1928 United States presidential election in California
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The 1928 United States presidential election in California took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
California voted for the Republican nominee, former Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, in a landslide over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Al Smith. This was also the first election in California where the winning candidate received over 1 million votes. This also remains the last time that a Republican got more than 60% of the vote in California.
This was the last time until 1952 that a Republican presidential nominee carried California. After this election, no Republican candidate would win Plumas County again until 1980, and no Republican would carry Fresno County, Kings County, Lassen County, Madera County, and Solano County again until 1972.
Results
[edit]| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
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| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Harriet W. Works | 1,162,323 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Rolfe L. Thompson | 1,160,780 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Ben R. Meyer | 1,160,770 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | John A. O'Connell | 1,160,539 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Harry K. Wolff | 1,160,536 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Aurelia H. Reinhardt | 1,160,490 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Marshall DeMotte | 1,160,488 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | James F. Collins | 1,160,443 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | C. P. Rendon | 1,160,407 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | A. W. McPherson | 1,160,332 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | L. L. Dennett | 1,160,308 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | Fred H. Schauer | 1,160,296 | |
| Republican Party & Prohibition Party | Herbert Hoover | R. Y. Williams | 1,160,126 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | James D. Phelan | 614,365 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Clara Hellman Heller | 611,430 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | John H. Young | 611,348 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | R. M. Fitzgerald | 611,321 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Ross W. Pool | 611,316 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Justus S. Wardell | 611,279 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | A. L. Conrad | 611,236 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Estill Stephens Bartell | 611,220 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Milton K. Young | 611,156 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Julia Babcock | 611,143 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | C. M. Brown Jr. | 611,083 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Phil Dodson | 611,004 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Curtis Hillyer | 610,680 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Upton Sinclair | 19,595 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Addie M. Benedict | 19,240 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | E. Backus | 19,170 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Mary M. Morgan | 19,168 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Agnes H. Downing | 19,157 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | N. A. Richardson | 19,154 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | W. H. Eastman | 19,153 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Allen K. Clifford | 19,152 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Philip Bernstein | 19,150 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Walter E. Walker | 19,144 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Julius Levitt | 19,135 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | W. T. Tipton | 19,091 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | F. L. Neustein | 19,082 | |
| Write-in | William Z. Foster[a] | 112 | ||
| Write-in | Benjamin Gitlow | 104 | ||
| Write-in | H. Morgan | 6 | ||
| Write-in | Scattering | 151 | ||
| Votes cast[b] | 1,796,656 | |||
Results by county
[edit]| County | Herbert Hoover Republican/Prohibition |
Al Smith Democratic |
Norman Thomas Socialist |
William Z. Foster Communist |
Scattering Write-in |
Margin | Total votes cast[c] | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alameda | 118,539 | 65.42% | 60,875 | 33.60% | 1,717 | 0.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 63 | 0.03% | 57,664 | 31.82% | 181,194 |
| Alpine | 49 | 94.23% | 3 | 5.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 46 | 88.46% | 52 |
| Amador | 990 | 44.12% | 1,246 | 55.53% | 8 | 0.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -256 | -11.41% | 2,244 |
| Butte | 6,306 | 60.45% | 3,946 | 37.83% | 180 | 1.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,360 | 22.62% | 10,432 |
| Calaveras | 1,262 | 53.79% | 1,066 | 45.44% | 18 | 0.77% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 196 | 8.35% | 2,346 |
| Colusa | 1,752 | 56.30% | 1,338 | 42.99% | 22 | 0.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 414 | 13.30% | 3,112 |
| Contra Costa | 13,495 | 60.38% | 8,573 | 38.36% | 281 | 1.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,922 | 22.02% | 22,349 |
| Del Norte | 771 | 55.87% | 599 | 43.41% | 10 | 0.72% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 172 | 12.46% | 1,380 |
| El Dorado | 1,228 | 44.25% | 1,516 | 54.63% | 31 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -288 | -10.38% | 2,775 |
| Fresno | 20,687 | 54.30% | 16,884 | 44.32% | 527 | 1.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,803 | 9.98% | 38,098 |
| Glenn | 2,466 | 65.03% | 1,297 | 34.20% | 29 | 0.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,169 | 30.83% | 3,792 |
| Humboldt | 9,162 | 69.75% | 3,726 | 28.37% | 247 | 1.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,436 | 41.39% | 13,135 |
| Imperial | 5,417 | 67.61% | 2,486 | 31.03% | 109 | 1.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,931 | 36.58% | 8,012 |
| Inyo | 1,206 | 57.37% | 861 | 40.96% | 35 | 1.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 345 | 16.41% | 2,102 |
| Kern | 14,692 | 62.67% | 8,541 | 36.43% | 212 | 0.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,151 | 26.24% | 23,445 |
| Kings | 2,947 | 51.51% | 2,701 | 47.21% | 73 | 1.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 246 | 4.30% | 5,721 |
| Lake | 1,820 | 65.37% | 926 | 33.26% | 38 | 1.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 894 | 32.11% | 2,784 |
| Lassen | 2,111 | 56.73% | 1,597 | 42.92% | 13 | 0.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 514 | 13.81% | 3,721 |
| Los Angeles | 513,526 | 70.22% | 209,945 | 28.71% | 7,589 | 1.04% | 78 | 0.01% | 163 | 0.02% | 303,581 | 41.51% | 731,301 |
| Madera | 2,354 | 54.88% | 1,896 | 44.21% | 37 | 0.86% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | 458 | 10.68% | 4,289 |
| Marin | 7,862 | 57.44% | 5,686 | 41.54% | 140 | 1.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,176 | 15.90% | 13,688 |
| Mariposa | 656 | 55.03% | 517 | 43.37% | 19 | 1.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 139 | 11.66% | 1,192 |
| Mendocino | 4,810 | 63.39% | 2,628 | 34.63% | 150 | 1.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,182 | 28.76% | 7,588 |
| Merced | 4,644 | 60.17% | 2,970 | 38.48% | 104 | 1.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,674 | 21.69% | 7,718 |
| Modoc | 942 | 56.75% | 711 | 42.83% | 7 | 0.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 231 | 13.92% | 1,660 |
| Mono | 220 | 61.80% | 127 | 35.67% | 9 | 2.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 93 | 26.12% | 356 |
| Monterey | 7,228 | 63.12% | 4,138 | 36.13% | 86 | 0.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,090 | 26.98% | 11,452 |
| Napa | 4,699 | 57.48% | 3,422 | 41.86% | 54 | 0.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,277 | 15.62% | 8,175 |
| Nevada | 2,173 | 52.00% | 1,959 | 46.88% | 47 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 214 | 5.12% | 4,179 |
| Orange | 30,572 | 79.35% | 7,611 | 19.75% | 344 | 0.89% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 22,961 | 59.60% | 38,527 |
| Placer | 3,669 | 49.25% | 3,685 | 49.46% | 96 | 1.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -16 | -0.21% | 7,450 |
| Plumas | 947 | 45.64% | 1,079 | 52.00% | 49 | 2.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -132 | -6.36% | 2,075 |
| Riverside | 17,600 | 77.94% | 4,769 | 21.12% | 212 | 0.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 12,831 | 56.82% | 22,581 |
| Sacramento | 20,762 | 50.83% | 19,684 | 48.19% | 403 | 0.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,078 | 2.64% | 40,849 |
| San Benito | 1,971 | 58.87% | 1,366 | 40.80% | 11 | 0.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 605 | 18.07% | 3,348 |
| San Bernardino | 29,229 | 74.73% | 9,436 | 24.13% | 447 | 1.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 19,793 | 50.61% | 39,112 |
| San Diego | 47,769 | 67.14% | 22,749 | 31.97% | 633 | 0.89% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 25,020 | 35.16% | 71,151 |
| San Francisco | 95,987 | 49.11% | 96,632 | 49.44% | 2,799 | 1.43% | 24 | 0.01% | 26 | 0.01% | -645 | -0.33% | 195,468 |
| San Joaquin | 16,695 | 61.10% | 10,343 | 37.85% | 288 | 1.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,352 | 23.25% | 27,326 |
| San Luis Obispo | 5,425 | 60.82% | 3,336 | 37.40% | 159 | 1.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,089 | 23.42% | 8,920 |
| San Mateo | 14,360 | 58.87% | 9,755 | 39.99% | 267 | 1.09% | 5 | 0.02% | 5 | 0.02% | 4,605 | 18.88% | 24,392 |
| Santa Barbara | 11,666 | 69.44% | 4,954 | 29.49% | 179 | 1.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,712 | 23.25% | 16,799 |
| Santa Clara | 31,710 | 63.81% | 17,589 | 35.39% | 388 | 0.78% | 4 | 0.01% | 3 | 0.01% | 14,121 | 28.42% | 49,694 |
| Santa Cruz | 8,275 | 68.53% | 3,688 | 30.54% | 112 | 0.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,587 | 37.99% | 12,075 |
| Shasta | 2,301 | 52.20% | 2,025 | 45.94% | 82 | 1.86% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 276 | 6.26% | 4,408 |
| Sierra | 457 | 51.52% | 420 | 47.35% | 10 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 37 | 4.17% | 887 |
| Siskiyou | 3,758 | 55.49% | 2,916 | 43.06% | 98 | 1.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 842 | 12.43% | 6,772 |
| Solano | 7,061 | 52.32% | 6,278 | 46.51% | 158 | 1.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 783 | 5.80% | 13,497 |
| Sonoma | 12,891 | 59.71% | 8,506 | 39.40% | 194 | 0.90% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,385 | 20.31% | 21,591 |
| Stanislaus | 10,753 | 67.13% | 5,063 | 31.61% | 203 | 1.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,690 | 35.52% | 16,019 |
| Sutter | 2,239 | 53.98% | 1,875 | 45.20% | 34 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 364 | 8.78% | 4,148 |
| Tehama | 3,393 | 65.58% | 1,650 | 31.89% | 131 | 2.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,743 | 33.69% | 5,174 |
| Trinity | 447 | 48.85% | 433 | 47.32% | 35 | 3.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 14 | 1.53% | 915 |
| Tulare | 12,057 | 63.76% | 6,635 | 35.09% | 218 | 1.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,422 | 28.67% | 18,910 |
| Tuolumne | 1,731 | 54.80% | 1,360 | 43.05% | 68 | 2.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 371 | 11.74% | 3,159 |
| Ventura | 9,017 | 70.17% | 3,717 | 28.92% | 117 | 0.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,300 | 41.24% | 12,851 |
| Yolo | 3,545 | 56.96% | 2,641 | 42.43% | 38 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 904 | 14.52% | 6,224 |
| Yuba | 2,022 | 50.02% | 1,990 | 49.23% | 30 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 32 | 0.79% | 4,042 |
| Total | 1,162,323 | 64.69% | 614,365 | 34.19% | 19,595 | 1.09% | 112 | 0.01% | 261 | 0.01% | 547,958 | 30.50% | 1,796,656 |
Counties that flipped from Socialist to Republican
[edit]Counties that flipped from Socialist to Democratic
[edit]Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ Statement of Vote at General Election held on November 6, 1928 in the State of California. Sacramento, California. pp. 4–13. Retrieved July 16, 2024.
