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The1924 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 4, 1924, as part of the1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-four electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Ohio was won decisively by theRepublican Party candidate, incumbent PresidentCalvin Coolidge with 58.33 percent of the popular vote. TheDemocratic Party candidate,John W. Davis, garnered only 23.70 percent of the popular vote.[1]
The 1920s were a fiercely Republican decade in American politics, and Ohio in that era was a fiercely Republican state in presidential elections. The economic boom and good feelings of theRoaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership virtually guaranteed Calvin Coolidge an easy win in the state against the conservative Southern Democrat John Davis, who had little appeal in Northern states like Ohio where his reticence on theKu Klux Klan was opposed by Catholics.[2] Ohio did possess a very powerful Ku Klux Klan organization which had swept the state's elected offices in the previous year, but had a sufficiently large Catholic population that its delegates to theDemocratic National Convention demanded an anti-KKK plank.[3][4] Davis was also handicapped by a complete lack of support from local Democratic officeholders, despite efforts to campaign in the state in October.[5][6]
Coolidge won a strong majority statewide even with the Republican vote being split by the strongthird party candidacy of SenatorRobert M. La Follette, who ran as theProgressive Party candidate and peeled away the votes of manyGerman Americans and progressive Republicans. Owing to Ohio being the most German of the states immediately north of the boundary withantebellum slave states,[7] Ohio was La Follette's best east of theMississippi andIllinois Rivers (other thanWisconsin, which was his home state that he won) although his vote share was only one percent above his national figure. Nonetheless, La Follette easily outpolled Davis in the major urban areas of northern Ohio, and carried the city ofCleveland and many precincts elsewhere inCuyahoga County on the strength of labor union support.[8][9] To date, this was the best ever showing for the Republican Party in Ohio as no other Republican candidate has been able to match Coolidge's landslide 34.63% margin in the state.
| 1924 United States presidential election in Ohio | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) | 1,176,130 | 58.33% | 24 | |
| Democratic | John W. Davis | 477,888 | 23.70% | 0 | |
| Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | 357,948 | 17.75% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Frank Johns | 3,025 | 0.15% | 0 | |
| Commonwealth Land | William J. Wallace | 1,246 | 0.06% | 0 | |
| Totals | 2,016,237 | 100.0% | 24 | ||
| County | John Calvin Coolidge Republican | John William Davis Democratic | Robert M. La Follette Sr.[10] Progressive | Frank Tetes Johns[11] Socialist Labor | William J. Wallace[11] Commonwealth Land | Margin | Total votes cast[12] | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 4,315 | 52.46% | 3,762 | 45.73% | 149 | 1.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 553 | 6.72% | 8,226 |
| Allen | 15,711 | 61.76% | 7,378 | 29.00% | 2,283 | 8.98% | 59 | 0.23% | 6 | 0.02% | 8,333 | 32.76% | 25,437 |
| Ashland | 5,777 | 52.68% | 4,377 | 39.91% | 802 | 7.31% | 7 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,400 | 12.77% | 10,966 |
| Ashtabula | 14,767 | 69.21% | 2,135 | 10.01% | 4,370 | 20.48% | 43 | 0.20% | 22 | 0.10% | 10,397[a] | 48.73% | 21,337 |
| Athens | 8,695 | 58.19% | 2,669 | 17.86% | 3,501 | 23.43% | 47 | 0.31% | 31 | 0.21% | 5,194[a] | 34.76% | 14,943 |
| Auglaize | 5,507 | 51.86% | 3,952 | 37.22% | 1,143 | 10.76% | 9 | 0.08% | 7 | 0.07% | 1,555 | 14.64% | 10,618 |
| Belmont | 16,378 | 54.53% | 8,074 | 26.88% | 5,386 | 17.93% | 155 | 0.52% | 42 | 0.14% | 8,304 | 27.65% | 30,035 |
| Brown | 3,616 | 43.05% | 4,120 | 49.05% | 660 | 7.86% | 1 | 0.01% | 2 | 0.02% | -504 | -6.00% | 8,399 |
| Butler | 19,349 | 56.25% | 11,612 | 33.76% | 3,339 | 9.71% | 84 | 0.24% | 14 | 0.04% | 7,737 | 22.49% | 34,398 |
| Carroll | 4,369 | 70.78% | 1,430 | 23.17% | 364 | 5.90% | 7 | 0.11% | 3 | 0.05% | 2,939 | 47.61% | 6,173 |
| Champaign | 6,181 | 60.33% | 3,575 | 34.90% | 478 | 4.67% | 10 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,606 | 25.44% | 10,245 |
| Clark | 20,340 | 66.44% | 8,415 | 27.49% | 1,816 | 5.93% | 27 | 0.09% | 17 | 0.06% | 11,925 | 38.95% | 30,615 |
| Clermont | 6,867 | 55.18% | 4,544 | 36.51% | 1,019 | 8.19% | 10 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.04% | 2,323 | 18.67% | 12,445 |
| Clinton | 5,954 | 67.08% | 2,496 | 28.12% | 421 | 4.74% | 3 | 0.03% | 2 | 0.02% | 3,458 | 38.96% | 8,876 |
| Columbiana | 20,483 | 69.97% | 4,685 | 16.01% | 4,036 | 13.79% | 47 | 0.16% | 21 | 0.07% | 15,798 | 53.97% | 29,272 |
| Coshocton | 5,837 | 49.77% | 4,415 | 37.64% | 1,456 | 12.41% | 11 | 0.09% | 10 | 0.09% | 1,422 | 12.12% | 11,729 |
| Crawford | 5,896 | 40.83% | 4,384 | 30.36% | 4,140 | 28.67% | 14 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.04% | 1,512 | 10.47% | 14,440 |
| Cuyahoga | 130,169 | 49.29% | 24,000 | 9.09% | 109,287 | 41.39% | 392 | 0.15% | 218 | 0.08% | 20,882[a] | 7.91% | 264,066 |
| Darke | 9,166 | 52.92% | 7,316 | 42.24% | 811 | 4.68% | 22 | 0.13% | 6 | 0.03% | 1,850 | 10.68% | 17,321 |
| Defiance | 4,841 | 52.55% | 3,227 | 35.03% | 1,134 | 12.31% | 6 | 0.07% | 5 | 0.05% | 1,614 | 17.52% | 9,213 |
| Delaware | 6,731 | 60.41% | 3,537 | 31.74% | 866 | 7.77% | 5 | 0.04% | 3 | 0.03% | 3,194 | 28.67% | 11,142 |
| Erie | 7,689 | 54.34% | 2,968 | 20.97% | 3,462 | 24.46% | 24 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.06% | 4,227[a] | 29.87% | 14,151 |
| Fairfield | 8,281 | 53.80% | 5,890 | 38.26% | 1,200 | 7.80% | 16 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.04% | 2,391 | 15.53% | 15,393 |
| Fayette | 4,542 | 60.27% | 2,696 | 35.77% | 293 | 3.89% | 5 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,846 | 24.50% | 7,536 |
| Franklin | 61,891 | 57.68% | 26,505 | 24.70% | 18,743 | 17.47% | 116 | 0.11% | 40 | 0.04% | 35,386 | 32.98% | 107,295 |
| Fulton | 4,951 | 69.56% | 1,333 | 18.73% | 832 | 11.69% | 1 | 0.01% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,618 | 50.83% | 7,118 |
| Gallia | 4,325 | 61.21% | 2,284 | 32.32% | 453 | 6.41% | 3 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,041 | 28.88% | 7,066 |
| Geauga | 3,375 | 72.39% | 635 | 13.62% | 642 | 13.77% | 6 | 0.13% | 4 | 0.09% | 2,733[a] | 58.62% | 4,662 |
| Greene | 8,410 | 72.98% | 2,471 | 21.44% | 628 | 5.45% | 13 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.01% | 5,939 | 51.54% | 11,523 |
| Guernsey | 8,997 | 59.56% | 3,604 | 23.86% | 2,455 | 16.25% | 28 | 0.19% | 22 | 0.15% | 5,393 | 35.70% | 15,106 |
| Hamilton | 115,950 | 60.70% | 34,916 | 18.28% | 39,768 | 20.82% | 264 | 0.14% | 131 | 0.07% | 76,182[a] | 39.88% | 191,029 |
| Hancock | 9,167 | 57.03% | 5,111 | 31.80% | 1,764 | 10.97% | 23 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.06% | 4,056 | 25.23% | 16,074 |
| Hardin | 7,112 | 53.66% | 5,523 | 41.67% | 613 | 4.63% | 3 | 0.02% | 3 | 0.02% | 1,589 | 11.99% | 13,254 |
| Harrison | 4,904 | 65.97% | 1,999 | 26.89% | 520 | 6.99% | 8 | 0.11% | 3 | 0.04% | 2,905 | 39.08% | 7,434 |
| Henry | 3,855 | 45.51% | 2,922 | 34.50% | 1,693 | 19.99% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 933 | 11.02% | 8,470 |
| Highland | 6,845 | 57.16% | 4,583 | 38.27% | 535 | 4.47% | 8 | 0.07% | 5 | 0.04% | 2,262 | 18.89% | 11,976 |
| Hocking | 4,086 | 50.46% | 2,854 | 35.24% | 1,136 | 14.03% | 17 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.06% | 1,232 | 15.21% | 8,098 |
| Holmes | 1,824 | 38.26% | 2,539 | 53.25% | 400 | 8.39% | 4 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.02% | -715 | -15.00% | 4,768 |
| Huron | 8,340 | 62.12% | 2,871 | 21.39% | 2,186 | 16.28% | 19 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.07% | 5,469 | 40.74% | 13,425 |
| Jackson | 5,977 | 61.45% | 2,848 | 29.28% | 869 | 8.93% | 27 | 0.28% | 6 | 0.06% | 3,129 | 32.17% | 9,727 |
| Jefferson | 14,929 | 67.97% | 3,840 | 17.48% | 3,097 | 14.10% | 75 | 0.34% | 22 | 0.10% | 11,089 | 50.49% | 21,963 |
| Knox | 7,519 | 57.43% | 4,721 | 36.06% | 852 | 6.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,798 | 21.37% | 13,093 |
| Lake | 7,727 | 70.71% | 974 | 8.91% | 2,208 | 20.21% | 8 | 0.07% | 10 | 0.09% | 5,519[a] | 50.51% | 10,927 |
| Lawrence | 6,798 | 63.96% | 2,729 | 25.68% | 1,078 | 10.14% | 20 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.03% | 4,069 | 38.29% | 10,628 |
| Licking | 13,914 | 58.49% | 7,428 | 31.23% | 2,418 | 10.16% | 14 | 0.06% | 14 | 0.06% | 6,486 | 27.27% | 23,788 |
| Logan | 7,186 | 61.03% | 3,176 | 26.97% | 1,393 | 11.83% | 12 | 0.10% | 7 | 0.06% | 4,010 | 34.06% | 11,774 |
| Lorain | 17,062 | 61.43% | 3,965 | 14.28% | 6,680 | 24.05% | 42 | 0.15% | 25 | 0.09% | 10,382[a] | 37.38% | 27,774 |
| Lucas | 53,670 | 55.39% | 11,948 | 12.33% | 31,039 | 32.03% | 160 | 0.17% | 85 | 0.09% | 22,631[a] | 23.35% | 96,902 |
| Madison | 4,829 | 61.97% | 2,685 | 34.46% | 278 | 3.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,144 | 27.52% | 7,792 |
| Mahoning | 37,647 | 68.12% | 9,335 | 16.89% | 8,102 | 14.66% | 127 | 0.23% | 53 | 0.10% | 28,312 | 51.23% | 55,264 |
| Marion | 9,161 | 54.20% | 5,234 | 30.97% | 2,475 | 14.64% | 23 | 0.14% | 8 | 0.05% | 3,927 | 23.24% | 16,901 |
| Medina | 6,756 | 67.76% | 1,844 | 18.49% | 1,351 | 13.55% | 16 | 0.16% | 4 | 0.04% | 4,912 | 49.26% | 9,971 |
| Meigs | 4,864 | 57.28% | 1,944 | 22.89% | 1,648 | 19.41% | 27 | 0.32% | 9 | 0.11% | 2,920 | 34.39% | 8,492 |
| Mercer | 4,215 | 40.40% | 5,135 | 49.21% | 1,071 | 10.26% | 9 | 0.09% | 4 | 0.04% | -920 | -8.82% | 10,434 |
| Miami | 11,851 | 62.70% | 5,296 | 28.02% | 1,726 | 9.13% | 13 | 0.07% | 15 | 0.08% | 6,555 | 34.68% | 18,901 |
| Monroe | 2,674 | 40.58% | 3,742 | 56.79% | 165 | 2.50% | 6 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.03% | -1,068 | -16.21% | 6,589 |
| Montgomery | 50,845 | 62.61% | 21,860 | 26.92% | 8,312 | 10.24% | 144 | 0.18% | 49 | 0.06% | 28,985 | 35.69% | 81,210 |
| Morgan | 3,553 | 60.94% | 2,072 | 35.54% | 199 | 3.41% | 5 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,481 | 25.40% | 5,830 |
| Morrow | 3,790 | 57.39% | 2,379 | 36.02% | 435 | 6.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,411 | 21.37% | 6,604 |
| Muskingum | 15,571 | 65.71% | 6,709 | 28.31% | 1,377 | 5.81% | 28 | 0.12% | 12 | 0.05% | 8,862 | 37.40% | 23,697 |
| Noble | 4,284 | 60.78% | 2,485 | 35.26% | 272 | 3.86% | 4 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,799 | 25.52% | 7,048 |
| Ottawa | 4,137 | 51.77% | 2,571 | 32.17% | 1,274 | 15.94% | 6 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,566 | 19.60% | 7,991 |
| Paulding | 3,648 | 57.79% | 2,242 | 35.52% | 414 | 6.56% | 5 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,406 | 22.28% | 6,312 |
| Perry | 7,592 | 58.11% | 3,702 | 28.34% | 1,718 | 13.15% | 36 | 0.28% | 17 | 0.13% | 3,890 | 29.77% | 13,065 |
| Pickaway | 4,166 | 46.24% | 4,539 | 50.38% | 293 | 3.25% | 5 | 0.06% | 6 | 0.07% | -373 | -4.14% | 9,009 |
| Pike | 2,569 | 43.87% | 3,185 | 54.39% | 100 | 1.71% | 1 | 0.02% | 1 | 0.02% | -616 | -10.52% | 5,856 |
| Portage | 8,583 | 62.43% | 2,994 | 21.78% | 2,131 | 15.50% | 26 | 0.19% | 15 | 0.11% | 5,589 | 40.65% | 13,749 |
| Preble | 5,676 | 56.75% | 4,033 | 40.33% | 282 | 2.82% | 7 | 0.07% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,643 | 16.43% | 10,001 |
| Putnam | 4,377 | 41.83% | 4,795 | 45.82% | 1,283 | 12.26% | 6 | 0.06% | 4 | 0.04% | -418 | -3.99% | 10,465 |
| Richland | 12,013 | 55.50% | 6,703 | 30.97% | 2,905 | 13.42% | 21 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.01% | 5,310 | 24.53% | 21,645 |
| Ross | 8,431 | 53.86% | 6,028 | 38.51% | 1,178 | 7.53% | 12 | 0.08% | 4 | 0.03% | 2,403 | 15.35% | 15,653 |
| Sandusky | 9,381 | 60.88% | 4,388 | 28.48% | 1,626 | 10.55% | 11 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.01% | 4,993 | 32.41% | 15,408 |
| Scioto | 12,189 | 62.83% | 5,532 | 28.51% | 1,643 | 8.47% | 34 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.02% | 6,657 | 34.31% | 19,401 |
| Seneca | 9,641 | 53.29% | 6,290 | 34.77% | 2,119 | 11.71% | 26 | 0.14% | 15 | 0.08% | 3,351 | 18.52% | 18,091 |
| Shelby | 4,359 | 44.41% | 4,840 | 49.31% | 606 | 6.17% | 6 | 0.06% | 5 | 0.05% | -481 | -4.90% | 9,816 |
| Stark | 40,858 | 64.28% | 12,544 | 19.74% | 9,960 | 15.67% | 170 | 0.27% | 30 | 0.05% | 28,314 | 44.55% | 63,562 |
| Summit | 53,774 | 65.28% | 17,533 | 21.29% | 10,855 | 13.18% | 160 | 0.19% | 49 | 0.06% | 36,241 | 44.00% | 82,371 |
| Trumbull | 22,341 | 74.35% | 4,007 | 13.33% | 3,628 | 12.07% | 56 | 0.19% | 17 | 0.06% | 18,334 | 61.01% | 30,049 |
| Tuscarawas | 13,573 | 56.97% | 5,566 | 23.36% | 4,602 | 19.32% | 68 | 0.29% | 16 | 0.07% | 8,007 | 33.61% | 23,825 |
| Union | 5,256 | 62.74% | 2,571 | 30.69% | 540 | 6.45% | 8 | 0.10% | 3 | 0.04% | 2,685 | 32.05% | 8,378 |
| Van Wert | 6,206 | 53.14% | 4,318 | 36.98% | 1,138 | 9.74% | 7 | 0.06% | 9 | 0.08% | 1,888 | 16.17% | 11,678 |
| Vinton | 2,244 | 51.87% | 1,838 | 42.49% | 232 | 5.36% | 8 | 0.18% | 4 | 0.09% | 406 | 9.39% | 4,326 |
| Warren | 6,729 | 69.02% | 2,406 | 24.68% | 609 | 6.25% | 3 | 0.03% | 2 | 0.02% | 4,323 | 44.34% | 9,749 |
| Washington | 8,704 | 57.12% | 5,727 | 37.58% | 780 | 5.12% | 20 | 0.13% | 8 | 0.05% | 2,977 | 19.54% | 15,239 |
| Wayne | 8,928 | 53.80% | 6,023 | 36.30% | 1,624 | 9.79% | 14 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.03% | 2,905 | 17.51% | 16,594 |
| Williams | 5,802 | 56.41% | 2,795 | 27.18% | 1,671 | 16.25% | 9 | 0.09% | 8 | 0.08% | 3,007 | 29.24% | 10,285 |
| Wood | 10,665 | 65.33% | 3,291 | 20.16% | 2,347 | 14.38% | 18 | 0.11% | 4 | 0.02% | 7,374 | 45.17% | 16,325 |
| Wyandot | 3,973 | 50.86% | 3,271 | 41.88% | 561 | 7.18% | 5 | 0.06% | 1 | 0.01% | 702 | 8.99% | 7,811 |
| Totals | 1,176,130 | 58.33% | 477,888 | 23.70% | 357,948 | 17.75% | 3,025 | 0.15% | 1,246 | 0.06% | 698,242 | 34.63% | 2,016,237 |
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