1900 United States presidential election in New Jersey
County Results
McKinley
50-60%
60-70%
Bryan
50-60%
The 1900 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 6, 1900. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
New Jersey overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, President William McKinley , over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative and 1896 Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan . McKinley won New Jersey by a margin of 14.17 points in this rematch of the 1896 presidential election . The return of economic prosperity and recent victory in the Spanish–American War helped McKinley to score a decisive victory.
Bryan had previously lost New Jersey to McKinley four years earlier and would later lose the state again in 1908 to William Howard Taft .