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Election 1908 Results

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1908 presidential election in West Virginia

William Howard Taft (Republican) beat William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) in West Virginia in 1908, 53.4% to 43.2%, a margin of 10.3 points and 26,459 votes.

West Virginia voted 1.7 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 39 of the 55 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 16. The largest, Kanawha, cast 17,749 votes and went to the Republican by 14.3 points. The closest was Monroe, where 2 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 137,869 53.4%
William Jennings Bryan Democratic 111,410 43.2%
All other candidates 8,819 3.4%
Total258,098

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 7,117 40.1% 9,663 54.4% 969 17,749 R+14.3
Ohio 6,497 45.1% 7,312 50.8% 594 14,403 R+5.7
Fayette 3,819 36.6% 5,874 56.3% 746 10,439 R+19.7
Cabell 4,467 46.3% 4,900 50.8% 271 9,638 R+4.5
Harrison 4,004 42.4% 4,946 52.4% 483 9,433 R+10.0
Marion 3,961 44.5% 4,368 49.1% 566 8,895 R+4.6
Wood 4,063 45.7% 4,596 51.7% 223 8,882 R+6.0
McDowell 1,916 23.5% 6,176 75.9% 45 8,137 R+52.4
Mercer 3,006 41.2% 4,229 58.0% 60 7,295 R+16.8
Marshall 2,498 37.6% 3,680 55.5% 458 6,636 R+17.8
Preston 1,454 25.9% 3,928 70.1% 225 5,607 R+44.1
Berkeley 2,563 47.9% 2,675 50.0% 114 5,352 R+2.1
Wetzel 2,874 54.3% 2,235 42.2% 181 5,290 D+12.1
Randolph 2,645 50.3% 2,363 44.9% 252 5,260 D+5.4
Monongalia 1,758 33.5% 3,131 59.7% 359 5,248 R+26.2
Greenbrier 2,682 51.7% 2,415 46.5% 95 5,192 D+5.1
Mason 1,928 37.6% 3,116 60.8% 80 5,124 R+23.2
Braxton 2,565 50.8% 2,365 46.9% 117 5,047 D+4.0
Wayne 2,590 51.4% 2,410 47.8% 41 5,041 D+3.6
Jackson 1,950 42.2% 2,615 56.6% 56 4,621 R+14.4
Raleigh 1,891 41.2% 2,530 55.2% 166 4,587 R+13.9
Roane 1,868 43.9% 2,334 54.9% 52 4,254 R+11.0
Lewis 1,832 43.2% 2,239 52.8% 168 4,239 R+9.6
Summers 2,123 51.8% 1,940 47.3% 38 4,101 D+4.5
Lincoln 1,732 43.3% 2,202 55.1% 64 3,998 R+11.8
Putnam 1,726 44.1% 2,098 53.7% 86 3,910 R+9.5
Ritchie 1,346 35.0% 2,242 58.3% 260 3,848 R+23.3
Taylor 1,552 40.5% 2,106 54.9% 175 3,833 R+14.5
Jefferson 2,490 65.1% 1,255 32.8% 77 3,822 D+32.3
Barbour 1,634 42.9% 2,072 54.4% 105 3,811 R+11.5
Nicholas 1,730 47.2% 1,795 49.0% 139 3,664 R+1.8
Tyler 1,355 37.1% 2,113 57.9% 182 3,650 R+20.8
Upshur 846 23.5% 2,571 71.4% 183 3,600 R+47.9
Mingo 1,520 42.3% 2,058 57.2% 18 3,596 R+15.0
Mineral 1,512 42.2% 1,986 55.5% 83 3,581 R+13.2
Tucker 1,265 38.4% 1,886 57.3% 140 3,291 R+18.9
Monroe 1,521 49.5% 1,523 49.5% 30 3,074 R+0.1
Pocahontas 1,300 42.4% 1,687 55.0% 81 3,068 R+12.6
Doddridge 990 34.9% 1,773 62.5% 74 2,837 R+27.6
Brooke 1,074 41.9% 1,374 53.6% 115 2,563 R+11.7
Gilmer 1,512 59.1% 989 38.7% 57 2,558 D+20.4
Hampshire 1,773 71.6% 683 27.6% 20 2,476 D+44.0
Calhoun 1,212 53.4% 1,006 44.4% 50 2,268 D+9.1
Clay 825 36.9% 1,320 59.1% 89 2,234 R+22.2
Logan 1,399 64.4% 730 33.6% 44 2,173 D+30.8
Webster 1,196 55.2% 932 43.0% 38 2,166 D+12.2
Wyoming 827 38.9% 1,251 58.9% 46 2,124 R+20.0
Wirt 1,042 49.5% 1,028 48.8% 36 2,106 D+0.7
Pendleton 1,193 57.0% 898 42.9% 3 2,094 D+14.1
Boone 1,031 49.3% 994 47.6% 65 2,090 D+1.8
Hancock 719 36.2% 1,185 59.7% 80 1,984 R+23.5
Pleasants 921 47.2% 987 50.5% 45 1,953 R+3.4
Hardy 1,219 65.2% 646 34.5% 5 1,870 D+30.6
Morgan 541 31.5% 1,134 66.1% 41 1,716 R+34.6
Grant 336 20.1% 1,305 78.1% 29 1,670 R+58.0

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.

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6