1920 United States presidential election in Louisiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1920 United States presidential election 1920 United States presidential election in Louisiana Louisiana 1912 presidential no 1916 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1916 1924 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1924 November 2, 1920 x200px James M. Cox 1920.jpg James M. Cox Democratic Party (United States) Ohio Franklin D. Roosevelt 10 87,519 69.24% Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) Ohio Calvin Coolidge 0 38,538 30.49% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) 1920 United States presidential election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg 350px Parish results Cox #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Harding #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% The 1920 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority November 23, 2014 208, 210 Princeton University Press 9780691163246 Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.Schott Matthew J. Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 20 3 Summer 1979 247–260 Following disfranchisement, the state's politics became dominated by the Choctaw Club of Louisiana, generally called the “Old Regulars”. This political machine was based in New Orleans and united with Black Belt cotton planters.Wall Bennett H. Rodriguez John C. Louisiana: A History January 28, 2014 274–275 John Wiley & Sons 978-1118619292 Opposition began to emerge with the Progressive movement in the 1910s, chiefly in the southern sugar-growing parishes, where conflicts with President Wilson's Underwoood-Simmons ActCollin Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to New Orleans and the Progressive Campaign of 1914 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 12 1 Winter 1971 5–19 even allowed a Progressive Party member in Whitmell P. MartinMartin would join the Democratic Party in 1919. to be elected to the Third Congressional District in 1914. Continued opposition to the Choctaws would elect the reformer John M. Parker, originally part of Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party, as governor at the beginning of 1920.Sindler Allan P. Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics, 1920-1952 1956 Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore 40–41 During the second term of President Wilson, the Acadian parishes became even more upset with him because of his deep disagreements with Georges Clemenceau, as well as continued problems with the issue of sugar tariffs.See Howard Perry H. 1954 Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior 144 One-Party Politics and the Rise of Longism LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses 8115Howard Perry H. 1957 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 1920 — REPUBLICAN SUPPORT IN SELECTED PARISHES 145 also maps on pp. 145 and 151 There was also strong opposition is this part of Louisiana to the Nineteenth Amendment, and also substantial opposition in the Black Belt of the state because it was believed that enfranchising women could interfere with lily-white politics.Wall and Rodriguez. Louisiana: A History, p. 277 In the Ozark- and previously Socialist-influenced northern upcountry parishes, opposition to women's suffrage was much weaker. Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)James M. Cox of OhioFranklin D. RooseveltDemocratic10Dave Leip 1920 Presidential General Election Results – Louisiana https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1920&off=0&elect=0&fips=22&f=0 Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas87,51969.24%Warren HardingCalvin CoolidgeRepublican038,53830.49%Write-ins—Independent Republican03390.27% Results by parish 1920 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parishScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 189-190 0405077114ParishJames Middleton CoxDemocraticWarren Gamaliel HardingRepublicanWrite-insIndependent RepublicanMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%Acadia1,05847.98%1,14151.75%60.27% -83 -3.76%2,205Allen1,00880.64%24219.36%76661.28%1,250Ascension62255.64%49644.36%12611.27%1,118Assumption20221.79%72578.21% -523 -56.42%927Avoyelles1,42266.26%72433.74%69832.53%2,146Beauregard1,14684.14%20214.83%141.03%94469.31%1,362Bienville1,41983.27%25715.08%281.64%1,16268.19%1,704Bossier73194.32%445.68%68788.65%775Caddo4,26491.40%4018.60%3,86382.81%4,665Calcasieu2,48083.33%48316.23%130.44%1,99767.10%2,976Caldwell53980.81%12819.19%41161.62%667Cameron14692.99%117.01%13585.99%157Catahoula51774.60%17625.40%34149.21%693Claiborne1,21696.20%483.80%1,16892.41%1,264Concordia38096.94%123.06%36893.88%392De Soto1,21995.61%564.39%1,16391.22%1,275East Baton Rouge2,33684.09%44215.91%1,89468.18%2,778East Carroll24796.86%83.14%23993.73%255East Feliciana52994.63%305.37%49989.27%559Evangeline54248.01%58751.99% -45 -3.99%1,129Franklin89883.85%17316.15%72567.69%1,071Grant67486.08%10913.92%56572.16%783Iberia43825.57%1,27574.43% -837 -48.86%1,713Iberville38545.29%46554.71% -80 -9.41%850Jackson1,22988.10%16611.90%1,06376.20%1,395Jefferson1,23886.57%19213.43%1,04673.15%1,430Jefferson Davis72844.86%89555.14% -167 -10.29%1,623Lafayette82344.06%1,04555.94% -222 -11.88%1,868Lafourche33724.40%1,04475.60% -707 -51.19%1,381La Salle57082.13%10915.71%152.16%46166.43%694Lincoln98984.39%18315.61%80668.77%1,172Livingston67475.48%21824.41%10.11%45651.06%893Madison33198.81%41.19%32797.61%335Morehouse62294.24%385.76%58488.48%660Natchitoches1,59588.71%20311.29%1,39277.42%1,798Orleans32,72464.74%17,81935.26%14,90529.49%50,543Ouachita1,48189.98%1649.96%10.06%1,31780.01%1,646Plaquemines32970.15%12426.44%163.41%20543.71%469Pointe Coupee40774.00%14326.00%26448.00%550Rapides2,76586.11%44513.86%10.03%2,32072.25%3,211Red River76680.38%18719.62%57960.76%953Richland66493.00%507.00%61485.99%714Sabine1,24591.81%1118.19%1,13483.63%1,356Saint Bernard35886.47%5613.53%30272.95%414Saint Charles18366.55%9233.45%9133.09%275Saint Helena36691.04%368.96%33082.09%402Saint James34239.09%53360.91% -191 -21.83%875Saint John the Baptist23948.88%25051.12% -11 -2.25%489Saint Landry1,01751.91%94248.09%753.83%1,959Saint Martin31943.22%41956.78% -100 -13.55%738Saint Mary53940.62%78859.38% -249 -18.76%1,327Saint Tammany96777.80%27622.20%69155.59%1,243Tangipahoa1,50177.33%44022.67%1,06154.66%1,941Tensas24394.19%155.81%22888.37%258Terrebonne47740.08%71359.92% -236 -19.83%1,190Union1,22192.57%987.43%1,12385.14%1,319Vermilion54927.87%1,42072.08%10.05% -871 -44.21%1,970Vernon1,14384.79%20515.21%93869.58%1,348Washington1,09486.89%16513.11%92973.79%1,259Webster1,00990.01%1129.99%89780.02%1,121West Baton Rouge35266.79%17533.21%17733.59%527West Carroll34673.62%10422.13%204.26%24251.49%470West Feliciana35691.28%348.72%32282.56%390Winn96365.20%29119.70%22315.10%67245.50%1,477Totals87,51969.24%38,53830.49%3390.27%48,98138.75%126,396 Analysis In Acadiana, the 1920 election would see a temporary break with “Solid South” voting patterns, as anger at the Wilson Administration's foreign and domestic policies caused the region's voters – much more moderate on racial issues than the rest of LouisianaHoward Perry H. 1954 Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior 112–113 A New Look at Reconstruction LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses 8115 – to break powerfully from Democratic nominee James M. Cox.Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 268 Harding carried fourteen of the Acadian parishes, and in the two most sugar-dependent, Assumption and Lafourche, he received over three-quarters of the vote. In the remainder of Louisiana, as racially hardline as anywhere in the South, Democratic voting remained as rock-solid as ever despite nominee James M. Cox suffering a record 26.17 point landslide defeat and carrying only 41 counties outside antebellum slave states and Oklahoma. The revolt in Acadiana, however, was sufficient to drop Louisiana to Cox’ fourth-best state behind Georgia as well as South Carolina and Mississippi (as was typical in the “Solid South” era). As of the 2024 election, this is the last time that a Republican has won a majority in Iberville Parish, as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump only received pluralities. See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana Notes References 60em expanded Louisiana 1920 Category:1920 Louisiana elections