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The1920 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Maine voted forRepublican nominee,SenatorWarren G. Harding ofOhio, over theDemocratic nominee,GovernorJames M. Cox ofOhio. Harding ran withGovernorCalvin Coolidge ofMassachusetts, while Cox ran withAssistant Secretary of the NavyFranklin D. Roosevelt ofNew York.
Harding won Maine by a margin of 39.12%. His victory in theNew England states was helped in by the local popularity of his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, a traditional New EnglandYankee born in the small-town ofPlymouth Notch, Vermont, who had started his political career nearby asGovernor of Massachusetts. Harding's 88.48% of the vote that he received inAroostook County is the best ever performance for any candidate in any county in Maine since1824.
| 1920 United States presidential election in Maine[1] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Warren Gamaliel Harding ofOhio | Calvin Coolidge ofMassachusetts | 136,355 | 68.92% | 6 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | James Middleton Cox ofOhio | Franklin Delano Roosevelt ofNew York | 58,961 | 29.80% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Eugene Victor Debs ofIndiana | Seymour Stedman ofIllinois | 2,214 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Single Tax | Robert Colvin Macauley | Richard C. Barnum | 310 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 197,840 | 100.00% | 6 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican | James Middleton Cox Democratic | Eugene Victor Debs[2] Socialist | Robert Colvin Macauley Single Tax | Margin | Total votes cast[3] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Androscoggin | 9,565 | 60.83% | 5,757 | 36.61% | 290 | 1.84% | 112 | 0.71% | 3,808 | 24.22% | 15,724 |
| Aroostook | 11,191 | 88.48% | 1,407 | 11.12% | 36 | 0.28% | 14 | 0.11% | 9,784 | 77.36% | 12,648 |
| Cumberland | 24,623 | 69.19% | 10,484 | 29.46% | 434 | 1.22% | 44 | 0.12% | 14,139 | 39.73% | 35,585 |
| Franklin | 3,820 | 69.13% | 1,668 | 30.18% | 33 | 0.60% | 5 | 0.09% | 2,152 | 38.95% | 5,526 |
| Hancock | 5,604 | 71.68% | 2,154 | 27.55% | 55 | 0.70% | 5 | 0.06% | 3,450 | 44.13% | 7,818 |
| Kennebec | 12,333 | 68.62% | 5,466 | 30.41% | 154 | 0.86% | 20 | 0.11% | 6,867 | 38.21% | 17,973 |
| Knox | 4,979 | 60.85% | 2,971 | 36.31% | 221 | 2.70% | 12 | 0.15% | 2,008 | 24.54% | 8,183 |
| Lincoln | 3,668 | 73.61% | 1,256 | 25.21% | 58 | 1.16% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,412 | 48.40% | 4,983 |
| Oxford | 7,301 | 64.59% | 3,906 | 34.55% | 89 | 0.79% | 8 | 0.07% | 3,395 | 30.04% | 11,304 |
| Penobscot | 14,145 | 69.35% | 6,110 | 29.95% | 126 | 0.62% | 17 | 0.08% | 8,035 | 39.40% | 20,398 |
| Piscataquis | 4,049 | 68.79% | 1,788 | 30.38% | 31 | 0.53% | 18 | 0.31% | 2,261 | 38.41% | 5,886 |
| Sagadahoc | 3,857 | 68.36% | 1,709 | 30.29% | 73 | 1.29% | 3 | 0.05% | 2,148 | 38.07% | 5,642 |
| Somerset | 6,533 | 68.11% | 2,770 | 28.88% | 275 | 2.87% | 14 | 0.15% | 3,763 | 39.23% | 9,592 |
| Waldo | 4,383 | 71.52% | 1,666 | 27.19% | 73 | 1.19% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,717 | 44.33% | 6,128 |
| Washington | 6,768 | 68.57% | 2,997 | 30.36% | 85 | 0.86% | 20 | 0.20% | 3,771 | 38.21% | 9,870 |
| York | 13,536 | 65.77% | 6,852 | 33.29% | 177 | 0.86% | 15 | 0.07% | 6,684 | 32.48% | 20,580 |
| Totals | 136,355 | 68.92% | 58,961 | 29.80% | 2,210 | 1.12% | 314 | 0.16% | 77,394 | 39.12% | 197,840 |
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