1908 United States presidential election in Texas
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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 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] | ||||||||
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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 Party (United States)|Template:Independence Party (United States)/meta/shortname]] | Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts | John Temple Graves of Georgia | 115 | 004% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Total | 293,757 | 100.00% | 18 | 100.00% |