1924 United States presidential election in Oregon

none June 2025 September 2023 1924 United States presidential election 1924 United States presidential election in Oregon Oregon File:Flag of Oregon (1900–1925).gif presidential no 1920 United States presidential election in Oregon 1920 1928 United States presidential election in Oregon 1928 November 4, 1924 x160px Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes 5 142,579 51.01% Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg Robert M. La Follette Independent (US) Progressive Wisconsin Burton K. Wheeler 0 68,403 24.47% John William Davis.jpg John W. Davis Democratic Party (United States) West Virginia Charles W. Bryan 0 67,589 24.18% 1924 United States presidential election in Oregon results map by county.svg 375px County results Coolidge #ffccd0 30–40% #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) The 1924 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. State voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Oregon was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”,Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 0-313-21379-8 where the only competition was via Republican primaries.Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233 Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat since William Jennings Bryan in 1900 had carried a single county in the state. Still, in the previous 1920 election Oregon saw less decline from Wilson's 1916 support than any other state in the West or Plains,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 498 978-0-691-16324-6 so that after being Wilson's poorest state in this region it was James M. Cox’s strongest therein. Despite continuing overwhelming Republican dominance of the state legislature, 1922 had seen incumbent Governor Ben W. Olcott denounce the powerful Ku Klux KlanMiller Kenneth P. Direct Democracy and the Courts 2009 Cambridge University Press 127 978-0-521-76564-0 with the result that Democratic nominee Walter 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.Kazin, Michael; Edwards, Rebecca and Rothman, Adam; The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, p. 373 978-0-691-15207-3 The 1922 House of Representatives elections also saw Oregon elect to the 3rd District its first Democratic representative since 1880 in Elton Watkins. Pierce did pass this law with overwhelming support from conservative Republicans in the legislature,The Great Diversity Debate: Embracing Pluralism in School and Society Koppelman Kent June 5, 2011 978-0-8077-5222-7 45–46 Teachers College Press only to find it overruled by both the Oregon Supreme Court and later federally in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. However, the division of the Democratic Party over the Ku Klux Klan – which at the time all but ruled Oregon with its reputation for fanatical racismSee Loewen, James W.; Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 978-1-4193-6463-1 and anti-CatholicismKristofer Allerfeldt Kristofer Allerfeldt Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924 2003 Praeger 59–62 978-0-275-97854-9 – alongside maverick veteran Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette’s decision to mount a third-party presidential campaignRichardson, Danny G.; Others: "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s, p. 180 0-595-48126-4 ensured by late summer that the Republicans would be unchallenged in carrying Oregon, especially after La Follette denounced the Klan,Richardson; Others, pp. 182-183 which was highly popular amongst working Oregonians.Chalmers David Mark; Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, 3rd Ed., pp. 85-89 978-0-8223-7781-8 Polls consistently showed that Oregon would remain firmly in Republican hands,‘Davis Percentage Increases in Poll – But Coolidge Still Leads With 808,340 Out of Total of 1,451,591 Votes. La Follette Is Second’; New York Times, October 10, 1924, p. 3 and by mid-October it was clear that La Follette and Davis would run close for second place.‘Odds on Coolidge to Carry Oregon: Davis and La Follette Fight for Second Place’; New York Times Special, October 18, 1924, p. 4 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-leaning Arizona and Mormon Utah, with the Democrat's best vote coming from historically Democratic and Ozark mountaineer-settled Eastern Oregon.Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 482 Coolidge nonetheless carried every county, and won all but Jefferson and Umatilla counties by double digits. Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)Calvin Coolidge of MassachusettsCharles DawesRepublican5https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1924&off=0&elect=0&fips=41&f=0 1924 Presidential General Election Results – Oregon Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas 27 December 2019142,57951.01%Robert M. La FolletteBurton K. WheelerIndependent"nominee" Although La Follette was nationally the nominee of the Progressive Party, he ran as an independent candidate without a party label in Oregon.068,40324.47%John W. DavisCharles W. BryanDemocratic067,58924.18%Frank T. JohnsVerne L. ReynoldsSocialist Labor09170.33% Results by county CountyCalvin CoolidgeRepublicanJohn W. DavisDemocraticRobert M. La FolletteIndependent"nominee"Frank T. JohnsSocialist LaborMarginBecause La Follette finished second ahead of Davis in Oregon as a whole, all margins given are Coolidge vote minus La Follette vote and percentage margin Coolidge percentage minus La Follette percentage unless stated otherwise for the county in question.Total votescastOregon Secretary of State Elections Division; Abstract of Votes Cast in the several counties in the State of Oregon at a General Election held on the Fourth day of November, A.D. 1924, for Presidential Electors#%#%#%#%#%Baker2,80345.41%2,00432.47%1,35621.97%90.15%799In this county where Davis did run ahead of La Follette, margin given is Coolidge vote minus Davis vote and percentage margin Coolidge percentage minus Davis percentage. "DavisdFollette"12.95%6,172Benton3,41760.68%1,57928.04%62311.06%120.21%1,838"DavisdFollette"32.64%5,631Clackamas5,86443.28%3,09922.87%4,50833.27%770.57%1,35610.01%13,548Clatsop3,31356.33%1,37323.35%1,15819.69%370.63%1,940"DavisdFollette"32.99%5,881Columbia2,48356.20%1,01522.97%89620.28%240.54%1,468"DavisdFollette"33.23%4,418Coos3,90548.39%1,75721.77%2,35929.23%490.61%1,54619.16%8,070Crook72550.73%43430.37%26618.61%40.28%291"DavisdFollette"20.36%1,429Curry66454.70%22418.45%31726.11%90.74%34728.58%1,214Deschutes2,32153.02%1,01523.18%1,01323.14%290.66%1,306"DavisdFollette"29.83%4,378Douglas4,21953.75%1,66621.23%1,94324.75%210.27%2,27629.00%7,849Gilliam73850.20%52135.44%20714.08%40.27%217"DavisdFollette"14.76%1,470Grant1,12656.90%45923.19%38019.20%140.71%667"DavisdFollette"33.70%1,979Harney85153.83%43627.58%28518.03%90.57%415"DavisdFollette"26.25%1,581Hood River1,21448.44%68327.25%60023.94%90.36%531"DavisdFollette"21.19%2,506Jackson4,86853.25%1,84020.13%2,40826.34%250.27%2,46026.91%9,141Jefferson37439.00%24225.23%33434.83%90.94%404.17%959Josephine1,75653.91%65019.96%83525.64%160.49%92128.28%3,257Klamath2,77553.48%68013.10%1,71533.05%190.37%1,06020.43%5,189Lake91760.33%30420.00%29519.41%40.26%613"DavisdFollette"40.33%1,520Lane8,55159.90%3,25522.80%2,41616.92%530.37%5,296"DavisdFollette"37.10%14,275Lincoln1,32852.20%64125.20%55221.70%230.90%687"DavisdFollette"27.00%2,544Linn4,14149.56%2,61831.33%1,57518.85%210.25%1,523"DavisdFollette"18.23%8,355Malheur1,67151.94%82825.74%71022.07%80.25%843"DavisdFollette"26.20%3,217Marion8,35152.14%3,99624.95%3,63122.67%380.24%4,355"DavisdFollette"27.19%16,016Morrow99153.34%39721.37%46224.87%80.43%52928.47%1,858Multnomah48,86649.98%21,73322.23%26,93227.55%2330.24%21,93422.44%97,764Polk2,75552.75%1,62131.04%83115.91%160.31%1,134"DavisdFollette"21.71%5,223Sherman75655.92%36727.14%22916.94%00.00%389"DavisdFollette"28.77%1,352Tillamook2,20159.18%79521.38%70018.82%230.62%1,406"DavisdFollette"37.81%3,719Umatilla3,85444.71%3,05235.41%1,69319.64%210.24%802"DavisdFollette"9.30%8,620Union2,42842.87%1,81632.07%1,39824.69%210.37%612"DavisdFollette"10.81%5,663Wallowa1,25346.29%97335.94%47117.40%100.37%280"DavisdFollette"10.34%2,707Wasco2,40951.46%1,18525.32%1,06922.84%180.38%1,224"DavisdFollette"26.15%4,681Washington4,20345.98%2,10323.01%2,80930.73%260.28%1,39415.25%9,141Wheeler68568.43%21321.28%10310.29%00.00%472"DavisdFollette"47.15%1,001Yamhill3,80353.11%2,01528.14%1,32418.49%180.25%1,788"DavisdFollette"24.97%7,160Totals142,57951.01%67,58924.18%68,40324.47%9170.33%74,17626.54%279,488 See also United States presidential elections in Oregon Notes References 30em expanded Oregon 1924 Category:1924 Oregon elections