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Election 1908 Results

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1908 presidential election in South Dakota

William Howard Taft (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in South Dakota in 1908, 58.8% to 35.1%, a margin of 23.8 points and 27,270 votes.

South Dakota voted 15.2 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 51 of the 53 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, Minnehaha, cast 6,438 votes and went to the Republican by 33.8 points. The closest was Aurora, where 8 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 67,536 58.8%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 40,266 35.1%
All other candidates 6,973 6.1%
Total114,775

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Minnehaha 1,948 30.3% 4,125 64.1% 365 6,438 R+33.8
Lawrence 1,564 29.1% 2,735 50.9% 1,078 5,377 R+21.8
Brown 1,772 37.5% 2,646 55.9% 313 4,731 R+18.5
Stanley 1,598 39.1% 2,313 56.5% 181 4,092 R+17.5
Charles Mix 1,391 41.7% 1,863 55.9% 80 3,334 R+14.2
Spink 1,121 35.8% 1,847 59.0% 162 3,130 R+23.2
Beadle 1,105 36.4% 1,776 58.5% 155 3,036 R+22.1
Pennington 1,160 39.1% 1,702 57.4% 104 2,966 R+18.3
Gregory 1,266 43.1% 1,550 52.8% 118 2,934 R+9.7
Yankton 1,118 38.6% 1,644 56.8% 132 2,894 R+18.2
Lyman 1,183 41.2% 1,524 53.1% 162 2,869 R+11.9
Day 813 29.8% 1,616 59.2% 300 2,729 R+29.4
Lincoln 699 25.7% 1,887 69.4% 133 2,719 R+43.7
Butte 915 33.7% 1,636 60.2% 166 2,717 R+26.5
Turner 793 29.3% 1,792 66.2% 123 2,708 R+36.9
Brookings 588 22.0% 1,697 63.6% 384 2,669 R+41.6
Roberts 777 30.4% 1,562 61.0% 221 2,560 R+30.7
Codington 831 32.5% 1,618 63.3% 107 2,556 R+30.8
Kingsbury 799 31.6% 1,537 60.7% 196 2,532 R+29.1
Davison 1,081 43.1% 1,276 50.9% 149 2,506 R+7.8
Union 1,009 41.0% 1,392 56.6% 57 2,458 R+15.6
Bon Homme 1,014 42.3% 1,324 55.3% 58 2,396 R+12.9
Hutchinson 619 28.4% 1,507 69.0% 57 2,183 R+40.7
Lake 636 29.5% 1,415 65.6% 106 2,157 R+36.1
Clay 803 37.3% 1,291 59.9% 60 2,154 R+22.7
McCook 826 38.9% 1,209 57.0% 86 2,121 R+18.1
Moody 623 31.0% 1,275 63.5% 110 2,008 R+32.5
Clark 557 29.1% 1,234 64.4% 126 1,917 R+35.3
Grant 628 33.5% 1,122 59.9% 124 1,874 R+26.4
Meade 792 42.6% 953 51.2% 115 1,860 R+8.7
Miner 720 42.9% 906 53.9% 54 1,680 R+11.1
Hand 655 39.7% 851 51.6% 144 1,650 R+11.9
Brule 823 51.1% 753 46.8% 33 1,609 D+4.4
Hamlin 434 27.2% 1,095 68.6% 68 1,597 R+41.4
Deuel 425 26.9% 1,022 64.8% 131 1,578 R+37.8
Douglas 647 43.3% 836 56.0% 10 1,493 R+12.7
Marshall 453 30.8% 874 59.5% 143 1,470 R+28.6
Sanborn 513 34.9% 847 57.7% 108 1,468 R+22.8
Edmunds 658 45.4% 726 50.1% 64 1,448 R+4.7
Aurora 694 48.5% 686 47.9% 52 1,432 D+0.6
Hanson 630 45.9% 668 48.7% 74 1,372 R+2.8
Faulk 421 31.5% 835 62.5% 79 1,335 R+31.0
Fall River 466 37.0% 726 57.6% 68 1,260 R+20.6
Walworth 351 28.9% 825 68.0% 38 1,214 R+39.0
Hughes 349 29.3% 795 66.6% 49 1,193 R+37.4
Jerauld 403 36.9% 582 53.3% 107 1,092 R+16.4
Potter 400 37.8% 614 58.1% 43 1,057 R+20.2
Custer 428 43.4% 487 49.4% 71 986 R+6.0
McPherson 157 16.4% 785 81.9% 17 959 R+65.5
Campbell 175 21.0% 627 75.2% 32 834 R+54.2
Hyde 212 30.0% 455 64.4% 39 706 R+34.4
Sully 154 28.6% 368 68.3% 17 539 R+39.7
Buffalo 69 38.8% 105 59.0% 4 178 R+20.2

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.

South Dakota in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+29.2
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+26.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+29.8
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+18.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+8.4
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+21.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+22.7
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+3.5
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+26.5
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.5
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.6
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+11.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+11.2
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+16.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+16.8
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.5
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+16.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.8
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+29.2
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+21.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+36.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+3.9
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+49.4
1900 William McKinley (R) R+15.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+0.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+36.6