1908 United States presidential election in California
County Results
Taft
40–50%
50–60%
60–70%
80–90%
Bryan
40–50%
50–60%
The 1908 United States presidential election in California took place on November 3 , 1908 , as part of the 1908 United States presidential election . State voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
California voted for the Republican nominee, former War Secretary William Howard Taft and his running mate James S. Sherman of New York . They defeated the Democratic nominees, former representative and the 1896 and 1900 nominee, William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running with John W. Kern , a former Indiana state senator . Taft won the state by a margin of 22.48%. This was the first presidential election in which more votes were cast in Los Angeles County than in San Francisco , although this had also previously occurred in the 1906 gubernatorial election .[ a]
Bryan had previously lost California to William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900 .
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