Who won Mississippi in the 1908 presidential election?

Bryan (Democratic) carried Mississippi in 1908, winning its 10 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 1908?

Mississippi cast 10 electoral votes in the 1908 presidential election.

Did Mississippi vote for the national winner in 1908?

No. Mississippi backed Bryan, while William Howard Taft won the presidency nationally.

Progressive EraMS · 10 EV

1908

Mississippi: Bryan carries 10 EV.

Mississippi cast its 10 electoral votes for Bryan (Democratic). National winner: William Howard Taft (Republican) — Mississippi voted against the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1908 result in Mississippi

Mississippi backed Bryan (Democratic) in the 1908 presidential election, casting 10 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — William Howard Taft (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Mississippi among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 9th consecutive election in which Mississippi backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Mississippi did not move alone — neighboring Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama broke the same way in 1908. Across the 51 presidential elections Mississippi has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 times). The vote fell within the Progressive Era — Trust-busting, suffrage, and World War I.

In the national count, William Howard Taft took 321 of the 483 electoral votes, against William Jennings Bryan's 162. William Howard Taft led the national popular vote with 51.57% of the ballots cast.

The 1908 national map

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