1924 United States presidential election in South Dakota
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The 1924 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, over Independent[a] nominee, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and Democratic nominee, Ambassador John W. Davis of West Virginia. Coolidge ran with former Budget Director Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, while Davis ran with Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska and La Follette ran with Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
Coolidge won South Dakota by a margin of 12.73% of the vote.
With 36.96 percent of the popular vote, South Dakota would prove to be La Follette's fifth strongest state in the 1924 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Wisconsin, North Dakota, Minnesota and Montana.[1] He carried 18 counties here.
Results
[edit]| 1924 United States presidential election in South Dakota[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts | Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois | 101,299 | 49.69% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Independent | Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin | Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana | 75,355 | 36.96% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Democratic | John William Davis of West Virginia | Charles Wayland Bryan of Nebraska | 27,214 | 13.35% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 203,868 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
Results by county
[edit]| County | John Calvin Coolidge Republican |
John William Davis Democratic |
Robert Marion La Follette Sr. Independent[a] |
Margin[b] | Total votes cast[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Aurora | 967 | 36.31% | 665 | 24.97% | 1,031 | 38.72% | -64 | -2.40% | 2,663 |
| Beadle | 3,466 | 53.37% | 851 | 13.10% | 2,177 | 33.52% | 1,289 | 19.85% | 6,494 |
| Bennett | 444 | 57.07% | 102 | 13.11% | 232 | 29.82% | 212 | 27.25% | 778 |
| Bon Homme | 1,420 | 41.79% | 860 | 25.31% | 1,118 | 32.90% | 302 | 8.89% | 3,398 |
| Brookings | 4,708 | 48.51% | 1,010 | 10.41% | 3,987 | 41.08% | 721 | 7.43% | 9,705 |
| Brown | 2,740 | 60.67% | 361 | 7.99% | 1,415 | 31.33% | 1,325 | 29.34% | 4,516 |
| Brule | 1,060 | 37.11% | 650 | 22.76% | 1,146 | 40.13% | -86 | -3.01% | 2,856 |
| Buffalo | 309 | 41.53% | 225 | 30.24% | 210 | 28.23% | 84[c] | 11.29% | 744 |
| Butte | 1,199 | 55.59% | 277 | 12.84% | 681 | 31.57% | 518 | 24.01% | 2,157 |
| Campbell | 641 | 54.55% | 46 | 3.91% | 488 | 41.53% | 153 | 13.02% | 1,175 |
| Charles Mix | 1,680 | 31.22% | 1,306 | 24.27% | 2,396 | 44.52% | -716 | -13.30% | 5,382 |
| Clark | 1,684 | 56.85% | 325 | 10.97% | 953 | 32.17% | 731 | 24.68% | 2,962 |
| Clay | 1,415 | 42.30% | 492 | 14.71% | 1,438 | 42.99% | -23 | -0.69% | 3,345 |
| Codington | 1,862 | 41.38% | 627 | 13.93% | 2,011 | 44.69% | -149 | -3.31% | 4,500 |
| Corson | 1,364 | 56.50% | 140 | 5.80% | 910 | 37.70% | 454 | 18.81% | 2,414 |
| Custer | 833 | 53.36% | 236 | 15.12% | 492 | 31.52% | 341 | 21.84% | 1,561 |
| Davison | 2,801 | 51.71% | 578 | 10.67% | 2,038 | 37.62% | 763 | 14.09% | 5,417 |
| Day | 2,193 | 55.17% | 308 | 7.75% | 1,474 | 37.08% | 719 | 18.09% | 3,975 |
| Deuel | 1,362 | 60.32% | 168 | 7.44% | 728 | 32.24% | 634 | 28.08% | 2,258 |
| Dewey | 956 | 53.05% | 222 | 12.32% | 624 | 34.63% | 332 | 18.42% | 1,802 |
| Douglas | 1,125 | 50.25% | 317 | 14.16% | 797 | 35.60% | 328 | 14.65% | 2,239 |
| Edmunds | 1,043 | 42.38% | 277 | 11.26% | 1,141 | 46.36% | -98 | -3.98% | 2,461 |
| Fall River | 1,392 | 52.13% | 342 | 12.81% | 936 | 35.06% | 456 | 17.08% | 2,670 |
| Faulk | 1,112 | 56.08% | 277 | 13.97% | 594 | 29.95% | 518 | 26.12% | 1,983 |
| Grant | 1,227 | 42.02% | 202 | 6.92% | 1,491 | 51.06% | -264 | -9.04% | 2,920 |
| Gregory | 1,643 | 44.61% | 818 | 22.21% | 1,222 | 33.18% | 421 | 11.43% | 3,683 |
| Haakon | 797 | 49.87% | 319 | 19.96% | 482 | 30.16% | 315 | 19.71% | 1,598 |
| Hamlin | 1,144 | 52.38% | 207 | 9.48% | 833 | 38.14% | 311 | 14.24% | 2,184 |
| Hand | 1,727 | 54.00% | 690 | 21.58% | 781 | 24.42% | 946 | 29.58% | 3,198 |
| Hanson | 811 | 40.47% | 299 | 14.92% | 894 | 44.61% | -83 | -4.14% | 2,004 |
| Harding | 702 | 62.07% | 107 | 9.46% | 322 | 28.47% | 380 | 33.60% | 1,131 |
| Hughes | 1,260 | 53.21% | 325 | 13.72% | 783 | 33.07% | 477 | 20.14% | 2,368 |
| Hutchinson | 893 | 24.65% | 180 | 4.97% | 2,550 | 70.38% | -1,657 | -45.74% | 3,623 |
| Hyde | 669 | 50.53% | 257 | 19.41% | 398 | 30.06% | 271 | 20.47% | 1,324 |
| Jackson | 583 | 56.93% | 194 | 18.95% | 247 | 24.12% | 336 | 32.81% | 1,024 |
| Jerauld | 1,054 | 52.89% | 228 | 11.44% | 711 | 35.67% | 343 | 17.21% | 1,993 |
| Jones | 732 | 55.45% | 141 | 10.68% | 447 | 33.86% | 285 | 21.59% | 1,320 |
| Kingsbury | 2,242 | 65.65% | 333 | 9.75% | 840 | 24.60% | 1,402 | 41.05% | 3,415 |
| Lake | 1,888 | 45.35% | 297 | 7.13% | 1,978 | 47.51% | -90 | -2.16% | 4,163 |
| Lawrence | 3,255 | 71.07% | 649 | 14.17% | 676 | 14.76% | 2,579 | 56.31% | 4,580 |
| Lincoln | 1,825 | 43.81% | 265 | 6.36% | 2,076 | 49.83% | -251 | -6.02% | 4,166 |
| Lyman | 1,061 | 44.30% | 387 | 16.16% | 947 | 39.54% | 114 | 4.76% | 2,395 |
| Marshall | 1,271 | 51.54% | 190 | 7.70% | 1,005 | 40.75% | 266 | 10.79% | 2,466 |
| McCook | 1,368 | 44.27% | 457 | 14.79% | 1,265 | 40.94% | 103 | 3.33% | 3,090 |
| McPherson | 833 | 28.83% | 94 | 3.25% | 1,962 | 67.91% | -1,129 | -39.08% | 2,889 |
| Meade | 2,006 | 57.43% | 786 | 22.50% | 701 | 20.07% | 1,220[c] | 34.93% | 3,493 |
| Mellette | 642 | 39.93% | 604 | 37.56% | 362 | 22.51% | 38[c] | 2.36% | 1,608 |
| Miner | 995 | 35.65% | 308 | 11.04% | 1,488 | 53.31% | -493 | -17.66% | 2,791 |
| Minnehaha | 8,822 | 55.93% | 1,524 | 9.66% | 5,427 | 34.41% | 3,395 | 21.52% | 15,773 |
| Moody | 1,181 | 41.69% | 234 | 8.26% | 1,418 | 50.05% | -237 | -8.37% | 2,833 |
| Pennington | 3,201 | 63.57% | 854 | 16.96% | 980 | 19.46% | 2,221 | 44.11% | 5,035 |
| Perkins | 1,421 | 59.21% | 277 | 11.54% | 702 | 29.25% | 719 | 29.96% | 2,400 |
| Potter | 1,075 | 59.82% | 283 | 15.75% | 439 | 24.43% | 636 | 35.39% | 1,797 |
| Roberts | 1,744 | 40.99% | 215 | 5.05% | 2,296 | 53.96% | -552 | -12.97% | 4,255 |
| Sanborn | 1,184 | 47.34% | 327 | 13.07% | 990 | 39.58% | 194 | 7.76% | 2,501 |
| Shannon | 992 | 88.89% | 76 | 6.81% | 48 | 4.30% | 916[c] | 82.08% | 1,116 |
| Spink | 2,613 | 57.81% | 595 | 13.16% | 1,312 | 29.03% | 1,301 | 28.78% | 4,520 |
| Stanley | 531 | 43.81% | 249 | 20.54% | 432 | 35.64% | 99 | 8.17% | 1,212 |
| Sully | 555 | 59.04% | 138 | 14.68% | 247 | 26.28% | 308 | 32.77% | 940 |
| Todd | 837 | 67.01% | 237 | 18.98% | 175 | 14.01% | 600[c] | 48.04% | 1,249 |
| Tripp | 1,647 | 42.45% | 932 | 24.02% | 1,301 | 33.53% | 346 | 8.92% | 3,880 |
| Turner | 1,708 | 45.93% | 285 | 7.66% | 1,726 | 46.41% | -18 | -0.48% | 3,719 |
| Union | 1,665 | 45.04% | 877 | 23.72% | 1,155 | 31.24% | 510 | 13.79% | 3,697 |
| Walworth | 1,033 | 44.15% | 114 | 4.87% | 1,193 | 50.98% | -160 | -6.84% | 2,340 |
| Washabaugh | 246 | 57.88% | 121 | 28.47% | 58 | 13.65% | 125[c] | 29.41% | 425 |
| Washington | 277 | 87.66% | 31 | 9.81% | 8 | 2.53% | 246[c] | 77.85% | 316 |
| Yankton | 1,504 | 39.78% | 693 | 18.33% | 1,584 | 41.89% | -80 | -2.12% | 3,781 |
| Ziebach | 659 | 55.01% | 153 | 12.77% | 386 | 32.22% | 273 | 22.79% | 1,198 |
| Totals | 101,299 | 49.69% | 27,214 | 13.35% | 75,355 | 36.96% | 25,944 | 12.73% | 203,868 |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Although La Follette was nationally the nominee of the Progressive Party, he ran as an independent candidate without a party label in South Dakota.
- ^ Because La Follette finished ahead of Davis in South Dakota as a whole, all margins given are Coolidge minus La Follette unless stated in the total for the county in question.
- ^ a b c d e f g In this county where Davis did run second ahead of La Follette, the margin given is Coolidge vote minus Davis vote.
References
[edit]- ^ "1924 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "1924 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 400-401 ISBN 0405077114
