The 1908 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 3, 1908, as part of the 1908 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Following the Panic of 1893 and the Populist movement, Michigan would turn from a competitive Republican-leaning state into a rigidly one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party. The dominance of the culture of the Lower Peninsula by anti-slavery YankeesEnglish, Gustavus P.; Proceedings of the Ninth Republican National Convention (1888), p. 234 would be augmented by the turn of formerly Democratic-leaning German Catholics away from that party as a result of the remodelled party's agrarian and free silver sympathies, which became rigidly opposed by both the upper class and workers who followed them. The state Democratic Party was further crippled via the Populist movement severing its critical financial ties with business and commerce in Michigan as in other Northern states. A brief turn of the strongly evangelical Cabinet Counties toward the Populist movement in the 1896 presidential election would reverse itself following the return to prosperity under President William McKinley, so that these joined in Republican hegemony until the Great Depression. McKinley would also later beat Bryan in the state again four years later.

In the 1894 elections, the Democratic Party lost all but one seat in the Michigan legislature, and the party would only make minor gains there for the next third of a century. Unlike the other states of the Upper Midwest, the Yankee influence on the culture of the Lower Peninsula was so strong that left-wing third parties did not provide significant opposition to the Republicans, nor was there more than a moderate degree of coordinated factionalism within the hegemonic Michigan Republican Party.

With Michigan's solid one-party GOP status not threatened, neither William Howard Taft nor Bryan campaigned in the state, and the only straw vote suggested that Republican nominee Taft from Ohio would carry the state over third-time Democratic candidate Nebraskan William Jennings Bryan by between fifty and one hundred thousand votes — still a halving of the huge margin Theodore Roosevelt had gained over Alton B. Parker four years previously. However, the Santa Ana Register estimate proved extremely conservative, for the Republican ticket received nearly 62 percent of the vote, while the Democrats received only 32 percent.

With 61.93 percent of the popular vote, Michigan would be Taft's third strongest victory in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont and Maine. This was the second time, after the previous election, that any party carried every county in the state.

Results + General Election ResultsMichigan State Archives, Canvass of the votes given at the General Election, held in the State of Michigan on Tuesday the Third day of November A.D. 1908Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican William Howard Taft Frederick M. Alger335,580 Republican William Howard Taft John N. Bagley333,446 Republican William Howard Taft George Barnes333,174 Republican William Howard Taft Jerome H. Bishop333,161 Republican William Howard Taft Clifford C. Ward333,152 Republican William Howard Taft Frederick A. Washburn333,152 Republican William Howard Taft James R. Thompson333,148 Republican William Howard Taft Henry B. Smith333,141 Republican William Howard Taft George Clapperton333,112 Republican William Howard Taft William H. Acker333,079 Republican William Howard Taft Alvin M. Bentley333,064 Republican William Howard Taft Salomon Stern333,050 Republican William Howard Taft Warren A. Cartier333,029 Republican William Howard Taft Alfred J. Doherty333,028 Democratic William Jennings Bryan John D. Mershon175,771 Democratic William Jennings Bryan John F. Bible174,715 Democratic William Jennings Bryan John F. Murphy174,665 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Edwin A. Burch174,616 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Charles R. Sligh174,579 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Jacob Martin174,543 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Daniel J. Gerow174,517 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Emery D. Weimer174,496 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Thomas J. Dundon174,495 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Frederick Thoman174,492 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Robert H. Rayburn174,470 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Daniel L. Ensign174,460 Democratic William Jennings Bryan Charles W. Williams174,453 Democratic William Jennings Bryan John W. Ewing174,392 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin William A. Taylor16,974 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Fred W. Corbett16,812 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Newton J. Carey16,792 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Leroy H. White16,791 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Andrew J. Liverance16,789 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Alexander McVittie16,786 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Lucius D. Boynton16,785 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Judge R. Barnum16,782 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Joseph Leighton16,777 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin George Roelofs16,775 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Byron P. Wilkinson16,775 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin George M. Sprout16,773 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin John T. Spencer16,768 Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin Jefferson D. Leland16,759 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Deland M. Stevens11,586 Socialist Eugene V. Debs William H. Barry11,538 Socialist Eugene V. Debs George M. Campbell11,537 Socialist Eugene V. Debs August Wolf11,537 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Charles Hunt11,528 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Joseph La Barge11,525 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Thomas Smith11,524 Socialist Eugene V. Debs David C. Nettleton11,516 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Reuben Frantz11,514 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Jerry Van Weirden11,512 Socialist Eugene V. Debs William H. Bingham11,511 Socialist Eugene V. Debs William F. Lilsanantti11,468 Socialist Eugene V. Debs John G. Heal11,426 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Anna Grigsby Lockwood7,847 Socialist Labor August Gillhaus Henry Ulbright1,096 Socialist Labor August Gillhaus Albert B. Latta1,067 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen C. P. Sterns760 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen William J. Hall742 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen George Whitmore740 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen John J. Beams738 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen Edward Doyden738 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen E. Hayward736 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen Thad King736 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen John E. Long735 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen R. L. Horton734 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen W. J. Cushway733 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen F. F. French733 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen George Gerould732 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen Charles Lamb727 Independence Thomas L. Hisgen P. Lowry726 United Christian Daniel Turney J. F. Cook63 United Christian Daniel Turney H. L. Feerman63 United Christian Daniel Turney J. H. Reilley63 United Christian Daniel Turney V. Wagner63 United Christian Daniel Turney G. W. Weaver63 United Christian Daniel Turney T. Burley62 United Christian Daniel Turney O. R. Stikon62 United Christian Daniel Turney A. Tanner62 United Christian Daniel Turney Thomas Williams62 United Christian Daniel Turney B. Clark61 United Christian Daniel Turney J. R. Keyes61 United Christian Daniel Turney F. E. Kinsmore61 United Christian Daniel Turney Charles M. Meyers61 United Christian Daniel Turney G. Wyman61Votes cast 541,830

Results by county The results below are those for the highest elector on each ticket. The results listed in the 1909-1910 Michigan Manual are a "general average" for each ticket and thus not the "true" results.