1908 United States presidential election

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/1908_United_States_presidential_election
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:politics
gptkbp:BryanElectoralVotes 162
gptkbp:BryanPopularVote 6,409,104
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:date November 3, 1908
gptkbp:DebsElectoralVotes 0
gptkbp:DebsParty gptkb:Socialist_Party_of_America
gptkbp:DebsPopularVote 420,793
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 1908 United States presidential election
gptkbp:incumbent gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkb:Theodore_Roosevelt
gptkbp:mainCandidate gptkb:William_Howard_Taft
gptkb:William_Jennings_Bryan
gptkbp:mapType Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Taft/Sherman, blue denotes those won by Bryan/Kern.
gptkbp:nextEdition gptkb:1912_United_States_presidential_election
gptkbp:notableFor William Jennings Bryan lost his third presidential election
First election after Oklahoma became a state
Taft was Roosevelt's chosen successor
Theodore Roosevelt declined to run for another term
gptkbp:presidentialNomineeDemocratic gptkb:William_Jennings_Bryan
gptkbp:presidentialNomineeRepublican gptkb:William_Howard_Taft
gptkbp:presidentialNomineeSocialist gptkb:Eugene_V._Debs
gptkbp:previousEdition gptkb:1904_United_States_presidential_election
gptkbp:runnerUp gptkb:Democratic_Party
gptkb:William_Jennings_Bryan
gptkbp:TaftElectoralVotes 321
gptkbp:TaftPopularVote 7,678,395
gptkbp:thirdPlace gptkb:Eugene_V._Debs
gptkbp:troopContributingCountries 46
gptkbp:vicePresidentialNomineeDemocratic gptkb:John_W._Kern
gptkbp:vicePresidentialNomineeRepublican gptkb:James_S._Sherman
gptkbp:vicePresidentialNomineeSocialist gptkb:Benjamin_Hanford
gptkbp:voterTurnout 65.7%
gptkbp:winner gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkb:William_Howard_Taft
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:William_Jennings_Bryan
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5