1928 United States presidential election in Colorado
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County Results
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The 1928 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the
Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president
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Although
Mexican-American south-central part of the state.[2] Although Smith did make large gains in the Mexican-American counties, Hoover gained greatly over Calvin Coolidge in 1924 by up to 30 percent in the heavily populated Front Range
counties and Colorado consequently became the seventh most Republican state in the nation, voting 14 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large.
Hoover’s is the best Republican presidential performance in Colorado’s history,[3] and the second-best by any candidate behind William Jennings Bryan in 1896 when he was overwhelmingly supported by the state’s powerful silver mining industry.[4]
Results
Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) | |
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Herbert Hoover of California | Charles Curtis | Republican
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6[5] | 253,872 | 64.72% |
Alfred E. Smith | Joseph T. Robinson
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Democratic
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0 | 156,319 | 33.94% |
Norman Thomas | James Maurer
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Socialist
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0 | 3,472 | 0.89% |
Frank E. Webb | Will Vereen | Farmer-Labor
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0 | 1,092 | 0.28% |
William Z. Foster | Benjamin Gitlow | Workers Communist | 0 | 675 | 0.17% |
Results by county
County | Herbert Clark Hoover[6] Republican |
Alfred Emmanuel Smith[6] Democratic |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[6] Socialist |
Frank E. Webb[6] Farmer-Labor |
William Z. Foster[6] Communist |
Margin | ||||||
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% | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
Baca | 78.48% | 2,108 | 19.51% | 524 | 1.56% | 42 | 0.30% | 8 | 0.15% | 4 | 58.97% | 1,584 |
Morgan | 76.10% | 4,197 | 22.52% | 1,242 | 1.03% | 57 | 0.18% | 10 | 0.16% | 9 | 53.58% | 2,955 |
El Paso | 75.28% | 16,243 | 23.49% | 5,069 | 1.05% | 227 | 0.13% | 29 | 0.05% | 10 | 51.78% | 11,174 |
Otero | 74.88% | 5,788 | 24.27% | 1,876 | 0.52% | 40 | 0.25% | 19 | 0.09% | 7 | 50.61% | 3,912 |
Logan | 71.92% | 4,377 | 26.62% | 1,620 | 0.72% | 44 | 0.58% | 35 | 0.16% | 10 | 45.30% | 2,757 |
Bent | 72.13% | 1,957 | 27.31% | 741 | 0.29% | 8 | 0.18% | 5 | 0.07% | 2 | 44.82% | 1,216 |
Prowers | 71.50% | 3,228 | 26.93% | 1,216 | 0.84% | 38 | 0.55% | 25 | 0.18% | 8 | 44.56% | 2,012 |
Elbert | 71.38% | 1,933 | 27.25% | 738 | 0.89% | 24 | 0.41% | 11 | 0.07% | 2 | 44.13% | 1,195 |
Larimer | 70.94% | 8,213 | 27.66% | 3,203 | 0.86% | 100 | 0.40% | 46 | 0.14% | 16 | 43.27% | 5,010 |
Washington | 69.99% | 2,132 | 27.94% | 851 | 1.25% | 38 | 0.66% | 20 | 0.16% | 5 | 42.06% | 1,281 |
Arapahoe | 70.29% | 6,086 | 28.44% | 2,463 | 0.80% | 69 | 0.38% | 33 | 0.09% | 8 | 41.84% | 3,623 |
Yuma | 69.07% | 3,401 | 28.09% | 1,383 | 1.87% | 92 | 0.81% | 40 | 0.16% | 8 | 40.98% | 2,018 |
Weld | 69.58% | 13,719 | 29.22% | 5,762 | 0.62% | 123 | 0.44% | 87 | 0.13% | 26 | 40.36% | 7,957 |
Lincoln | 69.11% | 2,110 | 29.09% | 888 | 0.85% | 26 | 0.92% | 28 | 0.03% | 1 | 40.03% | 1,222 |
Jefferson | 69.09% | 6,754 | 29.46% | 2,880 | 0.99% | 97 | 0.32% | 31 | 0.13% | 13 | 39.63% | 3,874 |
Fremont | 68.79% | 5,365 | 30.16% | 2,352 | 0.83% | 65 | 0.17% | 13 | 0.05% | 4 | 38.63% | 3,013 |
Kiowa | 67.59% | 1,024 | 30.23% | 458 | 1.12% | 17 | 0.99% | 15 | 0.07% | 1 | 37.36% | 566 |
Delta | 67.32% | 3,731 | 30.17% | 1,672 | 1.61% | 89 | 0.72% | 40 | 0.18% | 10 | 37.15% | 2,059 |
Montrose | 67.27% | 2,873 | 30.37% | 1,297 | 1.50% | 64 | 0.73% | 31 | 0.14% | 6 | 36.90% | 1,576 |
Kit Carson | 67.37% | 2,486 | 30.81% | 1,137 | 1.03% | 38 | 0.70% | 26 | 0.08% | 3 | 36.56% | 1,349 |
Boulder | 67.48% | 9,457 | 31.13% | 4,363 | 0.92% | 129 | 0.28% | 39 | 0.19% | 27 | 36.35% | 5,094 |
Sedgwick | 67.51% | 1,247 | 31.40% | 580 | 0.81% | 15 | 0.22% | 4 | 0.05% | 1 | 36.11% | 667 |
Phillips | 65.16% | 1,440 | 31.90% | 705 | 2.49% | 55 | 0.45% | 10 | 0.00% | 0 | 33.26% | 735 |
Mesa | 65.76% | 6,446 | 32.88% | 3,223 | 0.92% | 90 | 0.36% | 35 | 0.08% | 8 | 32.88% | 3,223 |
Rio Blanco | 65.50% | 860 | 32.67% | 429 | 1.45% | 19 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.23% | 3 | 32.83% | 431 |
Pueblo | 65.65% | 15,541 | 33.29% | 7,881 | 0.74% | 174 | 0.20% | 47 | 0.13% | 30 | 32.36% | 7,660 |
Crowley | 65.42% | 1,243 | 33.42% | 635 | 0.63% | 12 | 0.53% | 10 | 0.00% | 0 | 32.00% | 608 |
Moffat | 64.56% | 1,346 | 34.05% | 710 | 0.96% | 20 | 0.34% | 7 | 0.10% | 2 | 30.50% | 636 |
Cheyenne | 63.85% | 945 | 33.78% | 500 | 1.55% | 23 | 0.81% | 12 | 0.00% | 0 | 30.07% | 445 |
Douglas | 64.25% | 1,107 | 35.00% | 603 | 0.58% | 10 | 0.17% | 3 | 0.00% | 0 | 29.25% | 504 |
Rio Grande | 64.03% | 2,254 | 34.83% | 1,226 | 0.60% | 21 | 0.37% | 13 | 0.17% | 6 | 29.20% | 1,028 |
Denver
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63.40% | 73,543 | 35.55% | 41,238 | 0.63% | 736 | 0.13% | 150 | 0.29% | 335 | 27.85% | 32,305 |
Eagle | 63.18% | 1,014 | 35.51% | 570 | 0.75% | 12 | 0.37% | 6 | 0.19% | 3 | 27.66% | 444 |
Adams | 63.10% | 4,031 | 35.46% | 2,265 | 0.85% | 54 | 0.49% | 31 | 0.11% | 7 | 27.65% | 1,766 |
Park | 62.82% | 740 | 35.57% | 419 | 1.10% | 13 | 0.42% | 5 | 0.08% | 1 | 27.25% | 321 |
Saguache | 62.62% | 1,491 | 35.87% | 854 | 1.18% | 28 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.17% | 4 | 26.75% | 637 |
Montezuma | 62.37% | 1,341 | 35.91% | 772 | 1.30% | 28 | 0.42% | 9 | 0.00% | 0 | 26.47% | 569 |
Grand | 62.15% | 770 | 36.40% | 451 | 1.29% | 16 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.08% | 1 | 25.75% | 319 |
Clear Creek | 61.05% | 790 | 37.17% | 481 | 1.55% | 20 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.00% | 0 | 23.88% | 309 |
Jackson | 60.21% | 401 | 37.39% | 249 | 1.50% | 10 | 0.45% | 3 | 0.45% | 3 | 22.82% | 152 |
Garfield | 60.03% | 2,435 | 38.51% | 1,562 | 0.94% | 38 | 0.42% | 17 | 0.10% | 4 | 21.52% | 873 |
Custer | 58.88% | 600 | 38.17% | 389 | 2.45% | 25 | 0.29% | 3 | 0.20% | 2 | 20.71% | 211 |
Chaffee | 59.49% | 1,880 | 38.92% | 1,230 | 1.17% | 37 | 0.22% | 7 | 0.19% | 6 | 20.57% | 650 |
La Plata | 59.58% | 2,837 | 39.31% | 1,872 | 0.84% | 40 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.10% | 5 | 20.26% | 965 |
Alamosa | 58.23% | 1,759 | 41.01% | 1,239 | 0.50% | 15 | 0.23% | 7 | 0.03% | 1 | 17.21% | 520 |
Routt | 57.36% | 2,304 | 40.95% | 1,645 | 1.17% | 47 | 0.32% | 13 | 0.20% | 8 | 16.41% | 659 |
Dolores | 55.92% | 387 | 40.17% | 278 | 3.18% | 22 | 0.29% | 2 | 0.43% | 3 | 15.75% | 109 |
Archuleta | 56.48% | 610 | 41.39% | 447 | 1.57% | 17 | 0.56% | 6 | 0.00% | 0 | 15.09% | 163 |
San Miguel | 54.91% | 721 | 42.19% | 554 | 1.29% | 17 | 0.38% | 5 | 1.22% | 16 | 12.72% | 167 |
Gunnison | 55.21% | 1,456 | 43.04% | 1,135 | 1.25% | 33 | 0.30% | 8 | 0.19% | 5 | 12.17% | 321 |
Gilpin | 55.17% | 299 | 43.54% | 236 | 1.11% | 6 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.00% | 0 | 11.62% | 63 |
Hinsdale | 53.78% | 128 | 44.54% | 106 | 1.68% | 4 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 9.24% | 22 |
Summit | 53.16% | 362 | 44.93% | 306 | 1.76% | 12 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.00% | 0 | 8.22% | 56 |
Teller | 52.04% | 1,184 | 45.58% | 1,037 | 1.80% | 41 | 0.31% | 7 | 0.26% | 6 | 6.46% | 147 |
Ouray | 51.49% | 535 | 46.10% | 479 | 1.54% | 16 | 0.87% | 9 | 0.00% | 0 | 5.39% | 56 |
Pitkin | 50.95% | 485 | 47.69% | 454 | 0.95% | 9 | 0.42% | 4 | 0.00% | 0 | 3.26% | 31 |
Huerfano | 49.15% | 3,260 | 50.40% | 3,343 | 0.30% | 20 | 0.09% | 6 | 0.06% | 4 | -1.25% | -83 |
Conejos | 45.24% | 1,463 | 52.32% | 1,692 | 1.76% | 57 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.34% | 11 | -7.08% | -229 |
Las Animas | 44.74% | 5,367 | 53.85% | 6,459 | 1.24% | 149 | 0.10% | 12 | 0.07% | 8 | -9.10% | -1,092 |
Mineral | 41.14% | 144 | 53.43% | 187 | 5.43% | 19 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | -12.29% | -43 |
Lake | 40.10% | 990 | 58.69% | 1,449 | 0.93% | 23 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.24% | 6 | -18.59% | -459 |
San Juan | 37.13% | 277 | 58.45% | 436 | 3.62% | 27 | 0.40% | 3 | 0.40% | 3 | -21.31% | -159 |
Costilla | 37.33% | 657 | 60.80% | 1,070 | 0.85% | 15 | 0.91% | 16 | 0.11% | 2 | -23.47% | -413 |
References
- ISBN 0871089424
- ISBN 0786460377
- ^ "Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Colorado". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
- ISBN 9780691163246
- ^ "1928 Presidential General Election Results – Colorado". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Our Campaigns; CO US President Race, November 06, 1928