1908 United States presidential election in Utah

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1908 United States presidential election in Utah

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Nominee  | William Howard Taft | William Jennings Bryan |
Party  | Republican | Democratic
Home state  | Ohio | Nebraska
Running mate  | James S. Sherman | John W. Kern
Electoral vote  | 3 | 0
Popular vote  | 61,165 | 42,637
Percentage  | 56.23% | 39.19%

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County Results

Taft

40-50%

50-60%

60-70%

70-80%

Bryan

50-60%

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The 1908 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 3, 1908, throughout all forty-six contemporary states as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the last election when Utah had the minimum three electoral votes as it would gain a second congressional district after the 1910 Census.

Although Democrat/Populist Bryan had carried Utah in its debut presidential election by a five-to-one margin, the Republican Party – ditching ancestral hostility to the state's dominant Mormon religion[1] – was soon able to take control of the state, despite a threat from the anti-Mormon "American Party" in urban areas with sizeable non-Mormon ("Gentile") populations.[2] In its third election of 1904, Utah had given a virtual two-to-one majority for Theodore Roosevelt against New York Democrat Alton B. Parker, who carried only Dixie's Washington County.

Believing that the election could only be won in the West and Midwest,[3] Bryan – who had had no trouble winning a third Democratic nomination – chose Indiana's John Worth Kern as his running mate. However, although many in the media supported the election of Bryan and praised his policies, the rapid recovery from the "Panic of 1907" meant that Bryan struggled severely in the Progressive-minded Western States once campaigning began.[4]

The antagonism towards Bryan of business meant that Taft had little trouble repeating Theodore Roosevelt's triumph of 1904, although Bryan was able to cut Alton Parker's losing margin from 29 to 17 percentage points. Taft would win Utah by a margin of 17.04%. A powerful socialist movement in mining districts[5] failed to equal Debs' support from the 1904 election as his policies were not considered feasible or were co-opted by the two major parties.[4] Taft was further helped by the unseating of delegates for Bryan as a result of conflict between pro- and anti-Mormon factions.[6]

Four years later, Utah would become one of the only two states that Taft would carry in his attempt for reelection, the other being Vermont.

## Results

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1908 United States presidential election in Utah[7][a]

Party  | Candidate  | Running mate  | Popular vote  | Electoral vote
Count  | %  | Count  | %
| Republican | William Howard Taft of Ohio | James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York | 61,165 | 56.23% | 3 | 100.00%
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | John Worth Kern of Indiana | 42,637  | 39.19%  | 0  | 0.00%
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Ben Hanford of New York | 4,890  | 4.50%  | 0  | 0.00%
| Independence | Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts | John Temple Graves of Georgia | 92  | 0.08%  | 0  | 0.00%
Total | 108,784 | 100.00% | 3 | 100.00%

### Results by county

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County  | William Howard Taft
Republican  | William Jennings Bryan
Democratic  | Eugene Victor Debs[8]
Socialist  | Thomas Hisgen[8]
Independence  | Margin  | Total votes cast[7]

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#  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %
Beaver | 945  | 55.13%  | 741  | 43.23%  | 27  | 1.58%  | 1  | 0.06%  | 204  | 11.90%  | 1,714
Box Elder | 2,401  | 62.20%  | 1,417  | 36.71%  | 40  | 1.04%  | 2  | 0.05%  | 984  | 25.49%  | 3,860
Cache | 3,795  | 52.86%  | 3,317  | 46.20%  | 64  | 0.89%  | 3  | 0.04%  | 478  | 6.66%  | 7,179
Carbon | 1,027  | 59.92%  | 581  | 33.90%  | 106  | 6.18%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 446  | 26.02%  | 1,714
Davis | 1,740  | 55.95%  | 1,331  | 42.80%  | 34  | 1.09%  | 5  | 0.16%  | 409  | 13.15%  | 3,110
Emery | 1,098  | 54.76%  | 749  | 37.36%  | 158  | 7.88%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 349  | 17.41%  | 2,005
Garfield | 878  | 72.03%  | 299  | 24.53%  | 42  | 3.45%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 579  | 47.50%  | 1,219
Grand | 233  | 48.85%  | 215  | 45.07%  | 24  | 5.03%  | 5  | 1.05%  | 18  | 3.77%  | 477
Iron | 718  | 56.01%  | 488  | 38.07%  | 76  | 5.93%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 230  | 17.94%  | 1,282
Juab | 1,619  | 48.46%  | 1,421  | 42.53%  | 300  | 8.98%  | 1  | 0.03%  | 198  | 5.93%  | 3,341
Kane | 414  | 79.77%  | 102  | 19.65%  | 3  | 0.58%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 312  | 60.12%  | 519
Millard | 1,004  | 55.56%  | 765  | 42.34%  | 38  | 2.10%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 239  | 13.23%  | 1,807
Morgan | 490  | 57.99%  | 306  | 36.21%  | 49  | 5.80%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 184  | 21.78%  | 845
Piute | 332  | 56.46%  | 157  | 26.70%  | 98  | 16.67%  | 1  | 0.17%  | 175  | 29.76%  | 588
Rich | 427  | 59.55%  | 285  | 39.75%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 5  | 0.70%  | 142  | 19.80%  | 717
Salt Lake | 20,755  | 57.96%  | 12,954  | 36.18%  | 2,059  | 5.75%  | 41  | 0.11%  | 7,801  | 21.79%  | 35,809
San Juan | 131  | 53.25%  | 109  | 44.31%  | 3  | 1.22%  | 3  | 1.22%  | 22  | 8.94%  | 246
Sanpete | 3,333  | 57.77%  | 2,307  | 39.99%  | 128  | 2.22%  | 1  | 0.02%  | 1,026  | 17.78%  | 5,769
Sevier | 1,777  | 54.90%  | 1,272  | 39.30%  | 187  | 5.78%  | 1  | 0.03%  | 505  | 15.60%  | 3,237
Summit | 1,612  | 50.84%  | 1,402  | 44.21%  | 148  | 4.67%  | 9  | 0.28%  | 210  | 6.62%  | 3,171
Tooele | 1,106  | 56.03%  | 808  | 40.93%  | 59  | 2.99%  | 1  | 0.05%  | 298  | 15.10%  | 1,974
Uintah | 782  | 48.57%  | 683  | 42.42%  | 145  | 9.01%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 99  | 6.15%  | 1,610
Utah | 6,390  | 54.88%  | 4,984  | 42.81%  | 267  | 2.29%  | 2  | 0.02%  | 1,406  | 12.08%  | 11,643
Wasatch | 1,265  | 53.83%  | 985  | 41.91%  | 98  | 4.17%  | 2  | 0.09%  | 280  | 11.91%  | 2,350
Washington | 738  | 47.49%  | 810  | 52.12%  | 5  | 0.32%  | 1  | 0.06%  | -72  | -4.63%  | 1,554
Wayne | 276  | 49.64%  | 184  | 33.09%  | 96  | 17.27%  | 0  | 0.00%  | 92  | 16.55%  | 556
Weber | 5,879  | 56.05%  | 3,965  | 37.81%  | 636  | 6.06%  | 8  | 0.08%  | 1,914  | 18.25%  | 10,488
Total | 61,165 | 56.23% | 42,637 | 39.19% | 4,890 | 4.50% | 92 | 0.08% | 18,528 | 17.03% | 108,784

## See also

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* United States presidential elections in Utah

## Notes

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1. ^ These results differ slightly from those in Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

## References

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1. ^ Peterson, Charles S.; Utah: A History; pp. 163-164 ISBN 0393302210
2. ^ Wahlquist, C. Austin; 'The 1912 Presidential Election in Utah' (A Thesis Presented to the Department of History, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah)
3. ^ Deskins, Donald Richard; Walton, Hanes and Puckett, Sherman C.; Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data, p. 286 ISBN 0472116975
4. ^ a b Hornig, Edgar A.; 'Campaign Issues in the Presidential Election of 1908'; Indiana Magazine of History, vol. 54, no. 3 (September 1958), pp. 237-264
5. ^ Salvatore, Nick; Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist, p. 220 ISBN 0252011481
6. ^ 'Both Parties Claim Northwest States: Republicans Seem to Have Best Chance in Wyoming and Colorado'; The New York Times, August 26, 1908, p. 4
7. ^ a b Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896-1932 (second edition); pp. 223-224 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press
8. ^ a b Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)

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