1920 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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1920 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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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 3 0 Popular vote 35,091 17,429 Percentage 64.15% 31.86%

County Results Harding   50-60%   60-70%   70-80% The 1920 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Wyoming was won by Republican Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding, running with governor of Massachusetts and the future 30th president of the United States Calvin Coolidge, with 64.15 percent of the popular vote, against the Democratic 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio James M. Cox, running with the future Governor of New York and 32nd President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, with 31.86 percent of the popular vote. [1] Like all of the Western United States, severe anger at President Woodrow Wilson's failure to maintain his promise to keep the United States out of World War I produced extreme hostility among the strongly isolationist population of remote Wyoming. [2] In addition, 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] Another factor hurting the Democratic Party was the migration of many people from the traditionally Republican Upper Midwest into the state. [2] Because the West had been the chief presidential battleground ever since the "System of 1896" emerged following that election, [6] Governor Cox traveled across the western states in August and September, but he did not visit Wyoming with its tiny population and poverty of electoral votes. No polls were taken in the state, but a Republican success was universally assumed. Like every Mountain state, Wyoming, which had voted strongly for Woodrow Wilson in 1916 – turned very strongly against Cox, who was to lose the state by a two-to-one majority, after Charles Evans Hughes had lost the state by double digits in 1916. Harding carried every county in Wyoming with an absolute majority, and passed sixty percent in all but three. Socialist Eugene Debs was not on the ballot in Wyoming, but Labor candidate Parley Christensen managed double figures in Sheridan County. This would prove the last time Sweetwater County voted Republican until Richard Nixon's landslide 1972 victory. [7] Results General Election Results [8] Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Party Warren G. Harding Peter Kooi 35,091 Republican Party Warren G. Harding James Mickelson 34,678 Republican Party Warren G. Harding J. M. Schwoob 34,590 Democratic Party James M. Cox Mable H. Crouter 17,429 Democratic Party James M. Cox D. P. B. Marshall 17,331 Democratic Party James M. Cox William B. Ross 17,130 Labor Party Parley P. Christensen Martin Cahill 2,180 Labor Party Parley P. Christensen J. H. Giroux 2,132 Labor Party Parley P. Christensen Thomas G. Freshney 2,109 Votes cast [a] 54,700 Results by county County [8] Warren G. Harding Republican James M. Cox Democrat Parley P. Christensen Labor Margin Total votes cast [b] # % # % # % # % Albany 1,769 59.16% 1,145 38.29% 76 2.54% 624 20.87% 2,990 Big Horn 2,157 65.80% 1,082 33.01% 39 1.19% 1,075 32.79% 3,278 Campbell 1,027 66.69% 493 32.01% 20 1.30% 534 34.68% 1,540 Carbon 1,871 60.65% 1,039 33.68% 175 5.67% 832 26.97% 3,085 Converse 1,561 69.41% 679 30.19% 9 0.40% 882 39.22% 2,249 Crook 934 67.24% 451 32.47% 4 0.29% 483 34.77% 1,389 Fremont 2,194 67.61% 994 30.63% 57 1.76% 1,200 36.98% 3,245 Goshen 1,496 72.73% 552 26.84% 9 0.44% 944 45.89% 2,057 Hot Springs 1,212 64.61% 529 28.20% 135 7.20% 683 36.41% 1,876 Johnson 1,202 69.36% 525 30.29% 6 0.35% 677 39.07% 1,733 Laramie 3,399 62.60% 1,810 33.33% 221 4.07% 1,589 29.26% 5,430 Lincoln 2,043 61.06% 1,154 34.49% 149 4.45% 889 26.57% 3,346 Natrona 2,957 66.20% 1,153 25.81% 357 7.99% 1,804 40.39% 4,467 Niobrara 969 73.52% 345 26.18% 4 0.30% 624 47.34% 1,318 Park 1,630 70.53% 666 28.82% 15 0.65% 964 41.71% 2,311 Platte 1,405 65.68% 694 32.45% 40 1.87% 711 33.24% 2,139 Sheridan 2,645 60.43% 1,192 27.23% 540 12.34% 1,453 33.20% 4,377 Sweetwater 1,744 54.14% 1,216 37.75% 261 8.10% 528 16.39% 3,221 Uinta 1,194 55.82% 914 42.73% 31 1.45% 280 13.09% 2,139 Washakie 609 64.31% 333 35.16% 5 0.53% 276 29.14% 947 Weston 1,073 68.65% 463 29.62% 27 1.73% 610 39.03% 1,563 Totals 35,091 64.15% 17,429 31.86% 2,180 3.99% 17,662 32.29% 54,700 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Albany Big Horn Campbell Carbon Converse Crook Fremont Goshen Hot Springs Laramie Lincoln Natrona Niobrara Park Platte Sheridan Sweetwater Uinta Washakie See also United States presidential elections in Wyoming Notes Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket Based on highest elector on each ticket References "1920 Presidential Election Results – Wyoming". 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