1920 United States presidential election in Utah

none June 2025 September 2023 1920 United States presidential election in Utah Utah 1913 presidential no 1916 United States presidential election in Utah 1916 1924 United States presidential election in Utah 1924 November 2, 1920 x200px Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) Ohio Calvin Coolidge 4 81,555 55.93% James M. Cox 1920.jpg James M. Cox Democratic Party (United States) Ohio Franklin D. Roosevelt 0 56,639 38.84% File:1920 United States presidential election in Utah results map by county.svg 250px County results Harding #F2B3BE 40–50% #E27F90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) 1920 United States presidential election The 1920 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 2, 1920. All contemporary forty-eight states took part as part of the 1920 United States presidential election, and the state voters selected four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the first presidential election to feature as a distinct voting unit Daggett County, the newest and least populous of Utah's current twenty-nine counties. In 1916, Utah had turned strongly Democratic as a result of a powerful "peace vote" for incumbent President Woodrow Wilson;Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 0786422173 however, by the beginning of 1920 skyrocketing inflation and Wilson's focus upon his proposed League of Nations at the expense of domestic policy had helped make the incumbent president very unpopularGoldberg, David Joseph; Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s, p. 44 0801860059 – besides which Wilson also had major health problems that had left First Lady Edith effectively running the nation. Political unrest seen in the Palmer Raids and the "Red Scare" further added to the unpopularity of the Democratic Party, since this global political turmoil produced considerable fear of alien revolutionaries invading the country.Leuchtenburg, William E.; The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932, p. 75 0226473724 Demand in the West for exclusion of Asian immigrants became even stronger than it had been before.Vought, Hans P.; The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot: American Presidents And The Immigrant, 1897-1933, p. 167 0865548870 All these factors combined to produce a national landslide, with a swing of almost twenty-nine percentage points to the Republicans vis-à-vis the election of 1916. Utah followed the national trend closely: whereas Wilson had won the state by twenty percentage points in 1916 and had clean-swept the twenty-eight extant counties, in 1920 Harding by campaigning on a "return to normalcy" carried every county in Utah with a swing of thirty-seven percentage points. This was the first time Washington County had ever been carried by the Republican nominee.Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 320 Despite this large swing, Utah in 1920 still voted 9.08 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large.Counting the Votes; Utah On the ballot in Utah in 1920 in addition to the two major party candidates were Utah native Parley P. Christensen of the "Farmer-Labor" Party, and imprisoned Socialist candidate Eugene Debs in his fifth and final run for president. Christensen was supported by some unionists and veterans of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 presidential campaign.Robertson, Andrew; Morrison, Michael A.; Shade, William G.; Johnston, Robert; Zieger, Robert; Langston, Thomas and Valelly Richard; Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; p. 365 1604266473 Despite the endorsement of Herbert Croly,Kennedy, David M.; Over Here: The First World War and American Society, 019975845X Christensen received only one percent of the nationwide vote, and although he finished ahead of Cox in numerous counties in Washington State and South Dakota, Parley could only obtain three percent in his home state, whilst Debs accomplished even less. Results + General Election ResultsUtah State Archives, Abstract of the Returns of an Election held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 2nd, A.D. 1920 for Presidential Electors, for Representatives in the Sixty-seventh Congress of the United States, for State Officers, and for District Officers in Districts comprising more than one county, and for the Adoption of Rejection of Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of this State.State Election Returns Listed https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85058393/1920-11-24/ed-1/?sp=3 29 December 2025 The Ogden Standard-Examiner 24 November 1920 Ogden 3List of Nominations, General Election, Nov. 2nd, 1920 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85058393/1920-11-01/ed-1/?sp=20 29 December 2025 The Ogden Standard-Examiner 1 November 1920 Ogden 20Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Party Warren G. Harding J. Howard Garrett81,555 Republican Party Warren G. Harding Warren L. Watts81,363 Republican Party Warren G. Harding Margaret Lewis Judd81,343 Republican Party Warren G. Harding James A. Melville Jr.81,325 Democratic Party James M. Cox Daisy Allen56,639 Democratic Party James M. Cox Martha E. Barnes56,601 Democratic Party James M. Cox William Edwards56,548 Democratic Party James M. Cox E. E. Hoffman56,435 Farmer-Labor Party Parley P. Christensen W. H. Schock4,475 Farmer-Labor Party Parley P. Christensen Robert J. Dixon4,443 Farmer-Labor Party Parley P. Christensen Elizabeth A. Donohue4,437 Farmer-Labor Party Parley P. Christensen C. T. Martain4,437 Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs Ole Arilson3,159 Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs Lois N. Parsons3,145 Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs Stanley Torsak3,145 Socialist Party Eugene V. Debs Mary Shelton3,143Votes cast"highest" Based on highest elector on each ticket 145,828 Results by county CountyScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 457 0405077114 Warren G. HardingRepublican James M. CoxDemocratic Parley P. ChristensenFarmer-Labor Eugene V. DebsSocialistMarginTotal votes cast"highest" # % # % # % # % # %Beaver1,05657.49%74140.34% 15 0.82% 25 1.36%31517.15%1,837Box Elder3,42158.86%2,33040.09% 26 0.45% 35 0.60%1,09118.77%5,812Cache5,06353.88%4,23945.11% 42 0.45% 53 0.56%8248.77%9,397Carbon1,67547.05%1,55943.79% 224 6.29% 102 2.87%1163.26%3,560Daggett9473.44%3225.00% 0 0.00% 2 1.56%6248.44%128Davis2,46359.75%1,63239.59% 8 0.19% 19 0.46%83120.16%4,122Duchesne1,52361.76%82233.33% 73 2.96% 48 1.95%70128.43%2,466Emery1,28553.59%1,02942.91% 16 0.67% 68 2.84%25610.68%2,398Garfield1,02371.49%39327.46% 6 0.42% 9 0.63%63044.03%1,431Grand30651.17%27846.49% 6 1.00% 8 1.34%284.68%598Iron1,39969.60%56127.91% 2 0.10% 48 2.39%83841.69%2,010Juab1,69253.12%1,30841.07% 40 1.26% 145 4.55%38412.05%3,185Kane50172.61%18626.96% 1 0.14% 2 0.29%31545.65%690Millard2,19962.56%1,16733.20% 23 0.65% 126 3.58%1,03229.36%3,515Morgan54457.57%39742.01% 2 0.21% 2 0.21%14715.56%945Piute53863.82%28333.57% 9 1.07% 13 1.54%25530.25%843Rich44966.92%22233.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00%22733.84%671Salt Lake27,84154.73%19,24937.84% 2,300 4.52% 1,483 2.92%8,59216.89%50,873San Juan52364.81%26032.22% 1 0.12% 23 2.85%26332.59%807Sanpete3,74160.15%2,40638.69% 11 0.18% 61 0.98%1,33521.46%6,219Sevier2,50662.84%1,42535.73% 22 0.55% 35 0.88%1,08127.11%3,988Summit1,50359.79%87434.77% 68 2.70% 69 2.74%62925.02%2,514Tooele1,38756.15%91637.09% 108 4.37% 59 2.39%47119.06%2,470Uintah1,35460.47%81736.49% 6 0.27% 62 2.77%53723.98%2,239Utah7,75253.34%6,37743.88% 131 0.90% 272 1.87%1,3759.46%14,532Wasatch1,06161.05%66538.26% 2 0.12% 10 0.58%39622.79%1,738Washington1,13852.78%1,00846.75%30.14%70.32%1306.03%2,156Wayne39661.97%22435.05%50.78%142.19%17226.92%639Weber7,12250.71%5,23937.30%1,3259.43%3592.56%1,88313.41%14,045Totals81,55555.93%56,63938.84%4,4753.07%3,1592.17%24,91617.09%145,828 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 20em Beaver Box Elder Cache Carbon Davis Duchesne Emery Garfield Grand Iron Juab Kane Millard Morgan Piute Rich Salt Lake San Juan Sanpete Sevier Summit Tooele Uintah Utah Wasatch Washington Wayne Weber See also United States presidential elections in Utah Notes References 2 expanded Category:1920 Utah elections Utah 1920