1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Flag of New Hampshire (1909-1931).png
  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 vote40
Popular vote95,19662,662
Percentage59.84%39.39%

New Hampshire Presidential Election Results 1920.svg
County results
Harding
  50–60%
  60–70%

The 1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 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 four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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New Hampshire voted for Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, over the Democratic nominee, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding ran with Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.

Harding won New Hampshire by a margin of 20.45%. His victory in the New England states was helped by the local popularity of his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, a traditional New England Yankee born in the small-town of Plymouth Notch in neighboring Vermont, who had started his political career in neighboring Massachusetts as its governor. Despite this, New Hampshire would be Cox's second-strongest antebellum free state after Indiana by popular vote percentage and the third-strongest after Indiana and Cox's Ohio in terms of percentage margin.

New Hampshire voted 5.72% more Democratic than the nation at-large – which is the most Democratic relative to the nation that New Hampshire has ever voted since the Republican Party was founded. [1] Although Cox carried no counties, Hillsborough and longtime national bellwether Coös would prove his strongest counties in New England.

Results

1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire [2]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Republican Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts 95,19659.84%4100.00%
Democratic James Middleton Cox of Ohio Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York 62,66239.39%00.00%
Socialist Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana Seymour Stedman of Illinois 1,2340.78%00.00%
Total159,092100.00%4100.00%

Results by county

CountyWarren Gamaliel Harding
Republican
James Middleton Cox
Democratic
Eugene Victor Debs
Socialist
MarginTotal votes cast [3]
# %# %# %# %
Belknap 5,62861.74%3,46438.00%230.25%2,16423.74%9,115
Carroll 4,21464.73%2,27935.01%170.26%1,93529.72%6,510
Cheshire 6,64465.83%3,37433.43%740.73%3,27032.40%10,092
Coös 6,11454.45%4,98544.40%1291.15%1,12910.06%11,228
Grafton 9,65061.10%6,10238.63%420.27%3,54822.46%15,794
Hillsborough 23,04054.44%18,73644.27%5461.29%4,30410.17%42,322
Merrimack 12,74858.28%8,97641.04%1480.68%3,77217.25%21,872
Rockingham 13,81167.29%6,58232.07%1320.64%7,22935.22%20,525
Strafford 8,70060.37%5,64339.15%690.48%3,05721.21%14,412
Sullivan 4,64764.35%2,52134.91%540.75%2,12629.44%7,222
Totals95,19659.84%62,66239.39%1,2340.78%32,53420.45%159,092

See also

References

  1. Counting the Votes; New Hampshire
  2. "1920 Presidential General Election Results – New Hampshire". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  3. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 270 ISBN   9780804716963