Elections / 1908 · President

William Howard Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan.

William Jennings Bryan (D) vs William Howard Taft (R). Every state below links to its full contest page with county-level results.

Nominees: William Jennings Bryan (D) · William Howard Taft (R)

National popular vote

14,291,281 votes counted

Bryan (D)

6,239,077

43.7%

Taft (R)

7,604,486

53.2%

All others

898,258

6.3%

Margin

R+9.6

The county map

2,553 county-level results on record for 1908

Democrats carried 1,042 counties, Republicans 1,479, third-party candidates 8. 265 counties flipped parties from the previous cycle.

Biggest county swings: Screven County, GA (R+67.1 swing) · Cherokee County, GA (R+61.2 swing) · Lancaster County, NE (D+60.4 swing) · Sherman County, NE (D+54.9 swing) · Decatur County, KS (D+54.9 swing) · Red Willow County, NE (D+54.3 swing)

Results by state

Every row links to the state's contest page with its county map.

State	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Alabama	D	+46.4%	74,391	25,561	105,146
Arkansas	D	+20.3%	87,520	56,624	152,335
California	R	−22.5%	127,492	214,398	386,625
Colorado	D	+1.1%	126,626	123,610	263,755
Connecticut	R	−23.5%	68,254	112,913	189,996
Delaware	R	−6.1%	22,072	25,007	48,024
Florida	D	+41.4%	31,104	10,654	49,360
Georgia	D	+23.4%	72,350	41,355	132,504
Iowa	R	−15.0%	200,771	275,209	494,769
Idaho	R	−16.9%	36,195	52,654	97,385
Illinois	R	−15.5%	450,810	629,932	1,155,254
Indiana	R	−1.5%	338,262	348,993	721,117
Kansas	R	−9.4%	161,209	196,316	375,043
Kentucky	D	+1.7%	244,092	235,711	490,760
Louisiana	D	+72.7%	63,568	8,958	75,122
Massachusetts	R	−24.2%	155,543	265,966	456,919
Maryland	—	No data	224,224	115,908	6,112
Maine	R	−29.7%	35,403	66,987	106,332
Michigan	R	−29.5%	174,619	333,313	538,135
Minnesota	R	−26.2%	109,401	195,842	330,253
Missouri	R	−0.1%	346,574	347,203	715,841
Montana	R	−4.4%	29,326	32,333	68,822
North Carolina	D	+8.7%	136,928	114,888	252,542
North Dakota	R	−26.2%	32,884	57,680	94,524
Nebraska	D	+1.5%	131,099	126,997	266,799
New Hampshire	R	−21.8%	33,655	53,149	89,600
New Jersey	R	−17.7%	182,522	265,298	467,111
Nevada	D	+1.8%	11,212	10,775	24,526
New York	R	−12.4%	667,468	870,070	1,638,350
Ohio	R	−6.2%	502,721	572,312	1,121,552
Oklahoma	D	+4.7%	122,363	110,474	255,300
Oregon	R	−22.1%	38,049	62,530	110,892
Pennsylvania	R	−23.4%	448,782	745,779	1,267,450
Rhode Island	R	−26.6%	24,706	43,942	72,317
South Carolina	D	+87.8%	62,290	3,963	66,405
South Dakota	R	−23.8%	40,266	67,536	114,775
Tennessee	D	+6.9%	135,604	117,977	257,176
Utah	R	−17.0%	42,601	61,028	108,613
Virginia	D	+22.2%	82,936	52,568	136,979
Vermont	R	−53.3%	11,496	39,552	52,683
Washington	R	−25.8%	58,691	106,062	183,879
Wisconsin	R	−17.8%	166,662	247,744	454,438
West Virginia	R	−10.2%	111,418	137,869	258,153
Wyoming	R	−15.8%	14,918	20,846	37,608