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The1920 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the1920 United States presidential election. Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for theRepublican nominee,SenatorWarren G. Harding, over theDemocratic nominee,Ohio GovernorJames M. Cox. Harding won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 38.56%. This was the first time ever thatBerks County andPike County voted Republican.Fulton County voted Republican for the first time since1872.
| 1920 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Warren G. Harding | 1,218,216 | 65.76% | 38 | |
| Democratic | James M. Cox | 503,843 | 27.20% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene Debs | 70,571 | 3.81% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Aaron Watkins | 42,696 | 2.30% | 0 | |
| Farmer-Labor | Parley P. Christensen | 15,704 | 0.85% | 0 | |
| Single Tax | Robert Macauley | 806 | 0.04% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | William Wesley Cox | 753 | 0.04% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | Write-ins | 27 | 0.00% | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,852,616 | 100.00% | 38 | ||
| County | Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican | James Middleton Cox Democratic | Eugene Victor Debs Socialist | Aaron Sherman Watkins Prohibition | Parley Parker Christensen Farmer-Labor | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 5,323 | 56.94% | 3,852 | 41.20% | 85 | 0.91% | 81 | 0.87% | 6 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.02% | 1,471 | 15.73% | 9,349 |
| Allegheny | 138,908 | 69.21% | 40,278 | 20.07% | 16,262 | 8.10% | 3,670 | 1.83% | 1,312 | 0.65% | 286 | 0.14% | 98,630 | 49.14% | 200,716 |
| Armstrong | 8,995 | 69.23% | 3,262 | 25.11% | 220 | 1.69% | 427 | 3.29% | 84 | 0.65% | 4 | 0.03% | 5,733 | 44.13% | 12,992 |
| Beaver | 11,691 | 62.90% | 4,771 | 25.67% | 1,164 | 6.26% | 816 | 4.39% | 101 | 0.54% | 43 | 0.23% | 6,920 | 37.23% | 18,586 |
| Bedford | 5,800 | 61.67% | 2,594 | 27.58% | 80 | 0.85% | 189 | 2.01% | 736 | 7.83% | 6 | 0.06% | 3,206 | 34.09% | 9,405 |
| Berks | 22,221 | 47.69% | 18,361 | 39.41% | 5,674 | 12.18% | 288 | 0.62% | 24 | 0.05% | 23 | 0.05% | 3,860 | 8.28% | 46,591 |
| Blair | 15,035 | 56.97% | 5,668 | 21.48% | 389 | 1.47% | 582 | 2.21% | 4,671 | 17.70% | 47 | 0.18% | 9,367 | 35.49% | 26,392 |
| Bradford | 11,947 | 75.14% | 2,825 | 17.77% | 161 | 1.01% | 943 | 5.93% | 19 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.03% | 9,122 | 57.37% | 15,900 |
| Bucks | 14,130 | 65.17% | 6,867 | 31.67% | 405 | 1.87% | 224 | 1.03% | 42 | 0.19% | 13 | 0.06% | 7,263 | 33.50% | 21,681 |
| Butler | 10,467 | 66.87% | 3,829 | 24.46% | 214 | 1.37% | 1,103 | 7.05% | 25 | 0.16% | 15 | 0.10% | 6,638 | 42.41% | 15,653 |
| Cambria | 19,629 | 63.91% | 6,961 | 22.67% | 834 | 2.72% | 635 | 2.07% | 2,603 | 8.48% | 50 | 0.16% | 12,668 | 41.25% | 30,712 |
| Cameron | 1,364 | 68.06% | 497 | 24.80% | 9 | 0.45% | 130 | 6.49% | 3 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.05% | 867 | 43.26% | 2,004 |
| Carbon | 7,900 | 59.19% | 5,030 | 37.69% | 281 | 2.11% | 86 | 0.64% | 40 | 0.30% | 9 | 0.07% | 2,870 | 21.50% | 13,346 |
| Centre | 7,615 | 57.82% | 4,783 | 36.31% | 84 | 0.64% | 569 | 4.32% | 115 | 0.87% | 5 | 0.04% | 2,832 | 21.50% | 13,171 |
| Chester | 18,129 | 69.57% | 7,004 | 26.88% | 277 | 1.06% | 599 | 2.30% | 37 | 0.14% | 14 | 0.05% | 11,125 | 42.69% | 26,060 |
| Clarion | 4,615 | 53.28% | 3,487 | 40.26% | 126 | 1.45% | 406 | 4.69% | 22 | 0.25% | 6 | 0.07% | 1,128 | 13.02% | 8,662 |
| Clearfield | 9,615 | 52.28% | 5,987 | 32.55% | 657 | 3.57% | 1,163 | 6.32% | 948 | 5.15% | 23 | 0.13% | 3,628 | 19.72% | 18,393 |
| Clinton | 4,303 | 54.58% | 2,976 | 37.75% | 259 | 3.29% | 228 | 2.89% | 111 | 1.41% | 7 | 0.09% | 1,327 | 16.83% | 7,884 |
| Columbia | 6,238 | 45.65% | 6,965 | 50.97% | 81 | 0.59% | 363 | 2.66% | 14 | 0.10% | 4 | 0.03% | -727 | -5.32% | 13,665 |
| Crawford | 10,032 | 62.31% | 4,175 | 25.93% | 423 | 2.63% | 1,419 | 8.81% | 33 | 0.20% | 17 | 0.11% | 5,857 | 36.38% | 16,099 |
| Cumberland | 8,579 | 54.73% | 6,455 | 41.18% | 92 | 0.59% | 476 | 3.04% | 68 | 0.43% | 4 | 0.03% | 2,124 | 13.55% | 15,674 |
| Dauphin | 26,094 | 65.36% | 11,990 | 30.03% | 628 | 1.57% | 776 | 1.94% | 419 | 1.05% | 16 | 0.04% | 14,104 | 35.33% | 39,923 |
| Delaware | 34,126 | 75.34% | 9,602 | 21.20% | 697 | 1.54% | 670 | 1.48% | 153 | 0.34% | 45 | 0.10% | 24,524 | 54.15% | 45,293 |
| Elk | 5,267 | 66.14% | 2,093 | 26.28% | 178 | 2.24% | 390 | 4.90% | 30 | 0.38% | 6 | 0.08% | 3,174 | 39.85% | 7,964 |
| Erie | 19,465 | 63.68% | 6,311 | 20.65% | 1,833 | 6.00% | 2,801 | 9.16% | 87 | 0.28% | 72 | 0.24% | 13,154 | 43.03% | 30,569 |
| Fayette | 20,186 | 56.68% | 13,358 | 37.51% | 1,204 | 3.38% | 770 | 2.16% | 81 | 0.23% | 12 | 0.03% | 6,828 | 19.17% | 35,611 |
| Forest | 993 | 56.36% | 389 | 22.08% | 58 | 3.29% | 320 | 18.16% | 2 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 604 | 34.28% | 1,762 |
| Franklin | 8,376 | 60.45% | 5,020 | 36.23% | 177 | 1.28% | 246 | 1.78% | 33 | 0.24% | 5 | 0.04% | 3,356 | 24.22% | 13,857 |
| Fulton | 1,292 | 50.19% | 1,231 | 47.82% | 11 | 0.43% | 24 | 0.93% | 13 | 0.51% | 3 | 0.12% | 61 | 2.37% | 2,574 |
| Greene | 4,253 | 42.41% | 5,592 | 55.76% | 51 | 0.51% | 124 | 1.24% | 2 | 0.02% | 6 | 0.06% | -1,339 | -13.35% | 10,028 |
| Huntingdon | 5,232 | 67.74% | 1,784 | 23.10% | 64 | 0.83% | 199 | 2.58% | 441 | 5.71% | 4 | 0.05% | 3,448 | 44.64% | 7,724 |
| Indiana | 8,616 | 71.84% | 1,936 | 16.14% | 354 | 2.95% | 947 | 7.90% | 131 | 1.09% | 9 | 0.08% | 6,680 | 55.70% | 11,993 |
| Jefferson | 7,970 | 66.69% | 3,060 | 25.61% | 386 | 3.23% | 437 | 3.66% | 83 | 0.69% | 14 | 0.12% | 4,910 | 41.09% | 11,950 |
| Juniata | 2,112 | 58.21% | 1,443 | 39.77% | 13 | 0.36% | 54 | 1.49% | 6 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 669 | 18.44% | 3,628 |
| Lackawanna | 40,593 | 60.55% | 24,581 | 36.67% | 971 | 1.45% | 746 | 1.11% | 125 | 0.19% | 24 | 0.04% | 16,012 | 23.88% | 67,040 |
| Lancaster | 29,549 | 72.88% | 9,521 | 23.48% | 636 | 1.57% | 797 | 1.97% | 29 | 0.07% | 10 | 0.02% | 20,028 | 49.40% | 40,542 |
| Lawrence | 9,448 | 64.38% | 2,720 | 18.53% | 854 | 5.82% | 1,586 | 10.81% | 50 | 0.34% | 18 | 0.12% | 6,728 | 45.84% | 14,676 |
| Lebanon | 8,778 | 70.78% | 3,016 | 24.32% | 246 | 1.98% | 301 | 2.43% | 55 | 0.44% | 6 | 0.05% | 5,762 | 46.46% | 12,402 |
| Lehigh | 18,032 | 59.49% | 10,863 | 35.84% | 829 | 2.74% | 262 | 0.86% | 311 | 1.03% | 13 | 0.04% | 7,169 | 23.65% | 30,310 |
| Luzerne | 49,419 | 65.39% | 23,473 | 31.06% | 1,891 | 2.50% | 555 | 0.73% | 190 | 0.25% | 47 | 0.06% | 25,946 | 34.33% | 75,575 |
| Lycoming | 10,570 | 56.72% | 5,853 | 31.41% | 695 | 3.73% | 1,470 | 7.89% | 34 | 0.18% | 13 | 0.07% | 4,717 | 25.31% | 18,635 |
| McKean | 7,830 | 68.65% | 2,505 | 21.96% | 328 | 2.88% | 699 | 6.13% | 36 | 0.32% | 8 | 0.07% | 5,325 | 46.69% | 11,406 |
| Mercer | 11,575 | 60.29% | 4,823 | 25.12% | 1,009 | 5.26% | 1,677 | 8.73% | 102 | 0.53% | 13 | 0.07% | 6,752 | 35.17% | 19,199 |
| Mifflin | 3,872 | 58.93% | 2,400 | 36.52% | 156 | 2.37% | 124 | 1.89% | 15 | 0.23% | 4 | 0.06% | 1,472 | 22.40% | 6,571 |
| Monroe | 3,278 | 48.01% | 3,396 | 49.74% | 33 | 0.48% | 114 | 1.67% | 3 | 0.04% | 4 | 0.06% | -118 | -1.73% | 6,828 |
| Montgomery | 31,963 | 69.70% | 12,239 | 26.69% | 1,180 | 2.57% | 303 | 0.66% | 106 | 0.23% | 64 | 0.14% | 19,724 | 43.01% | 45,855 |
| Montour | 2,296 | 53.76% | 1,872 | 43.83% | 21 | 0.49% | 77 | 1.80% | 5 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 424 | 9.93% | 4,271 |
| Northampton | 14,227 | 58.78% | 9,086 | 37.54% | 508 | 2.10% | 299 | 1.24% | 71 | 0.29% | 13 | 0.05% | 5,141 | 21.24% | 24,204 |
| Northumberland | 17,288 | 58.44% | 9,854 | 33.31% | 1,797 | 6.07% | 590 | 1.99% | 37 | 0.13% | 15 | 0.05% | 7,434 | 25.13% | 29,581 |
| Perry | 3,787 | 60.64% | 2,314 | 37.05% | 20 | 0.32% | 86 | 1.38% | 28 | 0.45% | 10 | 0.16% | 1,473 | 23.59% | 6,245 |
| Philadelphia | 307,826 | 73.43% | 90,151 | 21.50% | 17,845 | 4.26% | 1,831 | 0.44% | 1,207 | 0.29% | 352 | 0.08% | 217,675 | 51.92% | 419,212 |
| Pike | 1,319 | 58.05% | 880 | 38.73% | 36 | 1.58% | 31 | 1.36% | 6 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 439 | 19.32% | 2,272 |
| Potter | 4,036 | 70.19% | 1,106 | 19.23% | 251 | 4.37% | 342 | 5.95% | 12 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.05% | 2,930 | 50.96% | 5,750 |
| Schuylkill | 30,259 | 59.46% | 18,746 | 36.84% | 1,313 | 2.58% | 356 | 0.70% | 168 | 0.33% | 45 | 0.09% | 11,513 | 22.62% | 50,887 |
| Snyder | 2,751 | 72.20% | 964 | 25.30% | 56 | 1.47% | 34 | 0.89% | 4 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,787 | 46.90% | 3,810 |
| Somerset | 12,436 | 75.81% | 2,912 | 17.75% | 490 | 2.99% | 492 | 3.00% | 67 | 0.41% | 7 | 0.04% | 9,524 | 58.06% | 16,404 |
| Sullivan | 1,620 | 57.57% | 1,061 | 37.70% | 10 | 0.36% | 122 | 4.34% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 559 | 19.86% | 2,814 |
| Susquehanna | 6,572 | 66.41% | 2,905 | 29.36% | 80 | 0.81% | 320 | 3.23% | 15 | 0.15% | 4 | 0.04% | 3,667 | 37.06% | 9,896 |
| Tioga | 9,718 | 83.28% | 1,258 | 10.78% | 60 | 0.51% | 613 | 5.25% | 11 | 0.09% | 9 | 0.08% | 8,460 | 72.50% | 11,669 |
| Union | 3,305 | 71.38% | 1,155 | 24.95% | 38 | 0.82% | 128 | 2.76% | 2 | 0.04% | 2 | 0.04% | 2,150 | 46.44% | 4,630 |
| Venango | 7,718 | 65.71% | 2,669 | 22.72% | 283 | 2.41% | 1,032 | 8.79% | 38 | 0.32% | 6 | 0.05% | 5,049 | 42.98% | 11,746 |
| Warren | 7,791 | 65.07% | 2,180 | 18.21% | 312 | 2.61% | 1,669 | 13.94% | 10 | 0.08% | 12 | 0.10% | 5,611 | 46.86% | 11,974 |
| Washington | 18,514 | 62.49% | 8,827 | 29.80% | 1,157 | 3.91% | 836 | 2.82% | 268 | 0.90% | 23 | 0.08% | 9,687 | 32.70% | 29,625 |
| Wayne | 5,164 | 73.14% | 1,589 | 22.51% | 69 | 0.98% | 229 | 3.24% | 6 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.04% | 3,575 | 50.64% | 7,060 |
| Westmoreland | 27,077 | 59.71% | 12,845 | 28.32% | 3,338 | 7.36% | 1,866 | 4.11% | 166 | 0.37% | 57 | 0.13% | 14,232 | 31.38% | 45,349 |
| Wyoming | 3,208 | 68.43% | 1,247 | 26.60% | 25 | 0.53% | 200 | 4.27% | 4 | 0.09% | 4 | 0.09% | 1,961 | 41.83% | 4,688 |
| York | 19,879 | 55.72% | 14,396 | 40.35% | 603 | 1.69% | 754 | 2.11% | 27 | 0.08% | 20 | 0.06% | 5,483 | 15.37% | 35,679 |
| Totals | 1,218,216 | 65.76% | 503,843 | 27.20% | 70,571 | 3.81% | 42,696 | 2.30% | 15,704 | 0.85% | 1,586 | 0.09% | 714,373 | 38.56% | 1,852,616 |
State and district results of the1920 United States presidential election | ||
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