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483 members of the Electoral College 242 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 65.7%[1] 0.2 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ElectoralCollege1908.svg Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Taft/Sherman, blue denotes those won by Bryan/Kern. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st election in the history of the United States. It occurred on November 3, 1908. This election was between Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio and former Congressman from Ohio and Democratic Party Nominee in 1896 and 1900 William Jennings Bryan. Taft won the election with 321 electoral votes. Bryan got only 162 electoral votes.
This would be the fourth and most recent election in the history of the United States, where both major candidates share the same first name, with the last three being in 1860, 1896, and 1900.