1926 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1926 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1926 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary runoff Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1924 Georgia gubernatorial election 1924 1928 Georgia gubernatorial election 1928 October 6, 1926 File:Hardman222.jpg 150x150px Lamartine Griffin Hardman 276 Democratic Party (United States) 80,868 57.33% File:John N. Holder.jpg John N. Holder 138 Democratic Party (United States) 60,197 42.67% 1926 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%Holder: #d3bc5f 50–60% #c8ab37 60–70% #a0892c 70–80% #786721 80–90% Governor Clifford Walker Democratic Party (United States) Lamartine Griffin Hardman Democratic Party (United States) 206 unit 410 county unit votes The 1926 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1926, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Clifford Walker was term-limited, and ineligible to run for a third 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 8, 1926. As no candidate won a majority of county unit votes, a run-off was held between the top two candidates on October 6, 1926. 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 https://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.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott 13 June 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia 8 June 2020 Candidates George H. Carswell Georgia votes tomorrow https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1926-09-07/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1926&index=8&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Carswell+Hardman+Holder+holders+Wood&proxdistance=5&date2=1926&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=hardman+holder+carswell+wood&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 7 September 1926 2 12 June 2020 Lamartine Griffin Hardman, former state senator and unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for governor in 1914 and 1916 John N. Holder, chairman of the State Highway Commission Georgia is voting today on Senator https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1926-09-08/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1926&index=7&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Carswell+Hardman+Holder+Wood+wood&proxdistance=5&date2=1926&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=hardman+holder+carswell+wood&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 8 September 1926 4 12 June 2020 Joe O. Wood, former state legislator Results Although Holder won a plurality of the popular vote in the first round, Hardman won a plurality of county unit votes. No candidate winning a majority of county unit votes in the first round, meant the election went to a run-off. Democratic primary Popular vote County unit vote Lamartine Griffin Hardman 67708 168 John N. Holder 71976 160 George H. Carswell 32484 70 Joe O. Wood 20857 16 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=385436 GA Governor, 1926 - D Primary Our Campaigns 12 June 2020Georgia Register 1927 314-317 Democratic primary runoff Popular vote County unit vote Lamartine Griffin Hardman 80868 276 John N. Holder 60197 138 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=385437 GA Governor, 1926 - D Runoff Our Campaigns 12 June 2020Georgia Register 1927 354-357 General election In the general election, Hardman ran unopposed. Results 1926 Georgia gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264771 GA Governor, 1926 Our Campaigns 12 June 2020Glashan 1979 68-69 Democratic Party (United States) Lamartine Griffin Hardman 47,267Some sources indicate Hardman received 47,300 votes.Congressional Quarterly 1998 48Dubin 2013 11 100.00% 47,267 100.00% 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 1927 Georgia's Official Register, 1927 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1927.pdf Atlanta, GA State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1927 1926 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1926 in the United States Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in Georgia Category:October 1926 in the United States