1934 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1934 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1934 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1932 Georgia gubernatorial election 1932 1936 Georgia gubernatorial election 1936 September 12, 1934 Eugene Talmadge circa 1935.jpg Eugene Talmadge 394 Democratic Party (United States) 178,409 65.95% 3x4.svg Claude Pittman 16 Democratic Party (United States) 87,049 32.18% File:1934 Georgia gubernatorial Democratic primary election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsTalmadge: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90%Pittman: #d3bc5f 50–60% Governor Eugene Talmadge Democratic Party (United States) Eugene Talmadge Democratic Party (United States) 410 county unit votes 206 unit The 1934 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1934, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Eugene Talmadge was re-elected to a second term. As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election. It was the last gubernatorial election to go uncontested by a non-Democrat. Democratic primary The Democratic primary election was held on September 12, 1934. As Talmadge won a majority of county unit votes, there was no run-off. County unit system From 1917 until 1962, the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia used a voting system called the county unit system to determine victors in statewide primary elections.http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm County Unit System Georgia County Clerks Association 8 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20080531162547/http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm 31 May 2008 dead The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias/greenwood Eugene Talmadge The Jim Crow Encyclopedia The African American Experience 12 August 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030046/http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias%2Fgreenwood 23 January 2015 dead http://rbrl.blogspot.com/2011/10/county-unit-system-eh.html County Unit System, eh? 6 October 2011 Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies 8 June 2020 Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as "Urban", the next-largest 30 counties were classified as "Town", and the remaining 121 counties were classified as "Rural". Urban counties were given 6 unit votes, Town counties were given 4 unit votes, and Rural counties were given 2 unit votes, for a total of 410 available unit votes. Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis. Candidates were required to obtain a majority of unit votes (not necessarily a majority of the popular vote), or 206 total unit votes, to win the election. If no candidate received a majority in the initial primary, a runoff election was held between the top two candidates to determine a winner.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott 13 June 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia 8 June 2020 Candidates Ed Gilliam, attorney Governor races in South heated https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1934-06-24/ed-1/seq-18/#date1=1934&index=1&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Gilliam+Pittman+Talmadge&proxdistance=5&date2=1934&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=talmadge+pittman+gilliam&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 24 June 1934 B-2 13 June 2020 and alderman of Atlanta Candidate: Alderman Ed A. Gilliam https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1934-05-13/ed-1/seq-54/#date1=1934&index=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=GILLIAM+Pittman+Talmadge&proxdistance=5&date2=1934&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=talmadge+pittman+gilliam&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 13 May 1934 F-2 13 June 2020 Claude Pittman, Georgia Superior Court judgeAnderson William 1975 The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge https://books.google.com/books?id=JYOJ69dOz_MC&pg=PA105 Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State University Press 105 0-8071-0088-9 Eugene Talmadge, incumbent governor Results Popular vote County unit vote Eugene Talmadge 178409 394 Claude Pittman 87049 16 Ed Gilliam 5073 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=378444 GA Governor, 1934 - D Primary Our Campaigns 13 June 2020Georgia Register 1937 542-545 General election In the general election, Talmadge ran unopposed. Results 1934 Georgia gubernatorial electionCongressional Quarterly 1998 48https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262943 GA Governor, 1934 Our Campaigns 13 June 2020Glashan 1979 68-69Georgia Register 1937 657 Democratic Party (United States) Eugene Talmadge (incumbent) 53,101 100.00% 53,101 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) References Bibliography Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books 1979 0-930466-17-9 Compiled by Mrs. J.E. Hays, State Historian and Director 1937 Georgia's Official Register, 1933-1935-1937 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1933.pdf Atlanta, GA State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1937 1934 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1934 in the United States Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in Georgia