1928 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1928 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1928 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1926 Georgia gubernatorial election 1926 1930 Georgia gubernatorial election 1930 September 12, 1928 Hardman222.jpg Lamartine Griffin Hardman 310 Democratic Party (United States) 137,430 58.54% Discusses Georgia's problems with President. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. Governor-elect E.D. Rivers was at the White House today where he discussed Georgia's problems with President Roosevelt LCCN2016871021 Trim.jpg Eurith D. Rivers 104 Democratic Party (United States) 97,339 41.46% File:1928 Georgia gubernatorial Democratic primary election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsHardman: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90%Rivers: #d3bc5f 50–60% #c8ab37 60–70% #a0892c 70–80% Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman Democratic Party (United States) Lamartine Griffin Hardman Democratic Party (United States) 410 county unit votes 206 unit The 1928 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1928, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman 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. Democratic primary The Democratic primary election was held on September 12, 1928. As there were only two candidates, 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 Lamartine Griffin Hardman, incumbent governor Eurith D. Rivers, State Senator Georgia primary gives Smith edge https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1928-09-13/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1928&index=1&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Hardman+Rivers&proxdistance=5&date2=1928&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=hardman+rivers&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 13 September 1928 1 12 June 2020 Results Popular vote County unit vote Lamartine Griffin Hardman (incumbent) 137430 310 Eurith D. Rivers 97339 104 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=385435 GA Governor, 1928 - D Primary Our Campaigns 12 June 2020Georgia Register 1929 384-386 General election In the general election, Hardman ran unopposed. Results 1928 Georgia gubernatorial electionCongressional Quarterly 1998 48https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264772 GA Governor, 1928 Our Campaigns 12 June 2020Glashan 1979 68-69 Democratic Party (United States) Lamartine Griffin Hardman (incumbent) 202,035Some sources indicate Hardman received 203,177 votes.Dubin 2013 13 100.00% 202,035 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) References Notes 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 Dubin Michael J. Annual Summary United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1912-1931: The Official Results by State and County 2013 McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, NC 9781476601007 https://books.google.com/books?id=8DfgSd-GipkC&pg=PP1 Compiled by Ruth Blair, State Historian and Director 1929 Georgia's Official Register, 1929 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1929.pdf Atlanta, GA State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1929 1928 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1928 in the United States Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in Georgia