1908 United States presidential election in Connecticut
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The 1908 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 3, 1908, as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Connecticut voted for the Republican nominees, Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and his running mate James S. Sherman of New York. They defeated the Democratic nominees, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. Taft won the state by a margin of 23.51%.
Bryan had previously lost Connecticut to William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900.
Results
[edit]1908 United States presidential election in Connecticut[1] | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
Count | % | Count | % | |||||
Republican | William Howard Taft of Ohio | James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York | 112,915 | 59.43% | 7 | 100.00% | ||
Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | John Worth Kern of Indiana | 68,255 | 35.92% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Benjamin Hanford of New York | 5,113 | 2.69% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Prohibition | Eugene Wilder Chafin of Illinois | Aaron Sherman Watkins of Ohio | 2,380 | 1.25% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Independence | Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts | John Temple Graves of Georgia | 728 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Socialist Labor | August Gillhaus of New York | Donald L. Munro of Virginia | 608 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
N/A | Others | Others | 4 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Total | 190,003 | 100.00% | 7 | 100.00% |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1908 Presidential General Election Results - Connecticut". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.