1924 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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1924 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
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  1920 November 4, 1924 1928  
  John William Davis.jpg Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg
Nominee John W. Davis Calvin Coolidge Robert M. La Follette
Party Democratic Republican Farmer–Labor
Alliance Progressive
Home state West Virginia Massachusetts Wisconsin
Running mate Charles W. Bryan Charles G. Dawes Burton K. Wheeler
Electoral vote1000
Popular vote255,798226,24246,375
Percentage48.41%42.82%8.78%

Oklahoma Presidential Election Results 1924.svg
County Results

President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

Elected President

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

The 1924 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

In its early years, Oklahoma was a “Solid South” 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] In 1920 this “Solid South” state, nonetheless, joined the Republican landslide of Warren G. Harding, electing a GOP senator and five congressmen, [3] but in 1922 the Democratic Party returned to their typical ascendancy as the state GOP became bitterly divided. [4]

Also in the running was the Progressive Party nominee, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and his running mate Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, though they ran under the Farmer–Labor Party label in Oklahoma. Despite problems in the state's agricultural sector, La Follette did not have the appeal in Oklahoma he had in more northerly areas of the Plains. Isolationism was weaker in this heavily Southern, Protestant state and Bryan-era pietist Democratic support struck a different cultural vein from La Follette's largely Catholic and Lutheran backers. [5] Unlike the Bryanites, La Follette's base strongly opposed the Ku Klux Klan, which dominated politics in Oklahoma at the time, and was focused on farm cooperatives.

Oklahoma was won by Democratic nominee, Ambassador John W. Davis of West Virginia, over Republican nominee, incumbent President Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts. Davis ran with Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska, while Coolidge ran with former Budget Director Charles G. Dawes of Illinois. Davis won the state by a margin of 5.59 percentage points. This made Oklahoma the only state outside the former Confederacy to vote for him. This is also the last time Oklahoma would vote for a losing Democratic candidate, and just one of two times (the other being its first election in 1908) overall.

Results

1924 United States presidential election in Oklahoma [6]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic John W. Davis 255,79848.41%10
Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent)226,24242.82%0
Farmer–Labor Party Robert M. La Follette 46,3758.78%0
Totals528,415100.00%10

Results by county

CountyJohn William Davis
Democratic
John Calvin Coolidge
Republican
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Farmer–Labor
MarginTotal votes cast [7]
# %# %# %# %
Adair 1,94243.27%2,31751.63%2295.10%-375-8.36%4,488
Alfalfa 1,55830.07%2,96757.27%65612.66%-1,409-27.20%5,181
Atoka 2,20454.30%1,13027.84%72517.86%1,07426.46%4,059
Beaver 1,19537.73%1,56549.42%40712.85%-370-11.68%3,167
Beckham 2,49656.90%1,35730.93%53412.17%1,13925.96%4,387
Blaine 1,48832.02%2,25548.53%90419.45%-767-16.51%4,647
Bryan 4,59364.95%1,78025.17%6999.88%2,81339.78%7,072
Caddo 4,21144.19%4,38846.04%9319.77%-177-1.86%9,530
Canadian 3,06541.44%3,07041.50%1,26217.06%-5-0.07%7,397
Carter 7,13465.68%3,16429.13%5645.19%3,97036.55%10,862
Cherokee 2,45446.65%2,62249.84%1853.52%-168-3.19%5,261
Choctaw 2,52847.90%2,01338.14%73713.96%5159.76%5,278
Cimarron 67247.26%58641.21%16411.53%866.05%1,422
Cleveland 2,84156.73%1,67233.39%4959.88%1,16923.34%5,008
Coal 1,77255.74%80025.17%60719.09%97230.58%3,179
Comanche 3,52347.30%3,08441.41%84111.29%4395.89%7,448
Cotton 1,82549.26%1,58142.67%2998.07%2446.59%3,705
Craig 3,09653.51%2,51943.54%1712.96%5779.97%5,786
Creek 7,96944.99%8,89450.21%8514.80%-925-5.22%17,714
Custer 2,47343.93%2,40942.80%74713.27%641.14%5,629
Delaware 1,72948.64%1,56343.97%2637.40%1664.67%3,555
Dewey 1,12632.51%1,53944.43%79923.07%-413-11.92%3,464
Ellis 87928.56%1,49948.70%70022.74%-620-20.14%3,078
Garfield 3,79128.36%7,52456.28%2,05415.36%-3,733-27.92%13,369
Garvin 4,75868.63%1,86326.87%3124.50%2,89541.76%6,933
Grady 5,09159.29%2,64030.75%8559.96%2,45128.55%8,586
Grant 1,99036.77%2,80051.74%62211.49%-810-14.97%5,412
Greer 1,98270.13%55119.50%29310.37%1,43150.64%2,826
Harmon 1,04972.05%33923.28%684.67%71048.76%1,456
Harper 82434.12%1,22650.77%36515.11%-402-16.65%2,415
Haskell 2,48051.50%1,93540.18%4018.33%54511.32%4,816
Hughes 3,99664.45%1,99432.16%2103.39%2,00232.29%6,200
Jackson 2,34261.57%94124.74%52113.70%1,40136.83%3,804
Jefferson 2,44164.87%1,10829.44%2145.69%1,33335.42%3,763
Johnston 2,12257.03%92324.81%67618.17%1,19932.22%3,721
Kay 6,04941.87%7,39251.16%1,0076.97%-1,343-9.30%14,448
Kingfisher 1,64432.27%2,83455.62%61712.11%-1,190-23.36%5,095
Kiowa 2,63554.29%1,68834.78%53110.94%94719.51%4,854
Latimer 1,45753.92%97135.94%27410.14%48617.99%2,702
Le Flore 4,06949.34%3,32640.33%85210.33%7439.01%8,247
Lincoln 3,28339.83%4,22051.20%7398.97%-937-11.37%8,242
Logan 2,36631.29%4,44558.78%7519.93%-2,079-27.49%7,562
Love 1,71362.79%47917.56%53619.65%1,177 [lower-alpha 1] 43.15%2,728
Major 64921.32%1,78158.51%61420.17%-1,132-37.19%3,044
Marshall 1,93557.83%86625.88%54516.29%1,06931.95%3,346
Mayes 2,24645.95%2,31747.40%3256.65%-71-1.45%4,888
McClain 2,51962.80%1,23330.74%2596.46%1,28632.06%4,011
McCurtain 3,27963.24%1,66932.19%2374.57%1,61031.05%5,185
McIntosh 2,72360.58%1,67537.26%972.16%1,04823.31%4,495
Murray 2,08369.09%78426.00%1484.91%1,29943.08%3,015
Muskogee 6,89550.34%6,15844.96%6444.70%7375.38%13,697
Noble 1,92736.77%2,68051.15%63312.08%-753-14.37%5,240
Nowata 2,04945.54%2,29651.03%1543.42%-247-5.49%4,499
Okfuskee 2,65461.03%1,43132.90%2646.07%1,22328.12%4,349
Oklahoma 21,70850.38%17,50440.63%3,8738.99%4,2049.76%43,085
Okmulgee 5,92746.17%6,01546.85%8966.98%-88-0.69%12,838
Osage 7,07049.78%6,36344.80%7695.41%7074.98%14,202
Ottawa 4,52243.58%5,19750.08%6586.34%-675-6.50%10,377
Pawnee 2,37639.46%3,09351.37%5529.17%-717-11.91%6,021
Payne 4,34243.71%4,81748.49%7747.79%-475-4.78%9,933
Pittsburg 6,06256.31%3,55433.01%1,14910.67%2,50823.30%10,765
Pontotoc 4,26864.47%1,85928.08%4937.45%2,40936.39%6,620
Pottawatomie 5,07248.73%4,04038.81%1,29712.46%1,0329.91%10,409
Pushmataha 1,64754.79%1,08436.06%2759.15%56318.73%3,006
Roger Mills 1,31847.36%94633.99%51918.65%37213.37%2,783
Rogers 2,90154.28%2,20741.29%2374.43%69412.98%5,345
Seminole 3,00751.77%2,32640.05%4758.18%68111.73%5,808
Sequoyah 3,42953.80%2,87545.11%701.10%5548.69%6,374
Stephens 4,74562.98%2,37731.55%4125.47%2,36831.43%7,534
Texas 1,81245.73%1,74544.04%40510.22%671.69%3,962
Tillman 2,65363.73%1,32631.85%1844.42%1,32731.88%4,163
Tulsa 14,37740.87%19,53755.54%1,2653.60%-5,160-14.67%35,179
Wagoner 1,98550.86%1,64642.17%2726.97%3398.69%3,903
Washington 3,48742.01%4,57955.17%2342.82%-1,092-13.16%8,300
Washita 2,32557.35%1,35733.47%3729.18%96823.88%4,054
Woods 1,53330.73%2,61552.43%84016.84%-1,082-21.69%4,988
Woodward 1,41835.34%1,83145.64%76319.02%-413-10.29%4,012
Totals255,79848.45%225,75642.76%46,3728.78%30,0425.69%527,926

See also

Notes

  1. In this county where Coolidge ran third behind both Davis and La Follette, margin given is Davis vote minus La Follette vote and percentage margin Davis percentage minus La Follette percentage.

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