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Gift of Richard Savold and Kay Savold, October 2023 (RL2023-060).
In the United States presidential election of 1900, Republican incumbent William McKinley (1843-1901) won with 51.66 percent of the vote. In Oregon, McKinley won 55.46 percent of the popular vote and all four electoral votes, while Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) received 39.41 percent of the vote, and 5.13 percent of votes went to other candidates.
Source: General election data for 1900, Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, accessed September 24, 2024,
Ballot issued in Granite Precinct, Grant County, for election of Oregon members of the Electoral College, Coll 1053, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
The collection consists of a single blank ballot for use in the Granite Precinct of Grant County, Oregon, for the election on November 6, 1900. The ballot is specifically for the election of Oregon's four members of the Electoral College, who would then choose the United States president and vice president. The ballot lists four candidates for each of the five political parties running candidates for president and vice president: The Republican Party, the Democratic-People's Party, the Prohibition Party, the Regular People's Party, and the Social Democratic Party. The ballot also lists the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidate of each party. One of the Democratic-People's Party electors on the ballot is future Oregon Governor Walter M. Pierce. The ballot instructs voters to vote for four electors.
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