1928 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
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The 1928 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1928 as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The beginning of the 1910s would see a minor Democratic revival as many La Follette progressives endorsed
Nonetheless, in that 1924 election Wisconsin's popular long-time Republican Senator La Follette would via prevalent isolationist and progressive sentiment carry the state's electoral votes, and when La Follette died the following year his family did not endorse a Republican, but rather New York City Catholic Democrat Al Smith.[7] The nomination of Smith โ inevitable with other Democrats sitting the election out[8] โ had the effect of aligning the Democrats towards Wisconsin's sizeable Southern and Eastern European immigrant population, and Smith's Wall Street connections helped reconnect the isolationist, conservative German Catholic areas of eastern Wisconsin who had completely deserted the Democrats over opposition to Wilson's foreign policies.[9]
When Senator
Hoover thus carried Wisconsin by a comfortable 9.24 percentage point margin, still a remarkable transformation from 1920 when the state had been Cox's weakest and Harding won by over 55 percentage points. Smith recouped the Third Party System Democratic counties: in entirely Catholic Marshfield Township which typically gave pre-1916 Democrats over ninety percent but gave Cox only 4 percent, Smith won all but two percent.[9] Hoover's ability to take the La Follette vote in anti-Catholic Scandinavian areas of western Wisconsin was critical in winning him the state.[13] As of 2020[update], this is the last election in which Douglas County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[14]
Results
1928 United States presidential election in Wisconsin[15] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Herbert Hoover | 544,205 | 53.52% | 13 | |
Democratic | Al Smith | 450,259 | 44.28% | 0 | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 18,213 | 1.79% | 0 | |
Prohibition | William F. Varney | 2,245 | 0.22% | 0 | |
Independent Workers | William Z. Foster | 1,528 | 0.15% | 0 | |
Independent Labor | Verne L. Reynolds | 381 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Totals | 1,012,677 | 100.0% | 13 |
Results by county
County | Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Alfred Emmanuel Smith Democratic |
Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 1,624 | 62.95% | 914 | 35.43% | 24 | 0.93% | 18 | 0.70% | 710 | 27.52% | 2,580 |
Ashland | 3,639 | 49.36% | 3,570 | 48.43% | 95 | 1.29% | 68 | 0.92% | 69 | 0.94% | 7,372 |
Barron | 8,455 | 71.98% | 3,185 | 27.12% | 71 | 0.60% | 35 | 0.30% | 5,270 | 44.87% | 11,746 |
Bayfield | 3,279 | 63.41% | 1,709 | 33.05% | 49 | 0.95% | 134 | 2.59% | 1,570 | 30.36% | 5,171 |
Brown | 9,371 | 36.04% | 16,465 | 63.32% | 135 | 0.52% | 33 | 0.13% | -7,094 | -27.28% | 26,004 |
Buffalo | 3,027 | 61.88% | 1,836 | 37.53% | 11 | 0.22% | 18 | 0.37% | 1,191 | 24.35% | 4,892 |
Burnett | 2,742 | 74.71% | 880 | 23.98% | 31 | 0.84% | 17 | 0.46% | 1,862 | 50.74% | 3,670 |
Calumet | 2,405 | 38.04% | 3,871 | 61.22% | 35 | 0.55% | 12 | 0.19% | -1,466 | -23.19% | 6,323 |
Chippewa | 7,514 | 55.41% | 5,985 | 44.13% | 25 | 0.18% | 37 | 0.27% | 1,529 | 11.27% | 13,561 |
Clark | 6,948 | 62.48% | 3,938 | 35.41% | 140 | 1.26% | 95 | 0.85% | 3,010 | 27.07% | 11,121 |
Columbia | 7,615 | 60.70% | 4,819 | 38.41% | 50 | 0.40% | 61 | 0.49% | 2,796 | 22.29% | 12,545 |
Crawford | 3,452 | 51.18% | 3,238 | 48.01% | 19 | 0.28% | 36 | 0.53% | 214 | 3.17% | 6,745 |
Dane | 23,680 | 54.85% | 19,126 | 44.30% | 252 | 0.58% | 112 | 0.26% | 4,554 | 10.55% | 43,170 |
Dodge | 9,660 | 49.71% | 9,536 | 49.07% | 180 | 0.93% | 58 | 0.30% | 124 | 0.64% | 19,434 |
Door | 3,636 | 59.28% | 2,456 | 40.04% | 17 | 0.28% | 25 | 0.41% | 1,180 | 19.24% | 6,134 |
Douglas | 11,280 | 61.20% | 6,762 | 36.69% | 87 | 0.47% | 303 | 1.64% | 4,518 | 24.51% | 18,432 |
Dunn | 7,096 | 76.51% | 2,045 | 22.05% | 52 | 0.56% | 81 | 0.87% | 5,051 | 54.46% | 9,274 |
Eau Claire | 10,079 | 69.25% | 4,385 | 30.13% | 49 | 0.34% | 42 | 0.29% | 5,694 | 39.12% | 14,555 |
Florence | 993 | 64.27% | 540 | 34.95% | 2 | 0.13% | 10 | 0.65% | 453 | 29.32% | 1,545 |
Fond du Lac | 12,593 | 51.36% | 11,719 | 47.80% | 126 | 0.51% | 79 | 0.32% | 874 | 3.56% | 24,517 |
Forest | 1,918 | 52.82% | 1,677 | 46.19% | 13 | 0.36% | 23 | 0.63% | 241 | 6.64% | 3,631 |
Grant | 10,052 | 59.85% | 6,630 | 39.48% | 37 | 0.22% | 75 | 0.45% | 3,422 | 20.38% | 16,794 |
Green | 5,152 | 64.17% | 2,812 | 35.02% | 31 | 0.39% | 34 | 0.42% | 2,340 | 29.14% | 8,029 |
Green Lake | 3,038 | 53.15% | 2,622 | 45.87% | 26 | 0.45% | 30 | 0.52% | 416 | 7.28% | 5,716 |
Iowa | 5,484 | 63.26% | 3,129 | 36.09% | 20 | 0.23% | 36 | 0.42% | 2,355 | 27.17% | 8,669 |
Iron | 1,274 | 40.68% | 1,724 | 55.04% | 16 | 0.51% | 118 | 3.77% | -450 | -14.37% | 3,132 |
Jackson | 4,353 | 75.17% | 1,364 | 23.55% | 22 | 0.38% | 52 | 0.90% | 2,989 | 51.61% | 5,791 |
Jefferson | 8,612 | 57.29% | 6,305 | 41.94% | 76 | 0.51% | 40 | 0.27% | 2,307 | 15.35% | 15,033 |
Juneau | 3,777 | 57.74% | 2,708 | 41.40% | 34 | 0.52% | 22 | 0.34% | 1,069 | 16.34% | 6,541 |
Kenosha | 11,330 | 50.66% | 10,638 | 47.57% | 276 | 1.23% | 119 | 0.53% | 692 | 3.09% | 22,363 |
Kewaunee | 1,556 | 27.94% | 3,988 | 71.61% | 11 | 0.20% | 14 | 0.25% | -2,432 | -43.67% | 5,569 |
La Crosse | 11,321 | 55.78% | 8,877 | 43.74% | 38 | 0.19% | 59 | 0.29% | 2,444 | 12.04% | 20,295 |
Lafayette | 5,134 | 58.53% | 3,585 | 40.87% | 16 | 0.18% | 36 | 0.41% | 1,549 | 17.66% | 8,771 |
Langlade | 3,715 | 47.15% | 4,078 | 51.76% | 45 | 0.57% | 41 | 0.52% | -363 | -4.61% | 7,879 |
Lincoln | 4,025 | 56.06% | 3,091 | 43.05% | 28 | 0.39% | 36 | 0.50% | 934 | 13.01% | 7,180 |
Manitowoc | 7,519 | 41.70% | 10,292 | 57.08% | 172 | 0.95% | 49 | 0.27% | -2,773 | -15.38% | 18,032 |
Marathon | 10,127 | 48.02% | 10,675 | 50.61% | 221 | 1.05% | 68 | 0.32% | -548 | -2.60% | 21,091 |
Marinette | 6,516 | 57.04% | 4,781 | 41.85% | 96 | 0.84% | 31 | 0.27% | 1,735 | 15.19% | 11,424 |
Marquette | 2,554 | 65.44% | 1,313 | 33.64% | 15 | 0.38% | 21 | 0.54% | 1,241 | 31.80% | 3,903 |
Milwaukee | 82,025 | 39.77% | 110,668 | 53.66% | 12,934 | 6.27% | 610 | 0.30% | -28,643 | -13.89% | 206,237 |
Monroe | 5,936 | 61.01% | 3,709 | 38.12% | 59 | 0.61% | 26 | 0.27% | 2,227 | 22.89% | 9,730 |
Oconto | 4,661 | 51.91% | 4,253 | 47.37% | 28 | 0.31% | 37 | 0.41% | 408 | 4.54% | 8,979 |
Oneida | 3,100 | 54.32% | 2,504 | 43.88% | 75 | 1.31% | 28 | 0.49% | 596 | 10.44% | 5,707 |
Outagamie | 12,378 | 49.58% | 12,474 | 49.97% | 65 | 0.26% | 47 | 0.19% | -96 | -0.38% | 24,964 |
Ozaukee | 2,338 | 37.16% | 3,864 | 61.41% | 70 | 1.11% | 20 | 0.32% | -1,526 | -24.25% | 6,292 |
Pepin | 1,839 | 58.57% | 1,276 | 40.64% | 16 | 0.51% | 9 | 0.29% | 563 | 17.93% | 3,140 |
Pierce | 6,491 | 67.65% | 3,017 | 31.44% | 51 | 0.53% | 36 | 0.38% | 3,474 | 36.21% | 9,595 |
Polk | 6,905 | 75.14% | 2,177 | 23.69% | 76 | 0.83% | 32 | 0.35% | 4,728 | 51.45% | 9,190 |
Portage | 5,161 | 43.03% | 6,764 | 56.39% | 36 | 0.30% | 34 | 0.28% | -1,603 | -13.36% | 11,995 |
Price | 3,210 | 57.92% | 2,223 | 40.11% | 48 | 0.87% | 61 | 1.10% | 987 | 17.81% | 5,542 |
Racine | 17,423 | 56.56% | 13,021 | 42.27% | 258 | 0.84% | 104 | 0.34% | 4,402 | 14.29% | 30,806 |
Richland | 5,685 | 70.87% | 2,262 | 28.20% | 32 | 0.40% | 43 | 0.54% | 3,423 | 42.67% | 8,022 |
Rock | 21,497 | 70.75% | 8,726 | 28.72% | 81 | 0.27% | 80 | 0.26% | 12,771 | 42.03% | 30,384 |
Rusk | 3,524 | 63.62% | 1,925 | 34.75% | 51 | 0.92% | 39 | 0.70% | 1,599 | 28.87% | 5,539 |
Sauk | 7,496 | 58.89% | 5,151 | 40.47% | 35 | 0.27% | 47 | 0.37% | 2,345 | 18.42% | 12,729 |
Sawyer | 1,882 | 61.44% | 1,129 | 36.86% | 29 | 0.95% | 23 | 0.75% | 753 | 24.58% | 3,063 |
Shawano | 5,198 | 57.34% | 3,779 | 41.69% | 52 | 0.57% | 36 | 0.40% | 1,419 | 15.65% | 9,065 |
Sheboygan | 12,640 | 51.17% | 11,439 | 46.31% | 535 | 2.17% | 87 | 0.35% | 1,201 | 4.86% | 24,701 |
St. Croix | 6,855 | 62.17% | 4,083 | 37.03% | 56 | 0.51% | 32 | 0.29% | 2,772 | 25.14% | 11,026 |
Taylor | 2,648 | 54.61% | 2,095 | 43.20% | 88 | 1.81% | 18 | 0.37% | 553 | 11.40% | 4,849 |
Trempealeau | 5,596 | 64.97% | 2,963 | 34.40% | 16 | 0.19% | 38 | 0.44% | 2,633 | 30.57% | 8,613 |
Vernon | 6,596 | 71.28% | 2,559 | 27.65% | 35 | 0.38% | 64 | 0.69% | 4,037 | 43.62% | 9,254 |
Vilas | 1,609 | 58.45% | 1,083 | 39.34% | 46 | 1.67% | 15 | 0.54% | 526 | 19.11% | 2,753 |
Walworth | 9,846 | 69.36% | 4,253 | 29.96% | 45 | 0.32% | 52 | 0.37% | 5,593 | 39.40% | 14,196 |
Washburn | 2,898 | 70.03% | 1,192 | 28.81% | 36 | 0.87% | 12 | 0.29% | 1,706 | 41.23% | 4,138 |
Washington | 4,163 | 41.13% | 5,827 | 57.57% | 115 | 1.14% | 17 | 0.17% | -1,664 | -16.44% | 10,122 |
Waukesha | 12,218 | 60.15% | 7,846 | 38.63% | 168 | 0.83% | 79 | 0.39% | 4,372 | 21.53% | 20,311 |
Waupaca | 8,928 | 72.32% | 3,307 | 26.79% | 68 | 0.55% | 42 | 0.34% | 5,621 | 45.53% | 12,345 |
Waushara | 4,068 | 75.42% | 1,260 | 23.36% | 34 | 0.63% | 32 | 0.59% | 2,808 | 52.06% | 5,394 |
Winnebago | 16,191 | 61.10% | 9,995 | 37.72% | 201 | 0.76% | 114 | 0.43% | 6,196 | 23.38% | 26,501 |
Wood | 6,655 | 51.24% | 6,167 | 47.48% | 131 | 1.01% | 35 | 0.27% | 488 | 3.76% | 12,988 |
Totals | 544,205 | 53.52% | 450,259 | 44.28% | 18,213 | 1.79% | 4,154 | 0.41% | 93,946 | 9.24% | 1,016,831 |
See also
References
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- ^ a b Baggaley, Andrew R.; 'Religious Influence on Wisconsin Voting, 1928-1960'; The American Political Science Review, Vol. 56, No. 1 (March 1962), pp. 66-70
- ^ 'La Follette Chief Out Against Hoover: Senator Blaine Say No Republican Owes Allegiance to Him'; The New York Times, September 24, 1928
- ^ a b 'Party Lines Fade in Wisconsin: Straight Ticket Is Non-Existent in the Criss-Cross of Politics. Betting Even on the State but Odds Should Be Given on Smith, the Republicans Say'
- ^ 'La Follette Shuns Aid to Either Party: Principles Forced Into Campaign by Progressives Are Only Hope of People, He Declares'; The New York Times, October 27, 1928, p. 9
- ^ a b 'Wisconsin Starts Hoover with Lead: Republican Shows Strength in Smith Territory'; Daily Boston Globe;
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