1908 United States presidential election in Texas

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.

1908 United States presidential election in Texas

November 3, 1908
 
Nominee William Jennings Bryan William Howard Taft
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Nebraska Ohio
Running mate John Worth Kern James S. Sherman
Electoral vote 18 0
Popular vote 217,302 65,666
Percentage 73.97% 22.35%

County Results

President before election

Theodore Roosevelt
Republican

Elected President

William Howard Taft
Republican

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 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]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska John Worth Kern of Indiana 217,302 73.97% 18 100.00%
Republican William Howard Taft of Ohio James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York 65,666 22.35% 0 0.00%
Socialist Party of America Eugene Victor Debs Benjamin Hanford 7,870 2.68% 0 0.00%
Prohibition Eugene Wilder Chafin of Illinois Aaron Sherman Watkins of Ohio 1,634 0.56% 0 0.00%
People's Party (United States) Thomas Edward Watson Samuel Williams (American politician) 994 0.34% 0 0.00%
Socialist Labor Party of American August Gillhaus Donald L. Munro 176 0.06% 0 0.00%
Independence Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts John Temple Graves of Georgia 115 0.04% 0 0.00%
Total 293,757 100.00% 18 100.00%

References

  1. "1908 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
  2. "1908 Presidential General Election Results - Texas". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.