1924 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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Nominee John W. Davis Calvin Coolidge Robert M. La Follette Party Democratic Republican Farmer–Labor Alliance Progressive Home state West Virginia Massachusetts Wisconsin Running mate Charles W. Bryan Charles G. Dawes Burton K. Wheeler Electoral vote 10 0 0 Popular vote 255,798 226,242 46,375 Percentage 48.41% 42.82% 8.78%

County Results Davis   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Coolidge   40–50%   50–60%

President before election Calvin Coolidge Republican Elected President Calvin Coolidge Republican

The1924 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

In its early years,Oklahoma was a “Solid South” state whose founding fathers like"Alfalfa Bill" Murray andCharles N. Haskell haddisfranchised most of its black population via literacy tests and grandfather clauses,^[1] the latter of which would be declared unconstitutional inGuinn v. United States.^[2] In 1920 this “Solid South” state, nonetheless, joined the Republican landslide ofWarren G. Harding, electing a GOP senator and five congressmen,^[3] but in 1922 the Democratic Party returned to their typical ascendancy as the state GOP became bitterly divided.^[4]

Also in the running was theProgressive Party nominee,SenatorRobert M. La Follette ofWisconsin and his running mate SenatorBurton K. Wheeler ofMontana, though they ran under theFarmer–Labor Party label in Oklahoma. Despite problems in the state's agricultural sector, La Follette did not have the appeal in Oklahoma he had in more northerly areas of the Plains. Isolationism was weaker in this heavily Southern, Protestant state andBryan-era pietist Democratic support struck a different cultural vein from La Follette's largely Catholic and Lutheran backers.^[5] Unlike the Bryanites, La Follette's base strongly opposed theKu Klux Klan, which dominated politics in Oklahoma at the time, and was focused on farm cooperatives.

Oklahoma was won byDemocratic nominee, AmbassadorJohn W. Davis ofWest Virginia, overRepublican nominee, incumbent PresidentCalvin Coolidge ofMassachusetts. Davis ran withGovernorCharles W. Bryan ofNebraska, while Coolidge ran with formerBudget DirectorCharles G. Dawes ofIllinois. Davis won the state by a margin of 5.59 percentage points. This made Oklahoma the only state outside the formerConfederacy to vote for him. This is also the last time Oklahoma would vote for a losing Democratic candidate, and just one of two times (the other being its first election in1908) overall.

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