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The1928 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the1928 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to theElectoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Utah voted for Republican nomineeHerbert Hoover, formerlySecretary of Commerce, over the Democratic nominee, four-timeNew York governorAl Smith. Mormon Utah was much less affected by anti-Catholic passion against Smith and his faith than either the Protestant Upper South or the secular Pacific Northwest: indeed the LDS hierarchy endorsed Smith when he won the Democratic nomination.[1] In fact, in the days before the election it was thought by pollsters that Smith would carry the state,[2] although neitherCox norDavis norLa Follette had won a single county during theprevioustwo elections. However, late swings gave the state to Hoover by a margin whose size increased in late counting.[2]
Nonetheless, the LDS endorsement did cause Utah to prove Smith's eleventh-strongest state – and his strongest outside the urban Northeast or the "Solid South" – voting 9.70 percent more Democratic than the nation at-large.[3] Smith divided the sizable 1924 La Follette vote with Hoover, and carried the ethnically diverse mining-basedCarbon County by fourteen, and also won a five-point majority inJuab County in the state's west for the first Republican losses in any Utah county since 1916 whenanti-war sentiment shifted the state toWoodrow Wilson.[4]
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican Party | Herbert Hoover | Albert E. Miller | 94,618 | |
| Republican Party | Herbert Hoover | Dan B. Berry | 94,613 | |
| Republican Party | Herbert Hoover | Winslow F. Smith | 94,485 | |
| Republican Party | Herbert Hoover | Clara Randolph | 94,275 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | William Scoweroit | 80,985 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Abel John Evans | 80,880 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | J. Frank Tolton | 80,842 | |
| Democratic Party | Al Smith | Mrs. J. J. Galligan | 80,780 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Albert F. Gower | 954 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | William E. Tinnaman Sr. | 949 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | William Black | 948 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | James Monroe | 948 | |
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | J. E. Sherren | 47 | |
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | D. Conta | 39 | |
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | George Kottas | 38 | |
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | Elda Shippee | 38 | |
| Votes cast[a] | 176,603 | |||
| County[5][6][7][8] | Herbert Hoover Republican | Al Smith Democratic | Norman Thomas Socialist | William Z. Foster Workers | Margin | Total votes cast[a] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Beaver | 1,149 | 54.98% | 936 | 44.78% | 5 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 213 | 10.20% | 2,090 |
| Box Elder | 3,317 | 56.94% | 2,488 | 42.71% | 20 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 829 | 14.23% | 5,825 |
| Cache | 5,297 | 52.60% | 4,748 | 47.15% | 26 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 549 | 5.45% | 10,071 |
| Carbon | 2,184 | 42.10% | 2,954 | 56.94% | 47 | 0.96% | 3 | 0.06% | -770 | -14.84% | 5,188 |
| Daggett | 107 | 77.54% | 31 | 22.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 76 | 55.08% | 138 |
| Davis | 2,508 | 52.05% | 2,296 | 47.65% | 14 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 212 | 4.40% | 4,818 |
| Duchesne | 1,585 | 63.48% | 899 | 36.00% | 13 | 0.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 686 | 27.48% | 2,497 |
| Emery | 1,317 | 57.06% | 965 | 41.81% | 26 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 352 | 15.25% | 2,308 |
| Garfield | 1,024 | 75.63% | 325 | 24.00% | 5 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 699 | 51.63% | 1,354 |
| Grand | 347 | 52.58% | 310 | 46.97% | 3 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 37 | 5.61% | 660 |
| Iron | 1,823 | 72.11% | 682 | 26.98% | 23 | 0.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,141 | 45.13% | 2,528 |
| Juab | 1,557 | 47.48% | 1,714 | 52.27% | 8 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -157 | -4.79% | 3,279 |
| Kane | 566 | 79.94% | 141 | 19.92% | 1 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 425 | 60.02% | 708 |
| Millard | 2,263 | 60.83% | 1,440 | 38.71% | 16 | 0.46% | 1 | 0.03% | 823 | 22.12% | 3,720 |
| Morgan | 513 | 53.00% | 454 | 46.90% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 59 | 6.10% | 968 |
| Piute | 434 | 64.20% | 237 | 35.06% | 5 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 197 | 29.14% | 676 |
| Rich | 470 | 67.72% | 224 | 32.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 246 | 35.44% | 694 |
| Salt Lake | 34,393 | 49.89% | 34,127 | 49.50% | 392 | 0.61% | 28 | 0.04% | 266 | 0.39% | 68,940 |
| San Juan | 449 | 65.55% | 231 | 33.72% | 5 | 0.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 218 | 31.83% | 685 |
| Sanpete | 3,694 | 59.63% | 2,482 | 40.06% | 19 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,212 | 19.57% | 6,195 |
| Sevier | 2,424 | 63.13% | 1,399 | 36.43% | 16 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,025 | 26.70% | 3,840 |
| Summit | 1,748 | 57.65% | 1,260 | 41.56% | 21 | 0.79% | 3 | 0.10% | 488 | 16.09% | 3,032 |
| Tooele | 1,707 | 54.22% | 1,421 | 45.14% | 18 | 0.64% | 2 | 0.06% | 286 | 9.08% | 3,148 |
| Uintah | 1,589 | 64.00% | 880 | 35.44% | 14 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 709 | 28.56% | 2,483 |
| Utah | 8,771 | 52.19% | 7,955 | 47.33% | 79 | 0.48% | 2 | 0.01% | 816 | 4.86% | 16,807 |
| Wasatch | 1,340 | 57.83% | 973 | 41.99% | 4 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 367 | 15.84% | 2,317 |
| Washington | 1,686 | 66.20% | 857 | 33.65% | 3 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.04% | 829 | 32.55% | 2,547 |
| Wayne | 422 | 68.17% | 195 | 31.50% | 2 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 227 | 36.67% | 619 |
| Weber | 9,934 | 53.79% | 8,361 | 45.27% | 168 | 0.94% | 5 | 0.03% | 1,573 | 8.52% | 18,468 |
| Totals | 94,618 | 53.58% | 80,985 | 45.86% | 954 | 0.54% | 46 | 0.03% | 13,633 | 7.72% | 176,603 |
