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The1920 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the1920 United States presidential election in which all 48 states participated. State voters chose nine electors to represent them in theElectoral College via a popular vote pittingDemocratic nomineeJames M. Cox and his running mate,Assistant Secretary of the NavyFranklin Roosevelt, againstRepublican challengerU.S. SenatorWarren G. Harding and his running mate,GovernorCalvin Coolidge.
Except for theUnionistOzark counties ofNewton andSearcy where Republicans controlled local government,Arkansas since the end ofReconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.[1]Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all blacks and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,[2] political repression[3] and internal party divisions[4] diminished that party's strength substantially.
The Democratic Party, under the influence of futurefederal Senate Minority andMajority LeaderJoseph Taylor Robinson and demagogicGovernor andSenatorJeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation andchild labor,[5] but under the administration ofGeorge W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”[6] – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.[7]
The aftermath ofWorld War I, however, made for a temporary turn in Arkansas voter allegiances. TheLeague of Nations was to be spurned in the isolationist and fundamentalist[8] Ozark region,[9] and outgoing PresidentWoodrow Wilson was thus stigmatised for his advocacy of that organization. New Democratic nominee James M. Cox also supported American participation in the League,[10] whereas his rival Warren Harding was largely opposed to the League and was helped in the South by racial and labor unrest elsewhere in the country.[11]
Despite this, the solid Democratic majority of Arkansas was always conceded by polls across the nation at the end of October, even as the possibility of Harding breaking the “Solid South” was seen in Tennessee and even North Carolina.[12] In culmination, Cox won the election in Arkansas with 58.05 percent of the vote; Harding received 39.15 percent of the vote and the only other candidate on the ballot, imprisoned Socialist Eugene Debs received the remaining 2.80 percent. Harding's result was nonetheless a major improvement upon the mere 28 percent won byCharles Evans Hughes in1916, and rivaled any Republican performance in the state since the advent ofthe poll tax, althoughTheodore Roosevelt in1904 had done marginally better. Harding was the first Republican to ever carryVan Buren County,[13] the first to carryLogan County sinceUlysses S. Grant in1872,[13] and the first Republican sinceBenjamin Harrison to carryArkansas County andLincoln County.[13]
| 1920 United States presidential election in Arkansas[14] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | James M. Cox | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 106,682 | 58.05% | 9 | |
| Republican | Warren G. Harding | Calvin Coolidge | 71,948 | 39.15% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | Seymour Stedman | 5,141 | 2.80% | 0 | |
| Totals | 183,637 | 100.00% | 9 | |||
| County | James Middleton Cox Democratic | Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican | Eugene Victor Debs Socialist | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Arkansas | 1,156 | 48.43% | 1,199 | 50.23% | 32 | 1.34% | -43 | -1.80% | 2,387 |
| Ashley | 1,312 | 63.41% | 725 | 35.04% | 32 | 1.55% | 587 | 28.37% | 2,069 |
| Baxter | 707 | 56.07% | 484 | 38.38% | 70 | 5.55% | 223 | 17.69% | 1,261 |
| Benton | 2,838 | 58.28% | 1,916 | 39.34% | 116 | 2.38% | 922 | 18.94% | 4,870 |
| Boone | 1,106 | 60.87% | 647 | 35.61% | 64 | 3.52% | 459 | 25.26% | 1,817 |
| Bradley | 1,146 | 65.22% | 540 | 30.73% | 71 | 4.04% | 606 | 34.49% | 1,757 |
| Calhoun | 736 | 64.62% | 337 | 29.59% | 66 | 5.79% | 399 | 35.03% | 1,139 |
| Carroll | 1,344 | 48.93% | 1,338 | 48.71% | 65 | 2.37% | 6 | 0.22% | 2,747 |
| Chicot | 887 | 64.00% | 489 | 35.28% | 10 | 0.72% | 398 | 28.72% | 1,386 |
| Clark | 1,507 | 59.19% | 1,020 | 40.06% | 19 | 0.75% | 487 | 19.13% | 2,546 |
| Clay | 1,775 | 50.83% | 1,536 | 43.99% | 181 | 5.18% | 239 | 6.84% | 3,492 |
| Cleburne | 678 | 56.22% | 459 | 38.06% | 69 | 5.72% | 219 | 18.16% | 1,206 |
| Cleveland | 809 | 62.28% | 475 | 36.57% | 15 | 1.15% | 334 | 25.71% | 1,299 |
| Columbia | 2,052 | 70.13% | 857 | 29.29% | 17 | 0.58% | 1,195 | 40.84% | 2,926 |
| Conway | 1,791 | 58.32% | 1,243 | 40.48% | 37 | 1.20% | 548 | 17.84% | 3,071 |
| Craighead | 2,079 | 64.15% | 1,058 | 32.64% | 104 | 3.21% | 1,021 | 31.51% | 3,241 |
| Crawford | 1,861 | 54.77% | 1,497 | 44.06% | 40 | 1.18% | 364 | 10.71% | 3,398 |
| Crittenden | 905 | 83.80% | 167 | 15.46% | 8 | 0.74% | 738 | 68.34% | 1,080 |
| Cross | 845 | 62.87% | 457 | 34.00% | 42 | 3.13% | 388 | 28.87% | 1,344 |
| Dallas | 1,140 | 62.60% | 659 | 36.19% | 22 | 1.21% | 481 | 26.41% | 1,821 |
| Desha | 931 | 70.85% | 360 | 27.40% | 23 | 1.75% | 571 | 43.45% | 1,314 |
| Drew | 1,397 | 63.56% | 773 | 35.17% | 28 | 1.27% | 624 | 28.39% | 2,198 |
| Faulkner | 1,971 | 60.63% | 1,148 | 35.31% | 132 | 4.06% | 823 | 25.32% | 3,251 |
| Franklin | 1,502 | 62.79% | 769 | 32.15% | 121 | 5.06% | 733 | 30.64% | 2,392 |
| Fulton | 763 | 59.47% | 502 | 39.13% | 18 | 1.40% | 261 | 20.34% | 1,283 |
| Garland | 1,670 | 57.57% | 1,055 | 36.37% | 176 | 6.07% | 615 | 21.20% | 2,901 |
| Grant | 619 | 71.56% | 230 | 26.59% | 16 | 1.85% | 389 | 44.97% | 865 |
| Greene | 1,865 | 61.82% | 1,072 | 35.53% | 80 | 2.65% | 793 | 26.29% | 3,017 |
| Hempstead | 2,239 | 55.72% | 1,754 | 43.65% | 25 | 0.62% | 485 | 12.07% | 4,018 |
| Hot Spring | 1,061 | 52.42% | 910 | 44.96% | 53 | 2.62% | 151 | 7.46% | 2,024 |
| Howard | 1,452 | 54.02% | 1,208 | 44.94% | 28 | 1.04% | 244 | 9.08% | 2,688 |
| Independence | 1,546 | 57.05% | 1,077 | 39.74% | 87 | 3.21% | 469 | 17.31% | 2,710 |
| Izard | 841 | 62.20% | 485 | 35.87% | 26 | 1.92% | 356 | 26.33% | 1,352 |
| Jackson | 1,575 | 56.17% | 1,131 | 40.34% | 98 | 3.50% | 444 | 15.83% | 2,804 |
| Jefferson | 2,670 | 70.58% | 1,048 | 27.70% | 65 | 1.72% | 1,622 | 42.88% | 3,783 |
| Johnson | 1,579 | 57.31% | 996 | 36.15% | 180 | 6.53% | 583 | 21.16% | 2,755 |
| Lafayette | 954 | 65.61% | 500 | 34.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 454 | 31.22% | 1,454 |
| Lawrence | 1,686 | 69.27% | 699 | 28.72% | 49 | 2.01% | 987 | 40.55% | 2,434 |
| Lee | 1,108 | 73.87% | 354 | 23.60% | 38 | 2.53% | 754 | 50.27% | 1,500 |
| Lincoln | 888 | 47.11% | 988 | 52.41% | 9 | 0.48% | -100 | -5.30% | 1,885 |
| Little River | 853 | 56.08% | 618 | 40.63% | 50 | 3.29% | 235 | 15.45% | 1,521 |
| Logan | 1,840 | 49.58% | 1,871 | 50.42% | 0 | 0.00% | -31 | -0.84% | 3,711 |
| Lonoke | 1,711 | 68.96% | 697 | 28.09% | 73 | 2.94% | 1,014 | 40.87% | 2,481 |
| Madison | 1,463 | 45.29% | 1,715 | 53.10% | 52 | 1.61% | -252 | -7.81% | 3,230 |
| Marion | 744 | 57.36% | 371 | 28.60% | 182 | 14.03% | 373 | 28.76% | 1,297 |
| Miller | 1,545 | 62.65% | 836 | 33.90% | 85 | 3.45% | 709 | 28.75% | 2,466 |
| Mississippi | 1,809 | 60.70% | 1,050 | 35.23% | 121 | 4.06% | 759 | 25.47% | 2,980 |
| Monroe | 834 | 46.96% | 912 | 51.35% | 30 | 1.69% | -78 | -4.39% | 1,776 |
| Montgomery | 430 | 38.43% | 615 | 54.96% | 74 | 6.61% | -185 | -16.53% | 1,119 |
| Nevada | 1,220 | 47.82% | 1,292 | 50.65% | 39 | 1.53% | -72 | -2.83% | 2,551 |
| Newton | 486 | 35.37% | 828 | 60.26% | 60 | 4.37% | -342 | -24.89% | 1,374 |
| Ouachita | 1,307 | 52.83% | 1,141 | 46.12% | 26 | 1.05% | 166 | 6.71% | 2,474 |
| Perry | 738 | 53.99% | 592 | 43.31% | 37 | 2.71% | 146 | 10.68% | 1,367 |
| Phillips | 1,965 | 69.14% | 868 | 30.54% | 9 | 0.32% | 1,097 | 38.60% | 2,842 |
| Pike | 849 | 46.73% | 921 | 50.69% | 47 | 2.59% | -72 | -3.96% | 1,817 |
| Poinsett | 1,201 | 62.49% | 633 | 32.93% | 88 | 4.58% | 568 | 29.56% | 1,922 |
| Polk | 1,208 | 47.65% | 1,173 | 46.27% | 154 | 6.07% | 35 | 1.38% | 2,535 |
| Pope | 2,082 | 63.65% | 1,120 | 34.24% | 69 | 2.11% | 962 | 29.41% | 3,271 |
| Prairie | 962 | 52.14% | 842 | 45.64% | 41 | 2.22% | 120 | 6.50% | 1,845 |
| Pulaski | 6,506 | 62.76% | 3,711 | 35.80% | 150 | 1.45% | 2,795 | 26.96% | 10,367 |
| Randolph | 1,412 | 67.50% | 652 | 31.17% | 28 | 1.34% | 760 | 36.33% | 2,092 |
| St. Francis | 1,252 | 56.60% | 903 | 40.82% | 57 | 2.58% | 349 | 15.78% | 2,212 |
| Saline | 1,206 | 72.22% | 403 | 24.13% | 61 | 3.65% | 803 | 48.09% | 1,670 |
| Scott | 771 | 48.13% | 751 | 46.88% | 80 | 4.99% | 20 | 1.25% | 1,602 |
| Searcy | 594 | 33.75% | 1,070 | 60.80% | 96 | 5.45% | -476 | -27.05% | 1,760 |
| Sebastian | 3,852 | 50.78% | 3,492 | 46.03% | 242 | 3.19% | 360 | 4.75% | 7,586 |
| Sevier | 1,236 | 61.89% | 599 | 29.99% | 162 | 8.11% | 637 | 31.90% | 1,997 |
| Sharp | 995 | 65.72% | 400 | 26.42% | 119 | 7.86% | 595 | 39.30% | 1,514 |
| Stone | 516 | 55.19% | 367 | 39.25% | 52 | 5.56% | 149 | 15.94% | 935 |
| Union | 1,967 | 78.06% | 493 | 19.56% | 60 | 2.38% | 1,474 | 58.50% | 2,520 |
| Van Buren | 440 | 23.13% | 1,388 | 72.98% | 74 | 3.89% | -948 | -49.85% | 1,902 |
| Washington | 2,637 | 54.05% | 2,118 | 43.41% | 124 | 2.54% | 519 | 10.64% | 4,879 |
| White | 2,086 | 58.06% | 1,359 | 37.82% | 148 | 4.12% | 727 | 20.24% | 3,593 |
| Woodruff | 1,049 | 51.62% | 943 | 46.41% | 40 | 1.97% | 106 | 5.21% | 2,032 |
| Yell | 1,925 | 63.20% | 1,042 | 34.21% | 79 | 2.59% | 883 | 28.99% | 3,046 |
| Totals | 106,682 | 58.05% | 71,948 | 39.15% | 5,141 | 2.80% | 34,734 | 18.90% | 183,771 |
State and district results of the1920 United States presidential election | ||
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