1908 United States presidential election in Missouri

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1908 United States presidential election in Missouri

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Nominee William Howard Taft William Jennings Bryan Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio Nebraska Running mate James S. Sherman John W. Kern Electoral vote 18 0 Popular vote 347,203 346,574 Percentage 48.50% 48.41%

County Results Taft   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Bryan   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%

President before election Theodore Roosevelt Republican Elected President William Howard Taft Republican

The 1908 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 3, 1908, as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Missouri was very narrowly won by Secretary of War William Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running with James S. Sherman, with 48.50% of the popular vote, against former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan (D–Nebraska), running with John W. Kern, with 48.41% of the popular vote. ^[1] Taft won the state by a narrow margin of 0.09%.

Bryan had previously won Missouri against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900.

Results

1908 United States presidential election in Missouri

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	William Howard Taft	347,203	48.50%
	Democratic	William Jennings Bryan	346,574	48.41%
	Socialist	Eugene V. Debs	15,431	2.16%
	Prohibition	Eugene W. Chafin	4,284	0.60%
	Populist	Thomas E. Watson	1,165	0.16%
	Socialist Labor	August Gillhaus	868	0.12%
	Independence	Thomas L. Hisgen	402	0.06%

Results by county

1908 United States presidential election in Missouri by county [2]
County	William Howard Taft Republican		William Jennings Bryan Democratic		Eugene Victor Debs Socialist		Eugene Wilder Chafin Prohibition		Thomas Edward Watson Populist		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Adair	2,514	51.38%	1,992	40.71%	270	5.52%	75	1.53%	15	0.31%	27	0.55%	522	10.67%	4,893
Andrew	2,169	54.09%	1,782	44.44%	15	0.37%	31	0.77%	6	0.15%	7	0.17%	387	9.65%	4,010
Atchison	1,700	49.66%	1,651	48.23%	18	0.53%	48	1.40%	4	0.12%	2	0.06%	49	1.43%	3,423
Audrain	1,733	33.61%	3,350	64.97%	15	0.29%	31	0.60%	21	0.41%	6	0.12%	-1,617	-31.36%	5,156
Barry	2,526	49.62%	2,383	46.81%	138	2.71%	34	0.67%	4	0.08%	6	0.12%	143	2.81%	5,091
Barton	1,673	43.36%	1,913	49.59%	192	4.98%	55	1.43%	4	0.10%	21	0.54%	-240	-6.22%	3,858
Bates	2,754	44.07%	3,248	51.98%	83	1.33%	119	1.90%	25	0.40%	20	0.32%	-494	-7.91%	6,249
Benton	1,924	59.09%	1,280	39.31%	19	0.58%	18	0.55%	12	0.37%	3	0.09%	644	19.78%	3,256
Bollinger	1,593	50.30%	1,517	47.90%	27	0.85%	25	0.79%	1	0.03%	4	0.13%	76	2.40%	3,167
Boone	2,149	29.63%	5,041	69.49%	28	0.39%	19	0.26%	15	0.21%	2	0.03%	-2,892	-39.87%	7,254
Buchanan	8,394	45.34%	9,836	53.13%	167	0.90%	103	0.56%	4	0.02%	9	0.05%	-1,442	-7.79%	18,513
Butler	2,186	51.22%	1,893	44.35%	145	3.40%	27	0.63%	6	0.14%	11	0.26%	293	6.87%	4,268
Caldwell	2,161	57.55%	1,540	41.01%	4	0.11%	25	0.67%	18	0.48%	7	0.19%	621	16.54%	3,755
Callaway	1,911	32.69%	3,878	66.35%	13	0.22%	39	0.67%	2	0.03%	2	0.03%	-1,967	-33.65%	5,845
Camden	1,446	58.90%	955	38.90%	33	1.34%	12	0.49%	6	0.24%	3	0.12%	491	20.00%	2,455
Cape Girardeau	3,381	55.51%	2,621	43.03%	28	0.46%	42	0.69%	10	0.16%	9	0.15%	760	12.48%	6,091
Carroll	3,015	51.55%	2,753	47.07%	31	0.53%	38	0.65%	8	0.14%	4	0.07%	262	4.48%	5,849
Carter	507	43.63%	591	50.86%	57	4.91%	3	0.26%	3	0.26%	1	0.09%	-84	-7.23%	1,162
Cass	2,193	39.84%	3,143	57.10%	108	1.96%	49	0.89%	4	0.07%	7	0.13%	-950	-17.26%	5,504
Cedar	1,933	54.87%	1,483	42.09%	60	1.70%	26	0.74%	15	0.43%	6	0.17%	450	12.77%	3,523
Chariton	2,249	39.78%	3,352	59.30%	12	0.21%	20	0.35%	16	0.28%	4	0.07%	-1,103	-19.51%	5,653
Christian	1,871	61.08%	956	31.21%	146	4.77%	62	2.02%	19	0.62%	9	0.29%	915	29.87%	3,063
Clark	1,741	49.52%	1,737	49.40%	5	0.14%	32	0.91%	0	0.00%	1	0.03%	4	0.11%	3,516
Clay	1,166	24.63%	3,513	74.19%	25	0.53%	19	0.40%	11	0.23%	1	0.02%	-2,347	-49.57%	4,735
Clinton	1,578	42.90%	2,075	56.42%	1	0.03%	19	0.52%	3	0.08%	2	0.05%	-497	-13.51%	3,678
Cole	2,402	48.58%	2,494	50.44%	28	0.57%	14	0.28%	2	0.04%	4	0.08%	-92	-1.86%	4,944
Cooper	2,679	50.73%	2,555	48.38%	9	0.17%	12	0.23%	16	0.30%	10	0.19%	124	2.35%	5,281
Crawford	1,752	56.77%	1,260	40.83%	52	1.69%	17	0.55%	2	0.06%	3	0.10%	492	15.94%	3,086
Dade	1,946	56.05%	1,441	41.50%	41	1.18%	30	0.86%	11	0.32%	3	0.09%	505	14.54%	3,472
Dallas	1,609	61.96%	955	36.77%	10	0.39%	3	0.12%	17	0.65%	3	0.12%	654	25.18%	2,597
Daviess	2,388	50.14%	2,294	48.16%	8	0.17%	52	1.09%	18	0.38%	3	0.06%	94	1.97%	4,763
De Kalb	1,703	50.53%	1,632	48.43%	3	0.09%	28	0.83%	3	0.09%	1	0.03%	71	2.11%	3,370
Dent	1,290	48.44%	1,330	49.94%	33	1.24%	4	0.15%	4	0.15%	2	0.08%	-40	-1.50%	2,663
Douglas	1,922	64.84%	699	23.58%	281	9.48%	17	0.57%	35	1.18%	10	0.34%	1,223	41.26%	2,964
Dunklin	1,638	35.17%	2,734	58.69%	259	5.56%	21	0.45%	3	0.06%	3	0.06%	-1,096	-23.53%	4,658
Franklin	4,049	60.91%	2,423	36.45%	121	1.82%	31	0.47%	4	0.06%	19	0.29%	1,626	24.46%	6,647
Gasconade	2,220	80.35%	509	18.42%	13	0.47%	10	0.36%	6	0.22%	5	0.18%	1,711	61.93%	2,763
Gentry	1,882	44.75%	2,236	53.16%	24	0.57%	52	1.24%	11	0.26%	1	0.02%	-354	-8.42%	4,206
Greene	6,439	49.81%	5,830	45.10%	453	3.50%	143	1.11%	49	0.38%	14	0.11%	609	4.71%	12,928
Grundy	2,407	62.71%	1,359	35.41%	12	0.31%	43	1.12%	14	0.36%	3	0.08%	1,048	27.31%	3,838
Harrison	2,842	58.41%	1,938	39.83%	15	0.31%	50	1.03%	12	0.25%	9	0.18%	904	18.58%	4,866
Henry	2,854	43.30%	3,577	54.27%	61	0.93%	90	1.37%	6	0.09%	3	0.05%	-723	-10.97%	6,591
Hickory	1,182	65.52%	561	31.10%	32	1.77%	12	0.67%	13	0.72%	4	0.22%	621	34.42%	1,804
Holt	2,246	57.62%	1,596	40.94%	14	0.36%	28	0.72%	7	0.18%	7	0.18%	650	16.68%	3,898
Howard	1,141	28.15%	2,884	71.16%	7	0.17%	13	0.32%	6	0.15%	2	0.05%	-1,743	-43.01%	4,053
Howell	2,164	51.09%	1,827	43.13%	204	4.82%	23	0.54%	3	0.07%	15	0.35%	337	7.96%	4,236
Iron	828	46.60%	931	52.39%	6	0.34%	8	0.45%	4	0.23%	0	0.00%	-103	-5.80%	1,777
Jackson	26,998	45.18%	31,461	52.65%	904	1.51%	248	0.41%	46	0.08%	103	0.17%	-4,463	-7.47%	59,760
Jasper	9,143	49.02%	8,130	43.59%	1,026	5.50%	251	1.35%	18	0.10%	84	0.45%	1,013	5.43%	18,652
Jefferson	3,050	52.00%	2,698	46.00%	65	1.11%	19	0.32%	25	0.43%	8	0.14%	352	6.00%	5,865
Johnson	2,997	45.44%	3,483	52.81%	69	1.05%	31	0.47%	9	0.14%	6	0.09%	-486	-7.37%	6,595
Knox	1,339	43.72%	1,652	53.93%	25	0.82%	35	1.14%	3	0.10%	9	0.29%	-313	-10.22%	3,063
Laclede	1,902	51.94%	1,681	45.90%	49	1.34%	14	0.38%	9	0.25%	7	0.19%	221	6.03%	3,662
Lafayette	3,771	48.57%	3,865	49.78%	98	1.26%	25	0.32%	5	0.06%	0	0.00%	-94	-1.21%	7,764
Lawrence	3,028	50.87%	2,532	42.54%	301	5.06%	55	0.92%	8	0.13%	28	0.47%	496	8.33%	5,952
Lewis	1,473	36.89%	2,439	61.08%	20	0.50%	38	0.95%	17	0.43%	6	0.15%	-966	-24.19%	3,993
Lincoln	1,620	38.51%	2,555	60.73%	6	0.14%	17	0.40%	5	0.12%	4	0.10%	-935	-22.22%	4,207
Linn	2,974	48.66%	3,000	49.08%	77	1.26%	40	0.65%	17	0.28%	4	0.07%	-26	-0.43%	6,112
Livingston	2,400	48.92%	2,379	48.49%	42	0.86%	24	0.49%	55	1.12%	6	0.12%	21	0.43%	4,906
Macon	3,542	45.86%	3,919	50.74%	172	2.23%	59	0.76%	15	0.19%	17	0.22%	-377	-4.88%	7,724
Madison	1,248	47.29%	1,321	50.06%	49	1.86%	17	0.64%	2	0.08%	2	0.08%	-73	-2.77%	2,639
Maries	703	34.66%	1,309	64.55%	5	0.25%	10	0.49%	0	0.00%	1	0.05%	-606	-29.88%	2,028
Marion	2,554	37.71%	3,982	58.80%	149	2.20%	70	1.03%	8	0.12%	9	0.13%	-1,428	-21.09%	6,772
McDonald	1,333	48.49%	1,306	47.51%	80	2.91%	28	1.02%	0	0.00%	2	0.07%	27	0.98%	2,749
Mercer	1,909	68.13%	852	30.41%	9	0.32%	26	0.93%	5	0.18%	1	0.04%	1,057	37.72%	2,802
Miller	2,016	57.47%	1,393	39.71%	62	1.77%	15	0.43%	18	0.51%	4	0.11%	623	17.76%	3,508
Mississippi	1,320	44.75%	1,589	53.86%	12	0.41%	18	0.61%	1	0.03%	10	0.34%	-269	-9.12%	2,950
Moniteau	1,691	47.63%	1,763	49.66%	30	0.85%	35	0.99%	28	0.79%	3	0.08%	-72	-2.03%	3,550
Monroe	871	18.61%	3,772	80.58%	14	0.30%	9	0.19%	12	0.26%	3	0.06%	-2,901	-61.97%	4,681
Montgomery	2,038	48.76%	2,073	49.59%	11	0.26%	42	1.00%	11	0.26%	5	0.12%	-35	-0.84%	4,180
Morgan	1,663	55.30%	1,315	43.73%	11	0.37%	11	0.37%	7	0.23%	0	0.00%	348	11.57%	3,007
New Madrid	1,436	42.55%	1,824	54.04%	72	2.13%	17	0.50%	1	0.03%	25	0.74%	-388	-11.50%	3,375
Newton	2,620	44.99%	2,725	46.80%	280	4.81%	158	2.71%	11	0.19%	29	0.50%	-105	-1.80%	5,823
Nodaway	3,592	49.12%	3,595	49.16%	52	0.71%	45	0.62%	20	0.27%	9	0.12%	-3	-0.04%	7,313
Oregon	729	30.31%	1,550	64.45%	119	4.95%	2	0.08%	2	0.08%	3	0.12%	-821	-34.14%	2,405
Osage	1,820	55.24%	1,439	43.67%	4	0.12%	29	0.88%	0	0.00%	3	0.09%	381	11.56%	3,295
Ozark	1,233	65.76%	594	31.68%	40	2.13%	3	0.16%	4	0.21%	1	0.05%	639	34.08%	1,875
Pemiscot	1,390	43.93%	1,725	54.52%	39	1.23%	6	0.19%	1	0.03%	3	0.09%	-335	-10.59%	3,164
Perry	1,775	52.53%	1,569	46.43%	1	0.03%	28	0.83%	2	0.06%	4	0.12%	206	6.10%	3,379
Pettis	3,983	49.39%	3,791	47.01%	195	2.42%	86	1.07%	2	0.02%	7	0.09%	192	2.38%	8,064
Phelps	1,520	45.00%	1,804	53.40%	21	0.62%	9	0.27%	22	0.65%	2	0.06%	-284	-8.41%	3,378
Pike	2,403	41.78%	3,326	57.82%	10	0.17%	8	0.14%	4	0.07%	1	0.02%	-923	-16.05%	5,752
Platte	982	25.84%	2,795	73.53%	6	0.16%	16	0.42%	2	0.05%	0	0.00%	-1,813	-47.70%	3,801
Polk	2,670	54.43%	2,139	43.61%	39	0.80%	35	0.71%	19	0.39%	3	0.06%	531	10.83%	4,905
Pulaski	988	40.31%	1,418	57.85%	28	1.14%	11	0.45%	6	0.24%	0	0.00%	-430	-17.54%	2,451
Putnam	2,233	65.77%	1,056	31.10%	52	1.53%	48	1.41%	1	0.03%	5	0.15%	1,177	34.67%	3,395
Ralls	900	31.35%	1,947	67.82%	11	0.38%	9	0.31%	2	0.07%	2	0.07%	-1,047	-36.47%	2,871
Randolph	1,953	31.10%	4,245	67.60%	12	0.19%	44	0.70%	25	0.40%	1	0.02%	-2,292	-36.50%	6,280
Ray	1,914	37.74%	3,043	60.00%	57	1.12%	46	0.91%	3	0.06%	9	0.18%	-1,129	-22.26%	5,072
Reynolds	544	33.13%	1,052	64.07%	42	2.56%	1	0.06%	2	0.12%	1	0.06%	-508	-30.94%	1,642
Ripley	946	40.95%	1,309	56.67%	4	0.17%	16	0.69%	33	1.43%	2	0.09%	-363	-15.71%	2,310
Saint Charles	3,480	62.84%	1,979	35.73%	42	0.76%	19	0.34%	2	0.04%	16	0.29%	1,501	27.10%	5,538
Saint Clair	1,723	46.50%	1,877	50.66%	72	1.94%	12	0.32%	19	0.51%	2	0.05%	-154	-4.16%	3,705
Saint Francois	3,260	48.56%	2,942	43.83%	439	6.54%	40	0.60%	12	0.18%	20	0.30%	318	4.74%	6,713
Saint Louis County	10,177	66.40%	4,522	29.51%	450	2.94%	50	0.33%	10	0.07%	117	0.76%	5,655	36.90%	15,326
Saint Louis City	74,160	52.76%	60,917	43.34%	4,965	3.53%	209	0.15%	35	0.02%	264	0.19%	13,243	9.42%	140,550
Sainte Genevieve	1,064	48.78%	1,108	50.80%	4	0.18%	1	0.05%	4	0.18%	0	0.00%	-44	-2.02%	2,181
Saline	2,926	40.73%	4,189	58.31%	31	0.43%	22	0.31%	10	0.14%	6	0.08%	-1,263	-17.58%	7,184
Schuyler	1,007	43.76%	1,222	53.11%	19	0.83%	42	1.83%	8	0.35%	3	0.13%	-215	-9.34%	2,301
Scotland	1,273	43.94%	1,564	53.99%	19	0.66%	25	0.86%	9	0.31%	7	0.24%	-291	-10.04%	2,897
Scott	1,473	36.79%	1,853	46.28%	629	15.71%	17	0.42%	6	0.15%	26	0.65%	-380	-9.49%	4,004
Shannon	849	40.94%	1,151	55.50%	62	2.99%	4	0.19%	2	0.10%	6	0.29%	-302	-14.56%	2,074
Shelby	1,298	33.93%	2,466	64.47%	17	0.44%	39	1.02%	2	0.05%	3	0.08%	-1,168	-30.54%	3,825
Stoddard	2,025	39.87%	2,736	53.87%	277	5.45%	35	0.69%	2	0.04%	4	0.08%	-711	-14.00%	5,079
Stone	1,376	69.11%	477	23.96%	126	6.33%	3	0.15%	1	0.05%	8	0.40%	899	45.15%	1,991
Sullivan	2,389	50.61%	2,269	48.07%	20	0.42%	35	0.74%	5	0.11%	2	0.04%	120	2.54%	4,720
Taney	1,080	61.12%	628	35.54%	53	3.00%	2	0.11%	3	0.17%	1	0.06%	452	25.58%	1,767
Texas	1,954	44.61%	2,328	53.15%	61	1.39%	18	0.41%	7	0.16%	12	0.27%	-374	-8.54%	4,380
Vernon	2,369	37.48%	3,705	58.61%	170	2.69%	56	0.89%	6	0.09%	15	0.24%	-1,336	-21.14%	6,321
Warren	1,714	76.14%	484	21.50%	42	1.87%	5	0.22%	6	0.27%	0	0.00%	1,230	54.64%	2,251
Washington	1,753	56.11%	1,330	42.57%	18	0.58%	20	0.64%	1	0.03%	2	0.06%	423	13.54%	3,124
Wayne	1,554	47.11%	1,641	49.74%	84	2.55%	13	0.39%	2	0.06%	5	0.15%	-87	-2.64%	3,299
Webster	1,901	49.48%	1,761	45.84%	75	1.95%	62	1.61%	37	0.96%	6	0.16%	140	3.64%	3,842
Worth	985	48.43%	993	48.82%	3	0.15%	45	2.21%	7	0.34%	1	0.05%	-8	-0.39%	2,034
Wright	2,149	58.21%	1,469	39.79%	57	1.54%	9	0.24%	5	0.14%	3	0.08%	680	18.42%	3,692
Totals	347,203	48.50%	346,574	48.41%	15,431	2.16%	4,209	0.59%	1,165	0.16%	1,259	0.18%	629	0.09%	715,841

See also

• United States presidential elections in Missouri

References

1. "1908 Presidential General Election Results — Missouri". uselectionatlas.org. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
2. "Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)