1908 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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1908 United States presidential election in North Carolina
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  1904 November 3, 1908 1912  
  Unsuccessful 1908.jpg William Howard Taft, Bain bw photo portrait, 1908.jpg
Nominee William Jennings Bryan William Howard Taft
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate John W. Kern James S. Sherman
Electoral vote120
Popular vote136,928114,887
Percentage54.22%45.49%

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County Results

President before election

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

Elected President

William Howard Taft
Republican

The 1908 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 3, 1908. All contemporary 46 states were part of the 1908 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Contents

North Carolina was won by the Democratic nominees, former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. They defeated the Republican Party nominees, William Howard Taft and his running mate James S. Sherman of New York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 8.73%.

Although, like all former Confederate states, North Carolina would during its “Redemption” develop a politics based upon Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party possessed sufficient historic Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in general elections even after blacks lost the right to vote. [1] After the failure of Theodore Roosevelt to reconcile with the South, new nominee Taft would in October become the first Republican candidate to tour the South. [2] Aided by opposition by developing manufacturers to Bryan’s populism, [2] and by his willingness to accept black disfranchisement [3] alongside a completely “lily-white” state GOP that even excluded blacks from membership [4] Taft gained substantially upon Theodore Roosevelt’s performance in 1904, especially in previously Democratic western and Piedmont counties. He was the first Republican to ever carry Cabarrus County and Catawba County – which would become solidly Republican after World War I and among thirteen Tar Heel counties to back Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson – and also Jackson County. [5]

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

Results

1908 United States presidential election in North Carolina [6]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic William Jennings Bryan 136,92854.22%12
Republican William Howard Taft 114,88745.49%0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 3720.15%0
Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin 3540.14%0
Write-ins Scattered130.01%0
Totals252,554100.00%12
Voter turnout

Results by county

1908 United States presidential election in North Carolina by county
County William Jennings Bryan [7]
Democratic
William Howard Taft [7]
Republican
Eugene Victor Debs [7]
Social Democratic
Eugene Wilder Chafin [7]
Prohibition
Margin
%#%#%#%#%#
Currituck 91.16%7018.84%680.00%00.00%082.31%633
Northampton 90.27%1,7269.73%1860.00%00.00%080.54%1,540
Scotland 89.36%71410.64%850.00%00.00%078.72%629
Halifax 85.07%2,16514.93%3800.00%00.00%070.14%1,785
Anson 83.19%1,49016.81%3010.00%00.00%066.39%1,189
Edgecombe 80.01%1,75319.99%4380.00%00.00%060.02%1,315
New Hanover [lower-alpha 1] 78.39%1,85721.57%5110.00%00.00%056.82%1,346
Warren 78.27%1,06621.73%2960.00%00.00%056.53%770
Franklin 77.96%1,98422.04%5610.00%00.00%055.91%1,423
Bertie 77.75%1,25822.25%3600.00%00.00%055.50%898
Martin 76.07%1,33823.93%4210.00%00.00%052.13%917
Craven 75.70%1,39924.30%4490.00%00.00%051.41%950
Hyde 74.80%66225.20%2230.00%00.00%049.60%439
Chowan 74.46%62125.54%2130.00%00.00%048.92%408
Pitt 73.04%2,41926.87%8900.00%00.09%346.17%1,529
Pender 71.37%93028.63%3730.00%00.00%042.75%557
Union 70.87%2,02929.13%8340.00%00.00%041.74%1,195
Camden 70.82%39829.18%1640.00%00.00%041.64%234
Hertford 70.39%83929.61%3530.00%00.00%040.77%486
Mecklenburg 70.09%3,92629.37%1,6450.07%40.46%2640.72%2,281
Pasquotank [lower-alpha 2] 69.54%92930.31%4050.00%00.00%039.22%524
Richmond 69.01%1,02930.99%4620.00%00.00%038.03%567
Caswell 68.62%82031.21%3730.00%00.17%237.41%447
Granville 67.99%1,56131.97%7340.00%00.04%136.02%827
Robeson 67.48%2,69832.52%1,3000.00%00.00%034.97%1,398
Gates 65.96%65334.04%3370.00%00.00%031.92%316
Jones 65.00%58535.00%3150.00%00.00%030.00%270
Vance 63.62%1,12136.38%6410.00%00.00%027.24%480
Bladen 63.17%1,13236.83%6600.00%00.00%026.34%472
Wilson 63.07%1,73236.93%1,0140.00%00.00%026.15%718
Greene 61.95%87638.05%5380.00%00.00%023.90%338
Cleveland 60.98%2,28238.99%1,4590.03%10.00%021.99%823
Haywood 59.91%1,95240.02%1,3040.06%20.00%019.89%648
Lee 59.68%83240.32%5620.00%00.00%019.37%270
Wayne 59.30%2,20740.41%1,5040.00%00.30%1118.89%703
Lenoir 58.98%1,39340.90%9660.13%30.00%018.08%427
Harnett 58.79%1,50141.01%1,0470.04%10.16%417.78%454
Beaufort 57.79%1,82841.23%1,3040.92%290.06%216.57%524
Iredell 57.67%2,46542.19%1,8030.02%10.12%515.49%662
Columbus 57.19%1,84542.81%1,3810.00%00.00%014.38%464
Guilford 56.56%3,82242.36%2,8630.46%310.62%4214.19%959
Cumberland 55.77%1,83244.23%1,4530.00%00.00%011.54%379
Nash 55.71%1,67844.29%1,3340.00%00.00%011.42%344
Wake 55.55%3,71344.30%2,9610.00%00.15%1011.25%752
Pamlico 54.37%62843.38%5012.25%260.00%011.00%127
Duplin 55.18%1,50844.82%1,2250.00%00.00%010.35%283
Onslow 55.06%87044.94%7100.00%00.00%010.13%160
Gaston 54.40%2,39844.69%1,9700.18%80.73%329.71%428
Rowan 53.61%2,39245.02%2,0090.78%350.58%268.58%383
Perquimans 53.08%56846.92%5020.00%00.00%06.17%66
Dare 52.93%41647.07%3700.00%00.00%05.85%46
Rutherford 52.79%1,97847.13%1,7660.00%00.08%35.66%212
Alleghany 52.40%63347.60%5750.00%00.00%04.80%58
Carteret 52.08%1,15247.92%1,0600.00%00.00%04.16%92
Clay 51.58%34348.27%3210.15%10.00%03.31%22
Yancey 50.73%97849.27%9500.00%00.00%01.45%28
Moore 50.29%1,10948.84%1,0770.54%120.32%71.45%32
Durham 50.41%1,85949.35%1,8200.08%30.16%61.06%39
Chatham 50.36%1,52149.57%1,4970.00%00.07%20.79%24
Lincoln 50.10%1,22249.90%1,2170.00%00.00%00.21%5
Buncombe 49.10%3,50650.03%3,5720.76%540.11%8-0.92%-66
Ashe 49.47%1,63950.53%1,6740.00%00.00%0-1.06%-35
Alamance 48.79%2,11350.43%2,1840.07%30.72%31-1.64%-71
Burke 49.10%1,31050.90%1,3580.00%00.00%0-1.80%-48
McDowell 48.62%95051.18%1,0000.00%00.20%4-2.56%-50
Orange 48.61%1,01751.29%1,0730.10%20.00%0-2.68%-56
Jackson 48.44%1,02251.47%1,0860.09%20.00%0-3.03%-64
Rockingham 48.19%1,88751.28%2,0080.36%140.18%7-3.09%-121
Transylvania 48.26%57051.74%6110.00%00.00%0-3.47%-41
Catawba [lower-alpha 3] 47.56%1,86451.29%2,0100.00%00.89%35-3.73%-146
Montgomery 48.07%1,00851.84%1,0870.00%00.10%2-3.77%-79
Randolph 48.02%2,47251.98%2,6760.00%00.00%0-3.96%-204
Johnston 47.84%2,59352.16%2,8270.00%00.00%0-4.32%-234
Davidson 47.35%2,12652.12%2,3400.09%40.45%20-4.77%-214
Graham 47.34%41852.66%4650.00%00.00%0-5.32%-47
Washington 47.10%49552.90%5560.00%00.00%0-5.80%-61
Macon 47.01%92752.99%1,0450.00%00.00%0-5.98%-118
Stanly 46.95%1,49153.05%1,6850.00%00.00%0-6.11%-194
Cabarrus 46.93%1,61053.07%1,8210.00%00.00%0-6.15%-211
Forsyth 44.94%2,47252.28%2,8762.38%1310.40%22-7.34%-404
Polk 45.14%51154.86%6210.00%00.00%0-9.72%-110
Caldwell 44.72%1,41355.22%1,7450.00%00.06%2-10.51%-332
Tyrrell 44.13%31255.87%3950.00%00.00%0-11.74%-83
Person 43.63%75056.37%9690.00%00.00%0-12.74%-219
Alexander 42.47%79357.53%1,0740.00%00.00%0-15.05%-281
Watauga 42.29%96257.71%1,3130.00%00.00%0-15.43%-351
Brunswick 41.92%60758.08%8410.00%00.00%0-16.16%-234
Davie 39.61%78060.18%1,1850.00%00.20%4-20.57%-405
Swain 39.27%60260.73%9310.00%00.00%0-21.46%-329
Stokes 38.21%1,06161.61%1,7110.18%50.00%0-23.41%-650
Cherokee 37.38%78262.62%1,3100.00%00.00%0-25.24%-528
Surry 37.27%1,70962.60%2,8700.00%00.13%6-25.32%-1,161
Henderson 36.40%91763.60%1,6020.00%00.00%0-27.19%-685
Sampson 35.09%1,33564.78%2,4650.00%00.13%5-29.70%-1,130
Wilkes 31.50%1,55968.34%3,3820.00%00.16%8-36.84%-1,823
Madison 29.84%86270.16%2,0270.00%00.00%0-40.33%-1,165
Yadkin 26.43%59772.78%1,6440.00%00.80%18-46.35%-1,047
Mitchell 23.32%55076.68%1,8080.00%00.00%0-53.35%-1,258

See also

Notes

  1. In this county there was one vote for a write-in candidate.
  2. In this county there were two votes for write-in candidates
  3. In this county there were ten votes for various write-in candidates.

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