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| Elections in Indiana |
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The 1908 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 3, 1908. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Ever since the Civil War, partisan alliances in Indiana had been related to history of White settlement, with most of Southern Indiana and German-settled counties voting strongly Democratic, opposed to Yankee-settled Northern Indiana which voted Republican.[1] Between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Third Party System, elections in the state were always very close; although the state become more Republican when William Jennings Bryan’s free silver policy drove conservative Democrats to the Republican party for the following two decades and would lead to him to lose to William McKinley in 1896 and 1900.[2] However, until Alton B. Parker lost the state by thirteen points in 1904, Indiana’s strong Southern leanings meant its Democratic counties remained very loyal and the state remained much closer than the other “Lower North” states of Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.[3]
For 1908, third-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan nominated, under the advice of future Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, former Indianapolis city solicitor John W. Kern as his running mate in an effort to capture this electorally crucial state that had not voted for a popular vote loser since 1848.[4] However, Republican nominee, Secretary of War William Howard Taft would nonetheless achieve the fourth consecutive Republican win in the state by the narrow margin of 1.49 percentage points.
Results[edit]
| 1908 United States presidential election in Indiana[5] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | William Howard Taft of Ohio | James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York | 348,993 | 48.40% | 15 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | John Worth Kern of Indiana | 338,262 | 46.91% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Eugene Wilder Chafin of Illinois | Aaron Sherman Watkins of Ohio | 18,845 | 2.50% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Benjamin Hanford of New York | 13,476 | 1.87% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Populist | Thomas Edward Watson of Georgia | Samuel Williams of Indiana | 1,193 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist Labor | August Gillhaus of New York | Donald L. Munro of Virginia | 643 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Independence | Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts | John Temple Graves of Georgia | 514 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 721,126 | 100.00% | 15 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county[edit]
| County | William Howard Taft[6] Republican |
William Jennings Bryan[6] Democratic |
Eugene Wilder Chafin[6] Prohibition |
Eugene V. Debs[6] Socialist |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 1,726 | 32.63% | 3,404 | 64.36% | 141 | 2.67% | 13 | 0.25% | 5 | 0.09% | -1,678 | -31.73% | 5,289 |
| Allen | 9,468 | 42.06% | 12,145 | 53.95% | 340 | 1.51% | 494 | 2.19% | 66 | 0.29% | -2,677 | -11.89% | 22,513 |
| Bartholomew | 3,306 | 46.13% | 3,637 | 50.75% | 151 | 2.11% | 59 | 0.82% | 14 | 0.20% | -331 | -4.62% | 7,167 |
| Benton | 1,936 | 53.48% | 1,566 | 43.26% | 103 | 2.85% | 15 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 370 | 10.22% | 3,620 |
| Blackford | 1,835 | 43.10% | 2,214 | 52.00% | 166 | 3.90% | 42 | 0.99% | 1 | 0.02% | -379 | -8.90% | 4,258 |
| Boone | 3,471 | 48.22% | 3,525 | 48.97% | 166 | 2.31% | 11 | 0.15% | 25 | 0.35% | -54 | -0.75% | 7,198 |
| Brown | 663 | 34.60% | 1,177 | 61.43% | 68 | 3.55% | 5 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.16% | -514 | -26.83% | 1,916 |
| Carroll | 2,546 | 47.46% | 2,590 | 48.28% | 152 | 2.83% | 68 | 1.27% | 9 | 0.17% | -44 | -0.82% | 5,365 |
| Cass | 4,700 | 45.44% | 5,234 | 50.60% | 349 | 3.37% | 38 | 0.37% | 23 | 0.22% | -534 | -5.16% | 10,344 |
| Clark | 3,706 | 46.56% | 4,085 | 51.33% | 82 | 1.03% | 68 | 0.85% | 18 | 0.23% | -379 | -4.76% | 7,959 |
| Clay | 3,766 | 43.79% | 4,204 | 48.88% | 110 | 1.28% | 499 | 5.80% | 22 | 0.26% | -438 | -5.09% | 8,601 |
| Clinton | 3,626 | 47.20% | 3,680 | 47.90% | 281 | 3.66% | 78 | 1.02% | 17 | 0.22% | -54 | -0.70% | 7,682 |
| Crawford | 1,403 | 44.50% | 1,539 | 48.81% | 126 | 4.00% | 82 | 2.60% | 3 | 0.10% | -136 | -4.31% | 3,153 |
| Daviess | 3,424 | 48.38% | 3,253 | 45.97% | 134 | 1.89% | 204 | 2.88% | 62 | 0.88% | 171 | 2.42% | 7,077 |
| De Kalb | 2,991 | 42.41% | 3,684 | 52.24% | 287 | 4.07% | 63 | 0.89% | 27 | 0.38% | -693 | -9.83% | 7,052 |
| Dearborn | 2,520 | 41.81% | 3,365 | 55.83% | 94 | 1.56% | 41 | 0.68% | 7 | 0.12% | -845 | -14.02% | 6,027 |
| Decatur | 2,838 | 50.62% | 2,564 | 45.73% | 159 | 2.84% | 39 | 0.70% | 7 | 0.12% | 274 | 4.89% | 5,607 |
| Delaware | 7,014 | 51.29% | 5,725 | 41.86% | 475 | 3.47% | 316 | 2.31% | 146 | 1.07% | 1,289 | 9.43% | 13,676 |
| Dubois | 1,397 | 28.88% | 3,344 | 69.12% | 36 | 0.74% | 58 | 1.20% | 3 | 0.06% | -1,947 | -40.24% | 4,838 |
| Elkhart | 6,245 | 48.19% | 5,697 | 43.96% | 596 | 4.60% | 400 | 3.09% | 21 | 0.16% | 548 | 4.23% | 12,959 |
| Fayette | 2,394 | 55.77% | 1,700 | 39.60% | 114 | 2.66% | 81 | 1.89% | 4 | 0.09% | 694 | 16.17% | 4,293 |
| Floyd | 3,431 | 43.85% | 4,064 | 51.94% | 94 | 1.20% | 226 | 2.89% | 10 | 0.13% | -633 | -8.09% | 7,825 |
| Fountain | 2,894 | 48.90% | 2,846 | 48.09% | 122 | 2.06% | 45 | 0.76% | 11 | 0.19% | 48 | 0.81% | 5,918 |
| Franklin | 1,670 | 38.23% | 2,616 | 59.89% | 74 | 1.69% | 7 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.02% | -946 | -21.66% | 4,368 |
| Fulton | 2,426 | 49.34% | 2,350 | 47.79% | 125 | 2.54% | 13 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.06% | 76 | 1.55% | 4,917 |
| Gibson | 3,753 | 48.44% | 3,656 | 47.19% | 241 | 3.11% | 86 | 1.11% | 11 | 0.14% | 97 | 1.25% | 7,747 |
| Grant | 7,181 | 49.42% | 5,819 | 40.05% | 1,140 | 7.85% | 339 | 2.33% | 52 | 0.36% | 1,362 | 9.37% | 14,531 |
| Greene | 4,145 | 44.17% | 4,172 | 44.45% | 84 | 0.90% | 930 | 9.91% | 54 | 0.58% | -27 | -0.29% | 9,385 |
| Hamilton | 4,421 | 56.48% | 2,947 | 37.65% | 435 | 5.56% | 24 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,474 | 18.83% | 7,828 |
| Hancock | 2,472 | 43.50% | 3,040 | 53.49% | 146 | 2.57% | 22 | 0.39% | 3 | 0.05% | -568 | -9.99% | 5,683 |
| Harrison | 2,419 | 46.17% | 2,646 | 50.51% | 100 | 1.91% | 67 | 1.28% | 7 | 0.13% | -227 | -4.33% | 5,239 |
| Hendricks | 3,231 | 54.28% | 2,571 | 43.19% | 146 | 2.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.08% | 660 | 11.09% | 5,953 |
| Henry | 4,358 | 54.63% | 3,197 | 40.07% | 332 | 4.16% | 61 | 0.76% | 30 | 0.38% | 1,161 | 14.55% | 7,978 |
| Howard | 4,423 | 50.60% | 3,497 | 40.01% | 550 | 6.29% | 255 | 2.92% | 16 | 0.18% | 926 | 10.59% | 8,741 |
| Huntington | 3,973 | 47.62% | 3,712 | 44.49% | 405 | 4.85% | 241 | 2.89% | 13 | 0.16% | 261 | 3.13% | 8,344 |
| Jackson | 2,631 | 39.93% | 3,783 | 57.41% | 140 | 2.12% | 30 | 0.46% | 5 | 0.08% | -1,152 | -17.48% | 6,589 |
| Jasper | 1,939 | 55.19% | 1,495 | 42.56% | 70 | 1.99% | 7 | 0.20% | 2 | 0.06% | 444 | 12.64% | 3,513 |
| Jay | 3,256 | 45.75% | 3,370 | 47.35% | 426 | 5.99% | 53 | 0.74% | 12 | 0.17% | -114 | -1.60% | 7,117 |
| Jefferson | 2,995 | 50.06% | 2,708 | 45.26% | 176 | 2.94% | 97 | 1.62% | 7 | 0.12% | 287 | 4.80% | 5,983 |
| Jennings | 2,100 | 51.23% | 1,871 | 45.65% | 101 | 2.46% | 21 | 0.51% | 6 | 0.15% | 229 | 5.59% | 4,099 |
| Johnson | 2,519 | 42.04% | 3,268 | 54.54% | 193 | 3.22% | 9 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.05% | -749 | -12.50% | 5,992 |
| Knox | 4,247 | 42.53% | 5,116 | 51.24% | 199 | 1.99% | 375 | 3.76% | 48 | 0.48% | -869 | -8.70% | 9,985 |
| Kosciusko | 4,377 | 54.45% | 3,362 | 41.82% | 233 | 2.90% | 54 | 0.67% | 13 | 0.16% | 1,015 | 12.63% | 8,039 |
| La Porte | 5,824 | 49.52% | 5,680 | 48.30% | 126 | 1.07% | 103 | 0.88% | 27 | 0.23% | 144 | 1.22% | 11,760 |
| Lagrange | 2,357 | 60.13% | 1,414 | 36.07% | 133 | 3.39% | 10 | 0.26% | 6 | 0.15% | 943 | 24.06% | 3,920 |
| Lake | 9,499 | 60.97% | 5,502 | 35.32% | 125 | 0.80% | 303 | 1.94% | 150 | 0.96% | 3,997 | 25.66% | 15,579 |
| Lawrence | 3,884 | 53.77% | 3,118 | 43.16% | 93 | 1.29% | 119 | 1.65% | 10 | 0.14% | 766 | 10.60% | 7,224 |
| Madison | 7,481 | 43.48% | 8,296 | 48.22% | 497 | 2.89% | 894 | 5.20% | 36 | 0.21% | -815 | -4.74% | 17,204 |
| Marion | 34,351 | 48.67% | 34,078 | 48.28% | 839 | 1.19% | 1,075 | 1.52% | 237 | 0.34% | 273 | 0.39% | 70,580 |
| Marshall | 2,947 | 45.31% | 3,287 | 50.54% | 199 | 3.06% | 55 | 0.85% | 16 | 0.25% | -340 | -5.23% | 6,504 |
| Martin | 1,667 | 48.35% | 1,733 | 50.26% | 34 | 0.99% | 11 | 0.32% | 3 | 0.09% | -66 | -1.91% | 3,448 |
| Miami | 3,820 | 45.26% | 4,176 | 49.48% | 233 | 2.76% | 187 | 2.22% | 24 | 0.28% | -356 | -4.22% | 8,440 |
| Monroe | 3,051 | 51.48% | 2,780 | 46.91% | 77 | 1.30% | 14 | 0.24% | 4 | 0.07% | 271 | 4.57% | 5,926 |
| Montgomery | 4,427 | 49.64% | 4,227 | 47.39% | 195 | 2.19% | 44 | 0.49% | 26 | 0.29% | 200 | 2.24% | 8,919 |
| Morgan | 3,074 | 50.98% | 2,789 | 46.25% | 121 | 2.01% | 44 | 0.73% | 2 | 0.03% | 285 | 4.73% | 6,030 |
| Newton | 1,645 | 56.47% | 1,190 | 40.85% | 65 | 2.23% | 8 | 0.27% | 5 | 0.17% | 455 | 15.62% | 2,913 |
| Noble | 3,507 | 50.72% | 3,249 | 46.99% | 120 | 1.74% | 29 | 0.42% | 9 | 0.13% | 258 | 3.73% | 6,914 |
| Ohio | 619 | 49.13% | 622 | 49.37% | 16 | 1.27% | 3 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -3 | -0.24% | 1,260 |
| Orange | 2,433 | 53.92% | 1,961 | 43.46% | 70 | 1.55% | 44 | 0.98% | 4 | 0.09% | 472 | 10.46% | 4,512 |
| Owen | 1,726 | 44.53% | 2,023 | 52.19% | 61 | 1.57% | 51 | 1.32% | 15 | 0.39% | -297 | -7.66% | 3,876 |
| Parke | 3,026 | 48.35% | 2,707 | 43.25% | 315 | 5.03% | 204 | 3.26% | 7 | 0.11% | 319 | 5.10% | 6,259 |
| Perry | 1,903 | 43.93% | 2,356 | 54.39% | 34 | 0.78% | 37 | 0.85% | 2 | 0.05% | -453 | -10.46% | 4,332 |
| Pike | 2,359 | 47.88% | 2,360 | 47.90% | 59 | 1.20% | 131 | 2.66% | 18 | 0.37% | -1 | -0.02% | 4,927 |
| Porter | 2,940 | 59.88% | 1,789 | 36.44% | 78 | 1.59% | 59 | 1.20% | 44 | 0.90% | 1,151 | 23.44% | 4,910 |
| Posey | 2,444 | 42.49% | 3,084 | 53.62% | 147 | 2.56% | 69 | 1.20% | 8 | 0.14% | -640 | -11.13% | 5,752 |
| Pulaski | 1,561 | 44.20% | 1,832 | 51.87% | 101 | 2.86% | 14 | 0.40% | 24 | 0.68% | -271 | -7.67% | 3,532 |
| Putnam | 2,626 | 44.31% | 3,131 | 52.83% | 121 | 2.04% | 36 | 0.61% | 12 | 0.20% | -505 | -8.52% | 5,926 |
| Randolph | 4,792 | 60.90% | 2,600 | 33.05% | 380 | 4.83% | 87 | 1.11% | 9 | 0.11% | 2,192 | 27.86% | 7,868 |
| Ripley | 2,660 | 47.65% | 2,749 | 49.25% | 88 | 1.58% | 76 | 1.36% | 9 | 0.16% | -89 | -1.59% | 5,582 |
| Rush | 3,102 | 52.96% | 2,544 | 43.44% | 191 | 3.26% | 13 | 0.22% | 7 | 0.12% | 558 | 9.53% | 5,857 |
| Scott | 979 | 42.96% | 1,243 | 54.54% | 51 | 2.24% | 3 | 0.13% | 3 | 0.13% | -264 | -11.58% | 2,279 |
| Shelby | 3,529 | 44.54% | 4,035 | 50.93% | 252 | 3.18% | 95 | 1.20% | 12 | 0.15% | -506 | -6.39% | 7,923 |
| Spencer | 2,920 | 51.54% | 2,662 | 46.98% | 61 | 1.08% | 18 | 0.32% | 5 | 0.09% | 258 | 4.55% | 5,666 |
| St. Joseph | 11,222 | 53.92% | 8,562 | 41.14% | 272 | 1.31% | 705 | 3.39% | 52 | 0.25% | 2,660 | 12.78% | 20,813 |
| Starke | 1,521 | 52.18% | 1,305 | 44.77% | 43 | 1.48% | 39 | 1.34% | 7 | 0.24% | 216 | 7.41% | 2,915 |
| Steuben | 2,704 | 62.00% | 1,453 | 33.32% | 182 | 4.17% | 13 | 0.30% | 9 | 0.21% | 1,251 | 28.69% | 4,361 |
| Sullivan | 2,942 | 35.67% | 4,657 | 56.46% | 225 | 2.73% | 398 | 4.83% | 26 | 0.32% | -1,715 | -20.79% | 8,248 |
| Switzerland | 1,444 | 47.27% | 1,537 | 50.31% | 58 | 1.90% | 14 | 0.46% | 2 | 0.07% | -93 | -3.04% | 3,055 |
| Tippecanoe | 6,164 | 53.42% | 4,984 | 43.19% | 289 | 2.50% | 65 | 0.56% | 37 | 0.32% | 1,180 | 10.23% | 11,539 |
| Tipton | 2,395 | 46.45% | 2,556 | 49.57% | 183 | 3.55% | 13 | 0.25% | 9 | 0.17% | -161 | -3.12% | 5,156 |
| Union | 1,066 | 54.25% | 808 | 41.12% | 73 | 3.72% | 18 | 0.92% | 0 | 0.00% | 258 | 13.13% | 1,965 |
| Vanderburgh | 9,116 | 49.43% | 8,033 | 43.56% | 135 | 0.73% | 1,034 | 5.61% | 125 | 0.68% | 1,083 | 5.87% | 18,443 |
| Vermillion | 2,568 | 50.83% | 1,844 | 36.50% | 217 | 4.30% | 407 | 8.06% | 16 | 0.32% | 724 | 14.33% | 5,052 |
| Vigo | 10,223 | 45.76% | 10,685 | 47.82% | 257 | 1.15% | 690 | 3.09% | 487 | 2.18% | -462 | -2.07% | 22,342 |
| Wabash | 4,091 | 53.55% | 3,116 | 40.79% | 337 | 4.41% | 87 | 1.14% | 9 | 0.12% | 975 | 12.76% | 7,640 |
| Warren | 2,092 | 65.09% | 1,045 | 32.51% | 70 | 2.18% | 3 | 0.09% | 4 | 0.12% | 1,047 | 32.58% | 3,214 |
| Warrick | 2,839 | 48.37% | 2,782 | 47.40% | 138 | 2.35% | 101 | 1.72% | 9 | 0.15% | 57 | 0.97% | 5,869 |
| Washington | 1,976 | 42.58% | 2,573 | 55.44% | 74 | 1.59% | 12 | 0.26% | 6 | 0.13% | -597 | -12.86% | 4,641 |
| Wayne | 6,731 | 57.34% | 4,503 | 38.36% | 179 | 1.52% | 308 | 2.62% | 17 | 0.14% | 2,228 | 18.98% | 11,738 |
| Wells | 2,185 | 35.92% | 3,345 | 54.99% | 482 | 7.92% | 65 | 1.07% | 6 | 0.10% | -1,160 | -19.07% | 6,083 |
| White | 2,423 | 49.26% | 2,326 | 47.29% | 144 | 2.93% | 19 | 0.39% | 7 | 0.14% | 97 | 1.97% | 4,919 |
| Whitley | 2,302 | 46.57% | 2,493 | 50.43% | 134 | 2.71% | 13 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.02% | -191 | -3.86% | 4,943 |
| Totals | 348,993 | 48.40% | 338,262 | 46.91% | 18,036 | 2.50% | 13,476 | 1.87% | 2,359 | 0.33% | 10,731 | 1.49% | 721,126 |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 343 ISBN 9780691163246
- ^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 352
- ^ Menendez, Albert J. (2005). The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. p. 37. ISBN 0786422173.
- ^ Southwick, Leslie H. (1998). Presidential also-rans and running mates, 1788 through 1996 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. pp. 457–458. ISBN 0-7864-0310-1. OCLC 37379896.
- ^ "1908 Presidential General Election Results — Indiana". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Popular Vote at the Presidential Election for 1908". Géoelections. (.xlsx file for €30 including full minor party figures)
