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Election 1908 Results

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1908 presidential election in Pennsylvania

William Howard Taft (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1908, 58.8% to 35.4%, a margin of 23.4 points and 296,997 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 14.9 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 56 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 11. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 268,141 votes and went to the Republican by 41.0 points. The closest was Sullivan, where 43 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 745,779 58.8%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 448,782 35.4%
All other candidates 72,889 5.8%
Total1,267,450

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 75,310 28.1% 185,263 69.1% 7,568 268,141 R+41.0
Allegheny 35,655 29.2% 74,080 60.8% 12,170 121,905 R+31.5
Luzerne 17,379 39.7% 24,594 56.2% 1,760 43,733 R+16.5
Schuylkill 15,481 43.4% 18,758 52.6% 1,440 35,679 R+9.2
Lackawanna 15,451 44.4% 18,590 53.4% 747 34,788 R+9.0
Berks 17,381 52.2% 13,642 41.0% 2,245 33,268 D+11.2
Lancaster 8,109 24.6% 23,523 71.4% 1,299 32,931 R+46.8
Montgomery 11,899 37.3% 19,088 59.8% 922 31,909 R+22.5
York 15,171 49.3% 14,610 47.5% 990 30,771 D+1.8
Westmoreland 11,101 37.4% 15,429 52.0% 3,141 29,671 R+14.6
Dauphin 7,546 30.6% 15,637 63.4% 1,488 24,671 R+32.8
Lehigh 11,285 47.5% 11,593 48.8% 879 23,757 R+1.3
Northampton 11,365 49.1% 10,857 46.9% 923 23,145 D+2.2
Delaware 5,727 26.7% 15,184 70.8% 550 21,461 R+44.1
Cambria 7,979 37.5% 12,325 57.9% 992 21,296 R+20.4
Chester 6,555 32.0% 13,118 64.1% 803 20,476 R+32.1
Washington 7,018 34.6% 11,430 56.3% 1,850 20,298 R+21.7
Northumberland 8,590 42.8% 10,439 52.0% 1,058 20,087 R+9.2
Fayette 8,220 41.3% 10,012 50.3% 1,689 19,921 R+9.0
Erie 6,173 31.8% 10,828 55.8% 2,418 19,419 R+24.0
Lycoming 7,144 41.7% 8,708 50.8% 1,298 17,150 R+9.1
Bucks 7,233 42.5% 9,409 55.3% 362 17,004 R+12.8
Blair 4,981 29.7% 10,583 63.0% 1,232 16,796 R+33.4
Clearfield 5,954 39.8% 7,726 51.7% 1,271 14,951 R+11.9
Crawford 5,668 38.8% 7,679 52.6% 1,258 14,605 R+13.8
Mercer 5,473 39.8% 6,497 47.3% 1,774 13,744 R+7.5
Bradford 3,758 29.8% 7,997 63.4% 853 12,608 R+33.6
Beaver 4,200 33.5% 7,008 55.9% 1,318 12,526 R+22.4
Cumberland 5,403 44.3% 6,261 51.4% 528 12,192 R+7.0
Butler 4,698 38.6% 6,584 54.1% 877 12,159 R+15.5
Franklin 4,682 39.2% 6,938 58.0% 332 11,952 R+18.9
Lebanon 2,858 27.9% 6,874 67.1% 515 10,247 R+39.2
Armstrong 3,212 31.4% 6,110 59.7% 917 10,239 R+28.3
Lawrence 2,656 26.8% 5,350 54.1% 1,890 9,896 R+27.2
Venango 2,815 28.8% 4,868 49.7% 2,105 9,788 R+21.0
Tioga 2,321 23.8% 6,947 71.3% 478 9,746 R+47.5
Indiana 1,965 20.7% 6,416 67.4% 1,133 9,514 R+46.8
Somerset 2,246 23.7% 6,478 68.2% 771 9,495 R+44.6
Columbia 5,373 56.6% 3,718 39.2% 402 9,493 D+17.4
Jefferson 2,986 31.8% 5,652 60.2% 755 9,393 R+28.4
Centre 3,998 43.1% 4,927 53.1% 351 9,276 R+10.0
Carbon 3,890 42.7% 4,486 49.2% 737 9,113 R+6.5
McKean 2,867 32.8% 5,073 58.0% 805 8,745 R+25.2
Susquehanna 3,230 37.0% 4,999 57.3% 496 8,725 R+20.3
Bedford 3,196 38.1% 4,784 57.0% 408 8,388 R+18.9
Adams 4,034 51.4% 3,685 46.9% 130 7,849 D+4.4
Warren 2,054 27.3% 4,672 62.0% 806 7,532 R+34.8
Clarion 3,291 48.5% 2,915 42.9% 585 6,791 D+5.5
Huntingdon 1,917 28.2% 4,503 66.3% 368 6,788 R+38.1
Greene 3,793 57.9% 2,438 37.2% 319 6,550 D+20.7
Wayne 2,438 37.9% 3,650 56.7% 353 6,441 R+18.8
Clinton 2,547 40.0% 3,477 54.5% 351 6,375 R+14.6
Potter 1,932 32.4% 3,603 60.5% 423 5,958 R+28.0
Elk 2,531 43.6% 2,991 51.5% 283 5,805 R+7.9
Perry 2,184 39.3% 3,269 58.8% 105 5,558 R+19.5
Mifflin 1,799 36.8% 2,902 59.4% 185 4,886 R+22.6
Monroe 3,004 65.3% 1,454 31.6% 141 4,599 D+33.7
Wyoming 1,629 40.7% 2,234 55.8% 141 4,004 R+15.1
Union 1,154 30.3% 2,547 66.9% 107 3,808 R+36.6
Snyder 1,081 30.3% 2,401 67.4% 80 3,562 R+37.1
Juniata 1,414 43.3% 1,765 54.1% 84 3,263 R+10.8
Montour 1,490 54.2% 1,164 42.3% 95 2,749 D+11.9
Sullivan 1,076 45.4% 1,119 47.2% 174 2,369 R+1.8
Fulton 1,098 51.2% 974 45.5% 71 2,143 D+5.8
Forest 512 27.9% 1,119 60.9% 206 1,837 R+33.0
Pike 1,069 58.7% 715 39.2% 38 1,822 D+19.4
Cameron 533 31.6% 1,110 65.7% 46 1,689 R+34.2

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4