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The1920 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
With its history asa slave state and substantial historicsecessionist support,Maryland had been strongly Democratic during theThird Party System despite havingFederalist andWhig tendencies under previous systems.[1] However, hostility towardsWilliam Jennings Bryan's free silver andPopulist tendencies in the cities meant that the state shifted Republican in1896[2] and became very close in subsequent elections during the "System of 1896". Unlike formerConfederate states andOklahoma, Maryland did not succeed in disenfranchising its large black population despite several attempts,[3] which helped the Republicans remain highly competitive in early twentieth-century state elections.
Woodrow Wilson had carried Maryland by 4.84 percentage points more than his national margin in1916, which made it his best state outside the former Confederacy orWest. Democratic nominee and formerOhio GovernorJames M. Cox did not campaign in the state, but Republican nominee andOhio SenatorWarren G. Harding, fearing that Cox might add the machine-controlled states ofthe Northeast to his “Solid South”, did campaign in Maryland during September.[4] The first straw vote in mid-October showed Harding leading by around 300 votes out of 4,300,[5] although that had reversed in a poll a week later,[6] and at the end of October polls were divided with one giving the state to Cox[7] but another saying that it would be safe for Harding if black women could be mustered to vote.[8]
As it turned out, Harding carried the state comfortably: his margin was comparable to the otherborder states exceptKentucky (where Cox was helped byFayette County political boss Billy Kair[9]) but Maryland was still 13.22 points more Democratic than the nation at-large or an 8 percent bigger differential than in 1916.
| Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren G. Harding ofOhio | Calvin Coolidge | Republican | 8[10] | 236,117 | 55.11% |
| James M. Cox | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | 0 | 180,626 | 42.16% |
| Eugene V. Debs | Seymour Stedman | Socialist | 0 | 8,876 | 2.07% |
| Parley P. Christensen | Max S. Hayes | Third Party | 0 | 1,645 | 0.38% |
| William Wesley Cox | August Gillhaus | Labor | 0 | 1,178 | 0.27% |
| Write-ins | — | — | 0 | 1 | 0.00% |
| County | Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican | James Middleton Cox Democratic | Eugene Victor Debs Socialist | Parley Parker Christensen Third Party | William Wesley Cox Labor | Margin | Total votes cast[11] | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allegany | 9,595 | 57.37% | 5,643 | 33.74% | 1,291 | 7.72% | 96 | 0.57% | 100 | 0.60% | 3,952 | 23.63% | 16,725 |
| Anne Arundel | 6,199 | 54.52% | 5,053 | 44.44% | 70 | 0.62% | 15 | 0.13% | 33 | 0.29% | 1,146 | 10.08% | 11,370 |
| Baltimore | 12,432 | 56.04% | 9,365 | 42.22% | 233 | 1.05% | 113 | 0.51% | 40 | 0.18% | 3,067 | 13.83% | 22,183 |
| Baltimore City | 125,526 | 57.02% | 86,748 | 39.40% | 6,272 | 2.85% | 1,091 | 0.50% | 509 | 0.23% | 38,778 | 17.61% | 220,146 |
| Calvert | 1,741 | 58.01% | 1,230 | 40.99% | 8 | 0.27% | 12 | 0.40% | 10 | 0.33% | 511 | 17.03% | 3,001 |
| Caroline | 2,929 | 48.90% | 3,012 | 50.28% | 29 | 0.48% | 17 | 0.28% | 3 | 0.05% | -83 | -1.39% | 5,990 |
| Carroll | 5,784 | 57.13% | 4,273 | 42.20% | 18 | 0.18% | 25 | 0.25% | 25 | 0.25% | 1,511 | 14.92% | 10,125 |
| Cecil | 3,435 | 49.37% | 3,468 | 49.85% | 7 | 0.10% | 26 | 0.37% | 21 | 0.30% | -33 | -0.47% | 6,957 |
| Charles | 2,585 | 60.54% | 1,642 | 38.45% | 12 | 0.28% | 2 | 0.05% | 29 | 0.68% | 943 | 22.08% | 4,270 |
| Dorchester | 4,218 | 51.38% | 3,950 | 48.11% | 15 | 0.18% | 6 | 0.07% | 21 | 0.26% | 268 | 3.26% | 8,210 |
| Frederick | 9,559 | 54.57% | 7,747 | 44.22% | 98 | 0.56% | 44 | 0.25% | 70 | 0.40% | 1,812 | 10.34% | 17,518 |
| Garrett | 2,805 | 70.25% | 1,070 | 26.80% | 91 | 2.28% | 6 | 0.15% | 21 | 0.53% | 1,735 | 43.45% | 3,993 |
| Harford | 4,175 | 49.86% | 4,134 | 49.37% | 36 | 0.43% | 13 | 0.16% | 16 | 0.19% | 41 | 0.49% | 8,374 |
| Howard | 2,608 | 51.46% | 2,397 | 47.30% | 23 | 0.45% | 13 | 0.26% | 27 | 0.53% | 211 | 4.16% | 5,068 |
| Kent | 2,838 | 48.22% | 3,034 | 51.55% | 2 | 0.03% | 4 | 0.07% | 8 | 0.14% | -196 | -3.33% | 5,886 |
| Montgomery | 5,948 | 47.96% | 6,277 | 50.61% | 76 | 0.61% | 50 | 0.40% | 51 | 0.41% | -329 | -2.65% | 12,402 |
| Prince George's | 6,628 | 56.83% | 4,857 | 41.64% | 110 | 0.94% | 45 | 0.39% | 23 | 0.20% | 1,771 | 15.18% | 11,663 |
| Queen Anne's | 2,157 | 37.43% | 3,519 | 61.07% | 38 | 0.66% | 29 | 0.50% | 19 | 0.33% | -1,362 | -23.64% | 5,762 |
| St. Mary's | 2,175 | 53.13% | 1,861 | 45.46% | 27 | 0.66% | 7 | 0.17% | 24 | 0.59% | 314 | 7.67% | 4,094 |
| Somerset | 3,658 | 57.57% | 2,634 | 41.45% | 16 | 0.25% | 3 | 0.05% | 43 | 0.68% | 1,024 | 16.12% | 6,354 |
| Talbot | 3,050 | 49.19% | 3,130 | 50.48% | 11 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.03% | 7 | 0.11% | -80 | -1.29% | 6,200 |
| Washington | 8,757 | 54.75% | 6,852 | 42.84% | 353 | 2.21% | 8 | 0.05% | 25 | 0.16% | 1,905 | 11.91% | 15,995 |
| Wicomico | 4,225 | 45.39% | 5,054 | 54.29% | 12 | 0.13% | 6 | 0.06% | 12 | 0.13% | -829 | -8.91% | 9,309 |
| Worcester | 3,090 | 45.13% | 3,676 | 53.69% | 28 | 0.41% | 12 | 0.18% | 41 | 0.60% | -586 | -8.56% | 6,847 |
| Totals | 236,117 | 55.11% | 180,626 | 42.16% | 8,876 | 2.07% | 1,645 | 0.38% | 1,178 | 0.27% | 55,491 | 12.95% | 428,442 |
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