The 1900 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 6, 1900. All contemporary 45 states were part of the
1900 United States presidential election
The 1900 United States presidential election was the 29th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1900. In a re-match of the 1896 race, incumbent Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger, ...
. Alabama voters chose eleven electors to the
Electoral College, which selected the
president and
vice president.
Alabama was won by the
Democratic
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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
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. Bryan won the state by a margin of 26%.
This would prove to be the last occasion when the Republican presidential candidate won
Lauderdale and
Limestone counties until
Richard Nixon in
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
, the last when the Republican nominee carried
Butler
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and
Walker counties until
Barry Goldwater
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in
1964
Events January
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, and the last when the Democratic nominee carried
Winston County Winston County is the name of two counties in the United States:
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until
Franklin D. Roosevelt won it by one vote in
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
.
[.]
Bryan had previously defeated McKinley in Alabama
four years earlier and would later win the state again in
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
against
William Howard Taft.
Results
Results by county
See also
*
United States presidential elections in Alabama
Notes
References
{{State results of the 1900 U.S. presidential election
Alabama
1900
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1900 Alabama elections