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1908 United States presidential election in North Dakota 
Summary
The 1908 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 3, 1908. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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 County Results
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North Dakota voted for the Republican nominee, 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 of Nebraska William Jennings Bryan and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. Taft won the state by a margin of 26.23%.
With 61.02% of the popular vote, North Dakota would be Taft's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont, Maine and Michigan.[1]
Bryan had previously lost North Dakota to Republican William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900.
Results edit
| 1908 United States presidential election in North Dakota[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | William Howard Taft of Ohio | James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York | 57,680 | 61.02% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | John Worth Kern of Indiana | 32,885 | 34.79% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Benjamin Hanford of New York | 2,421 | 2.56% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Eugene Wilder Chafin of Illinois | Aaron Sherman Watkins of Ohio | 1,496 | 1.58% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Independence | Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts | John Temple Graves of Georgia | 43 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 94,525 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county edit
| County[3] | William Howard Taft Republican |
William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist |
Eugene Wilder Chafin Prohibition |
Thomas Louis Hisgen Independence |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 577 | 70.45% | 201 | 24.54% | 21 | 2.56% | 19 | 2.32% | 1 | 0.12% | 376 | 45.91% | 819 |
| Barnes | 1,786 | 62.06% | 996 | 34.61% | 35 | 1.22% | 60 | 2.08% | 1 | 0.03% | 790 | 27.45% | 2,878 |
| Benson | 1,363 | 67.81% | 553 | 27.51% | 30 | 1.49% | 64 | 3.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 810 | 40.30% | 2,010 |
| Billings | 768 | 73.70% | 236 | 22.65% | 21 | 2.02% | 17 | 1.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 532 | 51.06% | 1,042 |
| Bottineau | 1,951 | 59.45% | 1,146 | 34.92% | 140 | 4.27% | 44 | 1.34% | 1 | 0.03% | 805 | 24.53% | 3,282 |
| Bowman | 451 | 66.13% | 209 | 30.65% | 15 | 2.20% | 7 | 1.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 242 | 35.48% | 682 |
| Burleigh | 1,375 | 65.82% | 660 | 31.59% | 37 | 1.77% | 17 | 0.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 715 | 34.23% | 2,089 |
| Cass | 3,681 | 62.53% | 2,000 | 33.97% | 94 | 1.60% | 106 | 1.80% | 6 | 0.10% | 1,681 | 28.55% | 5,887 |
| Cavalier | 1,528 | 55.06% | 1,190 | 42.88% | 32 | 1.15% | 24 | 0.86% | 1 | 0.04% | 338 | 12.18% | 2,775 |
| Dickey | 1,062 | 60.96% | 633 | 36.34% | 30 | 1.72% | 17 | 0.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 429 | 24.63% | 1,742 |
| Dunn | 373 | 68.82% | 160 | 29.52% | 8 | 1.48% | 1 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 213 | 39.30% | 542 |
| Eddy | 540 | 58.00% | 368 | 39.53% | 6 | 0.64% | 16 | 1.72% | 1 | 0.11% | 172 | 18.47% | 931 |
| Emmons | 951 | 59.70% | 618 | 38.79% | 14 | 0.88% | 10 | 0.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 333 | 20.90% | 1,593 |
| Foster | 569 | 56.00% | 434 | 42.72% | 6 | 0.59% | 7 | 0.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 135 | 13.29% | 1,016 |
| Grand Forks | 2,740 | 57.41% | 1,750 | 36.66% | 153 | 3.21% | 130 | 2.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 990 | 20.74% | 4,773 |
| Griggs | 605 | 51.84% | 493 | 42.25% | 18 | 1.54% | 51 | 4.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 112 | 9.60% | 1,167 |
| Hettinger | 568 | 73.96% | 181 | 23.57% | 9 | 1.17% | 10 | 1.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 387 | 50.39% | 768 |
| Kidder | 769 | 72.55% | 242 | 22.83% | 26 | 2.45% | 23 | 2.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 527 | 49.72% | 1,060 |
| LaMoure | 1,104 | 64.75% | 553 | 32.43% | 19 | 1.11% | 28 | 1.64% | 1 | 0.06% | 551 | 32.32% | 1,705 |
| Logan | 711 | 81.44% | 143 | 16.38% | 16 | 1.83% | 3 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 568 | 65.06% | 873 |
| McHenry | 1,772 | 56.16% | 1,296 | 41.08% | 55 | 1.74% | 32 | 1.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 476 | 15.09% | 3,155 |
| McIntosh | 927 | 86.47% | 140 | 13.06% | 4 | 0.37% | 1 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 787 | 73.41% | 1,072 |
| McKenzie | 574 | 68.41% | 212 | 25.27% | 46 | 5.48% | 7 | 0.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 362 | 43.15% | 839 |
| McLean | 2,273 | 67.83% | 927 | 27.66% | 98 | 2.92% | 51 | 1.52% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,346 | 40.17% | 3,351 |
| Mercer | 430 | 81.13% | 96 | 18.11% | 2 | 0.38% | 2 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 334 | 63.02% | 530 |
| Morton | 2,021 | 67.91% | 873 | 29.33% | 67 | 2.25% | 14 | 0.47% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,148 | 38.58% | 2,976 |
| Nelson | 1,225 | 63.80% | 616 | 32.08% | 60 | 3.13% | 17 | 0.89% | 2 | 0.10% | 609 | 31.72% | 1,920 |
| Oliver | 325 | 62.50% | 179 | 34.42% | 3 | 0.58% | 13 | 2.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 146 | 28.08% | 520 |
| Pembina | 1,389 | 52.55% | 1,185 | 44.84% | 17 | 0.64% | 50 | 1.89% | 2 | 0.08% | 204 | 7.72% | 2,643 |
| Pierce | 884 | 57.37% | 610 | 39.58% | 28 | 1.82% | 18 | 1.17% | 1 | 0.06% | 274 | 17.78% | 1,541 |
| Ramsey | 1,480 | 55.79% | 1,072 | 40.41% | 72 | 2.71% | 27 | 1.02% | 2 | 0.08% | 408 | 15.38% | 2,653 |
| Ransom | 1,308 | 67.53% | 581 | 29.99% | 11 | 0.57% | 36 | 1.86% | 1 | 0.05% | 727 | 37.53% | 1,937 |
| Richland | 1,864 | 54.17% | 1,502 | 43.65% | 14 | 0.41% | 60 | 1.74% | 1 | 0.03% | 362 | 10.52% | 3,441 |
| Rolette | 811 | 55.32% | 529 | 36.08% | 99 | 6.75% | 24 | 1.64% | 3 | 0.20% | 282 | 19.24% | 1,466 |
| Sargent | 1,012 | 61.48% | 576 | 34.99% | 38 | 2.31% | 20 | 1.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 436 | 26.49% | 1,646 |
| Stark | 922 | 63.76% | 496 | 34.30% | 19 | 1.31% | 7 | 0.48% | 2 | 0.14% | 426 | 29.46% | 1,446 |
| Steele | 881 | 68.72% | 366 | 28.55% | 17 | 1.33% | 18 | 1.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 515 | 40.17% | 1,282 |
| Stutsman | 1,777 | 55.67% | 1,344 | 42.11% | 24 | 0.75% | 45 | 1.41% | 2 | 0.06% | 433 | 13.57% | 3,192 |
| Towner | 867 | 54.19% | 655 | 40.94% | 59 | 3.69% | 18 | 1.13% | 1 | 0.06% | 212 | 13.25% | 1,600 |
| Traill | 1,207 | 66.03% | 490 | 26.81% | 33 | 1.81% | 97 | 5.31% | 1 | 0.05% | 717 | 39.22% | 1,828 |
| Walsh | 1,751 | 49.46% | 1,641 | 46.36% | 117 | 3.31% | 30 | 0.85% | 1 | 0.03% | 110 | 3.11% | 3,540 |
| Ward | 5,286 | 57.39% | 3,163 | 34.34% | 563 | 6.11% | 193 | 2.10% | 5 | 0.05% | 2,123 | 23.05% | 9,210 |
| Wells | 1,243 | 68.07% | 535 | 29.30% | 22 | 1.20% | 25 | 1.37% | 1 | 0.05% | 708 | 38.77% | 1,826 |
| Williams | 1,979 | 60.41% | 1,034 | 31.56% | 223 | 6.81% | 37 | 1.13% | 3 | 0.09% | 945 | 28.85% | 3,276 |
| Totals | 57,680 | 61.02% | 32,884 | 34.79% | 2,421 | 2.56% | 1,496 | 1.58% | 43 | 0.05% | 24,796 | 26.23% | 94,524 |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "1908 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "1908 Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)