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The1924 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. State voters chose five representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections,Oregon was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”,[1] where the only competition was via Republican primaries.[2] Apart fromWoodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat sinceWilliam Jennings Bryan in 1900 had carried a single county in the state.
Still, in the previous1920 election Oregon saw less decline from Wilson's1916 support than any other state inthe West orPlains,[3] so that after being Wilson's poorest state in this region it wasJames M. Cox’s strongest therein. Despite continuing overwhelming Republican dominance of the state legislature, 1922 had seen incumbentGovernorBen W. Olcott denounce the powerfulKu Klux Klan[4] with the result that Democratic nomineeWalter Pierce won the election on a platform to make attendance at public schools compulsory, without support from the more progressive faction of the dominant Republican Party.[5]The 1922 House of Representatives elections also saw Oregon elect tothe 3rd District its first Democratic representative since 1880 inElton Watkins. Pierce did pass this law with overwhelming support from conservative Republicans in the legislature,[6] only to find it overruled by both theOregon Supreme Court and later federally inPierce v. Society of Sisters.
However, the division of the Democratic Party over theKu Klux Klan – which at the time all but ruled Oregon with its reputation for fanatical racism[7] and anti-Catholicism[8] – alongside maverick veteranWisconsin SenatorRobert La Follette’s decision to mount a third-party presidential campaign[9] ensured by late summer that the Republicans would be unchallenged in carrying Oregon, especially after La Follette denounced the Klan,[10] which was highly popular amongst working Oregonians.[11]
Polls consistently showed that Oregon would remain firmly in Republican hands,[12] and by mid-October it was clear that La Follette and Davis would run close for second place.[13] Ultimately La Follette edged Davis out for second place by a mere 814 votes out of 279,488, although Oregon was still Davis’ best state west of the Continental Divide apart from the two less isolationist states of Southern-leaningArizona and MormonUtah, with the Democrat's best vote coming from historically Democratic and Ozark mountaineer-settledEastern Oregon.[14] Coolidge nonetheless carried every county, and won all butJefferson andUmatilla counties by double digits.
| Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvin Coolidge ofMassachusetts | Charles Dawes | Republican | 5[15] | 142,579 | 51.01% |
| Robert M. La Follette | Burton K. Wheeler | Independent[a] | 0 | 68,403 | 24.47% |
| John W. Davis | Charles W. Bryan | Democratic | 0 | 67,589 | 24.18% |
| Frank T. Johns | Verne L. Reynolds | Socialist Labor | 0 | 917 | 0.33% |
| County | John Calvin Coolidge Republican | John William Davis Democratic | Robert Marion La Follette Sr. Independent[a] | Frank Tetes Johns Socialist Labor | Margin[b] | Total votes cast[16] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Baker | 2,803 | 45.41% | 2,004 | 32.47% | 1,356 | 21.97% | 9 | 0.15% | 799[c] | 12.95% | 6,172 |
| Benton | 3,417 | 60.68% | 1,579 | 28.04% | 623 | 11.06% | 12 | 0.21% | 1,838[c] | 32.64% | 5,631 |
| Clackamas | 5,864 | 43.28% | 3,099 | 22.87% | 4,508 | 33.27% | 77 | 0.57% | 1,356 | 10.01% | 13,548 |
| Clatsop | 3,313 | 56.33% | 1,373 | 23.35% | 1,158 | 19.69% | 37 | 0.63% | 1,940[c] | 32.99% | 5,881 |
| Columbia | 2,483 | 56.20% | 1,015 | 22.97% | 896 | 20.28% | 24 | 0.54% | 1,468[c] | 33.23% | 4,418 |
| Coos | 3,905 | 48.39% | 1,757 | 21.77% | 2,359 | 29.23% | 49 | 0.61% | 1,546 | 19.16% | 8,070 |
| Crook | 725 | 50.73% | 434 | 30.37% | 266 | 18.61% | 4 | 0.28% | 291[c] | 20.36% | 1,429 |
| Curry | 664 | 54.70% | 224 | 18.45% | 317 | 26.11% | 9 | 0.74% | 347 | 28.58% | 1,214 |
| Deschutes | 2,321 | 53.02% | 1,015 | 23.18% | 1,013 | 23.14% | 29 | 0.66% | 1,306[c] | 29.83% | 4,378 |
| Douglas | 4,219 | 53.75% | 1,666 | 21.23% | 1,943 | 24.75% | 21 | 0.27% | 2,276 | 29.00% | 7,849 |
| Gilliam | 738 | 50.20% | 521 | 35.44% | 207 | 14.08% | 4 | 0.27% | 217[c] | 14.76% | 1,470 |
| Grant | 1,126 | 56.90% | 459 | 23.19% | 380 | 19.20% | 14 | 0.71% | 667[c] | 33.70% | 1,979 |
| Harney | 851 | 53.83% | 436 | 27.58% | 285 | 18.03% | 9 | 0.57% | 415[c] | 26.25% | 1,581 |
| Hood River | 1,214 | 48.44% | 683 | 27.25% | 600 | 23.94% | 9 | 0.36% | 531[c] | 21.19% | 2,506 |
| Jackson | 4,868 | 53.25% | 1,840 | 20.13% | 2,408 | 26.34% | 25 | 0.27% | 2,460 | 26.91% | 9,141 |
| Jefferson | 374 | 39.00% | 242 | 25.23% | 334 | 34.83% | 9 | 0.94% | 40 | 4.17% | 959 |
| Josephine | 1,756 | 53.91% | 650 | 19.96% | 835 | 25.64% | 16 | 0.49% | 921 | 28.28% | 3,257 |
| Klamath | 2,775 | 53.48% | 680 | 13.10% | 1,715 | 33.05% | 19 | 0.37% | 1,060 | 20.43% | 5,189 |
| Lake | 917 | 60.33% | 304 | 20.00% | 295 | 19.41% | 4 | 0.26% | 613[c] | 40.33% | 1,520 |
| Lane | 8,551 | 59.90% | 3,255 | 22.80% | 2,416 | 16.92% | 53 | 0.37% | 5,296[c] | 37.10% | 14,275 |
| Lincoln | 1,328 | 52.20% | 641 | 25.20% | 552 | 21.70% | 23 | 0.90% | 687[c] | 27.00% | 2,544 |
| Linn | 4,141 | 49.56% | 2,618 | 31.33% | 1,575 | 18.85% | 21 | 0.25% | 1,523[c] | 18.23% | 8,355 |
| Malheur | 1,671 | 51.94% | 828 | 25.74% | 710 | 22.07% | 8 | 0.25% | 843[c] | 26.20% | 3,217 |
| Marion | 8,351 | 52.14% | 3,996 | 24.95% | 3,631 | 22.67% | 38 | 0.24% | 4,355[c] | 27.19% | 16,016 |
| Morrow | 991 | 53.34% | 397 | 21.37% | 462 | 24.87% | 8 | 0.43% | 529 | 28.47% | 1,858 |
| Multnomah | 48,866 | 49.98% | 21,733 | 22.23% | 26,932 | 27.55% | 233 | 0.24% | 21,934 | 22.44% | 97,764 |
| Polk | 2,755 | 52.75% | 1,621 | 31.04% | 831 | 15.91% | 16 | 0.31% | 1,134[c] | 21.71% | 5,223 |
| Sherman | 756 | 55.92% | 367 | 27.14% | 229 | 16.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 389[c] | 28.77% | 1,352 |
| Tillamook | 2,201 | 59.18% | 795 | 21.38% | 700 | 18.82% | 23 | 0.62% | 1,406[c] | 37.81% | 3,719 |
| Umatilla | 3,854 | 44.71% | 3,052 | 35.41% | 1,693 | 19.64% | 21 | 0.24% | 802[c] | 9.30% | 8,620 |
| Union | 2,428 | 42.87% | 1,816 | 32.07% | 1,398 | 24.69% | 21 | 0.37% | 612[c] | 10.81% | 5,663 |
| Wallowa | 1,253 | 46.29% | 973 | 35.94% | 471 | 17.40% | 10 | 0.37% | 280[c] | 10.34% | 2,707 |
| Wasco | 2,409 | 51.46% | 1,185 | 25.32% | 1,069 | 22.84% | 18 | 0.38% | 1,224[c] | 26.15% | 4,681 |
| Washington | 4,203 | 45.98% | 2,103 | 23.01% | 2,809 | 30.73% | 26 | 0.28% | 1,394 | 15.25% | 9,141 |
| Wheeler | 685 | 68.43% | 213 | 21.28% | 103 | 10.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 472[c] | 47.15% | 1,001 |
| Yamhill | 3,803 | 53.11% | 2,015 | 28.14% | 1,324 | 18.49% | 18 | 0.25% | 1,788[c] | 24.97% | 7,160 |
| Totals | 142,579 | 51.01% | 67,589 | 24.18% | 68,403 | 24.47% | 917 | 0.33% | 74,176 | 26.54% | 279,488 |
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