1924 United States presidential election in Rhode Island

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Nominee Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis Party Republican Democratic Home state Massachusetts West Virginia Running mate Charles G. Dawes Charles W. Bryan Electoral vote 5 0 Popular vote 125,286 76,606 Percentage 59.63% 36.46%

County Results Municipality Results Coolidge   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90%   90–100% Davis   40–50%   50–60%

President before election Calvin Coolidge Republican Elected President Calvin Coolidge Republican

The1924 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

Rhode Island voted for theRepublican nominee, incumbent PresidentCalvin Coolidge ofMassachusetts, over theDemocratic nominee, AmbassadorJohn W. Davis ofWest Virginia. Coolidge ran with formerBudget DirectorCharles G. Dawes ofIllinois, while Davis ran withGovernorCharles W. Bryan ofNebraska. Also in the running that year was theProgressive Party nominee,SenatorRobert M. La Follette ofWisconsin and his running mate SenatorBurton K. Wheeler ofMontana. La Follette's support base was primarily among ruralGerman andScandinavian Americans,^[1] particularly German Catholics, and he possessed little appeal in the Northeast outside a few New York and Bostonanti-Prohibition precincts despite the area's large Catholic population. This was especially true in Rhode Island where La Follette's opposition to theLeague of Nations was severely unpopular,^[2] and consequently Rhode Island was La Follette's sixth-weakest state and weakest outside the formerConfederacy where the lower classes were almost entirely disfranchised.

Coolidge won Rhode Island by a margin of 23.17%. His victory was also enjoyed a unique personal popularity which helped him in the state and the rest ofNew England. He was the epitome of a traditional New EnglandYankee, having been born in the small-town ofPlymouth Notch, Vermont, and establishing his political career nearby asGovernor of Massachusetts. Thus Coolidge remained especially popular with voters across the New England region.

The 1920s were a fiercely Republican decade in American politics, and Rhode Island in that era was a fiercely Republican state in presidential elections. The economic boom and social good feelings of theRoaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership virtually guaranteed Calvin Coolidge an easy win in the state against the conservative Southern Democrat Davis. Davis' status as the solitary pro-League of Nations candidate helped him in Rhode Island with its large immigrant population. Consequently, Davis gained almost 4% on Cox's 1920 vote and in fact Rhode Island was his third strongest state in the North and West (behind New Mexico and Indiana), giving Davis a vote percentage 7.64% above his national figure.

In effect, Davis’ gain would begin Rhode Island's transition from a strongly Yankee Republican state into a Democratic-leaning state, made definitive via CatholicAl Smith’s win 4 years later. Rhode Island would not vote for another Republican presidential candidate untilDwight D. Eisenhower in1952, and since 1924, Republicans have only carried the state four times. To date, this was the last time that the state's capital and largest city,Providence, voted Republican.

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