Electoral history of Warren G. Harding

Electoral history of Warren G. Harding, who served as the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923);^[1] a U.S. senator from Ohio (1915-1921);^[2] and the 28th lieutenant governor of Ohio (1904-1906).^[3]

Ohio gubernatorial races (1903-1910)

1903 Ohio gubernatorial election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Myron T. Herrick / Warren G. Harding	475,560	54.89%
	Democratic	Tom L. Johnson / Frank B. Niles	361,748	41.76%
Total votes			113,812	96.65%

1910 Ohio gubernatorial election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Judson Harmon	477,077	51.61%
	Republican	Warren Gamaliel Harding	376,700	40.75%
	Socialist	Tom Clifford	60,637	6.56%
Total votes			90,328	99.01%

United States Senate election (1914)

Ohio United States Senate Republican Primary, 1914^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Warren G. Harding	88,540	40.69%
	Republican	Joseph B. Foraker	76,817	35.30%
	Republican	Ralph D. Cole	52,237	24.01%
Total votes			217,594	100%

Ohio United States Senate election, 1914^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Warren G. Harding	526,115	49.16%
	Democratic	Timothy S. Hogan	423,742	39.60%
	Progressive	Arthur L. Garford	67,509	6.31%
	Socialist	E.K. Hitchens	52,803	4.93%
Total votes			1,070,169	100%
	Republican hold

Presidential elections (1916-1920)

1916 Republican National Convention

Ballot	1	2	3
Charles Evans Hughes	253.5	328.5	949.5
John W. Weeks	105	79	3
Elihu Root	103	98.5	0
Charles W. Fairbanks	74.5	88.5	0
Albert B. Cummins	85	85	0
Theodore Roosevelt	65	81	18.5
Theodore E. Burton	77.5	76.5	0
Lawrence Yates Sherman	66	65	0
Philander C. Knox	36	36	0
Henry Ford	32	0	0
Martin Grove Brumbaugh	29	0	0
Robert M. La Follette	25	25	3
William Howard Taft	14	0	0
T. Coleman du Pont	12	13	5
Henry Cabot Lodge	0	0	7
John Wanamaker	0	5	0
Frank B. Willis	4	1	0
William Borah	2	0	0
Warren G. Harding	0	1	0
Samuel W. McCall	1	1	0
Leonard Wood	0	1	0
Absent	2.5	2	1

Source - ^[7]

1920 United States presidential election

1920 Republican National Convention

1920 Republican presidential balloting^[8]
Ballot	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10^[a]	10^[b]
Harding	65.5	59.0	58.5	61.5	78.0	89.0	105.0	133.0	374.5	644.7	692.2
Wood	287.5	289.5	303.0	314.5	299.0	311.5	312.0	299.0	249.0	181.5	156.0
Lowden	211.5	259.5	282.5	289.0	303.0	311.5	311.5	307.0	121.5	28.0	11.0
H. Johnson	133.5	146.0	148.0	140.5	133.5	110.0	99.5	87.0	82.0	80.8	80.8
Sproul	84.0	78.5	79.5	79.5	82.5	77.0	76.0	76.0	78.0	0	0
W.M. Butler	69.5	41.0	25.0	20.0	4.0	4.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
Coolidge	34.0	32.0	27.0	25.0	29.0	28.0	28.0	30.0	28.0	5.0	5.0
La Follette	24.0	24.0	24.0	22.0	24.0	24.0	24.0	24.0	24.0	24.0	24.0
Pritchard	21.0	10.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poindexter	20.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.0	14.0	2.0	0
Sutherland	17.0	15.0	9.0	3.0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hoover	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.0	6.0	5.0	4.0	5.0	6.0	10.5	9.5
Scattering	11.0	9.0	7.0	9.0	9.0	9.0	6.0	6.0	5.0	5.5	3.5

^ before shifts
^ after shifts

First Presidential Ballot
Second Presidential Ballot
Third Presidential Ballot
Fourth Presidential Ballot
Fifth Presidential Ballot
Sixth Presidential Ballot
Seventh Presidential Ballot
Eighth Presidential Ballot
Ninth Presidential Ballot
Tenth Presidential Ballot
Before Shifts
Tenth Presidential Ballot
After Shifts

Presidential election

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Electoral results
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Count	Percentage	Electoral vote	Vice-presidential candidate	Home state	Electoral vote
Warren Gamaliel Harding	Republican	Ohio	16,144,093	60.32%	404	John Calvin Coolidge Jr.	Massachusetts	404
James Middleton Cox	Democratic	Ohio	9,139,661	34.15%	127	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	New York	127
Eugene Victor Debs	Socialist	Indiana	913,693	3.41%	0	Seymour Stedman	Illinois	0
Parley Parker Christensen	Farmer-Labor	Illinois	265,398	0.99%	0	Maximillian S. Hayes	Ohio	0
Aaron Sherman Watkins	Prohibition	Indiana	188,787	0.71%	0	David Leigh Colvin	New York	0
James Edward Ferguson Jr.	American	Texas	47,968	0.18%	0	William J. Hough	New York	0
William Wesley Cox	Socialist Labor	Missouri	31,084	0.12%	0	August Gillhaus	New York	0
Robert Colvin Macauley	Single Tax	Pennsylvania	5,750	0.02%	0	Richard C. Barnum	Ohio	0
Other			28,746	0.11%	—	Other		—
Total			26,765,180	100%	531			531
Needed to win					266			266

Sources and references

^ "Warren G. Harding". The White House. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
^ "Warren G. Harding". HISTORY. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
^ "Warren G. Harding | Facts, Accomplishments, & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
^ ^a ^b Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 1641.
^ Dean, John W. (2004). Warren G. Harding (1. ed.). New York: Times Books. pp. 34–37. ISBN 0805069569. 1914 harding hogan.
^ Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 1460.
^ Hart, George L (1916). Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National Convention: Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1916, Resulting in the Nomination of Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, for President and the Nomination of Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana, for Vice-president. Tenny Press.
^ Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 710.
^ Guide to US Elections 2010, pp. 779, 869.

Work cited

Guide to U.S. Elections. SAGE Publications. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60426-536-1.

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[1] "Warren G. Harding". The White House. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2021-04-23.

[2] "Warren G. Harding". HISTORY. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-23.

[3] "Warren G. Harding | Facts, Accomplishments, & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-23.

[FOOTNOTEGuide_to_US_Elections20101641-4] Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 1641.

[dean-5] Dean, John W. (2004). Warren G. Harding (1. ed.). New York: Times Books. pp. 34–37. ISBN 0805069569. 1914 harding hogan.

[FOOTNOTEGuide_to_US_Elections20101460-6] Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 1460.

[7] Hart, George L (1916). Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National Convention: Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1916, Resulting in the Nomination of Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, for President and the Nomination of Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana, for Vice-president. Tenny Press.

[FOOTNOTEGuide_to_US_Elections2010710-8] Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 710.

[FOOTNOTEGuide_to_US_Elections2010779,_869-11] Guide to US Elections 2010, pp. 779, 869.

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29th President of the United States (1921–1923) 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1904–1906)
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