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The1924 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1924. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1924 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New Jersey was won in a landslide by theRepublican nominees, incumbentPresidentCalvin Coolidge ofMassachusetts and his running mateBudget DirectorCharles G. Dawes ofIllinois. Coolidge and Dawes defeated theDemocratic nominees, AmbassadorJohn W. Davis ofWest Virginia and his running mateGovernorCharles W. Bryan ofNebraska. Also in the running was theProgressive Party nominee,SenatorRobert M. La Follette ofWisconsin and his running mateSenatorBurton K. Wheeler ofMontana.
Coolidge carried New Jersey overwhelmingly with 62.17% of the vote to Davis’ 27.41%, a victory margin of 34.75%.[2] La Follette finished in a relatively strong third, with 10.03%.
New Jersey in this era was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since1892. As theNortheastern Republican Calvin Coolidge was winning a second consecutive Republican landslide nationally, amidst the economic boom and social good feelings of theRoaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column, withSouthern Democrat John Davis having little appeal in the state. Coolidge won a commanding majority statewide even with the Republican vote being split by the strongthird party candidacy of Robert La Follette, a Republican Senator who had run as the Progressive Party candidate and peeled away the votes of many progressive Republicans. On the county level map, reflecting the decisiveness of his victory, Coolidge won twenty of the state's 21 counties. Coolidge broke 60% of the vote in all but two counties and 70% of the vote in seven.
The Progressive La Follette, a former Republican Senator who ran to the left of both Coolidge and Davis and appealed most strongly to progressive Republicans, performed most strongly in urban parts ofNorth Jersey. La Follette's double-digit support in urbanHudson County allowed Davis to eke out a narrow plurality there with less than 50% of the vote, after the county had given a majority of the vote to RepublicanWarren G. Harding in1920. Davis narrowly won Hudson County even as every other county in the state, and the state as a whole, voted overwhelmingly Republican. While La Follette hurt Coolidge's vote share in urban parts of the state, Coolidge did make gains over Harding in some rural parts of the state, in bothSouth Jersey andNorth Jersey. Whereas Harding had failed to crack 60% of the vote in 4 counties, Coolidge only failed to crack 60% in 2.
Even in the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, New Jersey's presidential election returns made the state about 10% points more Republican than the nation as a whole, reflecting the state's strong Republican roots in that era, and would ultimately mark the end of that era. Beginning in1928, the state would begin trending Democratic when the Democratic Party nominatedAl Smith, a New York City native and Roman Catholic ofIrish,Italian andGerman immigrant heritage who appealed greatly to urban New Jersey voters, and beginning in1932, the state would vote Democratic in all four of DemocratFranklin Roosevelt’s elections with the rise of theNew Deal Coalition in the state.
| 1924 United States presidential election in New Jersey | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) | 675,162 | 62.17% | 14 | |
| Democratic | John W. Davis | 297,743 | 27.41% | 0 | |
| Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | 108,901 | 10.03% | 0 | |
| Communist | William Z. Foster | 1,540 | 0.14% | 0 | |
| National Prohibition | Herman P. Faris | 1,337 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Frank T. Johns | 819 | 0.08% | 0 | |
| American | Gilbert Nations | 358 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Commonwealth Land | William Wallace | 219 | 0.02% | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,086,079 | 100.0% | 14 | ||
| County | John Calvin Coolidge Republican | John William Davis Democratic | Robert Marion La Follette Sr.[3] Progressive | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Atlantic | 27,936 | 73.63% | 6,937 | 18.28% | 2,885 | 7.60% | 181 | 0.48% | 20,999 | 55.35% | 37,939 |
| Bergen | 60,803 | 69.41% | 16,844 | 19.23% | 9,646 | 11.01% | 305 | 0.35% | 43,959 | 50.18% | 87,598 |
| Burlington | 21,617 | 70.23% | 7,794 | 25.32% | 1,288 | 4.18% | 81 | 0.26% | 13,823 | 44.91% | 30,780 |
| Camden | 48,154 | 66.31% | 17,577 | 24.20% | 6,556 | 9.03% | 335 | 0.46% | 30,577 | 42.10% | 72,622 |
| Cape May | 8,139 | 72.37% | 2,611 | 23.22% | 458 | 4.07% | 38 | 0.34% | 5,528 | 49.16% | 11,246 |
| Cumberland | 15,691 | 71.05% | 4,780 | 21.64% | 1,371 | 6.21% | 242 | 1.10% | 10,911 | 49.41% | 22,084 |
| Essex | 123,614 | 66.22% | 41,708 | 22.34% | 20,877 | 11.18% | 474 | 0.25% | 81,906 | 43.88% | 186,673 |
| Gloucester | 15,513 | 72.74% | 4,167 | 19.54% | 1,314 | 6.16% | 334 | 1.57% | 11,346 | 53.20% | 21,328 |
| Hudson | 80,892 | 41.71% | 91,094 | 46.97% | 21,560 | 11.12% | 406 | 0.21% | -10,202 | -5.26% | 193,952 |
| Hunterdon | 8,940 | 60.62% | 5,103 | 34.60% | 647 | 4.39% | 57 | 0.39% | 3,837 | 26.02% | 14,747 |
| Mercer | 30,689 | 59.53% | 14,639 | 28.40% | 6,067 | 11.77% | 156 | 0.30% | 16,050 | 31.13% | 51,551 |
| Middlesex | 34,556 | 62.28% | 16,373 | 29.51% | 4,371 | 7.88% | 182 | 0.33% | 18,183 | 32.77% | 55,482 |
| Monmouth | 34,451 | 65.64% | 14,931 | 28.45% | 2,902 | 5.53% | 198 | 0.38% | 19,520 | 37.19% | 52,482 |
| Morris | 24,812 | 69.59% | 8,042 | 22.56% | 2,685 | 7.53% | 116 | 0.33% | 16,770 | 47.03% | 35,655 |
| Ocean | 8,677 | 70.99% | 2,594 | 21.22% | 918 | 7.51% | 33 | 0.27% | 6,083 | 49.77% | 12,222 |
| Passaic | 43,384 | 62.33% | 11,644 | 16.73% | 14,082 | 20.23% | 489 | 0.70% | 29,302[a] | 42.10% | 69,599 |
| Salem | 8,027 | 68.86% | 3,206 | 27.50% | 357 | 3.06% | 67 | 0.57% | 4,821 | 41.36% | 11,657 |
| Somerset | 12,986 | 71.12% | 4,143 | 22.69% | 1,069 | 5.85% | 62 | 0.34% | 8,843 | 48.43% | 18,260 |
| Sussex | 6,319 | 61.36% | 3,632 | 35.27% | 302 | 2.93% | 45 | 0.44% | 2,687 | 26.09% | 10,298 |
| Union | 50,356 | 67.99% | 14,738 | 19.90% | 8,576 | 11.58% | 390 | 0.53% | 35,618 | 48.09% | 74,060 |
| Warren | 9,606 | 60.63% | 5,186 | 32.73% | 970 | 6.12% | 82 | 0.52% | 4,420 | 27.90% | 15,844 |
| Totals | 675,162 | 62.17% | 297,743 | 27.41% | 108,901 | 10.03% | 4,273 | 0.39% | 377,419 | 34.75% | 1,086,079 |
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