1928 United States presidential election in Ohio

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1928 United States presidential election in Ohio
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  1924 November 6, 1928 1932  
  Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg Unsuccessful 1928.jpg
Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California New York
Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson
Electoral vote240
Popular vote1,627,546864,210
Percentage64.89%34.45%

Ohio Presidential Election Results 1928.svg
County Results

President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

Elected President

Herbert Hoover
Republican

The 1928 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Between 1856 and 1908, Ohio had voted consistently, though generally narrowly, for Republican candidates, because the heavily Yankee northeast and Ohio Company counties of the southeast slightly outvoted the anti-Civil War Appalachian south and German-American counties of the northwest. [1] Woodrow Wilson, who grew up in Appalachia whose culture exert a major influence on Buckeye State politics, would carry the state in both of his winning presidential campaigns in 1912 and 1916. However, reaction against Democratic nominee James M. Cox, who had opposed the teaching of German in schools when the state's Governor, [2] meant Ohio went Republican by a 20% margin in the landslide of 1920, and five counties went Republican for the first time ever. [3]

In 1924, John W. Davis, although a native of adjacent and culturally allied West Virginia, had negligible support in the Yankee- and German-settled areas of northern and central Ohio. Thus, Davis received barely half the proportion that Cox had, as he was further handicapped by his indecisiveness towards the powerful Ku Klux Klan, [4] and by the complete lack of support from local Democrats in the interests of state offices. [5] Progressive Robert La Follette would receive over 17% of Ohio's vote, close to his national average but his best state east of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. [6]

For 1928, the Democrats nominated almost by default Al Smith, an urban New York Catholic. Although he was endorsed by La Follette after his 1925 death, [7] Smith was handicapped in urban Ohio by the state's cities' large population from Appalachian regions of the South, [8] who refused rigidly to vote for a Catholic. Similar sentiments were felt amongst traditionally Democratic German Protestants in the central part of the state; in heavily Amish Holmes County, which had still held the line for Cox and Davis by double digits, Hoover not only was the first ever Republican victor but also won over two-thirds of the county's vote.

By the week of the election, Hoover was overwhelmingly favored to carry the state, [9] and ultimately he won 64.89% of the popular vote in the state. This stands as the best popular vote percentage ever recorded by any presidential candidate in Ohio since 1820, when James Monroe ran unopposed.

Results

1928 United States presidential election in Ohio
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Herbert Hoover 1,627,54664.89%24
Democratic Al Smith 864,21034.45%0
Socialist Norman Thomas 8,6830.35%0
Prohibition William F. Varney 3,5560.14%0
Workers William Foster 2,8360.11%0
Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 1,5150.06%0
Totals2,508,346100.0%24

Results by county

CountyHerbert Clark Hoover
Republican
Alfred Emmanual Smith
Democratic
Norman Matton Thomas
Socialist
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast [10]
# %# %# %# %# %
Adams 5,66565.23%3,00034.54%20.02%180.21%2,66530.69%8,685
Allen 20,69368.21%9,46231.19%940.31%880.29%11,23137.02%30,337
Ashland 8,74572.29%3,25626.92%220.18%740.61%5,48945.37%12,097
Ashtabula 18,87075.13%5,95123.69%1330.53%1640.65%12,91951.43%25,118
Athens 11,10170.02%4,54628.67%1360.86%720.45%6,55541.34%15,855
Auglaize 7,79460.91%4,95438.72%200.16%280.22%2,84022.19%12,796
Belmont 20,96960.84%12,80737.16%2490.72%4431.29%8,16223.68%34,468
Brown 5,68162.05%3,42237.38%130.14%390.43%2,25924.68%9,155
Butler 29,12464.66%15,66334.77%1530.34%1020.23%13,46129.89%45,042
Carroll 5,57280.32%1,32119.04%210.30%230.33%4,25161.28%6,937
Champaign 7,65169.52%3,29629.95%200.18%390.35%4,35539.57%11,006
Clark 26,66671.72%10,31627.74%1040.28%970.26%16,35043.97%37,183
Clermont 9,73269.60%4,19429.99%260.19%310.22%5,53839.61%13,983
Clinton 7,15072.98%2,60326.57%130.13%310.32%4,54746.41%9,797
Columbiana 26,40577.30%7,46121.84%1360.40%1560.46%18,94455.46%34,158
Coshocton 9,15470.58%3,74528.87%230.18%480.37%5,40941.70%12,970
Crawford 11,23566.90%5,47232.59%440.26%420.25%5,76334.32%16,793
Cuyahoga 194,50853.42%166,18845.64%2,0060.55%1,4060.39%28,3207.78%364,108
Darke 11,76566.34%5,82232.83%270.15%1200.68%5,94333.51%17,734
Defiance 6,28964.33%3,48735.67%00.00%00.00%2,80228.66%9,776
Delaware 8,04967.75%3,72031.31%210.18%900.76%4,32936.44%11,880
Erie 10,38057.68%7,57042.06%330.18%130.07%2,81015.61%17,996
Fairfield 12,07267.87%5,61931.59%380.21%590.33%6,45336.28%17,788
Fayette 5,25165.23%2,75234.19%170.21%300.37%2,49931.04%8,050
Franklin 92,01965.86%47,08433.70%3670.26%2420.17%44,93532.16%139,712
Fulton 6,41677.74%1,78821.66%120.15%370.45%4,62856.08%8,253
Gallia 5,51373.42%1,91625.52%300.40%500.67%3,59747.90%7,509
Geauga 4,16177.37%1,18021.94%230.43%140.26%2,98155.43%5,378
Greene 10,03074.14%3,38525.02%520.38%610.45%6,64549.12%13,528
Guernsey 11,17474.10%3,70924.60%930.62%1040.69%7,46549.50%15,080
Hamilton 147,53457.03%110,15142.58%7010.27%3060.12%37,38314.45%258,692
Hancock 13,15175.54%4,15823.88%340.20%670.38%8,99351.65%17,410
Hardin 8,13760.20%5,30639.25%270.20%470.35%2,83120.94%13,517
Harrison 6,09579.40%1,51619.75%100.13%550.72%4,57959.65%7,676
Henry 5,37059.29%3,64740.27%160.18%240.26%1,72319.02%9,057
Highland 8,32568.12%3,83631.39%180.15%420.34%4,48936.73%12,221
Hocking 5,49767.92%2,50230.92%700.86%240.30%2,99537.01%8,093
Holmes 3,45767.43%1,63131.81%190.37%200.39%1,82635.62%5,127
Huron 10,70267.18%5,15732.37%330.21%380.24%5,54534.81%15,930
Jackson 7,12971.40%2,77527.79%390.39%420.42%4,35443.61%9,985
Jefferson 19,17568.09%8,71130.93%1190.42%1560.55%10,46437.16%28,161
Knox 10,02873.07%3,60126.24%330.24%620.45%6,42746.83%13,724
Lake 11,82374.24%4,02425.27%350.22%440.28%7,79948.97%15,926
Lawrence 10,34674.51%3,47024.99%480.35%210.15%6,87649.52%13,885
Licking 19,13072.14%7,24427.32%760.29%670.25%11,88644.82%26,517
Logan 9,60276.63%2,85822.81%190.15%520.41%6,74453.82%12,531
Lorain 24,38663.83%13,60735.62%1290.34%830.22%10,77928.21%38,205
Lucas 78,43563.21%44,97736.25%3180.26%3510.28%33,45826.96%124,081
Madison 5,52268.13%2,52731.18%140.17%420.52%2,99536.95%8,105
Mahoning 48,34163.82%26,92835.55%1990.26%2800.37%21,41328.27%75,748
Marion 13,39870.29%5,46828.69%1450.76%490.26%7,93041.61%19,060
Medina 9,51079.58%2,35719.72%440.37%390.33%7,15359.86%11,950
Meigs 6,58070.65%2,66128.57%440.47%290.31%3,91942.08%9,314
Mercer 5,12945.29%6,15554.34%100.09%320.28%-1,026-9.06%11,326
Miami 16,06372.80%5,86726.59%730.33%630.29%10,19646.21%22,066
Monroe 4,28760.73%2,72938.66%140.20%290.41%1,55822.07%7,059
Montgomery 71,27964.53%38,51734.87%5060.46%1590.14%32,76229.66%110,461
Morgan 4,35975.09%1,39724.07%120.21%370.64%2,96251.02%5,805
Morrow 4,80171.67%1,81827.14%230.34%570.85%2,98344.53%6,699
Muskingum 22,12076.81%6,50722.60%790.27%920.32%15,61354.22%28,798
Noble 4,46266.45%2,19032.61%170.25%460.69%2,27233.83%6,715
Ottawa 5,77262.54%3,43537.22%140.15%80.09%2,33725.32%9,229
Paulding 4,09361.79%2,47337.33%220.33%360.54%1,62024.46%6,624
Perry 8,55164.39%4,65335.04%350.26%400.30%3,89829.35%13,279
Pickaway 5,87159.87%3,89439.71%80.08%330.34%1,97720.16%9,806
Pike 3,24654.51%2,70945.49%00.00%00.00%5379.02%5,955
Portage 12,08671.31%4,75628.06%580.34%480.28%7,33043.25%16,948
Preble 6,69365.21%3,51334.23%220.21%350.34%3,18030.99%10,263
Putnam 5,33748.28%5,66751.27%210.19%290.26%-330-2.99%11,054
Richland 18,46871.28%7,29528.16%550.21%910.35%11,17343.12%25,909
Ross 11,17964.59%6,06235.02%310.18%360.21%5,11729.56%17,308
Sandusky 12,20067.33%5,83432.20%550.30%300.17%6,36635.13%18,119
Scioto 20,99773.60%7,42526.03%700.25%380.13%13,57247.57%28,530
Seneca 13,36961.93%8,13637.69%350.16%470.22%5,23324.24%21,587
Shelby 5,97552.14%5,44847.54%130.11%240.21%5274.60%11,460
Stark 59,56470.85%23,84028.36%4150.49%2560.30%35,72442.49%84,075
Summit 78,50470.86%31,50628.44%3880.35%3870.35%46,99842.42%110,785
Trumbull 29,71075.80%9,11023.24%2080.53%1660.42%20,60052.56%39,194
Tuscarawas 20,49474.34%6,80524.68%1630.59%1060.38%13,68949.66%27,568
Union 5,87670.53%2,38628.64%220.26%470.56%3,49041.89%8,331
Van Wert 7,54059.39%5,08940.08%210.17%460.36%2,45119.31%12,696
Vinton 2,81063.75%1,55935.37%150.34%240.54%1,25128.38%4,408
Warren 8,70877.62%2,45521.88%240.21%320.29%6,25355.74%11,219
Washington 12,76773.18%4,58226.26%520.30%460.26%8,18546.91%17,447
Wayne 14,19274.60%4,82525.36%60.03%10.01%9,36749.24%19,024
Williams 8,13871.81%3,13627.67%190.17%390.34%5,00244.14%11,332
Wood 15,40976.56%4,61222.92%530.26%520.26%10,79753.65%20,126
Wyandot 5,79065.41%3,02434.16%60.07%320.36%2,76631.25%8,852
Totals1,627,54664.89%864,21034.45%8,6830.35%7,907 [lower-alpha 1] 0.32%763,33630.43%2,508,346

See also

Notes

  1. Two of these "other" votes were not distributed by county, and there are some conflicts between individual and total figures for Foster and Reynolds.

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