1908 United States presidential election in Florida

none June 2025 September 2023 1908 United States presidential election 1908 United States presidential election in Florida Florida 1900 presidential no 1904 United States presidential election in Florida 1904 November 3, 1908 1912 United States presidential election in Florida 1912 x160px Unsuccessful 1908.jpg William Jennings Bryan Democratic Party (United States) Nebraska John W. Kern 5 31,104 63.01% William Howard Taft, Bain bw photo portrait, 1908.jpg William Howard Taft Republican Party (United States) Ohio James S. Sherman 0 10,654 21.58% EugeneVDebs.png Eugene V. Debs Socialist Party of America Indiana Ben Hanford 0 3,747 7.59% 1908 United States presidential election in Florida results map by county.svg 400px County results Bryan #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% Taft #f2b3be 40–50% President Theodore Roosevelt Republican Party (United States) William Howard Taft Republican Party (United States) The 1908 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 3, 1908, as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice-president. With the disfranchisement of African-Americans by a poll tax in 1889,Silbey, Joel H. and Bogue, Allan G. The History of American Electoral Behavior, p. 210 140087114X Florida became a one-party Democratic state, which it was to remain until the 1950s—apart from the anti-Catholic vote against Al Smith in 1928. Unlike Texas with its German settlements in the Edwards Plateau, or those Southern states that extended into the Appalachian Mountains or Ozarks, Florida completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. Thus, Florida's Republican Party between 1872 and 1888 was entirely dependent upon black votes, a fact graphically seen when one considers that—although very few blacks in the state had ever voted within the previous fifty-five years—at the time of the landmark court case of Smith v. Allwright (1944), half of Florida's registered Republicans were still black.Price, Hugh Douglas. "The Negro and Florida Politics, 1944–1954", The Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (May 1955), pp. 198–220 Thus, disfranchisement of blacks and poor whites left Florida as devoid of Republican adherents as Louisiana, Mississippi or South Carolina.Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 Nevertheless, Florida's one-party Democratic rule was marginally interrupted in the 1900s by considerable Socialist and Populist growth, centered in Tampa and Jacksonville, and southern Lee County with its "Koreshan Unity" sect.Griffin, R. Steven. Workers of the Sunshine State, Unite! The Florida Socialist Party during the Progressive Era, 1900–1920 (thesis) https://web.archive.org/web/20210511090105/http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0013396/griffin_r.pdf May 11, 2021 Immigrants and farmers fearing loss of tenure had in 1904 given over ten percent of the vote in several counties of Central and South Florida to Eugene V. Debs―in the second of his five Presidential runs―and substantial votes in many pineywoods counties to Populist Thomas E. Watson. Florida was won by the Democratic nominees, former Representative William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running mate John W. Kern of Indiana. They defeated the Republican nominees, former Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and his running mate James S. Sherman of New York. Bryan won the state by a margin of 41.43%. 1908 saw several major strikes in the state, notably of railcars in Pensacola, and Debs was able to improve upon his 1904 vote to the extent of running second in five counties. However, Bryan still carried the state by a three-to-one margin over his nearest rival. Bryan had previously won Florida twice against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900. Results 1908 United States presidential election in Florida1908 Presidential General Election Results – Florida https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1908&fips=12&f=1&off=0&elect=0 Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas February 24, 2012PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democrat William Jennings Bryan31,10463.01%5Republican William Howard Taft10,65421.58%0Socialist Eugene V. Debs3,7477.59%0People's Thomas E. Watson1,9463.94%0Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin1,3562.75%0Independence Thomas L. Hisgen5531.12%0 Totals 49,360 100.00% 5 Results by county William Jennings BryanDemocratic William Howard TaftRepublican Eugene Victor DebsGéoelections; Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908 (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)Socialist Thomas Edward WatsonPopulist Eugene Wilder ChafinProhibition Thomas HisgenIndependence Margin Total votes castRobinson, Edgar Eugene. The Presidential Vote 1896–1932, pp. 156–161 9780804716963 County # % # % # % # % # % # % # % # Alachua 1,239 61.03% 686 33.79% 25 1.23% 26 1.28% 38 1.87% 16 0.79% 553 27.24% 2,030 Baker 152 45.24% 104 30.95% 51 15.18% 11 3.27% 7 2.08% 11 3.27% 48 14.29% 336 Bradford 729 74.31% 180 18.35% 19 1.94% 13 1.33% 38 3.87% 2 0.20% 549 55.96% 981 Brevard 294 50.78% 225 38.86% 50 8.64% 7 1.21% 1 0.17% 2 0.35% 69 11.92% 579 Calhoun 241 35.23% 339 49.56% 12 1.75% 84 12.28% 2 0.29% 6 0.88% -98 -14.33% 684 Citrus 371 83.56% 33 7.43% 26 5.86% 8 1.80% 6 1.35% 0 0.00% 338 76.13% 444 Clay 355 63.62% 122 21.86% 22 3.94% 18 3.23% 38 6.81% 3 0.54% 233 41.76% 558 Columbia 465 52.13% 279 31.28% 61 6.84% 54 6.05% 23 2.58% 10 1.12% 186 20.85% 892 Dade 961 60.59% 275 17.34% 160 10.09% 108 6.81% 53 3.34% 29 1.83% 686 43.25% 1,586 De Soto 992 69.03% 244 16.98% 112 7.79% 32 2.23% 44 3.06% 13 0.90% 748 52.05% 1,437 Duval 2,381 66.84% 641 18.00% 233 6.54% 155 4.35% 100 2.81% 52 1.46% 1,740 48.84% 3,562 Escambia 1,887 56.23% 718 21.39% 351 10.46% 245 7.30% 101 3.01% 54 1.61% 1,169 34.84% 3,356 Franklin 283 56.94% 112 22.54% 56 11.27% 30 6.04% 9 1.81% 7 1.41% 171 34.40% 497 Gadsden 563 76.29% 89 12.06% 34 4.61% 34 4.61% 12 1.63% 6 0.81% 474 64.23% 738 Hamilton 452 63.84% 116 16.38% 84 11.86% 33 4.66% 17 2.40% 6 0.85% 336 47.46% 708 Hernando 260 76.70% 57 16.81% 14 4.13% 5 1.47% 3 0.88% 0 0.00% 203 59.89% 339 Hillsborough 2,703 73.17% 367 9.94% 366 9.91% 69 1.87% 146 3.95% 43 1.16% 2,336 63.23% 3,694 Holmes 438 50.69% 337 39.00% 40 4.63% 32 3.70% 8 0.93% 9 1.04% 101 11.69% 864 Jackson 1,122 66.43% 353 20.90% 134 7.93% 55 3.26% 10 0.59% 15 0.89% 769 45.53% 1,689 Jefferson 565 71.34% 149 18.81% 23 2.90% 30 3.79% 21 2.65% 4 0.51% 416 52.53% 792 Lafayette 487 75.50% 90 13.95% 15 2.33% 8 1.24% 44 6.82% 1 0.16% 397 61.55% 645 Lake 487 58.46% 200 24.01% 62 7.44% 33 3.96% 45 5.40% 6 0.72% 287 34.45% 833 Lee 266 49.91% 72 13.51% 109 20.45% 10 1.88% 74 13.88% 2 0.38% 157"DebsdTaft" In this county, where Debs ran second ahead of Taft, the margin given is Bryan vote total minus Debs vote total, and the percentage margin is Bryan percentage minus Debs percentage. 29.46% 533 Leon 698 72.86% 143 14.93% 44 4.59% 39 4.07% 25 2.61% 9 0.94% 555 57.93% 958 Levy 411 59.14% 189 27.19% 64 9.21% 14 2.01% 11 1.58% 6 0.86% 222 31.95% 695 Liberty 176 64.47% 69 25.27% 11 4.03% 11 4.03% 4 1.47% 2 0.73% 107 39.20% 273 Madison 511 85.88% 32 5.38% 23 3.87% 19 3.19% 7 1.18% 3 0.50% 479 80.50% 595 Manatee 644 70.85% 93 10.23% 104 11.44% 36 3.96% 28 3.08% 4 0.44% 540"DebsdTaft" 59.41% 909 Marion 1,352 61.85% 482 22.05% 120 5.49% 97 4.44% 116 5.31% 19 0.87% 870 39.80% 2,186 Monroe 630 54.03% 227 19.47% 239 20.50% 26 2.23% 31 2.66% 13 1.11% 391"DebsdTaft" 33.53% 1,166 Nassau 466 75.04% 92 14.81% 20 3.22% 15 2.42% 16 2.58% 12 1.93% 374 60.23% 621 Orange 952 59.17% 485 30.14% 63 3.92% 63 3.92% 26 1.62% 20 1.24% 467 29.03% 1,609 Osceola 193 57.44% 81 24.11% 12 3.57% 47 13.99% 1 0.30% 2 0.60% 112 33.33% 336 Pasco 436 76.49% 81 14.21% 21 3.68% 17 2.98% 15 2.63% 0 0.00% 355 62.28% 570 Polk 1,251 69.62% 290 16.14% 154 8.57% 54 3.01% 41 2.28% 7 0.39% 961 53.48% 1,797 Putnam 797 54.22% 454 30.88% 105 7.14% 57 3.88% 32 2.18% 25 1.70% 343 23.34% 1,470 St. Johns 758 56.07% 344 25.44% 35 3.02% 6 0.52% 10 0.86% 5 0.43% 414 30.63% 1,158 St. Lucie 280 64.52% 63 14.52% 146 24.62% 49 8.26% 32 5.40% 23 3.88% 134"DebsdTaft" 39.90% 593 Santa Rosa 535 66.63% 212 26.40% 38 4.53% 14 1.67% 7 0.84% 32 3.82% 323 40.23% 838 Sumter 343 69.72% 62 12.60% 28 5.69% 35 7.11% 22 4.47% 2 0.41% 281 57.12% 492 Suwannee 597 56.70% 150 14.25% 220 20.89% 55 5.22% 19 1.80% 12 1.14% 377"DebsdTaft" 35.81% 1,053 Taylor 250 48.64% 160 31.13% 41 7.98% 48 9.34% 12 2.33% 3 0.58% 90 17.51% 514 Volusia 736 58.18% 444 35.10% 41 3.24% 12 0.95% 28 2.21% 4 0.32% 292 23.08% 1,265 Wakulla 239 69.48% 56 16.28% 31 9.01% 11 3.20% 6 1.74% 1 0.29% 183 53.20% 344 Walton 504 51.85% 369 37.96% 46 4.73% 34 3.50% 13 1.34% 6 0.62% 135 13.89% 972 Washington 652 55.77% 288 24.64% 82 7.01% 87 7.44% 14 1.20% 46 3.93% 364 31.13% 1,169Totals31,10463.01%10,65421.58%3,7477.59%1,9463.94%1,3562.75%5531.12%20,45041.43%49,360 See also United States presidential elections in Florida Notes References 1908 Florida Category:1908 Florida elections