1920 United States presidential election in Iowa
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The 1920 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Iowa voted for the Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, over the Democratic nominee, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding ran with Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Harding won the state by a margin of 45.45%.
With 70.91 percent of the popular, Iowa would prove to be Harding's fifth strongest state in the 1920 election terms of popular vote percentage after North Dakota, Vermont, Michigan, and Wisconsin.[1] Harding's performance is, by a margin of 6.79 percent, the best by any candidate in Iowa presidential election history,[2] and he and Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 are the only presidential candidates to sweep all of Iowa's counties.
Results
[edit]| 1920 United States presidential election in Iowa[3] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio | Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts | 634,674 | 70.91% | 13 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | James Middleton Cox of Ohio | Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York | 227,921 | 25.46% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana | Seymour Stedman of Illinois | 16,981 | 1.90% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Farmer–Labor | Parley P. Christensen of Illinois | Max S. Hayes of Ohio | 10,321 | 1.15% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Aaron S. Watkins of Indiana | D. Leigh Colvin of New York | 4,197 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist Labor | William Wesley Cox of Missouri | August Gillhaus of New York | 982 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| N/A | Others | Others | 6 | <0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 895,082 | 100.00% | 13 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county
[edit]| County[4] | Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican |
James Middleton Cox Democratic |
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist |
Parley Parker Christensen Farmer-Labor |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 4,133 | 74.29% | 1,358 | 24.41% | 34 | 0.61% | 19 | 0.34% | 19 | 0.34% | 2,775 | 49.88% | 5,563 |
| Adams | 2,845 | 62.43% | 1,670 | 36.65% | 14 | 0.31% | 12 | 0.26% | 16 | 0.35% | 1,175 | 25.78% | 4,557 |
| Allamakee | 5,192 | 73.23% | 1,833 | 25.85% | 48 | 0.68% | 14 | 0.20% | 3 | 0.04% | 3,359 | 47.38% | 7,090 |
| Appanoose | 6,382 | 65.50% | 2,952 | 30.30% | 339 | 3.48% | 9 | 0.09% | 61 | 0.63% | 3,430 | 35.20% | 9,743 |
| Audubon | 2,963 | 67.68% | 1,405 | 32.09% | 6 | 0.14% | 4 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,558 | 35.59% | 4,378 |
| Benton | 6,539 | 71.02% | 2,343 | 25.45% | 128 | 1.39% | 168 | 1.82% | 29 | 0.31% | 4,196 | 45.57% | 9,207 |
| Black Hawk | 16,920 | 76.56% | 4,000 | 18.10% | 487 | 2.20% | 547 | 2.48% | 147 | 0.67% | 12,920 | 58.46% | 22,101 |
| Boone | 7,093 | 71.07% | 2,240 | 22.44% | 423 | 4.24% | 112 | 1.12% | 112 | 1.12% | 4,853 | 48.63% | 9,980 |
| Bremer | 6,287 | 86.49% | 902 | 12.41% | 32 | 0.44% | 33 | 0.45% | 15 | 0.21% | 5,385 | 74.08% | 7,269 |
| Buchanan | 6,334 | 79.20% | 1,600 | 20.01% | 17 | 0.21% | 13 | 0.16% | 33 | 0.41% | 4,734 | 59.20% | 7,997 |
| Buena Vista | 4,927 | 78.58% | 1,204 | 19.20% | 102 | 1.63% | 17 | 0.27% | 20 | 0.32% | 3,723 | 59.38% | 6,270 |
| Butler | 5,900 | 86.69% | 830 | 12.20% | 36 | 0.53% | 17 | 0.25% | 23 | 0.34% | 5,070 | 74.49% | 6,806 |
| Calhoun | 5,277 | 76.95% | 1,479 | 21.57% | 38 | 0.55% | 32 | 0.47% | 32 | 0.47% | 3,798 | 55.38% | 6,858 |
| Carroll | 6,320 | 72.89% | 2,174 | 25.07% | 69 | 0.80% | 81 | 0.93% | 27 | 0.31% | 4,146 | 47.81% | 8,671 |
| Cass | 6,558 | 78.23% | 1,668 | 19.90% | 104 | 1.24% | 30 | 0.36% | 23 | 0.27% | 4,890 | 58.33% | 8,383 |
| Cedar | 5,697 | 77.88% | 1,420 | 19.41% | 140 | 1.91% | 27 | 0.37% | 31 | 0.42% | 4,277 | 58.47% | 7,315 |
| Cerro Gordo | 8,293 | 75.73% | 2,302 | 21.02% | 138 | 1.26% | 146 | 1.33% | 72 | 0.66% | 5,991 | 54.71% | 10,951 |
| Cherokee | 4,544 | 77.69% | 1,211 | 20.70% | 33 | 0.56% | 31 | 0.53% | 30 | 0.51% | 3,333 | 56.98% | 5,849 |
| Chickasaw | 4,517 | 66.98% | 2,171 | 32.19% | 22 | 0.33% | 21 | 0.31% | 13 | 0.19% | 2,346 | 34.79% | 6,744 |
| Clarke | 3,150 | 70.79% | 1,257 | 28.25% | 18 | 0.40% | 4 | 0.09% | 21 | 0.47% | 1,893 | 42.54% | 4,450 |
| Clay | 4,471 | 80.05% | 1,001 | 17.92% | 53 | 0.95% | 19 | 0.34% | 41 | 0.73% | 3,470 | 62.13% | 5,585 |
| Clayton | 6,747 | 77.50% | 1,808 | 20.77% | 104 | 1.19% | 24 | 0.28% | 23 | 0.26% | 4,939 | 56.73% | 8,706 |
| Clinton | 11,746 | 66.98% | 3,153 | 17.98% | 122 | 0.70% | 2,444 | 13.94% | 71 | 0.40% | 8,593 | 49.00% | 17,536 |
| Crawford | 5,473 | 68.65% | 2,151 | 26.98% | 194 | 2.43% | 112 | 1.40% | 42 | 0.53% | 3,322 | 41.67% | 7,972 |
| Dallas | 6,677 | 70.63% | 2,577 | 27.26% | 93 | 0.98% | 29 | 0.31% | 78 | 0.83% | 4,100 | 43.37% | 9,454 |
| Davis | 3,117 | 56.31% | 2,353 | 42.51% | 32 | 0.58% | 8 | 0.14% | 25 | 0.45% | 764 | 13.80% | 5,535 |
| Decatur | 4,187 | 61.17% | 2,592 | 37.87% | 30 | 0.44% | 7 | 0.10% | 29 | 0.42% | 1,595 | 23.30% | 6,845 |
| Delaware | 5,880 | 82.96% | 1,111 | 15.67% | 39 | 0.55% | 35 | 0.49% | 23 | 0.32% | 4,769 | 67.28% | 7,088 |
| Des Moines | 8,287 | 63.76% | 3,449 | 26.54% | 886 | 6.82% | 242 | 1.86% | 133 | 1.02% | 4,838 | 37.22% | 12,997 |
| Dickinson | 3,298 | 80.42% | 760 | 18.53% | 23 | 0.56% | 8 | 0.20% | 12 | 0.29% | 2,538 | 61.89% | 4,101 |
| Dubuque | 12,436 | 59.22% | 7,636 | 36.36% | 678 | 3.23% | 204 | 0.97% | 46 | 0.22% | 4,800 | 22.86% | 21,000 |
| Emmet | 3,360 | 76.00% | 991 | 22.42% | 30 | 0.68% | 29 | 0.66% | 11 | 0.25% | 2,369 | 53.59% | 4,421 |
| Fayette | 8,265 | 79.14% | 1,941 | 18.58% | 118 | 1.13% | 53 | 0.51% | 67 | 0.64% | 6,324 | 60.55% | 10,444 |
| Floyd | 6,106 | 84.84% | 933 | 12.96% | 97 | 1.35% | 32 | 0.44% | 29 | 0.40% | 5,173 | 71.88% | 7,197 |
| Franklin | 4,397 | 86.06% | 601 | 11.76% | 66 | 1.29% | 13 | 0.25% | 32 | 0.63% | 3,796 | 74.30% | 5,109 |
| Fremont | 3,776 | 59.33% | 2,524 | 39.66% | 37 | 0.58% | 3 | 0.05% | 24 | 0.38% | 1,252 | 19.67% | 6,364 |
| Greene | 5,102 | 78.98% | 1,303 | 20.17% | 23 | 0.36% | 16 | 0.25% | 16 | 0.25% | 3,799 | 58.81% | 6,460 |
| Grundy | 4,662 | 85.82% | 714 | 13.14% | 21 | 0.39% | 28 | 0.52% | 7 | 0.13% | 3,948 | 72.68% | 5,432 |
| Guthrie | 5,338 | 75.19% | 1,647 | 23.20% | 24 | 0.34% | 20 | 0.28% | 70 | 0.99% | 3,691 | 51.99% | 7,099 |
| Hamilton | 5,924 | 82.88% | 1,126 | 15.75% | 38 | 0.53% | 25 | 0.35% | 35 | 0.49% | 4,798 | 67.12% | 7,148 |
| Hancock | 3,617 | 80.84% | 725 | 16.20% | 16 | 0.36% | 94 | 2.10% | 22 | 0.49% | 2,892 | 64.64% | 4,474 |
| Hardin | 6,646 | 83.97% | 1,076 | 13.59% | 98 | 1.24% | 28 | 0.35% | 67 | 0.85% | 5,570 | 70.37% | 7,915 |
| Harrison | 6,127 | 62.89% | 3,479 | 35.71% | 66 | 0.68% | 22 | 0.23% | 48 | 0.49% | 2,648 | 27.18% | 9,742 |
| Henry | 5,254 | 71.91% | 1,939 | 26.54% | 38 | 0.52% | 25 | 0.34% | 50 | 0.68% | 3,315 | 45.37% | 7,306 |
| Howard | 3,601 | 66.46% | 1,717 | 31.69% | 51 | 0.94% | 20 | 0.37% | 29 | 0.54% | 1,884 | 34.77% | 5,418 |
| Humboldt | 3,577 | 82.82% | 681 | 15.77% | 21 | 0.49% | 30 | 0.69% | 10 | 0.23% | 2,896 | 67.05% | 4,319 |
| Ida | 3,547 | 75.73% | 1,090 | 23.27% | 28 | 0.60% | 10 | 0.21% | 9 | 0.19% | 2,457 | 52.46% | 4,684 |
| Iowa | 4,892 | 69.92% | 2,019 | 28.86% | 48 | 0.69% | 15 | 0.21% | 23 | 0.33% | 2,873 | 41.06% | 6,997 |
| Jackson | 4,763 | 67.99% | 1,954 | 27.89% | 175 | 2.50% | 70 | 1.00% | 43 | 0.61% | 2,809 | 40.10% | 7,005 |
| Jasper | 7,417 | 67.25% | 3,390 | 30.74% | 124 | 1.12% | 19 | 0.17% | 79 | 0.72% | 4,027 | 36.51% | 11,029 |
| Jefferson | 4,558 | 74.62% | 1,450 | 23.74% | 34 | 0.56% | 13 | 0.21% | 53 | 0.87% | 3,108 | 50.88% | 6,108 |
| Johnson | 5,696 | 52.15% | 5,032 | 46.07% | 136 | 1.25% | 27 | 0.25% | 32 | 0.29% | 664 | 6.08% | 10,923 |
| Jones | 5,962 | 70.46% | 2,436 | 28.79% | 39 | 0.46% | 14 | 0.17% | 10 | 0.12% | 3,526 | 41.67% | 8,461 |
| Keokuk | 6,207 | 67.95% | 2,800 | 30.65% | 47 | 0.51% | 28 | 0.31% | 53 | 0.58% | 3,407 | 37.30% | 9,135 |
| Kossuth | 6,018 | 77.46% | 1,682 | 21.65% | 26 | 0.33% | 35 | 0.45% | 8 | 0.10% | 4,336 | 55.81% | 7,769 |
| Lee | 10,763 | 65.94% | 5,177 | 31.72% | 180 | 1.10% | 133 | 0.81% | 70 | 0.43% | 5,586 | 34.22% | 16,323 |
| Linn | 20,036 | 72.02% | 6,932 | 24.92% | 535 | 1.92% | 114 | 0.41% | 204 | 0.73% | 13,104 | 47.10% | 27,821 |
| Louisa | 3,560 | 77.49% | 932 | 20.29% | 53 | 1.15% | 16 | 0.35% | 33 | 0.72% | 2,628 | 57.21% | 4,594 |
| Lucas | 3,775 | 68.56% | 1,463 | 26.57% | 157 | 2.85% | 19 | 0.35% | 92 | 1.67% | 2,312 | 41.99% | 5,506 |
| Lyon | 3,633 | 81.48% | 729 | 16.35% | 57 | 1.28% | 38 | 0.85% | 2 | 0.04% | 2,904 | 65.13% | 4,459 |
| Madison | 4,465 | 68.83% | 1,899 | 29.27% | 44 | 0.68% | 11 | 0.17% | 68 | 1.05% | 2,566 | 39.56% | 6,487 |
| Mahaska | 6,739 | 64.55% | 3,339 | 31.98% | 110 | 1.05% | 17 | 0.16% | 235 | 2.25% | 3,400 | 32.57% | 10,440 |
| Marion | 5,435 | 56.62% | 3,861 | 40.22% | 213 | 2.22% | 24 | 0.25% | 66 | 0.69% | 1,574 | 16.40% | 9,599 |
| Marshall | 9,334 | 79.10% | 2,166 | 18.36% | 196 | 1.66% | 25 | 0.21% | 79 | 0.67% | 7,168 | 60.75% | 11,800 |
| Mills | 3,683 | 69.00% | 1,592 | 29.82% | 36 | 0.67% | 8 | 0.15% | 19 | 0.36% | 2,091 | 39.17% | 5,338 |
| Mitchell | 4,476 | 83.95% | 773 | 14.50% | 47 | 0.88% | 19 | 0.36% | 17 | 0.32% | 3,703 | 69.45% | 5,332 |
| Monona | 4,569 | 69.49% | 1,960 | 29.81% | 29 | 0.44% | 9 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.12% | 2,609 | 39.68% | 6,575 |
| Monroe | 4,500 | 61.21% | 2,081 | 28.31% | 665 | 9.05% | 51 | 0.69% | 55 | 0.75% | 2,419 | 32.90% | 7,352 |
| Montgomery | 4,980 | 76.50% | 1,404 | 21.57% | 78 | 1.20% | 11 | 0.17% | 37 | 0.57% | 3,576 | 54.93% | 6,510 |
| Muscatine | 8,115 | 70.30% | 2,293 | 19.86% | 1,040 | 9.01% | 49 | 0.42% | 47 | 0.41% | 5,822 | 50.43% | 11,544 |
| O'Brien | 5,137 | 76.51% | 1,468 | 21.86% | 68 | 1.01% | 22 | 0.33% | 19 | 0.28% | 3,669 | 54.65% | 6,714 |
| Osceola | 2,717 | 76.73% | 754 | 21.29% | 46 | 1.30% | 18 | 0.51% | 6 | 0.17% | 1,963 | 55.44% | 3,541 |
| Page | 6,949 | 76.10% | 1,931 | 21.15% | 126 | 1.38% | 22 | 0.24% | 103 | 1.13% | 5,018 | 54.96% | 9,131 |
| Palo Alto | 3,904 | 71.42% | 1,467 | 26.84% | 43 | 0.79% | 41 | 0.75% | 11 | 0.20% | 2,437 | 44.58% | 5,466 |
| Plymouth | 6,090 | 76.16% | 1,801 | 22.52% | 31 | 0.39% | 51 | 0.64% | 23 | 0.29% | 4,289 | 53.64% | 7,996 |
| Pocahontas | 4,046 | 70.07% | 1,639 | 28.39% | 47 | 0.81% | 24 | 0.42% | 18 | 0.31% | 2,407 | 41.69% | 5,774 |
| Polk | 36,073 | 66.82% | 16,281 | 30.16% | 978 | 1.81% | 417 | 0.77% | 237 | 0.44% | 19,792 | 36.66% | 53,986 |
| Pottawattamie | 13,506 | 64.66% | 6,659 | 31.88% | 279 | 1.34% | 373 | 1.79% | 70 | 0.34% | 6,847 | 32.78% | 20,887 |
| Poweshiek | 5,806 | 71.41% | 2,125 | 26.14% | 99 | 1.22% | 28 | 0.34% | 72 | 0.89% | 3,681 | 45.28% | 8,130 |
| Ringgold | 3,702 | 72.66% | 1,327 | 26.05% | 15 | 0.29% | 9 | 0.18% | 42 | 0.82% | 2,375 | 46.61% | 5,095 |
| Sac | 4,984 | 78.69% | 1,268 | 20.02% | 39 | 0.62% | 10 | 0.16% | 33 | 0.52% | 3,716 | 58.67% | 6,334 |
| Scott | 16,233 | 58.75% | 5,473 | 19.81% | 4,101 | 14.84% | 1,335 | 4.83% | 489 | 1.77% | 10,760 | 38.94% | 27,631 |
| Shelby | 4,621 | 70.55% | 1,882 | 28.73% | 29 | 0.44% | 9 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.14% | 2,739 | 41.82% | 6,550 |
| Sioux | 6,068 | 79.29% | 1,510 | 19.73% | 36 | 0.47% | 16 | 0.21% | 23 | 0.30% | 4,558 | 59.56% | 7,653 |
| Story | 8,713 | 80.80% | 1,909 | 17.70% | 50 | 0.46% | 33 | 0.31% | 79 | 0.73% | 6,804 | 63.09% | 10,784 |
| Tama | 6,352 | 70.01% | 2,552 | 28.13% | 93 | 1.03% | 23 | 0.25% | 53 | 0.58% | 3,800 | 41.88% | 9,073 |
| Taylor | 4,997 | 72.41% | 1,757 | 25.46% | 37 | 0.54% | 33 | 0.48% | 77 | 1.12% | 3,240 | 46.95% | 6,901 |
| Union | 4,466 | 65.63% | 2,228 | 32.74% | 48 | 0.71% | 16 | 0.24% | 47 | 0.69% | 2,238 | 32.89% | 6,805 |
| Van Buren | 4,321 | 71.00% | 1,682 | 27.64% | 49 | 0.81% | 12 | 0.20% | 22 | 0.36% | 2,639 | 43.36% | 6,086 |
| Wapello | 9,884 | 67.99% | 4,131 | 28.42% | 409 | 2.81% | 42 | 0.29% | 71 | 0.49% | 5,753 | 39.57% | 14,537 |
| Warren | 5,323 | 70.51% | 2,066 | 27.37% | 34 | 0.45% | 15 | 0.20% | 111 | 1.47% | 3,257 | 43.14% | 7,549 |
| Washington | 5,813 | 71.09% | 2,257 | 27.60% | 32 | 0.39% | 15 | 0.18% | 60 | 0.73% | 3,556 | 43.49% | 8,177 |
| Wayne | 4,234 | 62.51% | 2,434 | 35.94% | 53 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.13% | 43 | 0.63% | 1,800 | 26.58% | 6,773 |
| Webster | 8,312 | 64.00% | 2,804 | 21.59% | 134 | 1.03% | 1,676 | 12.90% | 62 | 0.48% | 5,508 | 42.41% | 12,988 |
| Winnebago | 3,931 | 87.08% | 469 | 10.39% | 46 | 1.02% | 32 | 0.71% | 36 | 0.80% | 3,462 | 76.69% | 4,514 |
| Winneshiek | 6,684 | 75.98% | 1,933 | 21.97% | 102 | 1.16% | 54 | 0.61% | 24 | 0.27% | 4,751 | 54.01% | 8,797 |
| Woodbury | 17,603 | 62.07% | 9,815 | 34.61% | 545 | 1.92% | 247 | 0.87% | 152 | 0.54% | 7,788 | 27.46% | 28,362 |
| Worth | 3,401 | 84.83% | 516 | 12.87% | 34 | 0.85% | 37 | 0.92% | 21 | 0.52% | 2,885 | 71.96% | 4,009 |
| Wright | 5,739 | 81.04% | 1,205 | 17.01% | 55 | 0.78% | 20 | 0.28% | 63 | 0.89% | 4,534 | 64.02% | 7,082 |
| Totals | 634,674 | 70.92% | 227,804 | 25.45% | 16,981 | 1.90% | 10,321 | 1.15% | 5,185 | 0.58% | 406,870 | 45.46% | 894,965 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1920 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Iowa". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ "1920 Presidential General Election Results – Iowa". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ Iowa Secretary of State; Iowa Official Register 1921-1922 pp. 452-454
