1924 United States presidential election in Kentucky

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1924 United States presidential election in Kentucky
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  1920 November 4, 1924 1928  
  Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg John William Davis.jpg
Nominee Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Massachusetts West Virginia
Running mate Charles G. Dawes Charles W. Bryan
Electoral vote130
Popular vote398,966374,855
Percentage48.93%45.98%

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County Results

President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

Elected President

Calvin Coolidge

The 1924 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. Voters chose thirteen representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Ever since the Civil War, Kentucky had been shaped politically by divisions created by that war between secessionist, Democratic counties and Unionist, Republican ones, [1] although the state as a whole leaned Democratic throughout this era and the GOP had carried the state only once – in 1896 [2] – between 1864 and 1920. [3]

However, largely owing to loss of support for the Democratic Party in historically secessionist Northern Kentucky, [4] and to a general decline in Democratic support from the high levels seen in 1920, [5] due to female mobilization after the Nineteenth Amendment, [6] Calvin Coolidge narrowly won Kentucky by 2.95 points against John W. Davis, winning all 13 electoral votes from the state. [7] Kentucky is the only state that Warren G. Harding lost in the 1920 presidential election, but Coolidge won in the 1924 presidential election.

Also on the ballot was maverick Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, who carried his home state and ran second in eleven states in the Midwest and West. However, La Follette had little appeal in most of conservative Kentucky, with the only exceptions being a few rapidly unionising, labor-policy-conscious mining counties in the Eastern Coalfield and more significantly in German-influenced Northern Kentucky where he ran ahead of Davis in traditionally Democratic, highly populated Kenton and Campbell Counties – in the process playing a decisive role in handing Coolidge a closely contested election. Despite his strong showings in the two northern counties, Kentucky was overall La Follette's seventh-weakest state and, outside the former Confederacy where poll taxes prevented most of the lower classes voting, his second-weakest after pro-League of Nations Rhode Island.

Results

1924 United States presidential election in Kentucky
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) 398,966 48.93%
Democratic John W. Davis 374,85545.98%
Progressive Robert M. La Follette 38,4654.72%
Socialist Labor Frank Tetes Johns 1,4990.18%
American Gilbert Nations 1,2990.16%
Commonwealth Land William Wallace2480.03%
Total votes812,286 100%

Results by county

1924 United States presidential election in Kentucky [8]
CountyJohn Calvin Coolidge
Republican
John William Davis
Democratic
Robert Marion La Follette Sr.
Progressive
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Adair 2,75753.40%2,36845.86%300.58%80.15%3897.53%5,163
Allen 3,13256.52%2,37342.83%270.49%90.16%75913.70%5,541
Anderson 1,41939.84%2,08958.65%300.84%240.67%-670-18.81%3,562
Ballard 76719.18%3,12878.22%812.03%230.58%-2,361-59.04%3,999
Barren 3,48843.48%4,44955.46%730.91%120.15%-961-11.98%8,022
Bath 1,72344.90%2,09354.55%200.52%10.03%-370-9.64%3,837
Bell 5,37168.02%2,16627.43%3334.22%260.33%3,20540.59%7,896
Boone 1,34036.39%2,20459.86%1273.45%110.30%-864-23.47%3,682
Bourbon 3,69147.06%4,03451.43%931.19%250.32%-343-4.37%7,843
Boyd 6,06255.55%4,07937.38%6606.05%1121.03%1,98318.17%10,913
Boyle 2,67343.00%3,19751.42%2934.71%540.87%-524-8.43%6,217
Bracken 1,77951.67%1,48543.13%1253.63%541.57%2948.54%3,443
Breathitt 1,70837.59%2,82662.19%100.22%00.00%-1,118-24.60%4,544
Breckinridge 3,83253.37%3,23044.99%1041.45%140.19%6028.38%7,180
Bullitt 94633.04%1,78962.49%1254.37%30.10%-843-29.44%2,863
Butler 2,64468.18%1,17730.35%320.83%250.64%1,46737.83%3,878
Caldwell 2,49851.45%2,18344.96%1483.05%260.54%3156.49%4,855
Calloway 93619.17%3,79077.63%1302.66%260.53%-2,854-58.46%4,882
Campbell 12,32949.44%5,56422.31%6,88227.60%1610.65%5,447 [lower-alpha 1] 21.84%24,936
Carlisle 46716.93%2,25081.58%291.05%120.44%-1,783-64.65%2,758
Carroll 1,30636.59%2,24362.85%180.50%20.06%-937-26.25%3,569
Carter 4,47261.50%2,55235.10%2313.18%160.22%1,92026.41%7,271
Casey 3,12063.03%1,79736.30%310.63%20.04%1,32326.73%4,950
Christian 7,19251.77%6,58547.40%1010.73%140.10%6074.37%13,892
Clark 2,70340.78%3,85758.18%440.66%250.38%-1,154-17.41%6,629
Clay 3,61374.08%1,14423.46%1082.21%120.25%2,46950.63%4,877
Clinton 2,06978.70%54320.65%110.42%60.23%1,52658.04%2,629
Crittenden 2,53956.75%1,86941.77%541.21%120.27%67014.98%4,474
Cumberland 2,14369.60%91829.81%180.58%00.00%1,22539.79%3,079
Daviess 7,27046.67%8,11652.10%1611.03%310.20%-846-5.43%15,578
Edmonson 2,06263.54%1,18336.46%00.00%00.00%87927.09%3,245
Elliott 61426.16%1,70272.52%261.11%50.21%-1,088-46.36%2,347
Estill 2,15248.64%2,05246.38%1954.41%250.57%1002.26%4,424
Fayette 11,75552.20%10,43346.33%2451.09%860.38%1,3225.87%22,519
Fleming 2,57249.38%2,59049.72%300.58%170.33%-18-0.35%5,209
Floyd 3,77344.02%4,22049.23%5626.56%170.20%-447-5.21%8,572
Franklin 2,82637.15%4,67861.50%590.78%430.57%-1,852-24.35%7,606
Fulton 90220.96%3,33677.53%561.30%90.21%-2,434-56.57%4,303
Gallatin 75042.13%1,00756.57%221.24%10.06%-257-14.44%1,780
Garrard 2,59254.63%2,12644.81%260.55%10.02%4669.82%4,745
Grant 1,40439.45%1,92354.03%2085.84%240.67%-519-14.58%3,559
Graves 2,27923.22%7,26674.04%2472.52%210.21%-4,987-50.82%9,813
Grayson 3,18352.16%2,85846.84%560.92%50.08%3255.33%6,102
Green 1,92055.16%1,54844.47%80.23%50.14%37210.69%3,481
Greenup 2,51047.30%1,93236.41%81315.32%510.96%57810.89%5,306
Hancock 1,33248.88%1,32348.55%592.17%110.40%90.33%2,725
Hardin 2,73538.00%4,29659.68%1522.11%150.21%-1,561-21.69%7,198
Harlan 9,63472.94%2,13316.15%1,2639.56%1781.35%7,50156.79%13,208
Harrison 2,16534.98%3,92463.40%871.41%130.21%-1,759-28.42%6,189
Hart 2,73648.08%2,86250.29%831.46%100.18%-126-2.21%5,691
Henderson 4,90253.67%4,04644.30%1862.04%00.00%8569.37%9,134
Henry 1,91833.86%3,70665.43%300.53%100.18%-1,788-31.57%5,664
Hickman 61821.27%2,27078.14%130.45%40.14%-1,652-56.87%2,905
Hopkins 5,29244.64%5,86449.47%6045.10%940.79%-572-4.83%11,854
Jackson 2,62987.96%2849.50%752.51%10.03%2,34578.45%2,989
Jefferson 61,76852.53%50,40942.87%5,0324.28%3770.32%11,3599.66%117,586
Jessamine 2,14445.00%2,47051.85%250.52%1252.62%-326-6.84%4,764
Johnson 3,07861.67%1,48029.65%4088.17%250.50%1,59832.02%4,991
Kenton 13,53744.33%7,94826.03%8,89729.13%1570.51%4,640 [lower-alpha 1] 15.19%30,539
Knott 88627.75%2,28671.59%160.50%50.16%-1,400-43.85%3,193
Knox 3,76767.34%1,53727.48%2905.18%00.00%2,23039.86%5,594
Larue 1,37240.42%1,99358.72%250.74%40.12%-621-18.30%3,394
Laurel 3,27466.24%1,45129.35%2024.09%160.32%1,82336.88%4,943
Lawrence 2,54750.16%2,44548.15%731.44%130.26%1022.01%5,078
Lee 1,34849.25%1,34849.25%291.06%120.44%00.00%2,737
Leslie 2,05288.91%2239.66%170.74%160.69%1,82979.25%2,308
Letcher 3,17254.96%1,91233.13%65011.26%370.64%1,26021.83%5,771
Lewis 3,06765.13%1,44730.73%1723.65%230.49%1,62034.40%4,709
Lincoln 2,93546.67%3,10049.29%2403.82%140.22%-165-2.62%6,289
Livingston 1,26740.84%1,76857.00%601.93%70.23%-501-16.15%3,102
Logan 3,70542.80%4,77255.13%1081.25%710.82%-1,067-12.33%8,656
Lyon 99336.33%1,69662.06%381.39%60.22%-703-25.72%2,733
Madison 5,27651.26%4,89547.56%900.87%310.30%3813.70%10,292
Magoffin 2,19655.25%1,75744.20%210.53%10.03%43911.04%3,975
Marion 1,97538.53%3,05559.60%941.83%20.04%-1,080-21.07%5,126
Marshall 1,19229.73%2,75268.63%591.47%70.17%-1,560-38.90%4,010
Martin 1,51272.94%36417.56%1868.97%110.53%1,14855.38%2,073
Mason 3,40648.28%3,52549.96%1081.53%160.23%-119-1.69%7,055
McCracken 4,97940.54%6,02849.08%1,2189.92%560.46%-1,049-8.54%12,281
McCreary 2,31774.98%53317.25%2347.57%60.19%1,78457.73%3,090
McLean 1,85743.61%2,28453.64%942.21%230.54%-427-10.03%4,258
Meade 1,10637.43%1,80260.98%441.49%30.10%-696-23.55%2,955
Menifee 45033.48%87364.96%70.52%141.04%-423-31.47%1,344
Mercer 2,71549.62%2,69849.31%330.60%260.48%170.31%5,472
Metcalfe 1,45053.15%1,26246.26%150.55%10.04%1886.89%2,728
Monroe 2,48971.18%97027.74%340.97%40.11%1,51943.44%3,497
Montgomery 1,95644.92%2,34753.90%270.62%240.55%-391-8.98%4,354
Morgan 1,80535.09%3,31164.37%280.54%00.00%-1,506-29.28%5,144
Muhlenberg 5,21049.76%4,37941.82%8418.03%410.39%8317.94%10,471
Nelson 2,08234.56%3,86364.13%761.26%30.05%-1,781-29.57%6,024
Nicholas 1,34837.19%2,23561.66%350.97%70.19%-887-24.47%3,625
Ohio 4,26750.65%3,81745.31%2943.49%470.56%4505.34%8,425
Oldham 90631.30%1,95467.50%351.21%00.00%-1,048-36.20%2,895
Owen 91322.24%3,15576.84%360.88%20.05%-2,242-54.60%4,106
Owsley 1,43480.38%32318.11%231.29%40.22%1,11162.28%1,784
Pendleton 2,14849.71%2,02846.93%1413.26%40.09%1202.78%4,321
Perry 4,35759.09%2,65836.05%3424.64%170.23%1,69923.04%7,374
Pike 7,05952.13%5,83543.09%5744.24%720.53%1,2249.04%13,540
Powell 72442.87%93955.60%251.48%10.06%-215-12.73%1,689
Pulaski 6,43562.66%3,15830.75%6556.38%210.20%3,27731.91%10,269
Robertson 49841.85%68057.14%90.76%30.25%-182-15.29%1,190
Rockcastle 2,71266.24%1,27731.19%1052.56%00.00%1,43535.05%4,094
Rowan 1,32653.60%1,09244.14%532.14%30.12%2349.46%2,474
Russell 2,27864.61%1,22434.71%240.68%00.00%1,05429.89%3,526
Scott 2,33437.60%3,80561.30%380.61%300.48%-1,471-23.70%6,207
Shelby 2,96641.60%4,09257.39%460.65%260.36%-1,126-15.79%7,130
Simpson 1,29432.08%2,68866.63%481.19%40.10%-1,394-34.56%4,034
Spencer 96141.95%1,32057.62%100.44%00.00%-359-15.67%2,291
Taylor 2,26752.09%2,05247.15%190.44%140.32%2154.94%4,352
Todd 1,94241.50%2,67957.24%571.22%20.04%-737-15.75%4,680
Trigg 2,13044.36%2,62554.66%320.67%150.31%-495-10.31%4,802
Trimble 33516.61%1,67683.09%20.10%40.20%-1,341-66.48%2,017
Union 1,77832.05%3,49362.97%2424.36%340.61%-1,715-30.92%5,547
Warren 5,63444.12%7,00554.85%1060.83%260.20%-1,371-10.74%12,771
Washington 2,28650.39%2,23849.33%100.22%30.07%481.06%4,537
Wayne 2,43654.31%2,02045.04%250.56%40.09%4169.28%4,485
Webster 3,13147.08%3,44951.86%00.00%711.07%-318-4.78%6,651
Whitley 4,71668.38%1,41320.49%73010.58%380.55%3,30347.89%6,897
Wolfe 82133.72%1,59765.59%170.70%00.00%-776-31.87%2,435
Woodford 2,09145.69%2,47254.02%70.15%60.13%-381-8.33%4,576
Totals398,96648.93%374,85545.98%38,4654.72%3,0460.37%24,1112.96%815,332

Notes

  1. 1 2 In this county where La Follette ran second ahead of Davis, margin given is Coolidge vote minus La Follette vote and percentage margin Coolidge percentage minus La Follette percentage.

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