1908 Presidential General Election Results

Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote William Taft James Sherman Republican 7,678,174 51.57% 321 66.5% William Bryan John Kern Democratic 6,409,007 43.04% 162 33.5% Eugene Debs Benjamin Hanford Socialist 420,856 2.83% 0 0.0% Eugene Chafin Aaron Watkins Prohibition 254,081 1.71% 0 0.0% Thomas Hisgen John Graves Independence 82,580 0.55% 0 0.0% Other (+) - - 44,411 0.30% 0 0.0% Total 14,889,109 483 Map Key  > 40%  > 50%  > 60%  > 70%  > 80%  > 90% Turnout Maps   Data and Statistics: Popular Vote State-Level Data (Table) Popular Vote State-Level Data (Graphs) Electoral Vote State-Level Data Election 1908 Statistics Compare National Data by Year (Table) Compare National Data by Year (Graphs) Compare National Maps by Year National JavaCompare! Data Sources for Popular Vote Election Tools for 1908 Electoral College Calculator for 1908 Blog Interactive Map Widget Code for This Contest (uselectionatlas.org Weblogs) Results for an Individual State: AlabamaArkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Election Notes: In Maryland, the direct election of the eight presidential electors combined with the closeness of the race resulted in a split between the Republican and Democratic electors: six for Bryan and two for Taft. The elector whom received the most votes was an elector for Taft. Electoral Vote Map Note: there is no implied geographical significance as to the location of the shaded areas for Maryland's split electoral votes.