# 1908 United States presidential election in Utah

"none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]]
Elections in Utah :
Federal government
Presidential elections
1896
1900
1904
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Presidential primaries
Democratic
2000
2004
2008
2016
2020
2024
Republican
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
U.S. Senate elections
1896
1897
1899
1901 sp
1903
1905
1908
1909
1911
1914
1916
1920
1922
1926
1928
1932
1934
1938
1940
1944
1946
1950
1952
1956
1958
1962
1964
1968
1970
1974
1976
1980
1982
1986
1988
1992
1994
1998
2000
2004
2006
2010
2012
2016
2018
2022
2024
2028
U.S. House of Representatives elections
1895
1896
1898
1900
AL sp
1902
1904
1906
1908
1910
1912
1914
1916
1918
1920
1922
1924
1926
1928
1930
2nd sp
1932
1934
1936
1938
1940
1942
1944
1946
1948
1950
1952
1954
1956
1958
1960
1962
1964
1966
1968
1970
1972
1974
1976
1978
1980
1982
1984
1986
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2017
3rd sp
2018
2020
2022
2023
2nd sp
2024 :
State government
General elections
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
Gubernatorial elections
1895
1900
1904
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932
1936
1940
1944
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2010 sp
2012
2016
2020
2024
Attorney General elections
1996
2020
2024
Auditor elections
2024
State Senate elections
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024
House of Representatives elections
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024 :
Ballot measures
2004
Amendment 3
2018
Proposition 4
2020
Amendment A :
Salt Lake City
Mayoral elections
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019
2023 :
Salt Lake County
Mayoral elections
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024 :
vte :
The 1908 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 3, 1908, throughout all forty-six contemporary states as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the last election when Utah had the minimum three electoral votes as it would gain a second congressional district after the 1910 Census.
Although Democrat/Populist Bryan had carried Utah in its debut presidential election by a five-to-one margin, the Republican Party – ditching ancestral hostility to the state's dominant Mormon religion – was soon able to take control of the state, despite a threat from the anti-Mormon "American Party" in urban areas with sizeable non-Mormon ("Gentile") populations. In its third election of 1904, Utah had given a virtual two-to-one majority for Theodore Roosevelt against New York Democrat Alton B. Parker, who carried only Dixie's Washington County.
Believing that the election could only be won in the West and Midwest, Bryan – who had had no trouble winning a third Democratic nomination – chose Indiana's John Worth Kern as his running mate. However, although many in the media supported the election of Bryan and praised his policies, the rapid recovery from the "Panic of 1907" meant that Bryan struggled severely in the Progressive-minded Western States once campaigning began.
The antagonism towards Bryan of business meant that Taft had little trouble repeating Theodore Roosevelt's triumph of 1904, although Bryan was able to cut Alton Parker's losing margin from 29 to 17 percentage points. Taft would win Utah by a margin of 17.04%. A powerful socialist movement in mining districts failed to equal Debs' support from the 1904 election as his policies were not considered feasible or were co-opted by the two major parties. Taft was further helped by the unseating of delegates for Bryan as a result of conflict between pro- and anti-Mormon factions.
Four years later, Utah would become one of the only two states that Taft would carry in his attempt for reelection, the other being Vermont.

## Results

1908 United States presidential election in Utah :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Electoral vote |
| Party | Party | Candidate | Running mate | Count | % | Count | % |
| | Republican | William Howard Taft of Ohio | James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York | 61,165 | 56.23% | 3 | 100.00% |
| | Democratic | William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska | John Worth Kern of Indiana | 42,637 | 39.19% | 0 | 0.00% |
| | Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Ben Hanford of New York | 4,890 | 4.50% | 0 | 0.00% |
| | Independence | Thomas Louis Hisgen of Massachusetts | John Temple Graves of Georgia | 92 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 108,784 | 100.00% | 3 | 100.00% |

### Results by county

| County | William Howard Taft Republican | William Howard Taft Republican | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | William Jennings Bryan Democratic | Eugene Victor Debs Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs Socialist | Thomas Hisgen Independence | Thomas Hisgen Independence | Margin | Margin | Total votes cast |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total votes cast |
| Beaver | 945 | 55.13% | 741 | 43.23% | 27 | 1.58% | 1 | 0.06% | 204 | 11.90% | 1,714 |
| Box Elder | 2,401 | 62.20% | 1,417 | 36.71% | 40 | 1.04% | 2 | 0.05% | 984 | 25.49% | 3,860 |
| Cache | 3,795 | 52.86% | 3,317 | 46.20% | 64 | 0.89% | 3 | 0.04% | 478 | 6.66% | 7,179 |
| Carbon | 1,027 | 59.92% | 581 | 33.90% | 106 | 6.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 446 | 26.02% | 1,714 |
| Davis | 1,740 | 55.95% | 1,331 | 42.80% | 34 | 1.09% | 5 | 0.16% | 409 | 13.15% | 3,110 |
| Emery | 1,098 | 54.76% | 749 | 37.36% | 158 | 7.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 349 | 17.41% | 2,005 |
| Garfield | 878 | 72.03% | 299 | 24.53% | 42 | 3.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 579 | 47.50% | 1,219 |
| Grand | 233 | 48.85% | 215 | 45.07% | 24 | 5.03% | 5 | 1.05% | 18 | 3.77% | 477 |
| Iron | 718 | 56.01% | 488 | 38.07% | 76 | 5.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 230 | 17.94% | 1,282 |
| Juab | 1,619 | 48.46% | 1,421 | 42.53% | 300 | 8.98% | 1 | 0.03% | 198 | 5.93% | 3,341 |
| Kane | 414 | 79.77% | 102 | 19.65% | 3 | 0.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 312 | 60.12% | 519 |
| Millard | 1,004 | 55.56% | 765 | 42.34% | 38 | 2.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 239 | 13.23% | 1,807 |
| Morgan | 490 | 57.99% | 306 | 36.21% | 49 | 5.80% | 0 | 0.00% | 184 | 21.78% | 845 |
| Piute | 332 | 56.46% | 157 | 26.70% | 98 | 16.67% | 1 | 0.17% | 175 | 29.76% | 588 |
| Rich | 427 | 59.55% | 285 | 39.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 5 | 0.70% | 142 | 19.80% | 717 |
| Salt Lake | 20,755 | 57.96% | 12,954 | 36.18% | 2,059 | 5.75% | 41 | 0.11% | 7,801 | 21.79% | 35,809 |
| San Juan | 131 | 53.25% | 109 | 44.31% | 3 | 1.22% | 3 | 1.22% | 22 | 8.94% | 246 |
| Sanpete | 3,333 | 57.77% | 2,307 | 39.99% | 128 | 2.22% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,026 | 17.78% | 5,769 |
| Sevier | 1,777 | 54.90% | 1,272 | 39.30% | 187 | 5.78% | 1 | 0.03% | 505 | 15.60% | 3,237 |
| Summit | 1,612 | 50.84% | 1,402 | 44.21% | 148 | 4.67% | 9 | 0.28% | 210 | 6.62% | 3,171 |
| Tooele | 1,106 | 56.03% | 808 | 40.93% | 59 | 2.99% | 1 | 0.05% | 298 | 15.10% | 1,974 |
| Uintah | 782 | 48.57% | 683 | 42.42% | 145 | 9.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 99 | 6.15% | 1,610 |
| Utah | 6,390 | 54.88% | 4,984 | 42.81% | 267 | 2.29% | 2 | 0.02% | 1,406 | 12.08% | 11,643 |
| Wasatch | 1,265 | 53.83% | 985 | 41.91% | 98 | 4.17% | 2 | 0.09% | 280 | 11.91% | 2,350 |
| Washington | 738 | 47.49% | 810 | 52.12% | 5 | 0.32% | 1 | 0.06% | -72 | -4.63% | 1,554 |
| Wayne | 276 | 49.64% | 184 | 33.09% | 96 | 17.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 92 | 16.55% | 556 |
| Weber | 5,879 | 56.05% | 3,965 | 37.81% | 636 | 6.06% | 8 | 0.08% | 1,914 | 18.25% | 10,488 |
| Total | 61,165 | 56.23% | 42,637 | 39.19% | 4,890 | 4.50% | 92 | 0.08% | 18,528 | 17.03% | 108,784 |