1908 United States presidential election in Texas

1908 United States presidential election in Texas
Bryan 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% 90-100%	Taft 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% 90-100%
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.

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]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
Party		Candidate	Running mate	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	Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana	Benjamin Hanford of New York	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%
	Populist	Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia	Samuel Wardell Williams of Indiana	994	0.34%	0	0.00%
	Socialist Labor	August Gillhaus of New York	Donald L. Munro of Virginia	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

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

[1] "1908 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

[results-2] "1908 Presidential General Election Results - Texas". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.

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