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The1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for theRepublican nominee, formerU.S. Secretary of CommerceHerbert Hoover, over theDemocratic nominee,New York GovernorAl Smith. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 31.35%. The Republicans at this time were associated with the booming economy of the 1920s while Smith was associated with the corruption ofTammany Hall.
Despite losing the state, Smith flipped 3 majority-Catholic counties that voted forCalvin Coolidge in1924 and had been consistently Republican during the "System of 1896" into the Democratic column:Elk,Lackawanna, andLuzerne.[1] This came with losing the 4 counties – all dominated by profoundly anti-CatholicAppalachian Protestants[2] – that voted forJohn W. Davis to Hoover:Columbia,Fulton,Greene, andMonroe. Hoover was the first ever Republican to carry Columbia, Greene, and Monroe counties.
| 1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Herbert Hoover | 2,055,382 | 65.24% | 38 | |
| Democratic | Al Smith | 1,067,586 | 33.89% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 18,647 | 0.59% | 0 | |
| Communist/Workers'/Labor | William Z. Foster | 4,726 | 0.15% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | William F. Varney | 3,875 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Verne L. Reynolds | 380 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | Write-ins | 14 | 0.00% | 0 | |
| Totals | 3,147,882 | 100.00% | 38 | ||
| County | Herbert Clark Hoover Republican | Alfred Emmanual Smith Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 9,656 | 67.29% | 4,635 | 32.30% | 58 | 0.40% | 5,021 | 34.99% | 14,349 |
| Allegheny | 215,626 | 56.86% | 160,733 | 42.39% | 2,850 | 0.75% | 54,893 | 14.48% | 379,209 |
| Armstrong | 17,625 | 77.86% | 4,824 | 21.31% | 187 | 0.83% | 12,801 | 56.55% | 22,636 |
| Beaver | 27,949 | 69.50% | 11,868 | 29.51% | 400 | 0.99% | 16,081 | 39.99% | 40,217 |
| Bedford | 9,602 | 81.60% | 1,966 | 16.71% | 199 | 1.69% | 7,636 | 64.89% | 11,767 |
| Berks | 47,073 | 64.03% | 18,960 | 25.79% | 7,481 | 10.18% | 28,113 | 38.24% | 73,514 |
| Blair | 34,356 | 73.53% | 12,104 | 25.90% | 266 | 0.57% | 22,252 | 47.62% | 46,726 |
| Bradford | 17,251 | 79.83% | 4,281 | 19.81% | 77 | 0.36% | 12,970 | 60.02% | 21,609 |
| Bucks | 28,421 | 76.47% | 8,446 | 22.72% | 301 | 0.81% | 19,975 | 53.74% | 37,168 |
| Butler | 19,880 | 85.22% | 3,283 | 14.07% | 164 | 0.70% | 16,597 | 71.15% | 23,327 |
| Cambria | 29,494 | 51.79% | 27,024 | 47.46% | 427 | 0.75% | 2,470 | 4.34% | 56,945 |
| Cameron | 1,564 | 75.52% | 501 | 24.19% | 6 | 0.29% | 1,063 | 51.33% | 2,071 |
| Carbon | 15,047 | 64.98% | 8,010 | 34.59% | 98 | 0.42% | 7,037 | 30.39% | 23,155 |
| Centre | 12,005 | 77.17% | 3,431 | 22.05% | 121 | 0.78% | 8,574 | 55.11% | 15,557 |
| Chester | 36,659 | 82.27% | 7,689 | 17.26% | 210 | 0.47% | 28,970 | 65.02% | 44,558 |
| Clarion | 9,183 | 70.43% | 3,746 | 28.73% | 109 | 0.84% | 5,437 | 41.70% | 13,038 |
| Clearfield | 16,719 | 67.26% | 7,870 | 31.66% | 270 | 1.09% | 8,849 | 35.60% | 24,859 |
| Clinton | 8,120 | 73.62% | 2,849 | 25.83% | 60 | 0.54% | 5,271 | 47.79% | 11,029 |
| Columbia | 14,362 | 72.61% | 5,304 | 26.81% | 115 | 0.58% | 9,058 | 45.79% | 19,781 |
| Crawford | 17,072 | 71.17% | 6,718 | 28.00% | 199 | 0.83% | 10,354 | 43.16% | 23,989 |
| Cumberland | 19,170 | 78.08% | 5,189 | 21.14% | 192 | 0.78% | 13,981 | 56.95% | 24,551 |
| Dauphin | 49,108 | 83.78% | 9,115 | 15.55% | 394 | 0.67% | 39,993 | 68.23% | 58,617 |
| Delaware | 83,092 | 73.57% | 29,378 | 26.01% | 471 | 0.42% | 53,714 | 47.56% | 112,941 |
| Elk | 5,234 | 40.23% | 7,705 | 59.23% | 70 | 0.54% | -2,471 | -18.99% | 13,009 |
| Erie | 30,542 | 60.97% | 19,278 | 38.48% | 277 | 0.55% | 11,264 | 22.48% | 50,097 |
| Fayette | 27,693 | 58.69% | 19,063 | 40.40% | 427 | 0.90% | 8,630 | 18.29% | 47,183 |
| Forest | 1,707 | 84.59% | 289 | 14.32% | 22 | 1.09% | 1,418 | 70.27% | 2,018 |
| Franklin | 16,345 | 83.74% | 3,027 | 15.51% | 146 | 0.75% | 13,318 | 68.23% | 19,518 |
| Fulton | 2,179 | 66.82% | 1,054 | 32.32% | 28 | 0.86% | 1,125 | 34.50% | 3,261 |
| Greene | 6,910 | 56.18% | 5,293 | 43.04% | 96 | 0.78% | 1,617 | 13.15% | 12,299 |
| Huntingdon | 9,920 | 86.25% | 1,470 | 12.78% | 112 | 0.97% | 8,450 | 73.47% | 11,502 |
| Indiana | 16,706 | 76.75% | 4,810 | 22.10% | 252 | 1.16% | 11,896 | 54.65% | 21,768 |
| Jefferson | 13,233 | 74.63% | 4,325 | 24.39% | 173 | 0.98% | 8,908 | 50.24% | 17,731 |
| Juniata | 4,396 | 82.00% | 919 | 17.14% | 46 | 0.86% | 3,477 | 64.86% | 5,361 |
| Lackawanna | 46,510 | 46.85% | 52,665 | 53.05% | 94 | 0.09% | -6,155 | -6.20% | 99,269 |
| Lancaster | 55,530 | 81.43% | 12,146 | 17.81% | 516 | 0.76% | 43,384 | 63.62% | 68,192 |
| Lawrence | 20,012 | 74.95% | 6,417 | 24.03% | 273 | 1.02% | 13,595 | 50.91% | 26,702 |
| Lebanon | 16,841 | 82.30% | 3,278 | 16.02% | 345 | 1.69% | 13,563 | 66.28% | 20,464 |
| Lehigh | 40,291 | 74.35% | 13,463 | 24.84% | 434 | 0.80% | 26,828 | 49.51% | 54,188 |
| Luzerne | 67,872 | 48.00% | 73,319 | 51.85% | 220 | 0.16% | -5,447 | -3.85% | 141,411 |
| Lycoming | 28,720 | 79.48% | 7,132 | 19.74% | 285 | 0.79% | 21,588 | 59.74% | 36,137 |
| McKean | 14,012 | 73.49% | 4,964 | 26.04% | 90 | 0.47% | 9,048 | 47.46% | 19,066 |
| Mercer | 22,599 | 72.71% | 8,204 | 26.39% | 280 | 0.90% | 14,395 | 46.31% | 31,083 |
| Mifflin | 8,932 | 86.97% | 1,270 | 12.37% | 68 | 0.66% | 7,662 | 74.61% | 10,270 |
| Monroe | 7,469 | 69.40% | 3,266 | 30.35% | 27 | 0.25% | 4,203 | 39.05% | 10,762 |
| Montgomery | 76,680 | 76.37% | 23,026 | 22.93% | 702 | 0.70% | 53,654 | 53.44% | 100,408 |
| Montour | 3,692 | 71.69% | 1,445 | 28.06% | 13 | 0.25% | 2,247 | 43.63% | 5,150 |
| Northampton | 37,403 | 71.14% | 14,768 | 28.09% | 404 | 0.77% | 22,635 | 43.05% | 52,575 |
| Northumberland | 30,949 | 61.30% | 19,249 | 38.12% | 292 | 0.58% | 11,700 | 23.17% | 50,490 |
| Perry | 6,469 | 77.66% | 1,807 | 21.69% | 54 | 0.65% | 4,662 | 55.97% | 8,330 |
| Philadelphia | 420,320 | 59.99% | 276,573 | 39.48% | 3,703 | 0.53% | 143,747 | 20.52% | 700,596 |
| Pike | 2,354 | 69.34% | 1,024 | 30.16% | 17 | 0.50% | 1,330 | 39.18% | 3,395 |
| Potter | 5,653 | 79.50% | 1,416 | 19.91% | 42 | 0.59% | 4,237 | 59.58% | 7,111 |
| Schuylkill | 46,033 | 53.05% | 40,424 | 46.59% | 311 | 0.36% | 5,609 | 6.46% | 86,768 |
| Snyder | 5,693 | 87.22% | 805 | 12.33% | 29 | 0.44% | 4,888 | 74.89% | 6,527 |
| Somerset | 16,404 | 77.90% | 4,489 | 21.32% | 164 | 0.78% | 11,915 | 56.58% | 21,057 |
| Sullivan | 2,044 | 64.64% | 1,101 | 34.82% | 17 | 0.54% | 943 | 29.82% | 3,162 |
| Susquehanna | 9,445 | 68.14% | 4,353 | 31.40% | 63 | 0.45% | 5,092 | 36.74% | 13,861 |
| Tioga | 11,774 | 87.23% | 1,688 | 12.51% | 36 | 0.27% | 10,086 | 74.72% | 13,498 |
| Union | 5,708 | 87.45% | 765 | 11.72% | 54 | 0.83% | 4,943 | 75.73% | 6,527 |
| Venango | 17,450 | 79.00% | 4,531 | 20.51% | 108 | 0.49% | 12,919 | 58.49% | 22,089 |
| Warren | 12,077 | 80.21% | 2,835 | 18.83% | 144 | 0.96% | 9,242 | 61.38% | 15,056 |
| Washington | 31,099 | 63.61% | 17,149 | 35.07% | 645 | 1.32% | 13,950 | 28.53% | 48,893 |
| Wayne | 8,576 | 71.15% | 3,418 | 28.36% | 59 | 0.49% | 5,158 | 42.79% | 12,053 |
| Westmoreland | 51,760 | 61.88% | 30,587 | 36.57% | 1,296 | 1.55% | 21,173 | 25.31% | 83,643 |
| Wyoming | 5,321 | 85.00% | 906 | 14.47% | 33 | 0.53% | 4,415 | 70.53% | 6,260 |
| York | 45,791 | 79.60% | 11,216 | 19.50% | 522 | 0.91% | 34,575 | 60.10% | 57,529 |
| Totals | 2,055,382 | 65.29% | 1,064,856 | 33.83% | 27,644 | 0.88% | 990,526 | 31.47% | 3,147,882 |
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