1920 United States presidential election in Colorado

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1920 United States presidential election in Colorado

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Nominee Warren G. Harding James M. Cox Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio Ohio Running mate Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt Electoral vote 6 0 Popular vote 173,248 104,936 Percentage 59.32% 35.93%

County Results Harding   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% The 1920 United States presidential election in Colorado was held on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election. State voters chose six electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. In 1916, Colorado was the most Democratic state outside of the “Solid South” as a result of historic Bryanite Populist support in silver-mining regions, [1] and a powerful "peace vote" for incumbent President Woodrow Wilson; [2] however, by the beginning of 1920 skyrocketing inflation and Wilson's focus upon his proposed League of Nations at the expense of domestic policy had helped make the incumbent president very unpopular [3] – besides which Wilson also had major health problems that had left First Lady Edith effectively running the nation. Political unrest seen in the Palmer Raids and the "Red Scare" further added to the unpopularity of the Democratic Party, since this global political turmoil produced considerable fear of alien revolutionaries invading the country. [4] Demand in the West for exclusion of Asian immigrants became even stronger than it had been before. [5] All these factors combined to produce a national landslide, with a swing of almost twenty-nine percentage points to the Republicans vis-à-vis of four years earlier. Colorado mirrored this trend, with a total swing of 49.38 points from Wilson's 26-point 1916 victory where he carried every county except Sedgwick. [6] This time, Harding would not merely become only the second Republican victor in the state since James B. Weaver’s Populist victory transitioned the state into a Democratic-leaning one, but become the only presidential candidate in history to carry all Colorado’s counties. The state was still 2.84 points more Democratic than the nation at-large despite Harding’s historic county sweep. Results Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV) Warren G. Harding of Ohio Calvin Coolidge Republican 6 [7] 173,248 59.32% James M. Cox Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 0 104,936 35.93% Eugene Debs Seymour Stedman Socialist 0 8,046 2.75% Parley P. Christensen Maximilian S. Hayes Farmer-Labor 0 3,016 1.03% Aaron S. Watkins David Colvin Prohibition 0 2,807 0.96% Results by county County Warren Gamaliel Harding [8] Republican James Middleton Cox [8] Democratic Eugene Victor Debs [8] Socialist Parley Parker Christensen [8] Farmer-Labor Aaron Sherman Watkins [8] Prohibition Margin % # % # % # % # % # % # Jackson 76.28% 402 21.44% 113 0.19% 1 0.57% 3 1.52% 8 54.84% 289 Morgan 70.45% 3,114 25.00% 1,105 2.19% 97 0.86% 38 1.49% 66 45.45% 2,009 Phillips 66.80% 1,191 26.92% 480 4.94% 88 0.84% 15 0.50% 9 39.88% 711 Elbert 66.35% 1,654 27.00% 673 3.33% 83 1.81% 45 1.52% 38 39.35% 981 Kit Carson 65.48% 1,872 27.84% 796 4.16% 119 1.29% 37 1.22% 35 37.64% 1,076 Cheyenne 64.57% 840 27.52% 358 5.07% 66 1.15% 15 1.69% 22 37.05% 482 Gilpin 66.99% 416 30.43% 189 1.45% 9 1.13% 7 0.00% 0 36.55% 227 Baca 63.21% 1,615 27.20% 695 7.16% 183 0.86% 22 1.57% 40 36.01% 920 Sedgwick 65.31% 819 29.67% 372 2.55% 32 0.56% 7 1.91% 24 35.65% 447 Moffat 65.42% 1,294 29.78% 589 2.63% 52 1.31% 26 0.86% 17 35.64% 705 Prowers 65.00% 2,650 30.59% 1,247 2.16% 88 0.91% 37 1.35% 55 34.41% 1,403 Yuma 63.42% 2,673 29.75% 1,254 4.46% 188 0.78% 33 1.59% 67 33.67% 1,419 Larimer 64.34% 5,487 31.75% 2,708 1.91% 163 0.66% 56 1.34% 114 32.59% 2,779 Hinsdale 59.13% 149 26.59% 67 9.92% 25 1.19% 3 3.17% 8 32.54% 82 Washington 63.44% 2,117 31.77% 1,060 2.79% 93 1.11% 37 0.90% 30 31.68% 1,057 Weld 63.78% 10,268 32.31% 5,202 1.50% 242 0.78% 125 1.63% 263 31.47% 5,066 Custer 63.28% 560 32.66% 289 2.15% 19 1.24% 11 0.68% 6 30.62% 271 Denver 62.03% 43,581 32.51% 22,839 3.21% 2,258 1.57% 1,102 0.68% 478 29.52% 20,742 El Paso 62.78% 9,535 33.40% 5,073 1.87% 284 0.76% 115 1.20% 182 29.38% 4,462 Archuleta 63.12% 700 34.17% 379 1.08% 12 0.45% 5 1.17% 13 28.94% 321 Jefferson 61.52% 3,593 33.24% 1,941 3.27% 191 1.30% 76 0.67% 39 28.29% 1,652 Conejos 63.50% 1,595 35.27% 886 0.32% 8 0.44% 11 0.48% 12 28.22% 709 Ouray 61.51% 735 33.64% 402 2.26% 27 2.01% 24 0.59% 7 27.87% 333 Lincoln 61.26% 1,815 34.19% 1,013 2.70% 80 1.05% 31 0.81% 24 27.07% 802 Rio Blanco 62.24% 793 35.71% 455 0.78% 10 0.31% 4 0.94% 12 26.53% 338 Douglas 61.40% 948 36.33% 561 1.04% 16 0.52% 8 0.71% 11 25.06% 387 Crowley 60.64% 1,348 35.63% 792 1.57% 35 0.45% 10 1.71% 38 25.01% 556 Rio Grande 61.01% 1,660 36.20% 985 1.07% 29 0.48% 13 1.25% 34 24.81% 675 Bent 60.67% 1,584 35.89% 937 1.15% 30 0.92% 24 1.38% 36 24.78% 647 Saguache 60.32% 1,195 36.19% 717 2.52% 50 0.25% 5 0.71% 14 24.13% 478 Arapahoe 59.80% 2,930 35.76% 1,752 2.16% 106 1.59% 78 0.69% 34 24.04% 1,178 Kiowa 59.63% 864 35.96% 521 2.69% 39 0.21% 3 1.52% 22 23.67% 343 Logan 59.71% 3,123 36.20% 1,893 1.59% 83 1.26% 66 1.24% 65 23.52% 1,230 Park 58.20% 511 36.45% 320 4.44% 39 0.46% 4 0.46% 4 21.75% 191 Boulder 57.91% 6,456 37.67% 4,200 2.64% 294 0.65% 73 1.12% 125 20.24% 2,256 Teller 57.89% 1,552 37.67% 1,010 3.32% 89 0.67% 18 0.45% 12 20.22% 542 Adams 57.57% 2,510 37.45% 1,633 3.19% 139 0.99% 43 0.80% 35 20.11% 877 Routt 57.51% 1,854 37.97% 1,224 2.98% 96 1.02% 33 0.53% 17 19.54% 630 Clear Creek 58.31% 765 39.48% 518 1.14% 15 0.61% 8 0.46% 6 18.83% 247 Delta 56.40% 2,596 38.02% 1,750 3.76% 173 0.78% 36 1.04% 48 18.38% 846 Montrose 54.83% 2,225 37.51% 1,522 5.20% 211 0.91% 37 1.55% 63 17.32% 703 Otero 55.93% 3,846 39.66% 2,727 1.69% 116 0.58% 40 2.14% 147 16.27% 1,119 San Miguel 54.30% 928 40.26% 688 3.45% 59 0.82% 14 1.17% 20 14.04% 240 Eagle 55.13% 854 41.90% 649 1.81% 28 0.84% 13 0.32% 5 13.23% 205 Lake 53.16% 1,287 40.97% 992 3.72% 90 1.73% 42 0.41% 10 12.19% 295 Fremont 53.33% 3,027 41.21% 2,339 3.22% 183 0.76% 43 1.48% 84 12.12% 688 Garfield 54.32% 1,912 42.30% 1,489 2.16% 76 0.88% 31 0.34% 12 12.02% 423 Montezuma 52.20% 936 40.55% 727 4.57% 82 1.28% 23 1.39% 25 11.66% 209 Dolores 48.28% 197 37.50% 153 11.27% 46 1.96% 8 0.98% 4 10.78% 44 Mineral 49.33% 183 39.35% 146 9.43% 35 1.62% 6 0.27% 1 9.97% 37 Pueblo 53.13% 9,621 43.42% 7,863 2.41% 436 0.59% 107 0.45% 82 9.71% 1,758 Chaffee 52.91% 1,501 43.46% 1,233 2.50% 71 0.53% 15 0.60% 17 9.45% 268 La Plata 50.85% 1,711 42.94% 1,445 4.25% 143 1.04% 35 0.92% 31 7.90% 266 Grand 52.51% 649 44.74% 553 1.13% 14 1.38% 17 0.24% 3 7.77% 96 Mesa 49.80% 3,621 43.16% 3,138 4.10% 298 1.42% 103 1.53% 111 6.64% 483 Alamosa 51.87% 1,081 45.54% 949 1.49% 31 0.67% 14 0.43% 9 6.33% 132 Pitkin 49.38% 478 43.08% 417 4.13% 40 2.79% 27 0.62% 6 6.30% 61 San Juan 50.46% 330 44.34% 290 3.52% 23 1.22% 8 0.46% 3 6.12% 40 Las Animas 51.19% 4,707 45.31% 4,167 2.31% 212 0.67% 62 0.52% 48 5.87% 540 Huerfano 51.42% 2,539 46.40% 2,291 0.81% 40 0.73% 36 0.65% 32 5.02% 248 Summit 50.36% 418 46.75% 388 2.05% 17 0.48% 4 0.36% 3 3.61% 30 Costilla 49.52% 778 47.74% 750 1.15% 18 0.76% 12 0.83% 13 1.78% 28 Gunnison 47.46% 1,055 45.97% 1,022 5.67% 126 0.54% 12 0.36% 8 1.48% 33 References Phillips, Kevin P.; 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"1920 Presidential General Election Data – National". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. "1920 Presidential General Election Results – Colorado". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 3, 2019. Colorado Secretary of State; Abstract of Votes Cast at a General Election Held on Tuesday, November 2, A.D. 1920, For Presidential Electors This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.