1924 United States presidential election in Ohio

The 1924 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 4, 1924 as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1924 United States presidential election in Ohio

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NomineeCalvin CoolidgeJohn W. DavisRobert M. La Follette
PartyRepublicanDemocraticProgressive
Home stateMassachusettsWest VirginiaWisconsin
Running mateCharles G. DawesCharles W. BryanBurton K. Wheeler
Electoral vote2400
Popular vote1,176,130477,888357,948
Percentage58.33%23.70%17.75%

County Results

President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

Elected President

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

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 third party candidacy of Senator Robert M. La Follette, who ran as the Progressive Party candidate and peeled away the votes of many German Americans and progressive Republicans. Owing to Ohio being the most German of the states immediately north of the boundary with antebellum slave states,[7] Ohio was La Follette's best east of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers (other than Wisconsin, which was his home state that he won) although his vote share was only one percent above his national figure. Nonetheless, La Follette easily outpolled Davis in the major urban areas of northern Ohio, and carried the city of Cleveland and many precincts elsewhere in Cuyahoga County on the strength of labor union support.[8][9] To date, this was the best ever showing for the Republican Party in Ohio as no other Republican candidate has been able to match Coolidge's landslide 34.63% margin in the state.

Results

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1924 United States presidential election in Ohio
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
RepublicanCalvin Coolidge (incumbent)1,176,13058.33%24
DemocraticJohn W. Davis477,88823.70%0
ProgressiveRobert M. La Follette357,94817.75%0
Socialist LaborFrank Johns3,0250.15%0
Commonwealth LandWilliam J. Wallace1,2460.06%0
Totals2,016,237100.0%24

Results by county

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CountyJohn 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
MarginTotal votes cast[12]
#%#%#%#%#%#%
Adams4,31552.46%3,76245.73%1491.81%00.00%00.00%5536.72%8,226
Allen15,71161.76%7,37829.00%2,2838.98%590.23%60.02%8,33332.76%25,437
Ashland5,77752.68%4,37739.91%8027.31%70.06%30.03%1,40012.77%10,966
Ashtabula14,76769.21%2,13510.01%4,37020.48%430.20%220.10%10,397[a]48.73%21,337
Athens8,69558.19%2,66917.86%3,50123.43%470.31%310.21%5,194[a]34.76%14,943
Auglaize5,50751.86%3,95237.22%1,14310.76%90.08%70.07%1,55514.64%10,618
Belmont16,37854.53%8,07426.88%5,38617.93%1550.52%420.14%8,30427.65%30,035
Brown3,61643.05%4,12049.05%6607.86%10.01%20.02%-504-6.00%8,399
Butler19,34956.25%11,61233.76%3,3399.71%840.24%140.04%7,73722.49%34,398
Carroll4,36970.78%1,43023.17%3645.90%70.11%30.05%2,93947.61%6,173
Champaign6,18160.33%3,57534.90%4784.67%100.10%10.01%2,60625.44%10,245
Clark20,34066.44%8,41527.49%1,8165.93%270.09%170.06%11,92538.95%30,615
Clermont6,86755.18%4,54436.51%1,0198.19%100.08%50.04%2,32318.67%12,445
Clinton5,95467.08%2,49628.12%4214.74%30.03%20.02%3,45838.96%8,876
Columbiana20,48369.97%4,68516.01%4,03613.79%470.16%210.07%15,79853.97%29,272
Coshocton5,83749.77%4,41537.64%1,45612.41%110.09%100.09%1,42212.12%11,729
Crawford5,89640.83%4,38430.36%4,14028.67%140.10%60.04%1,51210.47%14,440
Cuyahoga130,16949.29%24,0009.09%109,28741.39%3920.15%2180.08%20,882[a]7.91%264,066
Darke9,16652.92%7,31642.24%8114.68%220.13%60.03%1,85010.68%17,321
Defiance4,84152.55%3,22735.03%1,13412.31%60.07%50.05%1,61417.52%9,213
Delaware6,73160.41%3,53731.74%8667.77%50.04%30.03%3,19428.67%11,142
Erie7,68954.34%2,96820.97%3,46224.46%240.17%80.06%4,227[a]29.87%14,151
Fairfield8,28153.80%5,89038.26%1,2007.80%160.10%60.04%2,39115.53%15,393
Fayette4,54260.27%2,69635.77%2933.89%50.07%00.00%1,84624.50%7,536
Franklin61,89157.68%26,50524.70%18,74317.47%1160.11%400.04%35,38632.98%107,295
Fulton4,95169.56%1,33318.73%83211.69%10.01%10.01%3,61850.83%7,118
Gallia4,32561.21%2,28432.32%4536.41%30.04%10.01%2,04128.88%7,066
Geauga3,37572.39%63513.62%64213.77%60.13%40.09%2,733[a]58.62%4,662
Greene8,41072.98%2,47121.44%6285.45%130.11%10.01%5,93951.54%11,523
Guernsey8,99759.56%3,60423.86%2,45516.25%280.19%220.15%5,39335.70%15,106
Hamilton115,95060.70%34,91618.28%39,76820.82%2640.14%1310.07%76,182[a]39.88%191,029
Hancock9,16757.03%5,11131.80%1,76410.97%230.14%90.06%4,05625.23%16,074
Hardin7,11253.66%5,52341.67%6134.63%30.02%30.02%1,58911.99%13,254
Harrison4,90465.97%1,99926.89%5206.99%80.11%30.04%2,90539.08%7,434
Henry3,85545.51%2,92234.50%1,69319.99%00.00%00.00%93311.02%8,470
Highland6,84557.16%4,58338.27%5354.47%80.07%50.04%2,26218.89%11,976
Hocking4,08650.46%2,85435.24%1,13614.03%170.21%50.06%1,23215.21%8,098
Holmes1,82438.26%2,53953.25%4008.39%40.08%10.02%-715-15.00%4,768
Huron8,34062.12%2,87121.39%2,18616.28%190.14%90.07%5,46940.74%13,425
Jackson5,97761.45%2,84829.28%8698.93%270.28%60.06%3,12932.17%9,727
Jefferson14,92967.97%3,84017.48%3,09714.10%750.34%220.10%11,08950.49%21,963
Knox7,51957.43%4,72136.06%8526.51%00.00%10.01%2,79821.37%13,093
Lake7,72770.71%9748.91%2,20820.21%80.07%100.09%5,519[a]50.51%10,927
Lawrence6,79863.96%2,72925.68%1,07810.14%200.19%30.03%4,06938.29%10,628
Licking13,91458.49%7,42831.23%2,41810.16%140.06%140.06%6,48627.27%23,788
Logan7,18661.03%3,17626.97%1,39311.83%120.10%70.06%4,01034.06%11,774
Lorain17,06261.43%3,96514.28%6,68024.05%420.15%250.09%10,382[a]37.38%27,774
Lucas53,67055.39%11,94812.33%31,03932.03%1600.17%850.09%22,631[a]23.35%96,902
Madison4,82961.97%2,68534.46%2783.57%00.00%00.00%2,14427.52%7,792
Mahoning37,64768.12%9,33516.89%8,10214.66%1270.23%530.10%28,31251.23%55,264
Marion9,16154.20%5,23430.97%2,47514.64%230.14%80.05%3,92723.24%16,901
Medina6,75667.76%1,84418.49%1,35113.55%160.16%40.04%4,91249.26%9,971
Meigs4,86457.28%1,94422.89%1,64819.41%270.32%90.11%2,92034.39%8,492
Mercer4,21540.40%5,13549.21%1,07110.26%90.09%40.04%-920-8.82%10,434
Miami11,85162.70%5,29628.02%1,7269.13%130.07%150.08%6,55534.68%18,901
Monroe2,67440.58%3,74256.79%1652.50%60.09%20.03%-1,068-16.21%6,589
Montgomery50,84562.61%21,86026.92%8,31210.24%1440.18%490.06%28,98535.69%81,210
Morgan3,55360.94%2,07235.54%1993.41%50.09%10.02%1,48125.40%5,830
Morrow3,79057.39%2,37936.02%4356.59%00.00%00.00%1,41121.37%6,604
Muskingum15,57165.71%6,70928.31%1,3775.81%280.12%120.05%8,86237.40%23,697
Noble4,28460.78%2,48535.26%2723.86%40.06%30.04%1,79925.52%7,048
Ottawa4,13751.77%2,57132.17%1,27415.94%60.08%30.04%1,56619.60%7,991
Paulding3,64857.79%2,24235.52%4146.56%50.08%30.05%1,40622.28%6,312
Perry7,59258.11%3,70228.34%1,71813.15%360.28%170.13%3,89029.77%13,065
Pickaway4,16646.24%4,53950.38%2933.25%50.06%60.07%-373-4.14%9,009
Pike2,56943.87%3,18554.39%1001.71%10.02%10.02%-616-10.52%5,856
Portage8,58362.43%2,99421.78%2,13115.50%260.19%150.11%5,58940.65%13,749
Preble5,67656.75%4,03340.33%2822.82%70.07%30.03%1,64316.43%10,001
Putnam4,37741.83%4,79545.82%1,28312.26%60.06%40.04%-418-3.99%10,465
Richland12,01355.50%6,70330.97%2,90513.42%210.10%30.01%5,31024.53%21,645
Ross8,43153.86%6,02838.51%1,1787.53%120.08%40.03%2,40315.35%15,653
Sandusky9,38160.88%4,38828.48%1,62610.55%110.07%20.01%4,99332.41%15,408
Scioto12,18962.83%5,53228.51%1,6438.47%340.18%30.02%6,65734.31%19,401
Seneca9,64153.29%6,29034.77%2,11911.71%260.14%150.08%3,35118.52%18,091
Shelby4,35944.41%4,84049.31%6066.17%60.06%50.05%-481-4.90%9,816
Stark40,85864.28%12,54419.74%9,96015.67%1700.27%300.05%28,31444.55%63,562
Summit53,77465.28%17,53321.29%10,85513.18%1600.19%490.06%36,24144.00%82,371
Trumbull22,34174.35%4,00713.33%3,62812.07%560.19%170.06%18,33461.01%30,049
Tuscarawas13,57356.97%5,56623.36%4,60219.32%680.29%160.07%8,00733.61%23,825
Union5,25662.74%2,57130.69%5406.45%80.10%30.04%2,68532.05%8,378
Van Wert6,20653.14%4,31836.98%1,1389.74%70.06%90.08%1,88816.17%11,678
Vinton2,24451.87%1,83842.49%2325.36%80.18%40.09%4069.39%4,326
Warren6,72969.02%2,40624.68%6096.25%30.03%20.02%4,32344.34%9,749
Washington8,70457.12%5,72737.58%7805.12%200.13%80.05%2,97719.54%15,239
Wayne8,92853.80%6,02336.30%1,6249.79%140.08%50.03%2,90517.51%16,594
Williams5,80256.41%2,79527.18%1,67116.25%90.09%80.08%3,00729.24%10,285
Wood10,66565.33%3,29120.16%2,34714.38%180.11%40.02%7,37445.17%16,325
Wyandot3,97350.86%3,27141.88%5617.18%50.06%10.01%7028.99%7,811
Totals1,176,13058.33%477,88823.70%357,94817.75%3,0250.15%1,2460.06%698,24234.63%2,016,237

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i In this county where La Follette ran second ahead of Davis, the margin given is that between Coolidge and La Follette

References

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  1. ^ Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1924 Presidential General Election Results - Ohio
  2. ^ Faykosh, Joseph D.; 'A Party in Peril: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic Party, and the Circular Letter of 1924' (thesis); pp. 148-149
  3. ^ '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
  4. ^ '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
  5. ^ '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
  6. ^ '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
  7. ^ Hough, Jerry F.; Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-Blue State Alignment, p. 47 ISBN 9780875864075
  8. ^ Leuchtenburg, William E. (May 7, 2010). The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932. ISBN 9780226473727.
  9. ^ Shaw, Albert (1924). "The American Review of Reviews".
  10. ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for Robert LaFollette (.xlsx file for €15)
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 292-299 ISBN 9780804716963