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Election 1908 Results

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1908 presidential election in New York

William Howard Taft (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in New York in 1908, 53.1% to 40.7%, a margin of 12.4 points and 202,602 votes.

New York voted 3.8 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 57 of the 61 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, New York, cast 346,612 votes and went to the Democrat by 1.5 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 46 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 870,070 53.1%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 667,468 40.7%
All other candidates 100,812 6.2%
Total1,638,350

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
New York 160,261 46.2% 154,958 44.7% 31,393 346,612 D+1.5
Kings 96,756 40.9% 119,789 50.6% 20,025 236,570 R+9.7
Erie 45,185 45.3% 52,182 52.4% 2,293 99,660 R+7.0
Monroe 22,704 38.7% 33,250 56.7% 2,695 58,649 R+18.0
Westchester 18,346 36.4% 29,438 58.4% 2,638 50,422 R+22.0
Onondaga 16,643 35.9% 27,209 58.7% 2,503 46,355 R+22.8
Albany 18,732 42.3% 24,763 55.9% 782 44,277 R+13.6
Queens 20,342 46.2% 19,420 44.1% 4,246 44,008 D+2.1
Oneida 14,968 42.2% 19,346 54.6% 1,123 35,437 R+12.4
Rensselaer 13,162 42.0% 17,196 54.9% 953 31,311 R+12.9
Orange 9,938 39.3% 14,414 57.0% 924 25,276 R+17.7
Chautauqua 6,158 25.7% 15,739 65.6% 2,088 23,985 R+39.9
Steuben 8,366 38.3% 12,313 56.3% 1,180 21,859 R+18.1
St. Lawrence 5,898 28.3% 14,151 67.9% 800 20,849 R+39.6
Dutchess 8,961 43.1% 11,132 53.6% 682 20,775 R+10.5
Niagara 8,574 42.1% 11,145 54.8% 637 20,356 R+12.6
Jefferson 6,694 33.8% 11,477 57.9% 1,642 19,813 R+24.1
Ulster 8,560 43.4% 10,475 53.1% 705 19,740 R+9.7
Schenectady 7,129 37.8% 9,944 52.7% 1,789 18,862 R+14.9
Broome 6,671 36.2% 10,705 58.2% 1,032 18,408 R+21.9
Oswego 6,172 34.4% 10,447 58.2% 1,326 17,945 R+23.8
Suffolk 5,877 33.1% 10,689 60.3% 1,164 17,730 R+27.1
Cayuga 5,789 34.8% 9,699 58.3% 1,136 16,624 R+23.5
Cattaraugus 6,096 37.2% 9,320 56.9% 955 16,371 R+19.7
Saratoga 6,518 40.8% 8,706 54.5% 752 15,976 R+13.7
Nassau 4,883 31.5% 9,787 63.0% 855 15,525 R+31.6
Richmond 7,401 49.1% 6,831 45.3% 852 15,084 D+3.8
Herkimer 5,918 40.3% 8,202 55.9% 559 14,679 R+15.6
Ontario 5,484 39.1% 8,245 58.7% 311 14,040 R+19.7
Otsego 5,975 42.7% 7,459 53.4% 543 13,977 R+10.6
Chemung 5,966 42.8% 7,410 53.1% 576 13,952 R+10.3
Montgomery 5,254 39.6% 7,571 57.0% 453 13,278 R+17.4
Wayne 4,404 34.5% 8,008 62.7% 365 12,777 R+28.2
Delaware 4,641 37.9% 7,142 58.3% 472 12,255 R+20.4
Washington 3,593 29.7% 7,933 65.6% 561 12,087 R+35.9
Allegany 3,390 29.2% 7,504 64.6% 715 11,609 R+35.4
Fulton 3,508 30.9% 6,574 58.0% 1,260 11,342 R+27.0
Columbia 5,097 45.9% 5,726 51.5% 286 11,109 R+5.7
Madison 3,637 33.1% 6,727 61.3% 614 10,978 R+28.1
Chenango 3,772 36.5% 5,949 57.5% 621 10,342 R+21.1
Clinton 3,866 39.2% 5,474 55.5% 516 9,856 R+16.3
Livingston 3,567 37.4% 5,700 59.7% 275 9,542 R+22.4
Franklin 2,935 31.4% 5,999 64.1% 421 9,355 R+32.8
Genesee 3,171 34.1% 5,794 62.3% 341 9,306 R+28.2
Tompkins 3,734 40.4% 5,090 55.1% 408 9,232 R+14.7
Rockland 3,937 42.7% 4,857 52.6% 433 9,227 R+10.0
Sullivan 3,911 44.7% 4,593 52.5% 242 8,746 R+7.8
Wyoming 2,885 33.9% 5,308 62.3% 324 8,517 R+28.4
Greene 3,711 44.6% 4,191 50.4% 411 8,313 R+5.8
Warren 3,019 36.9% 4,800 58.6% 371 8,190 R+21.7
Cortland 2,616 32.0% 5,090 62.3% 470 8,176 R+30.3
Orleans 2,590 33.0% 4,885 62.3% 365 7,840 R+29.3
Schoharie 3,841 51.2% 3,393 45.2% 270 7,504 D+6.0
Essex 2,033 27.2% 5,167 69.1% 279 7,479 R+41.9
Tioga 2,706 37.3% 4,247 58.5% 301 7,254 R+21.2
Lewis 2,810 39.3% 4,159 58.1% 186 7,155 R+18.9
Seneca 3,136 44.2% 3,749 52.8% 216 7,101 R+8.6
Yates 1,927 35.9% 3,275 61.0% 169 5,371 R+25.1
Schuyler 1,695 39.7% 2,417 56.6% 158 4,270 R+16.9
Putnam 1,369 36.5% 2,275 60.7% 104 3,748 R+24.2
Hamilton 586 46.4% 632 50.0% 46 1,264 R+3.6

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.

New York in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+12.6
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+23.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+22.5
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+28.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+26.9
2004 John Kerry (D) D+18.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+25.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+28.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.8
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+8.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.7
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.3
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+19.9
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+12.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+26.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+37.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+7.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+12.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+10.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.3
1896 William McKinley (R) R+18.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+1.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+3.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.5
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.2