}} | 0 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.00% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 254 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 24.32% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,044 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Grand | {{party shading/Republican}} | 178 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 46.11% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 204 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 52.85% | {{party shading/Others}} | 4 | {{party shading/Others}} | 1.04% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -26 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -6.74% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 386 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Iron | {{party shading/Republican}} | 628 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 46.94% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 708 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 52.91% | {{party shading/Others}} | 2 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.15% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -80 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -5.97% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,338 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Juab | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,532 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 42.52% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,986 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 55.12% | {{party shading/Others}} | 85 | {{party shading/Others}} | 2.36% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -454 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -12.60% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 3,603 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Kane | {{party shading/Republican}} | 392 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 70.89% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 161 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 29.11% | {{party shading/Others}} | 0 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.00% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 231 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 41.78% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 553 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Millard | {{party shading/Republican}} | 938 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 52.55% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 844 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 47.28% | {{party shading/Others}} | 3 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.17% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 94 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 5.27% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,785 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Morgan | {{party shading/Republican}} | 391 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 51.72% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 363 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 48.02% | {{party shading/Others}} | 2 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.26% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 28 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 3.70% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 756 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Piute | {{party shading/Republican}} | 330 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 53.92% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 280 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 45.75% | {{party shading/Others}} | 2 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.33% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 50 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 8.17% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 612 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Rich | {{party shading/Republican}} | 387 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 57.76% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 282 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 42.09% | {{party shading/Others}} | 1 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.15% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 105 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 15.67% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 670 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Salt Lake | {{party shading/Republican}} | 13,496 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 50.30% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 12,840 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 47.86% | {{party shading/Others}} | 493 | {{party shading/Others}} | 1.84% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 656 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 2.44% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 26,829 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | San Juan | {{party shading/Republican}} | 81 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 51.92% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 72 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 46.15% | {{party shading/Others}} | 3 | {{party shading/Others}} | 1.92% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 9 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 5.77% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 156 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Sanpete | {{party shading/Republican}} | 3,575 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 59.15% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 2,441 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 40.39% | {{party shading/Others}} | 28 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.46% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,134 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 18.76% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 6,044 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Sevier | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,581 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 54.88% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,261 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 43.77% | {{party shading/Others}} | 39 | {{party shading/Others}} | 1.35% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 320 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 11.11% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 2,881 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Summit | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,555 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 46.67% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,763 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 52.91% | {{party shading/Others}} | 14 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.42% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -208 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -6.24% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 3,332 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Tooele | {{party shading/Republican}} | 1,259 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 52.70% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,114 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 46.63% | {{party shading/Others}} | 16 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.67% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 145 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 6.07% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 2,389 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Uintah | {{party shading/Republican}} | 639 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 45.13% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 773 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 54.59% | {{party shading/Others}} | 4 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.28% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -134 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -9.46% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,416 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Utah | {{party shading/Republican}} | 5,698 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 50.98% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 5,391 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 48.24% | {{party shading/Others}} | 87 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.78% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 307 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 2.74% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 11,176 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Wasatch | {{party shading/Republican}} | 723 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 47.94% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 781 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 51.79% | {{party shading/Others}} | 4 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.27% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -58 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -3.85% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,508 |
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| {{party shading/Democratic}} | Washington | {{party shading/Republican}} | 409 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 28.93% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,003 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 70.93% | {{party shading/Others}} | 2 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.14% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -594 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | -42.00% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,414 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} | Wayne | {{party shading/Republican}} | 324 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 53.38% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 282 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 46.46% | {{party shading/Others}} | 1 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.16% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 42 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 6.92% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 607 |
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| {{party shading/Republican}} |Weber | {{party shading/Republican}} | 4,585 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 52.36% | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 4,092 | {{party shading/Democratic}} | 46.73% | {{party shading/Others}} | 79 | {{party shading/Others}} | 0.90% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 493 | {{party shading/Republican}} | 5.63% | {{party shading/Republican}} | 8,756 |
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!Totals!!47,139!!50.59%!!45,006!!48.30%!!929!!0.99%!!2,133!!2.29%!!93,189{{efn|name="SocialistLabor"}} |
See also
Notes
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References
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{{1900 United States elections}}
{{State Results of the 1900 U.S. presidential election}}