1908 United States presidential election in Texas

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1908 United States presidential election in Texas
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Nominee William Jennings Bryan William Howard Taft
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate John W. Kern James S. Sherman
Electoral vote180
Popular vote217,30265,666
Percentage73.97%22.35%
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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 Texas took place on November 3, 1908. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Texas overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, Secretary of War William Howard Taft. Bryan won Texas by a landslide margin of 51.62%.

Bryan had previously won Texas against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900. With 73.97 percent of the popular vote, Texas would also prove to be Bryan's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote only after South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana. [1]

Results

1908 United States presidential election in Texas [2]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska John Worth Kern of Indiana 217,30273.97%18100.00%
Republican William Howard Taft of Ohio James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York 65,66622.35%00.00%
Socialist Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana Benjamin Hanford of New York 7,8702.68%00.00%
Prohibition Eugene Wilder Chafin of Illinois Aaron Sherman Watkins of Ohio 1,6340.56%00.00%
Populist Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia Samuel Wardell Williams of Indiana 9940.34%00.00%
Socialist Labor August Gillhaus of New York Donald L. Munro of Virginia 1760.06%00.00%
Independence Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts John Temple Graves of Georgia 1150.04%00.00%
Total293,757100.00%18100.00%

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References

  1. ↑ "1908 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ "1908 Presidential General Election Results - Texas". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
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