1920 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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1920 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Flag of Oklahoma (1911-1925).svg
  1916 November 2, 1920 1924  
  Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg James M. Cox 1920.jpg Debs penitentiary.jpg
Nominee Warren G. Harding James M. Cox Eugene V. Debs
Party Republican Democratic Socialist
Home state Ohio Ohio Indiana
Running mate Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt Seymour Stedman
Electoral vote1000
Popular vote243,831217,05325,726
Percentage50.11%44.61%5.29%

Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma 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 ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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In its early years, Oklahoma was a “Solid South” Democratic state whose founding fathers like "Alfalfa Bill" Murray and Charles N. Haskell had disfranchised most of its black population via literacy tests and grandfather clauses, [1] the latter of which would be declared unconstitutional in Guinn v. United States . [2] Partly owing to the absence of the poll taxes found in other Southern states due to the strength of populism amongst the state's white settlers, [3] the state became a stronghold of the Socialist Party in the 1910s, especially in the southeast and the northwestern Plains.

However, despite being less stridently isolationist than states further north in the Great Plains, [4] Oklahoma was nonetheless caught up in the hostility towards President Wilson and his various foreign policy proposals, as well as his inability to deal with large-scale domestic conflict. [5] In early polls this was thought insufficient to split the state from the “Solid South”, but as it turned out a large swing caused the Democrats to lose the state, alongside Tennessee, for the first break in the “Solid South” since Reconstruction. The Republicans also elected a Senator and five Congressmen, so strong was the hostility towards Wilson. [6]

Oklahoma voted for the Republican nominee, Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding, over the Democratic nominee, Ohio Governor James M. Cox and Socialist nominee Eugene V. Debs of Indiana. Harding ran with Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Debs ran with Seymour Stedman of Illinois. Harding won the state by a margin of 5.5 percentage points. As a result of his win, Harding became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Oklahoma. This was the only election until 2008 in which Oklahoma did not vote the same way as Virginia.

Results

1920 United States presidential election in Oklahoma [7]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Warren G. Harding 243,83150.11%10
Democratic James M. Cox 217,05344.61%0
Socialist Eugene V. Debs 25,7265.29%0
Totals486,610100.00%10

Results by county

CountyWarren Gamaliel Harding
Republican
James Middleton Cox
Democratic
Eugene Victor Debs
Socialist
MarginTotal votes cast [8]
# %# %# %# %
Adair 2,18157.99%1,55941.45%210.56%62216.54%3,761
Alfalfa 3,00563.71%1,35028.62%3627.67%1,65535.09%4,717
Atoka 2,08143.19%2,10043.59%63713.22%-19-0.39%4,818
Beaver 1,97359.99%1,07632.72%2407.30%89727.27%3,289
Beckham 1,75536.99%2,34749.46%64313.55%-592-12.48%4,745
Blaine 2,78661.64%1,29628.67%4389.69%1,49032.96%4,520
Bryan 3,12738.83%4,50255.90%4245.27%-1,375-17.07%8,053
Caddo 4,82353.17%3,59439.62%6547.21%1,22913.55%9,071
Canadian 3,88152.14%3,26843.90%2953.96%6138.23%7,444
Carter 3,56135.14%5,99759.18%5755.67%-2,436-24.04%10,133
Cherokee 2,52456.48%1,85941.60%861.92%66514.88%4,469
Choctaw 2,09442.67%2,53151.57%2835.77%-437-8.90%4,908
Cimarron 63053.48%46539.47%837.05%16514.01%1,178
Cleveland 2,28345.80%2,39748.08%3056.12%-114-2.29%4,985
Coal 1,74443.63%1,76844.23%48512.13%-24-0.60%3,997
Comanche 3,33249.18%3,03744.83%4065.99%2954.35%6,775
Cotton 1,82042.80%2,26053.15%1724.05%-440-10.35%4,252
Craig 3,09450.88%2,90347.74%841.38%1913.14%6,081
Creek 7,94856.88%5,40838.70%6184.42%2,54018.18%13,974
Custer 3,22455.22%2,27138.90%3435.88%95316.32%5,838
Delaware 2,05959.17%1,28236.84%1393.99%77722.33%3,480
Dewey 1,73851.76%99529.63%62518.61%74322.13%3,358
Ellis 1,78659.30%84528.05%38112.65%94131.24%3,012
Garfield 6,61160.89%3,67133.81%5765.30%2,94027.08%10,858
Garvin 2,92240.09%4,09356.15%2743.76%-1,171-16.07%7,289
Grady 3,40341.71%4,27752.43%4785.86%-874-10.71%8,158
Grant 3,21060.58%1,88335.54%2063.89%1,32725.04%5,299
Greer 1,01332.75%1,85459.94%2267.31%-841-27.19%3,093
Harmon 64334.18%1,12359.70%1156.11%-480-25.52%1,881
Harper 1,40460.03%75332.19%1827.78%65127.83%2,339
Haskell 2,67352.67%2,20143.37%2013.96%4729.30%5,075
Hughes 3,04945.60%3,48752.15%1502.24%-438-6.55%6,686
Jackson 1,34530.18%2,69460.46%4179.36%-1,349-30.27%4,456
Jefferson 1,73339.36%2,28951.99%3818.65%-556-12.63%4,403
Johnston 1,95043.73%2,11747.48%3928.79%-167-3.75%4,459
Kay 5,95955.50%4,54642.34%2312.15%1,41313.16%10,736
Kingfisher 3,22061.77%1,74433.45%2494.78%1,47628.31%5,213
Kiowa 2,64947.22%2,51844.88%4437.90%1312.34%5,610
Latimer 1,41047.94%1,20040.80%33111.25%2107.14%2,941
Le Flore 4,93454.32%3,76441.44%3864.25%1,17012.88%9,084
Lincoln 5,26159.24%2,98033.55%6407.21%2,28125.68%8,881
Logan 4,61864.96%2,20931.07%2823.97%2,40933.89%7,109
Love 71128.16%1,66265.82%1526.02%-951-37.66%2,525
Major 1,92160.01%78424.49%49615.50%1,13735.52%3,201
Marshall 1,48744.45%1,58947.50%2698.04%-102-3.05%3,345
Mayes 2,44753.23%1,98743.22%1633.55%46010.01%4,597
McClain 1,73340.32%2,31553.86%2505.82%-582-13.54%4,298
McCurtain 1,96640.23%2,60353.26%3186.51%-637-13.03%4,887
McIntosh 2,35844.84%2,64250.24%2594.92%-284-5.40%5,259
Murray 1,36242.21%1,74454.04%1213.75%-382-11.84%3,227
Muskogee 5,18744.47%6,37854.68%990.85%-1,191-10.21%11,664
Noble 2,46759.69%1,51536.66%1513.65%95223.03%4,133
Nowata 2,67960.19%1,69738.13%751.69%98222.06%4,451
Okfuskee 1,76048.19%1,65045.18%2426.63%1103.01%3,652
Oklahoma 15,35044.68%17,82051.86%1,1893.46%-2,470-7.19%34,359
Okmulgee 5,36751.33%4,49542.99%5935.67%8728.34%10,455
Osage 4,56752.97%3,80144.08%2542.95%7668.88%8,622
Ottawa 5,27054.80%3,97441.33%3723.87%1,29613.48%9,616
Pawnee 2,97656.12%1,95536.87%3727.01%1,02119.25%5,303
Payne 4,58354.76%3,23838.69%5496.56%1,34516.07%8,370
Pittsburg 5,37147.17%5,36147.08%6555.75%100.09%11,387
Pontotoc 2,37037.17%3,80059.60%2063.23%-1,430-22.43%6,376
Pottawatomie 5,35547.56%5,31047.16%5955.28%450.40%11,260
Pushmataha 1,86453.32%1,36539.04%2677.64%49914.27%3,496
Roger Mills 1,19346.75%93136.48%42816.77%26210.27%2,552
Rogers 2,84451.53%2,45944.56%2163.91%3856.98%5,519
Seminole 3,38260.73%1,86933.56%3185.71%1,51327.17%5,569
Sequoyah 3,19554.96%2,50543.09%1131.94%69011.87%5,813
Stephens 2,03539.16%2,81654.19%3466.66%-781-15.03%5,197
Texas 1,76253.47%1,39842.43%1354.10%36411.05%3,295
Tillman 1,53935.48%2,64961.07%1503.46%-1,110-25.59%4,338
Tulsa 14,35757.43%10,02540.10%6172.47%4,33217.33%24,999
Wagoner 1,43248.30%1,37546.37%1585.33%571.92%2,965
Washington 4,10557.83%2,80539.51%1892.66%1,30018.31%7,099
Washita 2,07045.85%2,12547.07%3207.09%-55-1.22%4,515
Woods 2,82760.32%1,53032.64%3307.04%1,29727.67%4,687
Woodward 2,49259.07%1,43734.06%2906.87%1,05525.01%4,219
Totals243,831 [a] 50.11%217,053 [b] 44.61%25,726 [c] 5.29%26,7785.50%486,610

See also

Notes

  1. The county totals sum to 243,840, although sources vary because the Senatorial vote has been used instead of the Presidential elector vote. [9]
  2. The county totals sum to 216,122, although sources vary because the Senatorial vote has been used instead of the Presidential elector vote. [9]
  3. The county totals sum to 25,716, although sources vary because the Senatorial vote has been used instead of the Presidential elector vote. [9]

References

  1. Ewing, Cortez Arthur Milton; An Introduction to the Government of Oklahoma (1939), p. 72. Published by Americanism Committee, American Legion, Department of Oklahoma
  2. Fairclough, Adam; Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, p. 82 ISBN   0142001295
  3. Finkelman, Paul; African-Americans and the right to vote (Garland Publishing, 1992), pp. 418, 438
  4. Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 420, 424 ISBN   9780691163246
  5. Cooper, John Milton, junior; Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations, pp. 398-399 ISBN   9780521807869
  6. Debo, Angie; And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, pp. 318-319 ISBN   9780691005782
  7. "1920 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  8. Scammon, Richard M. America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics, 1920-1964, pp. 357-358 ISBN   0405077114
  9. 1 2 3 Scammon; America at the Polls, p. 369