1920 United States presidential election in Utah

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1920 United States presidential election in Utah

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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 4 0 Popular vote 81,555 56,639 Percentage 55.93% 38.84%

County Results Harding   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% The 1920 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 2, 1920. All contemporary forty-eight states took part as part of the 1920 United States presidential election, and the state voters selected four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the first presidential election to feature as a distinct voting unit Daggett County, the newest and least populous of Utah's current twenty-nine counties. In 1916, Utah had turned strongly Democratic as a result of a powerful "peace vote" for incumbent President Woodrow Wilson; [1] 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 [2] – 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. [3] Demand in the West for exclusion of Asian immigrants became even stronger than it had been before. [4] All these factors combined to produce a national landslide, with a swing of almost twenty-nine percentage points to the Republicans vis-à-vis the election of 1916. Utah followed the national trend closely: whereas Wilson had won the state by twenty percentage points in 1916 and had clean-swept the twenty-eight extant counties, in 1920 Harding by campaigning on a "return to normalcy" carried every county in Utah with a swing of thirty-seven percentage points. This was the first time Washington County had ever been carried by the Republican nominee. [5] Despite this large swing, Utah in 1920 still voted 9.08 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large. [6] On the ballot in Utah in 1920 in addition to the two major party candidates were Utah native Parley P. Christensen of the "Farmer-Labor" Party, and imprisoned Socialist candidate Eugene Debs in his fifth and final run for president. Christensen was supported by some unionists and veterans of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 presidential campaign. [7] Despite the endorsement of Herbert Croly, [8] Christensen received only one percent of the nationwide vote, and although he finished ahead of Cox in numerous counties in Washington State and South Dakota, Parley could only obtain three percent in his home state, whilst Debs accomplished even less. Results 1920 United States presidential election in Utah [9] Party Candidate Running mate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge 81,555 55.93% 4 Democratic James M. Cox Franklin D. Roosevelt 56,639 38.84% 0 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Max S. Hayes 4,475 3.07% 0 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Seymour Stedman 3,159 2.17% 0 Totals 145,828 100.00% 4 Results by county County Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican James Middleton Cox Democratic Parley Parker Christensen Farmer-Labor Eugene Victor Debs [10] Socialist Margin Total votes cast [11] #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % Beaver 1,056 57.49% 741 40.34% 15 0.82% 25 1.36% 315 17.15% 1,837 Box Elder 3,421 58.86% 2,330 40.09% 26 0.45% 35 0.60% 1,091 18.77% 5,812 Cache 5,063 53.87% 4,239 45.11% 42 0.45% 53 0.56% 824 8.76% 9,397 Carbon 1,675 47.05% 1,559 43.79% 224 6.29% 102 2.87% 116 3.26% 3,560 Daggett 94 73.44% 32 25.00% 0 0.00% 2 1.56% 62 48.44% 128 Davis 2,463 59.75% 1,632 39.59% 8 0.19% 19 0.46% 831 20.16% 4,122 Duchesne 1,523 61.76% 822 33.33% 73 2.96% 48 1.95% 701 28.43% 2,466 Emery 1,285 53.59% 1,029 42.91% 16 0.67% 68 2.84% 256 10.68% 2,398 Garfield 1,023 71.49% 393 27.46% 6 0.42% 9 0.63% 630 44.03% 1,431 Grand 306 51.17% 278 46.49% 6 1.00% 8 1.34% 28 4.68% 598 Iron 1,399 69.60% 561 27.91% 2 0.10% 48 2.39% 838 41.69% 2,010 Juab 1,692 53.12% 1,308 41.07% 40 1.26% 145 4.55% 384 12.05% 3,185 Kane 501 72.61% 186 26.96% 1 0.14% 2 0.29% 315 45.65% 690 Millard 2,199 62.56% 1,167 33.20% 23 0.65% 126 3.58% 1,032 29.36% 3,515 Morgan 544 57.57% 397 42.01% 2 0.21% 2 0.21% 147 15.56% 945 Piute 538 63.82% 283 33.57% 9 1.07% 13 1.54% 255 30.25% 843 Rich 449 66.92% 222 33.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 227 33.84% 671 Salt Lake 27,841 54.73% 19,249 37.84% 2,300 4.52% 1,483 2.92% 8,592 16.89% 50,873 San Juan 523 64.81% 260 32.22% 1 0.12% 23 2.85% 263 32.59% 807 Sanpete 3,741 60.15% 2,406 38.69% 11 0.18% 61 0.98% 1,335 21.46% 6,219 Sevier 2,506 62.84% 1,425 35.73% 22 0.55% 35 0.88% 1,081 27.11% 3,988 Summit 1,503 59.79% 874 34.77% 68 2.70% 69 2.74% 629 25.02% 2,514 Tooele 1,387 56.15% 916 37.09% 108 4.37% 59 2.39% 471 19.06% 2,470 Uintah 1,354 60.47% 817 36.49% 6 0.27% 62 2.77% 537 23.98% 2,239 Utah 7,752 53.34% 6,377 43.88% 131 0.90% 272 1.87% 1,375 9.46% 14,532 Wasatch 1,061 61.05% 665 38.26% 2 0.12% 10 0.58% 396 22.79% 1,738 Washington 1,138 52.78% 1,008 46.75% 3 0.14% 7 0.32% 130 6.03% 2,156 Wayne 396 61.97% 224 35.05% 5 0.78% 14 2.19% 172 26.92% 639 Weber 7,122 50.71% 5,239 37.30% 1,325 9.43% 359 2.56% 1,883 13.41% 14,045 Totals 81,555 55.93% 56,639 38.84% 4,475 3.07% 3,159 2.17% 24,916 17.09% 145,828 See also United States presidential elections in Utah References Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN   0786422173 Goldberg, David Joseph; Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s, p. 44 ISBN   0801860059 Leuchtenburg, William E.; The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932, p. 75 ISBN   0226473724 Vought, Hans P. ; The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot: American Presidents And The Immigrant, 1897-1933, p. 167 ISBN   0865548870 Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 320 Counting the Votes; Utah Robertson, Andrew; Morrison, Michael A.; Shade, William G.; Johnston, Robert; Zieger, Robert; Langston, Thomas and Valelly Richard; Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; p. 365 ISBN   1604266473 Kennedy, David M.; Over Here: The First World War and American Society, ISBN   019975845X Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1920 Presidential General Election Results – Utah Géoelections; Popular Vote for Eugene V. Debs (.xlsx file for €15) Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 457 ISBN   0405077114 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.