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Election 1908 Results

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1908 presidential election in California

William Howard Taft (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in California in 1908, 55.5% to 33.0%, a margin of 22.5 points and 86,906 votes.

California voted 14.0 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+8.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1904, when Theodore Roosevelt won.

Republicans led in 52 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 6. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 73,077 votes and went to the Republican by 26.6 points. The closest was Lake, where 3 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
William Howard Taft won Republican 214,398 55.5%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 127,492 33.0%
Eugene V. Debs Socialist 28,659 7.4%
All other candidates 16,048 4.2%
Total386,597

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 22,076 30.2% 41,483 56.8% 9,518 73,077 R+26.6
San Francisco 21,260 35.4% 33,184 55.2% 5,680 60,124 R+19.8
Alameda 7,110 21.4% 21,380 64.2% 4,793 33,283 R+42.9
Santa Clara 3,836 28.4% 7,950 58.9% 1,716 13,502 R+30.5
Fresno 4,743 37.8% 6,384 50.9% 1,418 12,545 R+13.1
Sacramento 4,533 38.4% 6,515 55.1% 766 11,814 R+16.8
Sonoma 3,168 33.6% 5,427 57.5% 844 9,439 R+23.9
San Diego 2,393 25.4% 5,412 57.6% 1,598 9,403 R+32.1
San Bernardino 2,685 30.0% 4,729 52.9% 1,526 8,940 R+22.9
San Joaquin 3,331 38.9% 4,470 52.2% 763 8,564 R+13.3
Humboldt 1,206 18.6% 4,221 65.0% 1,065 6,492 R+46.4
Orange 1,911 31.7% 3,244 53.7% 882 6,037 R+22.1
Butte 2,146 36.6% 3,094 52.7% 626 5,866 R+16.2
Tulare 2,329 40.7% 2,742 48.0% 647 5,718 R+7.2
Solano 2,033 35.7% 3,115 54.7% 545 5,693 R+19.0
Riverside 1,374 24.4% 3,229 57.2% 1,038 5,641 R+32.9
Contra Costa 1,599 29.1% 3,336 60.6% 569 5,504 R+31.6
Santa Cruz 1,643 31.1% 2,886 54.7% 746 5,275 R+23.6
Kern 2,215 44.5% 2,270 45.6% 493 4,978 R+1.1
Mendocino 1,752 35.5% 2,746 55.6% 444 4,942 R+20.1
Santa Barbara 1,640 33.4% 2,713 55.2% 563 4,916 R+21.8
Monterey 1,616 34.9% 2,486 53.6% 533 4,635 R+18.8
San Mateo 1,314 28.9% 2,865 62.9% 375 4,554 R+34.1
Napa 1,336 32.8% 2,405 59.1% 330 4,071 R+26.3
Marin 983 24.6% 2,732 68.2% 288 4,003 R+43.7
Shasta 1,389 35.0% 1,891 47.6% 692 3,972 R+12.6
San Luis Obispo 1,381 34.9% 2,008 50.8% 567 3,956 R+15.8
Siskiyou 1,657 43.3% 1,813 47.4% 355 3,825 R+4.1
Placer 1,491 41.1% 1,865 51.4% 269 3,625 R+10.3
Nevada 1,368 38.1% 1,825 50.9% 395 3,588 R+12.7
Stanislaus 1,390 38.8% 1,663 46.5% 527 3,580 R+7.6
Yolo 1,553 44.6% 1,707 49.0% 223 3,483 R+4.4
Ventura 1,181 35.8% 1,864 56.6% 250 3,295 R+20.7
Merced 1,100 44.3% 1,107 44.6% 276 2,483 R+0.3
Calaveras 833 35.0% 1,323 55.5% 226 2,382 R+20.6
Yuba 902 39.7% 1,270 55.9% 99 2,271 R+16.2
Kings 859 38.2% 1,198 53.2% 194 2,251 R+15.1
Tehama 894 39.9% 1,064 47.5% 284 2,242 R+7.6
El Dorado 1,019 46.2% 986 44.7% 199 2,204 D+1.5
Tuolumne 878 41.3% 943 44.4% 303 2,124 R+3.1
Amador 874 43.8% 1,035 51.9% 86 1,995 R+8.1
Imperial 675 35.4% 909 47.6% 324 1,908 R+12.3
Colusa 1,064 56.2% 730 38.6% 98 1,892 D+17.7
San Benito 684 39.1% 937 53.6% 128 1,749 R+14.5
Sutter 652 40.0% 896 54.9% 83 1,631 R+15.0
Lake 628 43.0% 625 42.8% 206 1,459 D+0.2
Inyo 618 43.4% 583 40.9% 223 1,424 D+2.5
Glenn 711 51.4% 618 44.7% 53 1,382 D+6.7
Madera 574 43.2% 596 44.8% 159 1,329 R+1.7
Modoc 574 46.2% 620 49.9% 48 1,242 R+3.7
Plumas 395 34.7% 659 57.9% 84 1,138 R+23.2
Sierra 410 37.9% 600 55.4% 73 1,083 R+17.5
Lassen 361 35.8% 551 54.6% 97 1,009 R+18.8
Mariposa 480 50.3% 352 36.9% 123 955 D+13.4
Trinity 331 37.4% 393 44.4% 161 885 R+7.0
Del Norte 202 26.6% 450 59.3% 107 759 R+32.7
Mono 121 32.4% 224 59.9% 29 374 R+27.5
Alpine 11 12.8% 75 87.2% 86 R+74.4

Counties as they stood in 1908; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5