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1900 presidential election in Massachusetts

William McKinley (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in Massachusetts in 1900, 57.6% to 37.8%, a margin of 19.7 points and 81,869 votes.

Massachusetts voted 13.6 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 13 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Suffolk, cast 91,365 votes and went to the Democrat by 7.2 points. The closest was Nantucket, where 273 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
William McKinley won Republican 238,866 57.6%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 156,997 37.8%
All other candidates 18,941 4.6%
Total414,804

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Suffolk 47,534 52.0% 40,951 44.8% 2,880 91,365 D+7.2
Middlesex 29,476 36.0% 49,638 60.6% 2,841 81,955 R+24.6
Essex 19,781 34.7% 32,924 57.8% 4,242 56,947 R+23.1
Worcester 17,148 33.2% 32,412 62.8% 2,022 51,582 R+29.6
Bristol 9,355 31.2% 19,396 64.8% 1,196 29,947 R+33.5
Hampden 10,424 41.4% 13,757 54.7% 989 25,170 R+13.2
Norfolk 7,922 32.6% 15,144 62.3% 1,232 24,298 R+29.7
Plymouth 4,665 26.2% 10,813 60.7% 2,343 17,821 R+34.5
Berkshire 5,461 36.7% 8,980 60.3% 455 14,896 R+23.6
Hampshire 2,392 28.8% 5,550 66.7% 377 8,319 R+38.0
Franklin 1,874 26.7% 4,937 70.5% 195 7,006 R+43.7
Barnstable 749 17.7% 3,372 79.7% 108 4,229 R+62.0
Dukes 114 14.6% 617 79.1% 49 780 R+64.5
Nantucket 102 20.9% 375 76.7% 12 489 R+55.8

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.

Massachusetts in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+25.2
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+33.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+27.2
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+25.8
2004 John Kerry (D) D+25.2
2000 Al Gore (D) D+27.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+33.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+18.5
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+7.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+0.2
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+15.7
1972 George McGovern (D) D+9.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+30.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+52.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+20.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+18.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+11.5
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.0
1928 Al Smith (D) D+1.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+40.7
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+3.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+24.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+20.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+19.7
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.1
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.6
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+9.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+8.0
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+18.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+16.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+38.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+39.5