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1900 presidential election in Delaware

William McKinley (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in Delaware in 1900, 53.7% to 44.9%, a margin of 8.8 points and 3,683 votes.

Delaware voted 2.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+6.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1896, when William McKinley also won.

Republicans led in 3 of the 3 counties as they stood then. The largest, New Castle, cast 24,631 votes and went to the Republican by 12.2 points. The closest was Kent, where 71 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
William McKinley won Republican 22,535 53.7%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 18,852 44.9%
All other candidates 602 1.4%
Total41,989

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New Castle 10,636 43.2% 13,646 55.4% 349 24,631 R+12.2
Sussex 4,359 46.1% 4,961 52.4% 141 9,461 R+6.4
Kent 3,857 48.8% 3,928 49.7% 112 7,897 R+0.9

Counties as they stood in 1900; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Delaware in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+14.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+19.0
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+11.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+18.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+7.6
2000 Al Gore (D) D+13.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+12.4
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+19.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.3
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+5.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+22.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+1.6
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+10.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+3.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.3
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.1
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+20.9
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+13.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+2.4
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+13.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+6.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+9.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+8.8
1896 William McKinley (R) R+10.1
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+11.6
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+13.4
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+3.5
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+10.9
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.2
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+18.0