| Election Name: | 1808 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Pennsylvania |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1805 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 1805 |
| Next Election: | 1811 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 1811 |
| Image1: | SimonSnyder.jpg |
| Party1: | Democratic-Republican Party |
| Nominee1: | Simon Snyder |
| Popular Vote1: | 67,975 |
| Percentage1: | 60.9% |
| Nominee2: | James Ross |
| Party2: | Federalist Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 39,575 |
| Percentage2: | 35.5% |
| Map Size: | 200px |
| Governor | |
| Before Election: | Thomas McKean |
| Before Party: | Independent (politician) |
| After Election: | Simon Snyder |
| After Party: | Democratic-Republican Party |
The 1808 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election occurred on October 11, 1808. Incumbent governor Thomas McKean, a former Democratic Republican who had faced impeachment by members of his own party during the prior term, was not a candidate. Democratic-Republican candidate Simon Snyder, former Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives defeated Federalist candidate and former U.S. Senator James Ross to become Governor of Pennsylvania. Snyder, with the aid of a supportive press, campaigned as a "New School Democrat" and attempted to ally himself with James Madison. He painted the former McKean administration as elitist and advocated for popular democracy, governmental intervention in the economy, and infrastructural support for Western Pennsylvania counties.http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/1790-1879/4283/simon_snyder/444136