1899 Gubernatorial General Election Results

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Gubernatorial
Candidate

Political
Party

Popular Vote

William S. Taylor

Republican

193,714

48.07%

William Goebel

Democratic

191,331

47.48%

John Y. Brown

Honest Election Democrat

12,140

3.01%

John G. Blair

Populist

2,936

0.73%

O.T. Wallace

Prohibition

2,346

0.58%

Alfred Schmitz

Socialist Labor

510

0.13%

Turnout

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Election Notes:

Secondary source used to correct county vote errors in main source: Chicago Daily News Almanac and Yearbook 1900, pp. 332-333. Alfred Schmitz (Socialist Labor) stated total shows as 510 (county-by-county is 605) in Official Manual of Kentucky, and stated as 615 (no county-by-county numbers) in the Chicago Daily News Alamanac 1900.
The results were reversed by the General Assembly, leading to Goebel being Governor from January 31, 1900 until he died on February 3, 1900.

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Source for Popular Vote data: Kentucky State Library, comp, "Vote of Elections in 1896, 1897, and 1899," Official Manual of Kentucky (Louisville: Geo G. Fetter Printing Co., 1900)
Source for Population data: U.S. Census Bureau.

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