1908 United States presidential election in South Dakota
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Elections in South Dakota |
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The 1908 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 3, 1908. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota voted for the Republican nominee, Secretary of War William Howard Taft, over the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan. Taft won the state by a margin of 23.76 percentage points.
William Bryan had previously won South Dakota during his run against William McKinley in 1896 but would later lose the state to McKinley four years later in 1900.
Results[]
1908 United States presidential election in South Dakota[1] | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
Count | % | Count | % | |||||
Republican | William Howard Taft of Ohio | James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York | 67,536 | 58.84% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | John Worth Kern of Indiana | 40,266 | 35.08% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Prohibition | Eugene Wilder Chafin of Illinois | Aaron Sherman Watkins of Ohio | 4,039 | 3.52% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Ben Hanford of New York | 2,846 | 2.48% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Scales of Justice | Thomas Louis Hisgen | John Temple Graves | 88 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Total | 114,775 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% |
Results by county[]
County[2] | William Howard Taft Republican |
William Jennings Bryan Democratic |
Eugene Wilder Chafin Prohibition |
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist |
Thomas Louis Hisgen Scales of Justice |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Aurora | 686 | 47.91% | 694 | 48.46% | 48 | 3.35% | 4 | 0.28% | 0 | 0.00% | -8 | -0.56% | 1,432 |
Beadle | 1,776 | 58.50% | 1,105 | 36.40% | 96 | 3.16% | 57 | 1.88% | 2 | 0.07% | 671 | 22.10% | 3,036 |
Bon Homme | 1,324 | 55.26% | 1,014 | 42.32% | 47 | 1.96% | 10 | 0.42% | 1 | 0.04% | 310 | 12.94% | 2,396 |
Brookings | 1,697 | 63.58% | 588 | 22.03% | 337 | 12.63% | 45 | 1.69% | 2 | 0.07% | 1,109 | 41.55% | 2,669 |
Brown | 2,646 | 55.93% | 1,772 | 37.46% | 128 | 2.71% | 182 | 3.85% | 3 | 0.06% | 874 | 18.47% | 4,731 |
Brule | 753 | 46.80% | 823 | 51.15% | 12 | 0.75% | 20 | 1.24% | 1 | 0.06% | -70 | -4.35% | 1,609 |
Buffalo | 105 | 58.99% | 69 | 38.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 4 | 2.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 36 | 20.22% | 178 |
Butte | 1,636 | 60.21% | 915 | 33.68% | 27 | 0.99% | 139 | 5.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 721 | 26.54% | 2,717 |
Campbell | 627 | 75.18% | 175 | 20.98% | 29 | 3.48% | 3 | 0.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 452 | 54.20% | 834 |
Charles Mix | 1,863 | 55.88% | 1,391 | 41.72% | 32 | 0.96% | 46 | 1.38% | 2 | 0.06% | 472 | 14.16% | 3,334 |
Clark | 1,234 | 64.37% | 557 | 29.06% | 87 | 4.54% | 36 | 1.88% | 3 | 0.16% | 677 | 35.32% | 1,917 |
Clay | 1,291 | 59.94% | 803 | 37.28% | 41 | 1.90% | 19 | 0.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 488 | 22.66% | 2,154 |
Codington | 1,618 | 63.30% | 831 | 32.51% | 75 | 2.93% | 30 | 1.17% | 2 | 0.08% | 787 | 30.79% | 2,556 |
Custer | 487 | 49.39% | 428 | 43.41% | 5 | 0.51% | 64 | 6.49% | 2 | 0.20% | 59 | 5.98% | 986 |
Davison | 1,276 | 50.92% | 1,081 | 43.14% | 135 | 5.39% | 11 | 0.44% | 3 | 0.12% | 195 | 7.78% | 2,506 |
Day | 1,616 | 59.22% | 813 | 29.79% | 256 | 9.38% | 40 | 1.47% | 4 | 0.15% | 803 | 29.42% | 2,729 |
Deuel | 1,022 | 64.77% | 425 | 26.93% | 125 | 7.92% | 4 | 0.25% | 2 | 0.13% | 597 | 37.83% | 1,578 |
Douglas | 836 | 55.99% | 647 | 43.34% | 7 | 0.47% | 3 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 189 | 12.66% | 1,493 |
Edmunds | 726 | 50.14% | 658 | 45.44% | 56 | 3.87% | 7 | 0.48% | 1 | 0.07% | 68 | 4.70% | 1,448 |
Fall River | 726 | 57.62% | 466 | 36.98% | 43 | 3.41% | 25 | 1.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 260 | 20.63% | 1,260 |
Faulk | 835 | 62.55% | 421 | 31.54% | 74 | 5.54% | 5 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 414 | 31.01% | 1,335 |
Grant | 1,122 | 59.87% | 628 | 33.51% | 111 | 5.92% | 12 | 0.64% | 1 | 0.05% | 494 | 26.36% | 1,874 |
Gregory | 1,550 | 52.83% | 1,266 | 43.15% | 53 | 1.81% | 64 | 2.18% | 1 | 0.03% | 284 | 9.68% | 2,934 |
Hamlin | 1,095 | 68.57% | 434 | 27.18% | 59 | 3.69% | 8 | 0.50% | 1 | 0.06% | 661 | 41.39% | 1,597 |
Hand | 851 | 51.58% | 655 | 39.70% | 135 | 8.18% | 9 | 0.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 196 | 11.88% | 1,650 |
Hanson | 668 | 48.69% | 630 | 45.92% | 66 | 4.81% | 8 | 0.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 38 | 2.77% | 1,372 |
Hughes | 795 | 66.64% | 349 | 29.25% | 19 | 1.59% | 30 | 2.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 446 | 37.38% | 1,193 |
Hutchinson | 1,507 | 69.03% | 619 | 28.36% | 51 | 2.34% | 6 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 888 | 40.68% | 2,183 |
Hyde | 455 | 64.45% | 212 | 30.03% | 22 | 3.12% | 17 | 2.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 243 | 34.42% | 706 |
Jerauld | 582 | 53.30% | 403 | 36.90% | 93 | 8.52% | 12 | 1.10% | 2 | 0.18% | 179 | 16.39% | 1,092 |
Kingsbury | 1,537 | 60.70% | 799 | 31.56% | 163 | 6.44% | 33 | 1.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 738 | 29.15% | 2,532 |
Lake | 1,415 | 65.60% | 636 | 29.49% | 65 | 3.01% | 39 | 1.81% | 2 | 0.09% | 779 | 36.11% | 2,157 |
Lawrence | 2,735 | 50.86% | 1,564 | 29.09% | 37 | 0.69% | 1,036 | 19.27% | 5 | 0.09% | 1,171 | 21.78% | 5,377 |
Lincoln | 1,887 | 69.40% | 699 | 25.71% | 84 | 3.09% | 46 | 1.69% | 3 | 0.11% | 1,188 | 43.69% | 2,719 |
Lyman | 1,524 | 53.12% | 1,183 | 41.23% | 81 | 2.82% | 76 | 2.65% | 5 | 0.17% | 341 | 11.89% | 2,869 |
Marshall | 874 | 59.46% | 453 | 30.82% | 116 | 7.89% | 25 | 1.70% | 2 | 0.14% | 421 | 28.64% | 1,470 |
McCook | 1,209 | 57.00% | 826 | 38.94% | 66 | 3.11% | 17 | 0.80% | 3 | 0.14% | 383 | 18.06% | 2,121 |
McPherson | 785 | 81.86% | 157 | 16.37% | 9 | 0.94% | 6 | 0.63% | 2 | 0.21% | 628 | 65.48% | 959 |
Meade | 953 | 51.24% | 792 | 42.58% | 30 | 1.61% | 84 | 4.52% | 1 | 0.05% | 161 | 8.66% | 1,860 |
Miner | 906 | 53.93% | 720 | 42.86% | 42 | 2.50% | 12 | 0.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 186 | 11.07% | 1,680 |
Minnehaha | 4,125 | 64.07% | 1,948 | 30.26% | 254 | 3.95% | 106 | 1.65% | 5 | 0.08% | 2,177 | 33.81% | 6,438 |
Moody | 1,275 | 63.50% | 623 | 31.03% | 80 | 3.98% | 30 | 1.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 652 | 32.47% | 2,008 |
Pennington | 1,702 | 57.38% | 1,160 | 39.11% | 26 | 0.88% | 78 | 2.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 542 | 18.27% | 2,966 |
Potter | 614 | 58.09% | 400 | 37.84% | 24 | 2.27% | 5 | 0.47% | 14 | 1.32% | 214 | 20.25% | 1,057 |
Roberts | 1,562 | 61.02% | 777 | 30.35% | 101 | 3.95% | 119 | 4.65% | 1 | 0.04% | 785 | 30.66% | 2,560 |
Sanborn | 847 | 57.70% | 513 | 34.95% | 103 | 7.02% | 5 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 334 | 22.75% | 1,468 |
Spink | 1,847 | 59.01% | 1,121 | 35.81% | 126 | 4.03% | 34 | 1.09% | 2 | 0.06% | 726 | 23.19% | 3,130 |
Stanley | 2,313 | 56.52% | 1,598 | 39.05% | 74 | 1.81% | 104 | 2.54% | 3 | 0.07% | 715 | 17.47% | 4,092 |
Sully | 368 | 68.27% | 154 | 28.57% | 5 | 0.93% | 11 | 2.04% | 1 | 0.19% | 214 | 39.70% | 539 |
Turner | 1,792 | 66.17% | 793 | 29.28% | 112 | 4.14% | 11 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 999 | 36.89% | 2,708 |
Union | 1,392 | 56.63% | 1,009 | 41.05% | 51 | 2.07% | 5 | 0.20% | 1 | 0.04% | 383 | 15.58% | 2,458 |
Walworth | 825 | 67.96% | 351 | 28.91% | 24 | 1.98% | 13 | 1.07% | 1 | 0.08% | 474 | 39.04% | 1,214 |
Yankton | 1,644 | 56.81% | 1,118 | 38.63% | 97 | 3.35% | 31 | 1.07% | 4 | 0.14% | 526 | 18.18% | 2,894 |
Totals | 67,536 | 58.84% | 40,266 | 35.08% | 4,039 | 3.52% | 2,846 | 2.48% | 88 | 0.08% | 27,270 | 23.76% | 114,775 |
References[]
- ^ "1908 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
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