1928 United States presidential election in Oregon

none June 2025 September 2023 1928 United States presidential election 1928 United States presidential election in Oregon Oregon presidential no 1924 United States presidential election in Oregon 1924 1932 United States presidential election in Oregon 1932 November 6, 1928 x200px Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 5 205,341 64.18% Unsuccessful 1928.jpg Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) New York Joseph T. Robinson 0 109,223 34.14% 1928 United States presidential election in Oregon results map by county.svg 375px County results Hoover #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) The 1928 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Outside a few presidential and gubernatorial elections like that of 1922 influenced by the Ku Klux Klan, 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. In 1924 Oregon had nonetheless been the fifth-strongest of the fifteen Western and Plains States for Democrat John W. Davis behind Ozark mountaineer-dominated Nebraska, Mormon Utah and southern-leaning New Mexico and Arizona. Moreover, although maverick Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. fared less well than in the other Pacific States, he still gained nearly one in four of Oregon's ballots as an independent. However, when La Follette died in 1925 his family endorsed New York City Catholic Democrat Al Smith,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 59 0-7864-2217-3 towards whose faith Oregon's largely Puritan (in the northwest) or Ozark Methodist (in the south and east), Anglo-SaxonPhillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 482 978-0-691-16324-6 and fiercely anti-Catholic populace was strongly hostile.Kristofer Allerfeldt Kristofer Allerfeldt Race, Radicalism, Religion, and Restriction: Immigration in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1924 2003 Praeger 59–62 978-0-275-97854-9 This had been seen in a notorious law outlawing private religious schools under Klan-supported Governor Walter M. Pierce, whose decision was viewed unconstitutional by both the Oregon Supreme Court in 1924 and federally in Pierce v. Society of Sisters a year later.Fox, Robert A. and Buchanan, Nina K. (editors); The Wiley Handbook of School Choice Despite this severe wariness,Lyon, william C.; ‘Smith Is Favoured in the Northwest’; Smith won the state's Democratic presidential primary against token opposition from Missouri Senator James Reed‘Smith Retains Lead Over Walsh in Oregon’; New York Times, 19 May 1928, p. 3 and Montana Senator Thomas Walsh, whilst former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover won the state's Republican primary unopposed with over six times as many voters.Wood, T.R. ‘Explaining the Smith Vote: Republican Swing to Governor May Not Outnumber Hoover Democrats’, Letter to The New York Times, May 23, 1928 From the beginning polls showed opposition to Smith's Catholicism and anti-Prohibition views as very strong in Oregon,‘Found Hoover Strong: Brooklyn Republican Reports Opposition to Smith in West’; New York Times, July 27, 1928, p. 2 and neither major party would campaign in the state during the fall. October polls showed Hoover winning the state by a two-to-one margin and Smith gaining no more than a quarter of the La Follette vote. As of 2020, this is the final presidential election in Oregon in which a Republican carried all of the state's counties.‘Digest Poll Gives Hoover 44 States’; New York Times, October 19, 1928, p. 4 Whereas in more Catholic states of the northern “Frost Belt” like Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota Smith was able to revive a moribund Democratic Party at a presidential level,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 426 Oregon's smaller but still significant La Follette electorate concentrated in the lower Willamette Valley and arch-isolationist Southern Oregon balked at voting for a Catholic.Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 486 Consequently, Republican nominee Hoover was able to gain 13.17 percent upon Calvin Coolidge’s 1924 performance in Oregon and become the fifth Republican in seven presidential elections to sweep all Oregon’s counties. This would be the last occasion until Donald Trump in 2016 that Columbia County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.Wheel Robert The 2016 Streak Breakers http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-2016-streak-breakers/ Center for Politics October 6, 2016 Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball 13 November 2016Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)Herbert Hoover of CaliforniaCharles CurtisRepublican5https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1928&off=0&elect=0&fips=41&f=0 1928 Presidential General Election Results – Oregon Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas 23 December 2013205,34164.18%Al SmithJoseph T. RobinsonDemocratic0109,22334.14%Norman ThomasJames MaurerSocialist Principles Independent02,7200.85%Verne L. ReynoldsJeremiah CrowleySocialist Labor01,5640.49%William Z. FosterBenjamin GitlowIndependent01,0940.34% Results by county CountyHerbert HooverRepublicanAl SmithDemocraticNorman ThomasSocialist Principles IndependentVerne L. ReynoldsSocialist LaborWilliam Z. FosterIndependentMarginTotal votescastOur Campaigns; OR US Presidential Election Race, November 06, 1928#%#%#%#%#%#%Baker3,72165.52%1,86132.77%641.13%220.39%110.19%1,86032.75%5,679Benton4,60575.55%1,41223.17%370.61%170.28%240.39%3,19352.39%6,095Clackamas9,21659.51%5,91838.22%1571.01%1300.84%650.42%3,29821.30%15,486Clatsop4,08763.33%2,20834.21%310.48%370.57%911.41%1,87929.11%6,454Columbia3,51965.21%1,77532.89%340.63%440.82%240.44%1,74432.32%5,396Coos4,92960.66%3,04037.41%620.76%670.82%280.34%1,88923.25%8,126Crook87763.46%48735.24%100.72%40.29%40.29%39028.22%1,382Curry69459.16%45338.62%141.19%40.34%80.68%24120.55%1,173Deschutes2,81560.83%1,70236.78%290.63%771.66%50.11%1,11324.05%4,628Douglas5,60970.52%2,19127.55%510.64%550.69%480.60%3,41842.97%7,954Gilliam88062.50%51536.58%60.43%20.14%50.36%36525.92%1,408Grant1,41174.03%46924.61%130.68%100.52%30.16%94249.42%1,906Harney95260.60%60038.19%80.51%60.38%50.32%35222.41%1,571Hood River1,80665.22%90532.68%180.65%150.54%250.90%90132.54%2,769Jackson8,05375.43%2,46323.07%880.82%410.38%310.29%5,59052.36%10,676Jefferson48159.31%30837.98%60.74%80.99%80.99%17321.33%811Josephine2,62571.31%95926.05%441.20%360.98%170.46%1,66645.26%3,681Klamath4,45361.28%2,72137.44%320.44%310.43%300.41%1,73223.83%7,267Lake1,01463.61%54934.44%100.63%90.56%120.75%46529.17%1,594Lane13,64774.96%4,21323.14%1790.98%930.51%730.40%9,43451.82%18,205Lincoln2,10057.33%1,46439.97%461.26%320.87%210.57%63617.36%3,663Linn5,87767.62%2,64530.43%720.83%450.52%520.60%3,23237.19%8,691Malheur2,16467.35%1,01631.62%180.56%110.34%40.12%1,14835.73%3,213Marion11,75461.96%6,99836.89%1020.54%690.36%480.25%4,75625.07%18,971Morrow1,09364.87%54332.23%231.36%140.83%120.71%55032.64%1,685Multnomah75,73161.64%45,17736.77%1,2190.99%4470.36%2850.23%30,55424.87%122,859Polk3,24464.44%1,72434.25%300.60%200.40%160.32%1,52030.19%5,034Sherman75966.35%37532.78%20.17%50.44%30.26%38433.57%1,144Tillamook2,57066.75%1,20431.27%320.83%280.73%160.42%1,36635.48%3,850Umatilla5,27767.83%2,39030.72%590.76%340.44%200.26%2,88737.11%7,780Union3,21959.13%2,15439.57%260.48%300.55%150.28%1,06519.56%5,444Wallowa1,32656.86%93540.09%391.67%190.81%130.56%39116.77%2,332Wasco2,74660.85%1,69937.65%300.66%210.47%170.38%1,04723.20%4,513Washington6,16262.37%3,54435.87%910.92%550.56%270.27%2,61826.50%9,879Wheeler67775.06%22424.83%10.11%00.00%00.00%45350.22%902Yamhill5,24867.97%2,38230.85%380.49%250.32%280.36%2,86637.12%7,721Totals205,34164.18%109,22334.14%2,7200.85%1,5640.49%1,0940.34%96,11830.04%319,942 See also United States presidential elections in Oregon References 30em expanded Oregon 1928 Category:1928 Oregon elections