A county result
Perry County, presidential election of 1908
Perry County
49.48%William Howard Taft (R), the most votes8,698Votes counted for president
What this is
Perry County counted 8,698 votes for president across 5 candidates in 1908. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.
The count, as certified
Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Howard Taft | Republican | 4,304 | 49.48% |
| William Jennings Bryan | Democratic | 3,885 | 44.67% |
| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist | 398 | 4.58% |
| Eugene W. Chafin | Prohibition | 102 | 1.17% |
| Other | Other | 9 | 0.10% |
Turnout: None found in the records checked
This year in context
Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.
- Ohio that year
- Ohio went to William Howard Taft (Republican) with 51.03%, a 6.2-point margin over William Jennings Bryan. The country elected William Howard Taft.
- Against the state
- Perry County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+4.8 against Ohio's R+6.2: 1.4 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 44th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1904
- From 1904 to 1908 the county's lean moved 20.4 points toward the Democrats, from R+25.2 to R+4.8.
- Matched
- Perry County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.
Every field this record holds
The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.
Not yet researched
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1908 United States presidential election in Ohio
- 1908 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1908-11-03 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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