1924 United States presidential election in Vermont

none June 2025 September 2023 1924 United States presidential election 1924 United States presidential election in Vermont Vermont presidential no 1920 United States presidential election in Vermont 1920 1928 United States presidential election in Vermont 1928 November 4, 1924 x160px Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes 4 80,498 78.22% John William Davis.jpg John W. Davis Democratic Party (United States) West Virginia Charles W. Bryan 0 16,124 15.67% Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg Robert M. La Follette Progressive A2ED70 Wisconsin Burton K. Wheeler 0 5,964 5.79% x250px County results x250px Municipality results Coolidge #F2B3BE 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Davis #86b6f2 50–60% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) The 1924 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont voted overwhelmingly for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, over the Democratic nominee, Ambassador John W. Davis of West Virginia. Coolidge ran with former Budget Director Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, while Davis ran with Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska. Also in the running that year was the Progressive Party nominee, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and his running mate Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. Coolidge won in a massive landslide, taking 78.22% of the vote, while Davis took 15.67% for a Republican victory margin of 62.55%. La Follette came in a distant third, with 5.79%. Coolidge won every town in his birth state except for Lemington in Essex County which narrowly went to John W Davis. Vermont historically was a bastion of Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1924 it had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1920, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued amidst a second consecutive nationwide Republican landslide in 1924. The 1920s were a fiercely Republican decade in American politics, and Vermont in that era was a fiercely Republican state in presidential elections. The economic boom and social good feelings of the Roaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership virtually guaranteed Calvin Coolidge an easy win in the state against the conservative Southern Democrat John Davis,Roseboom, Eugene Holloway and Eckes, Alfred E.; A History of Presidential Elections, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter; pp. 151-158 0020364202 who had practically no appeal in Northern states like Vermont. In fact, with only 15.67% of the popular vote, Davis' performance in Vermont was the weakest of any Democratic presidential candidate in the state to date. Calvin Coolidge also enjoyed a unique personal popularity which helped him in the state.Sobel, Robert; Coolidge: An American Enigma; p. 67 0895262479 Coolidge was the epitome of a traditional New England Yankee, having been born in the small-town of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and establishing his political career nearby as Governor of Massachusetts. Thus Coolidge remained especially popular with voters across New England, but especially in his birth state, and Vermont would give him an even more overwhelming victory than it had given to Warren G. Harding four years earlier. Even with the strong third party candidacy of Robert La Follette, Coolidge in 1924 managed to gain in both vote share and margin over Harding's landslide showing in the state in 1920. Coolidge was particularly popular in Windsor County, his birthplace, which gave him over 88% of the vote and was his strongest county in Vermont and his fifth-strongest nationwide. Partly as a consequence of Coolidge's personal popularity in the state, Robert La Follette was not able to attract a large percentage of the vote in Vermont. La Follette had been a Republican Senator prior to mounting his Progressive Party presidential campaign, and in working-class Mid-AtlanticOestreicher, Richard; ‘Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940’; The Journal of American History, volume 74, no. 4 (March 1988), pp. 1257-1286 and rural German and Scandinavian-American areasStark, Rodney and Christiano, Kevin J.; ‘Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered’; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1 (March, 1992), pp. 62-75 was able to peel off a large proportion of progressive Republican voters. However, Vermont Republican voters remained overwhelmingly loyal to Coolidge. Thus while taking 16.61% nationally, La Follette only received 5.79% of the vote in Vermont. Results 1924 United States presidential election in Vermonthttp://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1924&fips=50&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1924 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont 2013-08-02 Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) 80,498 78.22% 4 Democratic John W. Davis 16,124 15.67% 0 Progressive Robert M. La Follette 5,964 5.79% 0 Prohibition Herman P. Faris 326 0.32% 0 N/A Write-ins 5 0.00% 0 Totals 102,917 100.00% 4 Results by county County John Calvin CoolidgeRepublican John William Davis Democratic Robert M. La Follette, Sr.Progressive Herman Preston FarisProhibition Margin Total votes castThese figures show some differences from those published in Edgar Eugene Robinson’s The Presidential Vote and the Géoelections website.Vermont Office of the Secretary of State Elections Division; Vermont Legislative Directory Biennial Session (1925), p. 253 # % # % # % # % # % Addison 4,927 87.68% 557 9.91% 105 1.87% 30 0.53% 4,370 77.77% 5,619 Bennington 5,341 72.91% 1,466 20.01% 497 6.78% 21 0.29% 3,875 52.90% 7,325 Caledonia 6,205 83.60% 929 12.52% 268 3.61% 20 0.27% 5,276 71.09% 7,422 Chittenden 8,008 70.96% 2,658 23.55% 580 5.14% 40 0.35% 5,350 47.40% 11,286 Essex 1,391 63.60% 576 26.34% 213 9.74% 7 0.32% 815 37.27% 2,187 Franklin 4,594 67.10% 1,649 24.08% 581 8.49% 23 0.34% 2,945 43.01% 6,847 Grand Isle 861 65.23% 343 25.98% 106 8.03% 10 0.76% 518 39.24% 1,320 Lamoille 2,480 86.23% 305 10.61% 71 2.47% 20 0.70% 2,175 75.63% 2,876 Orange 4,657 82.85% 724 12.88% 233 4.15% 7 0.12% 3,933 69.97% 5,621 Orleans 5,006 85.18% 619 10.53% 218 3.71% 32 0.54% 4,387 74.65% 5,877In this county there were two write-in votes for a candidate not on the ballot in any state. Rutland 10,642 74.32% 2,477 17.30% 1,143 7.98% 58 0.41% 8,165 57.02% 14,320 Washington 8,525 74.30% 1,715 14.95% 1,207 10.52% 27 0.24% 6,810 59.35% 11,474 Windham 7,638 83.18% 1,091 11.88% 442 4.81% 12 0.13% 6,547 71.29% 9,183 Windsor 10,223 88.43% 1,015 8.78% 300 2.60% 19 0.16% 9,208 79.65% 11,560In this county there were three write-in votes for Socialist Labor Party candidate Frank Tetes Johns, who was officially on the ballot in eighteen states in which he compiled a total of 28,633 votes.Totals80,49878.22%16,12415.67%5,9645.80%3260.32%64,37462.55%102,912 Analysis Coolidge swept every county in Vermont by landslide margins, taking more than 60% of the vote in all fourteen. Coolidge broke seventy percent of the vote in eleven counties and even broke eighty percent in seven. Notably, Coolidge received more than seventy percent of the vote even in Chittenden County, the state's most populous county, home to the state's largest city, Burlington. Just four years later, in 1928, Chittenden County flipped to the Democrats and become a Democratic stronghold in the New Deal era, making Coolidge's dominance there in 1924 remarkable. It would also be the final time that Chittenden County would be won by a Republican candidate until Dwight D. Eisenhower won it in 1952.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 321-322 0786422173 Vermont proved to be the most Republican state in the union in 1924, in terms of both vote share and victory margin.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1924&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1924 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 Vermont weighed in as a whopping 37% more Republican than the national average in the 1924 election. No Republican presidential candidate since 1924 has managed to surpass Coolidge's performance in Vermont either in terms of vote share or victory margin. Coolidge's 78.22% of the popular vote percentage is also the fourth strongest for any Republican presidential candidate after William McKinley's 80.08% in 1896 and Ulysses S. Grant's 78.57% and 78.29% in 1868 and 1872. To date, this is the last time that the city of Winooski voted Republican for President. See also United States presidential elections in Vermont Notes note References expanded Vermont 1924 Category:1924 Vermont elections