1924 United States presidential election in Utah

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1924 United States presidential election in Utah
Flag of Utah (1922-2011).svg
  1920 November 4, 1924 1928  
  Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg John William Davis.jpg Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg
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 vote400
Popular vote77,32747,00132,662
Percentage49.26%29.94%20.81%

Utah Presidential Election Results 1924.svg
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.

Contents

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]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent)77,32749.26%4
Democratic John W. Davis 47,00129.94%0
Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette 32,66220.81%0
Totals156,990100.00%4

Results by county

CountyJohn Calvin Coolidge
Republican
John William Davis
Democratic
Robert M. La Follette Sr.
Independent Progressive
MarginTotal votes cast [6]
#%#%#%#%
Beaver 98953.34%57831.18%28715.48%41122.17%1,854
Box Elder 3,08656.18%1,84133.52%56610.30%1,24522.67%5,493
Cache 4,97352.01%3,91540.94%6747.05%1,05811.06%9,562
Carbon 1,87837.59%1,52830.58%1,59031.83%288 [a] 5.76%4,996
Daggett 9774.05%2619.85%86.11%7154.20%131
Davis 2,26555.51%1,50736.94%3087.55%75818.58%4,080
Duchesne 1,27757.60%73132.97%2099.43%54624.63%2,217
Emery 97942.98%91640.21%38316.81%632.77%2,278
Garfield 82369.57%30826.04%524.40%51543.53%1,183
Grand 27847.93%24341.90%5910.17%356.03%580
Iron 1,42966.47%48522.56%23610.98%94443.91%2,150
Juab 1,32543.57%1,24140.81%47515.62%842.76%3,041
Kane 51580.22%11718.22%101.56%39861.99%642
Millard 1,91755.74%1,02529.81%49714.45%89225.94%3,439
Morgan 48254.10%36040.40%495.50%12213.69%891
Piute 39861.42%20832.10%426.48%19029.32%648
Rich 40362.48%21132.71%314.81%19229.77%645
Salt Lake 27,21546.44%14,85325.35%16,53428.21%10,681 [a] 18.23%58,602
San Juan 38056.89%23234.73%568.38%14822.16%668
Sanpete 3,37456.39%2,22837.24%3816.37%1,14619.15%5,983
Sevier 2,11156.44%1,20132.11%42811.44%91024.33%3,740
Summit 1,59757.16%82529.53%37213.31%77227.63%2,794
Tooele 1,29552.47%67427.31%49920.22%62125.16%2,468
Uintah 1,29660.90%71633.65%1165.45%58027.26%2,128
Utah 6,94646.28%5,22634.82%2,83818.91%1,72011.46%15,010
Wasatch 1,10552.39%72734.47%27713.13%37817.92%2,109
Washington 1,18154.96%86840.39%1004.65%31314.56%2,149
Wayne 33157.27%24141.70%61.04%9015.57%578
Weber 7,38243.60%3,97023.45%5,57932.95%1,803 [a] 10.65%16,931
Totals77,32749.26%47,00129.94%32,66220.81%30,32619.32%156,990

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 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.

References

  1. Roseboom, Eugene Holloway and Eckes, Alfred E.; A History of Presidential Elections, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter; pp. 151-158 ISBN   0020364202
  2. Yergin, Daniel; The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power; p. 198 ISBN   1439134839
  3. ‘What States do Presidents Come From?’
  4. Counting the Votes; Utah
  5. "1924 Presidential Election Results - Utah". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
  6. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 400 ISBN   0405077114