1924 United States presidential election in Ohio
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The 1924 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 4, 1924 as part of the
Ohio was won decisively by the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Calvin Coolidge with 58.33 percent of the popular vote. The Democratic Party candidate, John W. Davis, garnered only 23.70 percent of the popular vote.[1]
The 1920s were a fiercely Republican decade in American politics, and Ohio in that era was a fiercely Republican state in presidential elections. The economic boom and good feelings of the Roaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership virtually guaranteed Calvin Coolidge an easy win in the state against the conservative Southern Democrat John Davis, who had little appeal in Northern states like Ohio where his reticence on the Ku Klux Klan was opposed by Catholics.[2] Ohio did possess a very powerful Ku Klux Klan organization which had swept the state's elected offices in the previous year, but had a sufficiently large Catholic population that its delegates to the Democratic National Convention demanded an anti-KKK plank.[3][4] Davis was also handicapped by a complete lack of support from local Democratic officeholders, despite efforts to campaign in the state in October.[5][6]
Coolidge won a strong majority statewide even with the Republican vote being split by the strong
Results
1924 United States presidential election in Ohio | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) | 1,176,130 | 58.33% | 24 | |
Democratic | John W. Davis | 477,888 | 23.70% | 0 | |
Progressive
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Robert M. La Follette | 357,948 | 17.75% | 0 | |
Socialist Labor
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Frank Johns
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3,025 | 0.15% | 0 | |
Commonwealth Land | William J. Wallace | 1,246 | 0.06% | 0 | |
Totals | 2,016,237 | 100.0% | 24 |
Results by county
County | John Calvin Coolidge Republican |
John William Davis Democratic |
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.[10] Progressive |
Frank Tetes Johns[11] Socialist Labor |
William J. Wallace[11] Commonwealth Land |
Margin | Total votes cast[12] | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 4,315 | 52.46% | 3,762 | 45.73% | 149 | 1.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 553 | 6.72% | 8,226 |
Allen | 15,711 | 61.76% | 7,378 | 29.00% | 2,283 | 8.98% | 59 | 0.23% | 6 | 0.02% | 8,333 | 32.76% | 25,437 |
Ashland | 5,777 | 52.68% | 4,377 | 39.91% | 802 | 7.31% | 7 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,400 | 12.77% | 10,966 |
Ashtabula | 14,767 | 69.21% | 2,135 | 10.01% | 4,370 | 20.48% | 43 | 0.20% | 22 | 0.10% | 10,397[a] | 48.73% | 21,337 |
Athens | 8,695 | 58.19% | 2,669 | 17.86% | 3,501 | 23.43% | 47 | 0.31% | 31 | 0.21% | 5,194[a] | 34.76% | 14,943 |
Auglaize | 5,507 | 51.86% | 3,952 | 37.22% | 1,143 | 10.76% | 9 | 0.08% | 7 | 0.07% | 1,555 | 14.64% | 10,618 |
Belmont | 16,378 | 54.53% | 8,074 | 26.88% | 5,386 | 17.93% | 155 | 0.52% | 42 | 0.14% | 8,304 | 27.65% | 30,035 |
Brown | 3,616 | 43.05% | 4,120 | 49.05% | 660 | 7.86% | 1 | 0.01% | 2 | 0.02% | -504 | -6.00% | 8,399 |
Butler | 19,349 | 56.25% | 11,612 | 33.76% | 3,339 | 9.71% | 84 | 0.24% | 14 | 0.04% | 7,737 | 22.49% | 34,398 |
Carroll | 4,369 | 70.78% | 1,430 | 23.17% | 364 | 5.90% | 7 | 0.11% | 3 | 0.05% | 2,939 | 47.61% | 6,173 |
Champaign | 6,181 | 60.33% | 3,575 | 34.90% | 478 | 4.67% | 10 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,606 | 25.44% | 10,245 |
Clark | 20,340 | 66.44% | 8,415 | 27.49% | 1,816 | 5.93% | 27 | 0.09% | 17 | 0.06% | 11,925 | 38.95% | 30,615 |
Clermont | 6,867 | 55.18% | 4,544 | 36.51% | 1,019 | 8.19% | 10 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.04% | 2,323 | 18.67% | 12,445 |
Clinton | 5,954 | 67.08% | 2,496 | 28.12% | 421 | 4.74% | 3 | 0.03% | 2 | 0.02% | 3,458 | 38.96% | 8,876 |
Columbiana | 20,483 | 69.97% | 4,685 | 16.01% | 4,036 | 13.79% | 47 | 0.16% | 21 | 0.07% | 15,798 | 53.97% | 29,272 |
Coshocton | 5,837 | 49.77% | 4,415 | 37.64% | 1,456 | 12.41% | 11 | 0.09% | 10 | 0.09% | 1,422 | 12.12% | 11,729 |
Crawford | 5,896 | 40.83% | 4,384 | 30.36% | 4,140 | 28.67% | 14 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.04% | 1,512 | 10.47% | 14,440 |
Cuyahoga | 130,169 | 49.29% | 24,000 | 9.09% | 109,287 | 41.39% | 392 | 0.15% | 218 | 0.08% | 20,882[a] | 7.91% | 264,066 |
Darke | 9,166 | 52.92% | 7,316 | 42.24% | 811 | 4.68% | 22 | 0.13% | 6 | 0.03% | 1,850 | 10.68% | 17,321 |
Defiance | 4,841 | 52.55% | 3,227 | 35.03% | 1,134 | 12.31% | 6 | 0.07% | 5 | 0.05% | 1,614 | 17.52% | 9,213 |
Delaware | 6,731 | 60.41% | 3,537 | 31.74% | 866 | 7.77% | 5 | 0.04% | 3 | 0.03% | 3,194 | 28.67% | 11,142 |
Erie | 7,689 | 54.34% | 2,968 | 20.97% | 3,462 | 24.46% | 24 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.06% | 4,227[a] | 29.87% | 14,151 |
Fairfield | 8,281 | 53.80% | 5,890 | 38.26% | 1,200 | 7.80% | 16 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.04% | 2,391 | 15.53% | 15,393 |
Fayette | 4,542 | 60.27% | 2,696 | 35.77% | 293 | 3.89% | 5 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,846 | 24.50% | 7,536 |
Franklin | 61,891 | 57.68% | 26,505 | 24.70% | 18,743 | 17.47% | 116 | 0.11% | 40 | 0.04% | 35,386 | 32.98% | 107,295 |
Fulton | 4,951 | 69.56% | 1,333 | 18.73% | 832 | 11.69% | 1 | 0.01% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,618 | 50.83% | 7,118 |
Gallia | 4,325 | 61.21% | 2,284 | 32.32% | 453 | 6.41% | 3 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,041 | 28.88% | 7,066 |
Geauga | 3,375 | 72.39% | 635 | 13.62% | 642 | 13.77% | 6 | 0.13% | 4 | 0.09% | 2,733[a] | 58.62% | 4,662 |
Greene | 8,410 | 72.98% | 2,471 | 21.44% | 628 | 5.45% | 13 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.01% | 5,939 | 51.54% | 11,523 |
Guernsey | 8,997 | 59.56% | 3,604 | 23.86% | 2,455 | 16.25% | 28 | 0.19% | 22 | 0.15% | 5,393 | 35.70% | 15,106 |
Hamilton | 115,950 | 60.70% | 34,916 | 18.28% | 39,768 | 20.82% | 264 | 0.14% | 131 | 0.07% | 76,182[a] | 39.88% | 191,029 |
Hancock | 9,167 | 57.03% | 5,111 | 31.80% | 1,764 | 10.97% | 23 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.06% | 4,056 | 25.23% | 16,074 |
Hardin | 7,112 | 53.66% | 5,523 | 41.67% | 613 | 4.63% | 3 | 0.02% | 3 | 0.02% | 1,589 | 11.99% | 13,254 |
Harrison | 4,904 | 65.97% | 1,999 | 26.89% | 520 | 6.99% | 8 | 0.11% | 3 | 0.04% | 2,905 | 39.08% | 7,434 |
Henry | 3,855 | 45.51% | 2,922 | 34.50% | 1,693 | 19.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 933 | 11.02% | 8,470 |
Highland | 6,845 | 57.16% | 4,583 | 38.27% | 535 | 4.47% | 8 | 0.07% | 5 | 0.04% | 2,262 | 18.89% | 11,976 |
Hocking | 4,086 | 50.46% | 2,854 | 35.24% | 1,136 | 14.03% | 17 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.06% | 1,232 | 15.21% | 8,098 |
Holmes | 1,824 | 38.26% | 2,539 | 53.25% | 400 | 8.39% | 4 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.02% | -715 | -15.00% | 4,768 |
Huron | 8,340 | 62.12% | 2,871 | 21.39% | 2,186 | 16.28% | 19 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.07% | 5,469 | 40.74% | 13,425 |
Jackson | 5,977 | 61.45% | 2,848 | 29.28% | 869 | 8.93% | 27 | 0.28% | 6 | 0.06% | 3,129 | 32.17% | 9,727 |
Jefferson | 14,929 | 67.97% | 3,840 | 17.48% | 3,097 | 14.10% | 75 | 0.34% | 22 | 0.10% | 11,089 | 50.49% | 21,963 |
Knox | 7,519 | 57.43% | 4,721 | 36.06% | 852 | 6.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,798 | 21.37% | 13,093 |
Lake | 7,727 | 70.71% | 974 | 8.91% | 2,208 | 20.21% | 8 | 0.07% | 10 | 0.09% | 5,519[a] | 50.51% | 10,927 |
Lawrence | 6,798 | 63.96% | 2,729 | 25.68% | 1,078 | 10.14% | 20 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.03% | 4,069 | 38.29% | 10,628 |
Licking | 13,914 | 58.49% | 7,428 | 31.23% | 2,418 | 10.16% | 14 | 0.06% | 14 | 0.06% | 6,486 | 27.27% | 23,788 |
Logan | 7,186 | 61.03% | 3,176 | 26.97% | 1,393 | 11.83% | 12 | 0.10% | 7 | 0.06% | 4,010 | 34.06% | 11,774 |
Lorain | 17,062 | 61.43% | 3,965 | 14.28% | 6,680 | 24.05% | 42 | 0.15% | 25 | 0.09% | 10,382[a] | 37.38% | 27,774 |
Lucas | 53,670 | 55.39% | 11,948 | 12.33% | 31,039 | 32.03% | 160 | 0.17% | 85 | 0.09% | 22,631[a] | 23.35% | 96,902 |
Madison | 4,829 | 61.97% | 2,685 | 34.46% | 278 | 3.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,144 | 27.52% | 7,792 |
Mahoning | 37,647 | 68.12% | 9,335 | 16.89% | 8,102 | 14.66% | 127 | 0.23% | 53 | 0.10% | 28,312 | 51.23% | 55,264 |
Marion | 9,161 | 54.20% | 5,234 | 30.97% | 2,475 | 14.64% | 23 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.05% | 3,927 | 23.24% | 16,901 |
Medina | 6,756 | 67.76% | 1,844 | 18.49% | 1,351 | 13.55% | 16 | 0.16% | 4 | 0.04% | 4,912 | 49.26% | 9,971 |
Meigs | 4,864 | 57.28% | 1,944 | 22.89% | 1,648 | 19.41% | 27 | 0.32% | 9 | 0.11% | 2,920 | 34.39% | 8,492 |
Mercer | 4,215 | 40.40% | 5,135 | 49.21% | 1,071 | 10.26% | 9 | 0.09% | 4 | 0.04% | -920 | -8.82% | 10,434 |
Miami | 11,851 | 62.70% | 5,296 | 28.02% | 1,726 | 9.13% | 13 | 0.07% | 15 | 0.08% | 6,555 | 34.68% | 18,901 |
Monroe | 2,674 | 40.58% | 3,742 | 56.79% | 165 | 2.50% | 6 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.03% | -1,068 | -16.21% | 6,589 |
Montgomery | 50,845 | 62.61% | 21,860 | 26.92% | 8,312 | 10.24% | 144 | 0.18% | 49 | 0.06% | 28,985 | 35.69% | 81,210 |
Morgan | 3,553 | 60.94% | 2,072 | 35.54% | 199 | 3.41% | 5 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,481 | 25.40% | 5,830 |
Morrow | 3,790 | 57.39% | 2,379 | 36.02% | 435 | 6.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,411 | 21.37% | 6,604 |
Muskingum | 15,571 | 65.71% | 6,709 | 28.31% | 1,377 | 5.81% | 28 | 0.12% | 12 | 0.05% | 8,862 | 37.40% | 23,697 |
Noble | 4,284 | 60.78% | 2,485 | 35.26% | 272 | 3.86% | 4 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,799 | 25.52% | 7,048 |
Ottawa | 4,137 | 51.77% | 2,571 | 32.17% | 1,274 | 15.94% | 6 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,566 | 19.60% | 7,991 |
Paulding | 3,648 | 57.79% | 2,242 | 35.52% | 414 | 6.56% | 5 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,406 | 22.28% | 6,312 |
Perry | 7,592 | 58.11% | 3,702 | 28.34% | 1,718 | 13.15% | 36 | 0.28% | 17 | 0.13% | 3,890 | 29.77% | 13,065 |
Pickaway | 4,166 | 46.24% | 4,539 | 50.38% | 293 | 3.25% | 5 | 0.06% | 6 | 0.07% | -373 | -4.14% | 9,009 |
Pike | 2,569 | 43.87% | 3,185 | 54.39% | 100 | 1.71% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | -616 | -10.52% | 5,856 |
Portage | 8,583 | 62.43% | 2,994 | 21.78% | 2,131 | 15.50% | 26 | 0.19% | 15 | 0.11% | 5,589 | 40.65% | 13,749 |
Preble | 5,676 | 56.75% | 4,033 | 40.33% | 282 | 2.82% | 7 | 0.07% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,643 | 16.43% | 10,001 |
Putnam | 4,377 | 41.83% | 4,795 | 45.82% | 1,283 | 12.26% | 6 | 0.06% | 4 | 0.04% | -418 | -3.99% | 10,465 |
Richland | 12,013 | 55.50% | 6,703 | 30.97% | 2,905 | 13.42% | 21 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.01% | 5,310 | 24.53% | 21,645 |
Ross | 8,431 | 53.86% | 6,028 | 38.51% | 1,178 | 7.53% | 12 | 0.08% | 4 | 0.03% | 2,403 | 15.35% | 15,653 |
Sandusky | 9,381 | 60.88% | 4,388 | 28.48% | 1,626 | 10.55% | 11 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.01% | 4,993 | 32.41% | 15,408 |
Scioto | 12,189 | 62.83% | 5,532 | 28.51% | 1,643 | 8.47% | 34 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.02% | 6,657 | 34.31% | 19,401 |
Seneca | 9,641 | 53.29% | 6,290 | 34.77% | 2,119 | 11.71% | 26 | 0.14% | 15 | 0.08% | 3,351 | 18.52% | 18,091 |
Shelby | 4,359 | 44.41% | 4,840 | 49.31% | 606 | 6.17% | 6 | 0.06% | 5 | 0.05% | -481 | -4.90% | 9,816 |
Stark | 40,858 | 64.28% | 12,544 | 19.74% | 9,960 | 15.67% | 170 | 0.27% | 30 | 0.05% | 28,314 | 44.55% | 63,562 |
Summit | 53,774 | 65.28% | 17,533 | 21.29% | 10,855 | 13.18% | 160 | 0.19% | 49 | 0.06% | 36,241 | 44.00% | 82,371 |
Trumbull | 22,341 | 74.35% | 4,007 | 13.33% | 3,628 | 12.07% | 56 | 0.19% | 17 | 0.06% | 18,334 | 61.01% | 30,049 |
Tuscarawas | 13,573 | 56.97% | 5,566 | 23.36% | 4,602 | 19.32% | 68 | 0.29% | 16 | 0.07% | 8,007 | 33.61% | 23,825 |
Union | 5,256 | 62.74% | 2,571 | 30.69% | 540 | 6.45% | 8 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.04% | 2,685 | 32.05% | 8,378 |
Van Wert | 6,206 | 53.14% | 4,318 | 36.98% | 1,138 | 9.74% | 7 | 0.06% | 9 | 0.08% | 1,888 | 16.17% | 11,678 |
Vinton | 2,244 | 51.87% | 1,838 | 42.49% | 232 | 5.36% | 8 | 0.18% | 4 | 0.09% | 406 | 9.39% | 4,326 |
Warren | 6,729 | 69.02% | 2,406 | 24.68% | 609 | 6.25% | 3 | 0.03% | 2 | 0.02% | 4,323 | 44.34% | 9,749 |
Washington | 8,704 | 57.12% | 5,727 | 37.58% | 780 | 5.12% | 20 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.05% | 2,977 | 19.54% | 15,239 |
Wayne | 8,928 | 53.80% | 6,023 | 36.30% | 1,624 | 9.79% | 14 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.03% | 2,905 | 17.51% | 16,594 |
Williams | 5,802 | 56.41% | 2,795 | 27.18% | 1,671 | 16.25% | 9 | 0.09% | 8 | 0.08% | 3,007 | 29.24% | 10,285 |
Wood | 10,665 | 65.33% | 3,291 | 20.16% | 2,347 | 14.38% | 18 | 0.11% | 4 | 0.02% | 7,374 | 45.17% | 16,325 |
Wyandot | 3,973 | 50.86% | 3,271 | 41.88% | 561 | 7.18% | 5 | 0.06% | 1 | 0.01% | 702 | 8.99% | 7,811 |
Totals | 1,176,130 | 58.33% | 477,888 | 23.70% | 357,948 | 17.75% | 3,025 | 0.15% | 1,246 | 0.06% | 698,242 | 34.63% | 2,016,237 |
See also
Notes
References
- ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1924 Presidential General Election Results - Ohio
- ^ Faykosh, Joseph D.; 'A Party in Peril: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic Party, and the Circular Letter of 1924' (thesis); pp. 148-149
- ^ 'Klan Candidates Swept Ohio Cities: Lost Only in Steubenville, Where an Anti-Ku Klux Organization Started After Riots'; The New York Times Special Edition, November 8, 1923, p. 1
- ^ 'Anti-Klan Plank Gets Ohio's Backing: Delegation Endorses Moore's Draft and Names N.D. Baker to Resolutions Committee'; The New York Times, June 24, 1924, p. 2
- ^ 'Davis Plans Drive in Ohio and Illinois as Chances Improve: He Changes His Itinerary as He Gets Reports of Strong Trend to Him in Middle West'; New York Times Special, October 13, 1924, p. 1
- ^ 'Sacrifice of Davis Reported in Ohio: Brotherhood's Support of Democratic State Ticket Taken as Indicating Move'; The New York Times Special, October 10, 1924, p. 8
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- ISBN 9780226473727.
- ^ Shaw, Albert (1924). "The American Review of Reviews".
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for Robert LaFollette (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ a b Ohio Secretary of State Election Services; 'Vote for President, State Officers, ...Polled in the Several Counties of the State of Ohio at the Election Held on the First Tuesday after the First Monday, being the Fourth Day of November, 1924' pp. 22-23
- ISBN 9780804716963