1920 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1920 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of Indiana.svg
  1916 November 2, 1920 1924  
  Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg James M. Cox 1920.jpg
Nominee Warren G. Harding James M. Cox
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Ohio Ohio
Running mate Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt
Electoral vote150
Popular vote696,370511,364
Percentage55.14%40.49%

Indiana Presidential Election Results 1920.svg
County Results

President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Warren G. Harding
Republican

The 1920 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Ever since the Civil War, partisan alliances in Indiana had been related to history of White settlement, with most of Southern Indiana and German-settled counties voting strongly Democratic, opposed to Yankee-settled Northern Indiana which voted Republican. [1] Between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Third Party System, elections in the state were always very close; although the state become more Republican when William Jennings Bryan’s free silver policy drove conservative Democrats to the Republican party for the following two decades. [2] However, only Alton B. Parker would lose the state by more than five percentage points as its strong Southern leanings meant its Democratic counties remained very loyal. [3]

After being won by Woodrow Wilson and running mate Thomas R. Marshall over divided Republican opposition in 1912, Indiana would be won narrowly by Republican Charles Evans Hughes of New York in 1916, this being the first time a losing candidate carried the state since 1876 and the first time since 1848 that a candidate losing the popular vote won the state.

In 1920, the isolationism of the Midwest and Wilson’s extreme unpopularity ensures that Indiana would clearly vote for the Republican nominee, Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding, over the Democratic nominee, Ohio Governor James M. Cox. Harding ran with Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.

Harding won the state by a margin of 14.65 percentage points; however, Indiana would be easily Cox’s best antebellum free state, voting 11.52 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large.

Results

1920 United States presidential election in Indiana [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Warren G. Harding 696,37055.14%15
Democratic James M. Cox 511,36440.49%0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 24,7031.96%0
Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen 16,4991.31%0
Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins 13,4621.07%0
Single TaxRobert Macauley5660.04%0
Totals1,262,964100.00%15

Results by county

1920 United States presidential election in Indiana by county
CountyWarren G. Harding
Republican
James M. Cox
Democratic
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist
Parley P. Christensen
Farmer-Labor
Aaron S. Watkins
Prohibition
Robert C. Macauley
Single Tax
MarginTotal votes cast [5]
#%#%#%#%#%#%#%
Adams 4,14451.81%3,65345.67%210.26%480.60%1311.64%10.01%4916.14%7,998
Allen 24,20857.40%13,80432.73%4971.18%3,3447.93%2680.64%560.13%10,40424.67%42,177
Bartholomew 6,58553.93%5,42044.39%850.70%40.03%1130.93%30.02%1,1659.54%12,210
Benton 3,90064.13%2,09834.50%130.21%110.18%590.97%00.00%1,80229.63%6,081
Blackford 3,14551.79%2,55542.07%2243.69%150.25%1292.12%50.08%5909.72%6,073
Boone 6,65050.93%6,17847.31%640.49%10.01%1631.25%20.02%4723.61%13,058
Brown 78836.75%1,31661.38%160.75%00.00%241.12%00.00%-528-24.63%2,144
Carroll 5,00653.92%4,18645.09%300.32%40.04%580.62%00.00%8208.83%9,284
Cass 9,54552.12%8,19444.74%1901.04%1610.88%2211.21%30.02%1,3517.38%18,314
Clark 6,46648.41%6,72950.38%720.54%540.40%360.27%00.00%-263-1.97%13,357
Clay 6,12948.20%5,61244.13%3933.09%4563.59%1110.87%150.12%5174.07%12,716
Clinton 7,73952.59%6,72145.67%930.63%60.04%1561.06%20.01%1,0186.92%14,717
Crawford 2,29049.05%2,21347.40%942.01%20.04%701.50%00.00%771.65%4,669
Daviess 6,74853.42%5,58744.23%2011.59%360.28%590.47%20.02%1,1619.19%12,633
Dearborn 5,15950.66%4,88447.96%660.65%110.11%630.62%00.00%2752.70%10,183
Decatur 5,51657.66%3,89640.73%480.50%00.00%1061.11%00.00%1,62016.93%9,566
DeKalb 6,51456.35%4,75041.09%1010.87%330.29%1621.40%00.00%1,76415.26%11,560
Delaware 14,84561.78%8,32934.66%4802.00%400.17%3271.36%90.04%6,51627.12%24,030
Dubois 3,73846.18%4,23852.35%800.99%100.12%290.36%00.00%-500-6.18%8,095
Elkhart 12,29760.10%5,77028.20%9094.44%9294.54%5162.52%400.20%6,52731.90%20,461
Fayette 4,74254.27%3,76843.12%480.55%1081.24%700.80%20.02%97411.15%8,738
Floyd 7,66949.65%7,39147.85%1561.01%1120.73%1170.76%20.01%2781.80%15,447
Fountain 5,21854.09%4,08842.38%2672.77%80.08%640.66%20.02%1,13011.71%9,647
Franklin 3,13745.51%3,67153.26%100.15%160.23%580.84%10.01%-534-7.75%6,893
Fulton 4,61853.99%3,60242.11%2292.68%110.13%921.08%20.02%1,01611.88%8,554
Gibson 7,49851.32%6,38443.70%2251.54%2531.73%2411.65%90.06%1,1147.62%14,610
Grant 12,34955.12%7,90035.26%1,3215.90%170.08%8003.57%180.08%4,44919.86%22,405
Greene 7,48648.65%6,33541.17%1,2097.86%2391.55%1190.77%00.00%1,1517.48%15,388
Hamilton 7,89763.04%4,28034.17%390.31%280.22%2822.25%10.01%3,61728.87%12,527
Hancock 4,42246.16%4,95851.76%530.55%40.04%1411.47%10.01%-536-5.60%9,579
Harrison 4,27151.45%3,89846.96%520.63%80.10%720.87%00.00%3734.49%8,301
Hendricks 6,29359.20%4,19239.44%450.42%40.04%950.89%10.01%2,10119.76%10,630
Henry 8,74257.03%5,82438.00%3352.19%130.08%4122.69%20.01%2,91819.04%15,328
Howard 10,37958.54%5,76732.53%1,1326.38%1040.59%3321.87%160.09%4,61226.01%17,730
Huntington 8,10053.67%6,50643.11%1360.90%730.48%2751.82%30.02%1,59410.56%15,093
Jackson 5,06948.04%5,31950.41%550.52%30.03%1051.00%10.01%-250-2.37%10,552
Jasper 3,94266.87%1,87231.76%140.24%110.19%560.95%00.00%2,07035.11%5,895
Jay 6,08953.35%4,75941.69%800.70%1191.04%3673.22%00.00%1,33011.65%11,414
Jefferson 5,73258.02%4,00040.49%450.46%100.10%930.94%00.00%1,73217.53%9,880
Jennings 3,40455.65%2,60342.55%300.49%90.15%701.14%10.02%80113.09%6,117
Johnson 4,86345.36%5,45250.85%3243.02%40.04%770.72%20.02%-589-5.49%10,722
Knox 10,01151.39%8,05241.34%9194.72%3111.60%1760.90%100.05%1,95910.06%19,479
Kosciusko 8,32661.66%4,83635.81%1140.84%210.16%2071.53%00.00%3,49025.84%13,504
LaGrange 3,85268.02%1,68729.79%210.37%170.30%861.52%00.00%2,16538.23%5,663
Lake 26,29669.15%7,13618.77%1,4493.81%2,8157.40%2920.77%400.11%19,16050.38%38,028
LaPorte 11,20465.00%5,45931.67%3401.97%1050.61%1290.75%10.01%5,74533.33%17,238
Lawrence 6,80858.15%4,70940.22%1461.25%10.01%440.38%00.00%2,09917.93%11,708
Madison 15,70449.76%13,32542.22%1,8335.81%170.05%6722.13%110.03%2,3797.54%31,562
Marion 79,95754.93%61,46042.22%3,2622.24%2620.18%5820.40%480.03%18,49712.71%145,571
Marshall 5,70853.64%4,63143.52%750.70%230.22%2041.92%10.01%1,07710.12%10,642
Martin 2,74752.27%2,44346.49%460.88%40.08%150.29%00.00%3045.78%5,255
Miami 7,33651.94%6,25944.31%3102.19%130.09%2061.46%00.00%1,0777.63%14,124
Monroe 5,63353.65%4,75145.25%510.49%60.06%590.56%00.00%8828.40%10,500
Montgomery 8,79254.49%7,15944.37%1060.66%60.04%710.44%10.01%1,63310.12%16,135
Morgan 5,63455.95%4,25442.25%680.68%20.02%1111.10%00.00%1,38013.71%10,069
Newton 3,12964.37%1,66434.23%300.62%70.14%310.64%00.00%1,46530.14%4,861
Noble 6,82060.82%4,14836.99%730.65%480.43%1231.10%10.01%2,67223.83%11,213
Ohio 1,17750.91%1,09747.45%10.04%00.00%371.60%00.00%803.46%2,312
Orange 4,72658.86%3,22240.13%600.75%60.07%150.19%00.00%1,50418.73%8,029
Owen 2,99749.18%2,94848.38%1001.64%140.23%350.57%00.00%490.80%6,094
Parke 4,98956.13%3,54339.86%1481.67%1081.22%931.05%70.08%1,44616.27%8,888
Perry 3,86451.76%3,56047.69%250.33%70.09%90.12%00.00%3044.07%7,465
Pike 4,06951.75%3,06739.01%2563.26%4055.15%310.39%350.45%1,00212.74%7,863
Porter 5,57072.68%1,67121.80%1261.64%2333.04%620.81%20.03%3,89950.87%7,664
Posey 4,80249.72%4,69548.61%450.47%170.18%981.01%10.01%1071.11%9,658
Pulaski 2,74053.88%2,22843.82%761.49%50.10%360.71%00.00%51210.07%5,085
Putnam 5,14047.83%5,41750.41%1081.01%40.04%770.72%00.00%-277-2.58%10,746
Randolph 8,77365.28%4,19831.24%850.63%100.07%3702.75%30.02%4,57534.04%13,439
Ripley 5,37256.83%3,97642.07%480.51%110.12%450.48%00.00%1,39614.77%9,452
Rush 6,11356.59%4,51341.78%350.32%00.00%1421.31%00.00%1,60014.81%10,803
Scott 1,70947.51%1,84851.38%90.25%60.17%250.70%00.00%-139-3.86%3,597
Shelby 6,33647.15%6,84550.94%550.41%100.07%1911.42%00.00%-509-3.79%13,437
Spencer 5,27057.03%3,85541.72%390.42%150.16%570.62%40.04%1,41515.31%9,240
St. Joseph 17,67556.46%12,35539.47%7982.55%1610.51%3100.99%60.02%5,32016.99%31,305
Starke 2,68362.92%1,46734.40%521.22%250.59%360.84%10.02%1,21628.52%4,264
Steuben 4,96372.47%1,67624.47%280.41%100.15%1712.50%00.00%3,28748.00%6,848
Sullivan 5,37641.38%6,16047.42%3652.81%8676.67%1641.26%590.45%-784-6.03%12,991
Switzerland 2,52550.12%2,41247.88%270.54%30.06%711.41%00.00%1132.24%5,038
Tippecanoe 12,73061.68%7,56236.64%1020.49%900.44%1520.74%30.01%5,16825.04%20,639
Tipton 4,35751.43%3,95646.69%460.54%90.11%1041.23%00.00%4014.73%8,472
Union 1,98458.30%1,37540.41%100.29%20.06%320.94%00.00%60917.90%3,403
Vanderburgh 19,35752.39%13,90437.63%6661.80%2,7827.53%1770.48%600.16%5,45314.76%36,946
Vermillion 4,91652.08%3,21834.09%5876.22%5806.14%1111.18%270.29%1,69817.99%9,439
Vigo 18,66850.30%15,73942.41%1,4984.04%9352.52%2410.65%330.09%2,9297.89%37,114
Wabash 8,01860.33%4,82736.32%1661.25%240.18%2501.88%50.04%3,19124.01%13,290
Warren 3,33770.89%1,31127.85%210.45%60.13%320.68%00.00%2,02643.04%4,707
Warrick 4,67551.75%3,91543.34%1992.20%1471.63%921.02%50.06%7608.41%9,033
Washington 3,70846.86%4,15752.53%160.20%10.01%310.39%00.00%-449-5.67%7,913
Wayne 12,63159.52%8,01537.77%3301.56%00.00%2451.15%00.00%4,61621.75%21,221
Wells 4,43047.61%4,65350.01%2152.31%70.08%00.00%00.00%-223-2.40%9,305
White 4,87158.57%3,37540.58%120.14%80.10%510.61%00.00%1,49617.99%8,317
Whitley 4,53052.50%3,92945.53%340.39%140.16%1221.41%00.00%6016.96%8,629
Totals696,37055.14%511,36440.49%24,7031.96%16,4991.31%13,4621.07%5660.04%185,00614.65%1,262,964

See also

References

  1. Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 343 ISBN   9780691163246
  2. Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 352
  3. Menendez, Albert J. (2005). The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. McFarland. p. 37. ISBN   0786422173.
  4. "1920 Presidential General Election Results – Indiana". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  5. Indiana Secretary of State Elections; ‘Abstract of Vote for Presidential Electors, State Officers ... at the General Election held on November 2, 1920’; Yearbook of the State of Indiana 1920 pp. 61-62