1924 United States presidential election in Utah

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1924 United States presidential election in Utah

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Nominee Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis Robert M. La Follette Party Republican Democratic Independent Progressive Home state Massachusetts West Virginia Wisconsin Running mate Charles G. Dawes Charles W. Bryan Burton K. Wheeler Electoral vote 4 0 0 Popular vote 77,327 47,001 32,662 Percentage 49.26% 29.94% 20.81%

County Results Coolidge   30-40%   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90% The 1924 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Rapid recovery of the economy from a sharp recession following World War I transformed the 1920s into a strongly Republican decade. Even the problematic issue of a farm depression had eased by the time of the election as prices recovered. [1] It was also widely thought that the Teapot Dome scandal could do nothing to revive the Democrats as they were well known to have equally severe problems therewith via the fact that recently deceased Woodrow Wilson had paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in legal fees to nomination frontrunner William McAdoo. [2] Consequently, Utah voters strongly supported incumbent president Calvin Coolidge, who had come to power after Harding's death in 1923. As Harding had done four years earlier, Coolidge won all twenty-nine counties in Utah, a feat to be repeated by later Republican candidates in 1956, 1972, 1980, 1984, 2000, 2004 and 2012. The conservatism of Coolidge and Democratic nominee John W. Davis – the only ever major party presidential nominee from West Virginia and the first from an antebellum slave state (including border states) since the Civil War [3] – led more liberal supporters of both parties to support Progressive Robert M. La Follette. Utah's conservative Mormonism meant that La Follette was not as popular as in other western states, and he finished third well behind Davis. La Follette nonetheless did outpoll Davis in the Wasatch Front counties of Salt Lake and Weber, as well as the eastern, ethnically more diverse Carbon County. For this election, Utah essentially voted as the nation did, with the state on a two-party basis coming out as 5.90 percent more Democratic than the nation at-large, [4] although the total Davis vote was within one percent of the national average, and the La Follette vote three percent higher than the country at-large, though lower than any state to the north or west. Utah was along with Arizona and New Mexico the only Mountain state where La Follette did not carry any county. Results 1924 United States presidential election in Utah [5] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) 77,327 49.26% 4 Democratic John W. Davis 47,001 29.94% 0 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette 32,662 20.81% 0 Totals 156,990 100.00% 4 Results by county County John Calvin Coolidge Republican John William Davis Democratic Robert M. La Follette Sr. Independent Progressive Margin Total votes cast [6] #  % #  % #  % #  % Beaver 989 53.34% 578 31.18% 287 15.48% 411 22.17% 1,854 Box Elder 3,086 56.18% 1,841 33.52% 566 10.30% 1,245 22.67% 5,493 Cache 4,973 52.01% 3,915 40.94% 674 7.05% 1,058 11.06% 9,562 Carbon 1,878 37.59% 1,528 30.58% 1,590 31.83% 288 [lower-alpha 1] 5.76% 4,996 Daggett 97 74.05% 26 19.85% 8 6.11% 71 54.20% 131 Davis 2,265 55.51% 1,507 36.94% 308 7.55% 758 18.58% 4,080 Duchesne 1,277 57.60% 731 32.97% 209 9.43% 546 24.63% 2,217 Emery 979 42.98% 916 40.21% 383 16.81% 63 2.77% 2,278 Garfield 823 69.57% 308 26.04% 52 4.40% 515 43.53% 1,183 Grand 278 47.93% 243 41.90% 59 10.17% 35 6.03% 580 Iron 1,429 66.47% 485 22.56% 236 10.98% 944 43.91% 2,150 Juab 1,325 43.57% 1,241 40.81% 475 15.62% 84 2.76% 3,041 Kane 515 80.22% 117 18.22% 10 1.56% 398 61.99% 642 Millard 1,917 55.74% 1,025 29.81% 497 14.45% 892 25.94% 3,439 Morgan 482 54.10% 360 40.40% 49 5.50% 122 13.69% 891 Piute 398 61.42% 208 32.10% 42 6.48% 190 29.32% 648 Rich 403 62.48% 211 32.71% 31 4.81% 192 29.77% 645 Salt Lake 27,215 46.44% 14,853 25.35% 16,534 28.21% 10,681 [lower-alpha 1] 18.23% 58,602 San Juan 380 56.89% 232 34.73% 56 8.38% 148 22.16% 668 Sanpete 3,374 56.39% 2,228 37.24% 381 6.37% 1,146 19.15% 5,983 Sevier 2,111 56.44% 1,201 32.11% 428 11.44% 910 24.33% 3,740 Summit 1,597 57.16% 825 29.53% 372 13.31% 772 27.63% 2,794 Tooele 1,295 52.47% 674 27.31% 499 20.22% 621 25.16% 2,468 Uintah 1,296 60.90% 716 33.65% 116 5.45% 580 27.26% 2,128 Utah 6,946 46.28% 5,226 34.82% 2,838 18.91% 1,720 11.46% 15,010 Wasatch 1,105 52.39% 727 34.47% 277 13.13% 378 17.92% 2,109 Washington 1,181 54.96% 868 40.39% 100 4.65% 313 14.56% 2,149 Wayne 331 57.27% 241 41.70% 6 1.04% 90 15.57% 578 Weber 7,382 43.60% 3,970 23.45% 5,579 32.95% 1,803 [lower-alpha 1] 10.65% 16,931 Totals 77,327 49.26% 47,001 29.94% 32,662 20.81% 30,326 19.32% 156,990 See also United States presidential elections in Utah Notes In this county where Davis ran third behind Coolidge and La Follette, margin given is Coolidge vote minus La Follette vote and percentage margin Coolidge percentage minus La Follette percentage. 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