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William Howard Taft (R) 321: William Jennings Bryan (D) 162: 1908 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Taft, blue denotes states won by Bryan. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Republican hold: Seats contested: 31 of 92 seats [1] Net seat change: Democratic +1 [2]
Taft followed custom and remained in Washington, but Roosevelt went to Chicago to run his campaign [154] and told his supporters in a speech, "we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord". [155] [156] Taft had won over Root, who agreed to run for temporary chairman of the convention, and the delegates elected Root over Roosevelt's ...
Bryan won forty-eight counties in the new state of Oklahoma. The most important increase in the number of counties carried by Bryan was in the West South Central section, in part due to the vote of newly admitted Oklahoma. [42] Of the 2,858 counties making returns, Taft won in 1,494 (52.27%) while Bryan carried 1,355 (47.41%).
They defeated the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. Taft won the state by a landslide margin of 53.26%. With 75.08% of the popular vote, Vermont would be Taft's strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote. [1]
Taft defeated Bryan by a two-to-one (321 to 162) margin in the Electoral College and by a 52% to 43.5% margin in the popular vote. [7] Bryan did worse in 1908 than he did in both 1896 and 1900, carrying only the South, Oklahoma , Colorado , and Nevada (Bryan also won 6 of 8 electors in Maryland while losing the state to Taft by less than 0.30% ...
Taft was able to win every county in the state of Massachusetts, including a rare Republican victory in Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston, although Bryan did narrowly win the city of Boston. Bryan had previously lost Suffolk County in 1896 but won it in his rematch with William McKinley in 1900. Bryan had also ...
North Carolina was won by the Democratic nominees, former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. They defeated the Republican Party nominees, William Howard Taft and his running mate James S. Sherman of New York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 8.73%.
Wyoming was won by the Secretary of War William Howard Taft (R–Ohio), running with representative James S. Sherman, with 55.43 percent of the popular vote, against representative William Jennings Bryan (D–Nebraska), running with Senator John W. Kern, with 39.67 percent of the popular vote. [1] Taft won the state by a margin of 15.76%.