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Election 1900 Results

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1900 presidential election in South Dakota

William McKinley (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1900, 56.7% to 41.1%, a margin of 15.6 points and 15,036 votes.

South Dakota voted 9.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+6.2.

South Dakota changed party: in 1896 it went Democratic, for William Jennings Bryan.

Republicans led in 45 of the 53 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 7. The largest, Lawrence, cast 6,138 votes and went to the Republican by 13.3 points. The closest was Hand, where 2 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
William McKinley won Republican 54,574 56.7%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 39,538 41.1%
All other candidates 2,057 2.1%
Total96,169

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Lawrence 2,619 42.7% 3,435 56.0% 84 6,138 R+13.3
Minnehaha 2,440 40.8% 3,410 57.0% 128 5,978 R+16.2
Brown 1,722 42.7% 2,197 54.4% 118 4,037 R+11.8
Lincoln 1,226 38.5% 1,908 60.0% 48 3,182 R+21.4
Roberts 1,067 35.3% 1,875 62.1% 77 3,019 R+26.8
Brookings 1,084 36.4% 1,707 57.4% 185 2,976 R+20.9
Union 1,358 45.8% 1,571 53.0% 35 2,964 R+7.2
Yankton 1,268 43.1% 1,639 55.7% 33 2,940 R+12.6
Turner 871 30.1% 1,977 68.2% 50 2,898 R+38.2
Day 1,092 39.5% 1,558 56.4% 114 2,764 R+16.9
Spink 1,087 41.0% 1,496 56.4% 69 2,652 R+15.4
Clay 1,037 42.2% 1,387 56.4% 35 2,459 R+14.2
Bon Homme 1,028 44.4% 1,271 54.9% 15 2,314 R+10.5
Kingsbury 868 37.9% 1,330 58.1% 91 2,289 R+20.2
Charles Mix 1,058 48.2% 1,108 50.4% 31 2,197 R+2.3
Beadle 915 41.7% 1,220 55.6% 61 2,196 R+13.9
Lake 901 42.7% 1,172 55.6% 36 2,109 R+12.8
Codington 805 38.3% 1,225 58.3% 72 2,102 R+20.0
Moody 875 41.8% 1,190 56.9% 26 2,091 R+15.1
Hutchinson 534 25.7% 1,528 73.5% 18 2,080 R+47.8
Grant 716 34.5% 1,305 62.9% 55 2,076 R+28.4
McCook 989 49.6% 978 49.1% 26 1,993 D+0.6
Clark 752 40.9% 996 54.2% 91 1,839 R+13.3
Davison 782 46.1% 853 50.3% 62 1,697 R+4.2
Pennington 784 46.2% 898 52.9% 15 1,697 R+6.7
Deuel 604 36.0% 1,052 62.8% 20 1,676 R+26.7
Marshall 728 45.6% 829 51.9% 39 1,596 R+6.3
Hamlin 509 34.4% 928 62.8% 41 1,478 R+28.3
Miner 697 50.5% 662 48.0% 20 1,379 D+2.5
Brule 716 52.4% 644 47.1% 6 1,366 D+5.3
Hanson 607 49.1% 607 49.1% 23 1,237 level
Douglas 567 46.2% 649 52.9% 12 1,228 R+6.7
Sanborn 549 45.1% 628 51.6% 41 1,218 R+6.5
McPherson 297 24.5% 898 74.2% 16 1,211 R+49.6
Hand 594 49.2% 592 49.0% 21 1,207 D+0.2
Edmunds 553 46.3% 621 52.0% 21 1,195 R+5.7
Meade 565 50.2% 550 48.9% 10 1,125 D+1.3
Aurora 486 48.1% 503 49.8% 22 1,011 R+1.7
Faulk 302 31.8% 618 65.1% 30 950 R+33.3
Fall River 421 44.4% 521 55.0% 6 948 R+10.5
Butte 420 45.4% 492 53.2% 13 925 R+7.8
Custer 415 45.9% 483 53.4% 7 905 R+7.5
Campbell 250 28.1% 626 70.4% 13 889 R+42.3
Hughes 272 33.3% 537 65.6% 9 818 R+32.4
Potter 381 48.7% 375 48.0% 26 782 D+0.8
Walworth 282 36.5% 478 61.9% 12 772 R+25.4
Jerauld 357 46.4% 374 48.6% 39 770 R+2.2
Lyman 210 32.6% 429 66.6% 5 644 R+34.0
Gregory 259 44.1% 323 55.0% 5 587 R+10.9
Stanley 252 49.1% 254 49.5% 7 513 R+0.4
Sully 152 33.5% 294 64.8% 8 454 R+31.3
Hyde 115 28.0% 286 69.8% 9 410 R+41.7
Buffalo 100 53.2% 87 46.3% 1 188 D+6.9

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.

South Dakota in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+29.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+26.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+29.8
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+18.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+8.4
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+21.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+22.7
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+3.5
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+26.5
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.5
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.6
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+11.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+11.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+16.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+16.8
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.5
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+16.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.8
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+29.2
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+21.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+36.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+49.4
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+0.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+36.6