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The1924 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 4, 1924, as part of the1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.Wisconsin had since the decline ofthe Populist movement been substantially aone-party state dominated by the Republican Party.[1] The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside certain German Catholic counties adjoiningLake Michigan as the upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled fromWilliam Jennings Bryan's agrarian andfree silver sympathies.[2] As Democratic strength weakened severely after 1894 – although the state did develop a strongSocialist Party to provide opposition to the GOP – Wisconsin developed the direct Republican primary in 1903 and this ultimately created competition between the "League" underRobert M. La Follette, and the conservative "Regular" faction.[3]
The beginning of the 1910s would see a minor Democratic revival as many La Follette progressives endorsedWoodrow Wilson,[4] but this flirtation would not be long-lasting as Wilson's "Anglophile" foreign policies were severely opposed by Wisconsin's largelyGerman- andScandinavian-American populace.[5]The 1918 mid-term elections saw the Midwestern farming community largely desert the Democratic Party due to supposed preferential treatment of Southern farmers:[6] Democratic seats in the Midwest fell from thirty-four to seventeen,[7] and in1920 Wisconsin's status as a one-party Republican state was solidified asJames M. Cox won less than a sixth of the state's presidential vote and Democrats claimed only four state legislative seats, all but one of which would be lostin 1922.
At the same time, the Republican Party both at the state and national levels was severely divided between an ascendant conservative faction and a progressive faction, whose leader was Wisconsin's own veteran senatorRobert M. La Follette.[8] After a fierce debate the Democratic Party nominated formerCongressmanJohn W. Davis ofWest Virginia,[9] who although West Virginia was aborder state whose limited African-American population had not beendisenfranchised as happened in all formerConfederate States,[10] shared the extremesocial conservatism of Southern Democrats of the time. Davis supportedpoll taxes, opposed women's suffrage, and believed in strictly limited government with no expansion in nonmilitary fields.[11]
The conservatism of the major-party nominees made La Follette mount a third-party challenge, which he had planned even beforehand.[12] Wisconsin's Senator was formally nominated on July 4 by the "Conference for Progressive Political Action" and developed a platform dedicated to eliminating child labor and American interference in Latin American political affairs, along with a formal denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan.[13] La Follette also proposed major judicial reforms including amendments allowing congress to override judicial review and to re-enact laws declared unconstitutional.[14] La Follette also called for election of federal judges for ten-year terms.[15]
At the beginning of the campaign in July, La Follette listed nine states as "in" for him, including Wisconsin.[16] Although early opinion polls showed La Follette attracting large numbers of thoseGerman andScandinavian-Americans who completely deserted Cox in 1920,[17] newer polls later in the fall showed Wisconsin as the only state La Follette was certain to carry.[18] These later polls proved correct, with La Follette carrying Wisconsin with 53.96 percent of the popular vote, but winning no other state.[19]
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
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| Independent Progressive[a] | Robert M. La Follette | Zona Gale | 453,678 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Otto P. Seifriz | 446,289 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Julia Anderson Schnetz | 444,915 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Charles J. Schoenfeld | 444,848 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | William T. Evjue | 444,514 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | John J. Handley | 444,062 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Ira S. Lorenz | 444,004 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | John C. Schmidtmann | 443,862 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | William V. Kidder | 443,784 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Ernest L. Schroeder | 443,726 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | John T. Reynolds | 443,459 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Mary Francis Taylor | 443,224 | |
| Independent Progressive | Robert M. La Follette | Clough Gates | 443,073 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Emanuel L. Phillipp | 311,614 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Magnus Swenson | 310,550 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | F. Lee Norton | 310,538 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Lyman G. Wheeler | 310,455 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Theodora W. Youmans | 310,388 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Wheeler P. Bloodgood | 310,330 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Theodore Benfey | 310,306 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Timothy Burke | 310,085 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | J. L. Sturtevant | 310,019 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | George S. Gordon Sr. | 309,930 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Sophie I. Strathern | 309,923 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Laura Olson | 309,824 | |
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Mary Scott Johnson | 309,654 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Anthony Szczerbinski | 68,115 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Katherine L. Conway | 68,096 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | John F. Doherty | 68,040 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | John Moran | 68,028 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Charles E. Wilson | 68,025 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | William H. Graebner | 68,011 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Carl J. Mueller | 67,958 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | John Mulva | 67,840 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | H. B. Crane | 67,837 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Francis J. Rooney | 67,815 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Henry L. Nunn | 67,775 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | George F. Dietrich | 67,772 | |
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Ludwig P. Moen | 67,751 | |
| Independent[b] | William Z. Foster | Henry Hill | 3,773 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Martin Udjbinac | 3,759 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Arvid Nelson | 3,739 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | A. J. Haynes | 3,728 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Aaron Kivisto | 3,724 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Louis Majtan | 3,715 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Martin Markovich | 3,710 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Carl Gerlach | 3,708 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Marko Ebenhe | 3,687 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Clara Knappe | 3,681 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Carl Schradl | 3,666 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Fred Podello | 3,659 | |
| Independent | William Z. Foster | Fredinand Pilacek | 3,628 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Helen M. Tubbs | 2,918 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | William E. Mack | 2,845 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | M. L. Welles | 2,839 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Alba A. Glovier | 2,831 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Ella Tenney Sanford | 2,824 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Charles H. Mott | 2,818 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Herbert S. Siggelko | 2,811 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | August F. Fehlandt | 2,809 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Lucius A. Willis | 2,809 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Peter H. Rasmussen | 2,802 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | Frank Elisha Cummings | 2,795 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | D. Belle Ady | 2,790 | |
| Prohibition Party | Herman P. Faris | David Walden Emerson | 2,768 | |
| Independent[c] | Frank T. Johns | Jeff Davies | 458 | |
| Independent | Frank T. Johns | G. Driebel | 411 | |
| Independent | Frank T. Johns | E. Kathke Jr. | 379 | |
| Independent | Frank T. Johns | M. Farchmin Jr. | 376 | |
| Independent[d] | William J. Wallace | Carl Aken | 270 | |
| Independent | William J. Wallace | Cornelius Leenhouts | 215 | |
| Write-in | Scattering[e] | 10 | ||
| Votes cast[f] | 840,836 | |||
| County[20][21] | Robert M. La Follette Independent | Calvin Coolidge Republican | John W. Davis Democratic | All Others Various | Margin[g] | Total votes cast[h] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 1,724 | 64.16% | 779 | 28.99% | 173 | 6.44% | 11 | 0.41% | 945 | 35.17% | 2,687 |
| Ashland | 4,204 | 60.02% | 2,272 | 32.44% | 449 | 6.41% | 79 | 1.13% | 1,932 | 27.58% | 7,004 |
| Barron | 6,010 | 65.47% | 2,703 | 29.44% | 377 | 4.11% | 90 | 0.98% | 3,307 | 36.02% | 9,180 |
| Bayfield | 2,601 | 56.54% | 1,675 | 36.41% | 205 | 4.46% | 119 | 2.59% | 926 | 20.13% | 4,600 |
| Brown | 10,024 | 49.92% | 7,611 | 37.90% | 2,328 | 11.59% | 117 | 0.58% | 2,413 | 12.02% | 20,080 |
| Buffalo | 2,474 | 61.76% | 1,324 | 33.05% | 176 | 4.39% | 32 | 0.80% | 1,150 | 28.71% | 4,006 |
| Burnett | 2,088 | 66.12% | 958 | 30.34% | 76 | 2.41% | 36 | 1.14% | 1,130 | 35.78% | 3,158 |
| Calumet | 3,503 | 69.42% | 938 | 18.59% | 569 | 11.28% | 36 | 0.71% | 2,565 | 50.83% | 5,046 |
| Chippewa | 6,517 | 52.95% | 5,135 | 41.72% | 560 | 4.55% | 96 | 0.78% | 1,382 | 11.23% | 12,308 |
| Clark | 6,208 | 62.02% | 3,130 | 31.27% | 552 | 5.51% | 120 | 1.20% | 3,078 | 30.75% | 10,010 |
| Columbia | 5,968 | 51.05% | 4,724 | 40.41% | 907 | 7.76% | 91 | 0.78% | 1,244 | 10.64% | 11,690 |
| Crawford | 2,977 | 52.58% | 1,687 | 29.80% | 936 | 16.53% | 62 | 1.10% | 1,290 | 22.78% | 5,662 |
| Dane | 24,595 | 62.73% | 12,280 | 31.32% | 2,081 | 5.31% | 252 | 0.64% | 12,315 | 31.41% | 39,208 |
| Dodge | 9,610 | 56.63% | 5,167 | 30.45% | 2,019 | 11.90% | 175 | 1.03% | 4,443 | 26.18% | 16,971 |
| Door | 2,715 | 55.36% | 1,891 | 38.56% | 235 | 4.79% | 63 | 1.28% | 824 | 16.80% | 4,904 |
| Douglas | 8,255 | 54.89% | 5,887 | 39.14% | 638 | 4.24% | 259 | 1.72% | 2,368 | 15.75% | 15,039 |
| Dunn | 4,385 | 55.39% | 3,177 | 40.13% | 284 | 3.59% | 70 | 0.88% | 1,208 | 15.26% | 7,916 |
| Eau Claire | 5,222 | 47.12% | 5,149 | 46.46% | 629 | 5.68% | 83 | 0.75% | 73 | 0.66% | 11,083 |
| Florence | 523 | 44.21% | 594 | 50.21% | 49 | 4.14% | 17 | 1.44% | -71 | -6.00% | 1,183 |
| Fond du Lac | 9,576 | 46.80% | 8,516 | 41.62% | 2,222 | 10.86% | 146 | 0.71% | 1,060 | 5.18% | 20,460 |
| Forest | 1,259 | 46.46% | 1,104 | 40.74% | 299 | 11.03% | 48 | 1.77% | 155 | 5.72% | 2,710 |
| Grant | 6,825 | 48.17% | 5,714 | 40.33% | 1,518 | 10.71% | 112 | 0.79% | 1,111 | 7.84% | 14,169 |
| Green | 4,885 | 58.64% | 2,922 | 35.07% | 423 | 5.08% | 101 | 1.21% | 1,963 | 23.56% | 8,331 |
| Green Lake | 2,187 | 41.19% | 1,988 | 37.45% | 1,090 | 20.53% | 44 | 0.83% | 199 | 3.75% | 5,309 |
| Iowa | 4,133 | 50.32% | 3,291 | 40.07% | 689 | 8.39% | 100 | 1.22% | 842 | 10.25% | 8,213 |
| Iron | 1,400 | 53.15% | 1,058 | 40.17% | 84 | 3.19% | 92 | 3.49% | 342 | 12.98% | 2,634 |
| Jackson | 3,167 | 61.44% | 1,662 | 32.24% | 255 | 4.95% | 71 | 1.38% | 1,505 | 29.19% | 5,155 |
| Jefferson | 7,885 | 57.93% | 4,250 | 31.22% | 1,374 | 10.09% | 102 | 0.75% | 3,635 | 26.71% | 13,611 |
| Juneau | 3,785 | 61.40% | 1,917 | 31.10% | 403 | 6.54% | 59 | 0.96% | 1,868 | 30.30% | 6,164 |
| Kenosha | 6,695 | 35.90% | 10,341 | 55.45% | 1,517 | 8.13% | 96 | 0.51% | -3,646 | -19.55% | 18,649 |
| Kewaunee | 2,804 | 65.82% | 1,018 | 23.90% | 395 | 9.27% | 43 | 1.01% | 1,786 | 41.92% | 4,260 |
| La Crosse | 10,543 | 59.74% | 5,733 | 32.49% | 1,252 | 7.09% | 119 | 0.67% | 4,810 | 27.26% | 17,647 |
| Lafayette | 3,681 | 47.81% | 2,671 | 34.69% | 1,265 | 16.43% | 82 | 1.07% | 1,010 | 13.12% | 7,699 |
| Langlade | 3,578 | 50.05% | 2,572 | 35.98% | 926 | 12.95% | 73 | 1.02% | 1,006 | 14.07% | 7,149 |
| Lincoln | 4,465 | 64.54% | 1,857 | 26.84% | 503 | 7.27% | 93 | 1.34% | 2,608 | 37.70% | 6,918 |
| Manitowoc | 9,814 | 60.04% | 4,828 | 29.54% | 1,599 | 9.78% | 104 | 0.64% | 4,986 | 30.50% | 16,345 |
| Marathon | 12,193 | 63.88% | 5,577 | 29.22% | 1,109 | 5.81% | 209 | 1.09% | 6,616 | 34.66% | 19,088 |
| Marinette | 3,411 | 37.98% | 4,911 | 54.68% | 571 | 6.36% | 88 | 0.98% | -1,500 | -16.70% | 8,981 |
| Marquette | 1,820 | 51.18% | 1,109 | 31.19% | 587 | 16.51% | 40 | 1.12% | 711 | 19.99% | 3,556 |
| Milwaukee | 81,697 | 55.19% | 50,730 | 34.27% | 14,510 | 9.80% | 1,092 | 0.74% | 30,967 | 20.92% | 148,029 |
| Monroe | 6,747 | 67.71% | 2,661 | 26.70% | 428 | 4.30% | 129 | 1.29% | 4,086 | 41.00% | 9,965 |
| Oconto | 4,506 | 58.25% | 2,562 | 33.12% | 602 | 7.78% | 65 | 0.84% | 1,944 | 25.13% | 7,735 |
| Oneida | 3,196 | 59.74% | 1,769 | 33.07% | 324 | 6.06% | 61 | 1.14% | 1,427 | 26.67% | 5,350 |
| Outagamie | 10,357 | 57.03% | 6,426 | 35.39% | 1,255 | 6.91% | 122 | 0.67% | 3,931 | 21.65% | 18,160 |
| Ozaukee | 3,264 | 66.61% | 1,015 | 20.71% | 592 | 12.08% | 29 | 0.59% | 2,249 | 45.90% | 4,900 |
| Pepin | 737 | 33.59% | 1,226 | 55.88% | 206 | 9.39% | 25 | 1.14% | -489 | -22.29% | 2,194 |
| Pierce | 3,661 | 53.80% | 2,788 | 40.97% | 298 | 4.38% | 58 | 0.85% | 873 | 12.83% | 6,805 |
| Polk | 4,251 | 57.18% | 2,793 | 37.57% | 317 | 4.26% | 73 | 0.98% | 1,458 | 19.61% | 7,434 |
| Portage | 5,347 | 52.01% | 2,854 | 27.76% | 2,010 | 19.55% | 69 | 0.67% | 2,493 | 24.25% | 10,280 |
| Price | 3,151 | 58.94% | 1,754 | 32.81% | 323 | 6.04% | 118 | 2.21% | 1,397 | 26.13% | 5,346 |
| Racine | 11,298 | 43.51% | 13,040 | 50.21% | 1,463 | 5.63% | 168 | 0.65% | -1,742 | -6.71% | 25,969 |
| Richland | 2,660 | 41.97% | 2,669 | 42.11% | 898 | 14.17% | 111 | 1.75% | -9 | -0.14% | 6,338 |
| Rock | 7,923 | 32.58% | 14,815 | 60.92% | 1,453 | 5.97% | 129 | 0.53% | -6,892 | -28.34% | 24,320 |
| Rusk | 2,677 | 54.19% | 1,932 | 39.11% | 272 | 5.51% | 59 | 1.19% | 745 | 15.08% | 4,940 |
| Sauk | 6,400 | 57.91% | 3,935 | 35.60% | 555 | 5.02% | 162 | 1.47% | 2,465 | 22.30% | 11,052 |
| Sawyer | 1,487 | 56.37% | 990 | 37.53% | 135 | 5.12% | 26 | 0.99% | 497 | 18.84% | 2,638 |
| Shawano | 6,337 | 70.69% | 2,063 | 23.01% | 471 | 5.25% | 94 | 1.05% | 4,274 | 47.67% | 8,965 |
| Sheboygan | 11,714 | 58.04% | 6,974 | 34.56% | 1,350 | 6.69% | 143 | 0.71% | 4,740 | 23.49% | 20,181 |
| St. Croix | 4,693 | 51.72% | 3,600 | 39.68% | 718 | 7.91% | 62 | 0.68% | 1,093 | 12.05% | 9,073 |
| Taylor | 3,079 | 65.37% | 1,389 | 29.49% | 185 | 3.93% | 57 | 1.21% | 1,690 | 35.88% | 4,710 |
| Trempealeau | 4,148 | 62.24% | 2,083 | 31.26% | 373 | 5.60% | 60 | 0.90% | 2,065 | 30.99% | 6,664 |
| Vernon | 5,599 | 63.78% | 2,670 | 30.41% | 406 | 4.62% | 104 | 1.18% | 2,929 | 33.36% | 8,779 |
| Vilas | 1,038 | 50.07% | 873 | 42.11% | 119 | 5.74% | 43 | 2.07% | 165 | 7.96% | 2,073 |
| Walworth | 4,335 | 33.13% | 7,484 | 57.19% | 1,162 | 8.88% | 105 | 0.80% | -3,149 | -24.06% | 13,086 |
| Washburn | 2,043 | 55.90% | 1,422 | 38.91% | 158 | 4.32% | 32 | 0.88% | 621 | 16.99% | 3,655 |
| Washington | 5,081 | 62.49% | 1,987 | 24.44% | 980 | 12.05% | 83 | 1.02% | 3,094 | 38.05% | 8,131 |
| Waukesha | 6,348 | 41.06% | 7,026 | 45.45% | 1,965 | 12.71% | 120 | 0.78% | -678 | -4.39% | 15,459 |
| Waupaca | 6,395 | 59.32% | 3,654 | 33.89% | 665 | 6.17% | 67 | 0.62% | 2,741 | 25.42% | 10,781 |
| Waushara | 2,606 | 57.63% | 1,602 | 35.43% | 249 | 5.51% | 65 | 1.44% | 1,004 | 22.20% | 4,522 |
| Winnebago | 9,891 | 42.86% | 11,239 | 48.70% | 1,801 | 7.80% | 146[i] | 0.63% | -1,348 | -5.84% | 23,077 |
| Wood | 7,303 | 63.83% | 3,469 | 30.32% | 548 | 4.79% | 122 | 1.07% | 3,834 | 33.51% | 11,442 |
| Totals | 453,678 | 53.96% | 311,614 | 37.06% | 68,115 | 8.10% | 7,429 | 0.88% | 142,064 | 16.90% | 840,836 |
La Follette carried 62 of Wisconsin's 72 counties, with Coolidge gaining majorities only in the heavilyYankee and pro-establishment counties bordering Illinois, inPepin County on the western border, and inMarinette andFlorence Counties bordering Michigan. As of the2020 presidential election[update], this is the last time a third-party presidential candidate has carried a state outsidethe former Confederacy.[j] This was the first presidential election in which a Republican won the White House without carrying Wisconsin, a feat which would only occur 3 more times (in1988,2000, and2004).
Two very long bellwether streaks for Wisconsin counties were broken in this election.Winnebago County failed to back the statewide winner for the first time since1848, which was the first presidential election that the state participated in.Kenosha County also failed to back the statewide winner for the first time since1852, which was the first presidential election that the county had participated in. This was the last election in Wisconsin in which voters chose presidential electors directly. The state switched to the modern "short ballot" starting with thenext election.
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