1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas

none June 2025 January 2025 1924 United States presidential election 1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas Arkansas 1923 presidential no 1920 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1920 1928 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1928 November 4, 1924 x160px John William Davis.jpg John W. Davis Democratic Party (United States) West Virginia Charles W. Bryan 9 84,790 61.20% Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes 0 40,583 29.29% Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg Robert M. La Follette Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1927) Independent Progressive Wisconsin Burton K. Wheeler 0 13,167 9.50% 1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas results map by county.svg 300px County results Davis #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% Coolidge #cc2f4a 60–70% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) The 1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-president. Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.See Urwin Cathy Kunzinger Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 January 1991 32 University of Arkansas Press 1557282005 Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all Blacks and many poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,Reed Roy Faubus: the Life and Times of American Prodigal 1997 32 University of Arkansas Press 1610751485 political repressionGreen James R. Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 July 1978 316–318 LSU Press 0807107735 and internal party divisionsReed. Faubus, p. 33 diminished that party's strength substantially. The Democratic Party, under the influence of future federal Senate Minority and Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson and demagogic Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation and child labor,Moneyhon Carl H. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929 121 1610750284 but under the administration of George W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”Moneyhon. Arkansas and the New South, p. 122 – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.Whayne Jeannie M. DeBlack Thomas A. Sabo George Arnold Morris S. Arkansas: A Narrative History June 2013 302 University of Arkansas Press 978-1557289933 Race riots and fear of the Bolshevik Revolution spreading and destroying American capitalism ensued when many soldiers returned from World War I, and President Woodrow Wilson responded with the Palmer Raids and a “Red Scare”.Leuchtenburg William E. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 7 May 2010 75 University of Chicago Press 978-0226473727 Isolationism was sufficiently powerful in Ozark sections of Arkansas that Warren G. Harding, with almost forty percent of the statewide vote in 1920, gained the most support for any GOP candidate since the disfranchisement of Black Americans.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 23 November 2014 211, 287 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-16324-6 However, with the anti-Democratic opposition split and isolationism cooling, Davis nearly doubled James M. Cox's 1920 margin. Republican Coolidge – though winning a national landslide and carrying every state except the former Confederacy plus culturally and politically allied Oklahoma – carried as Charles Evans Hughes did eight years previously only the two traditional Unionist Ozark counties. Results John W. Davis Democrat 84,790 West Virginia 61.20% 9 Charles W. Bryan Nebraska Calvin Coolidge Republican 40,583 Massachusetts 29.29% 0 Charles G. Dawes Illinois Robert M. La Follette Independent Progressive 13,167 Wisconsin 9.50% 0 Burton K. Wheeler Montana 138,540 100.00% 9 266 Results by county +1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas by countyRobinson Edgar Eugene The Presidential Vote 1896-1932 139–145 9780804716963County John William Davis Democratic John Calvin CoolidgeRepublican Robert M. La Follette seniorIndependent Progressive Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Arkansas 772 57.19% 488 36.15% 90 6.67% 284 21.04% 1,350 Ashley 1,048 63.55% 506 30.69% 95 5.76% 542 32.87% 1,649 Baxter 640 58.02% 301 27.29% 162 14.69% 339 30.73% 1,103 Benton 2,313 50.58% 1,694 37.04% 566 12.38% 619 13.54% 4,573 Boone 1,350 54.02% 937 37.49% 212 8.48% 413 16.53% 2,499 Bradley 1,002 64.44% 453 29.13% 100 6.43% 549 35.31% 1,555 Calhoun 553 74.23% 150 20.13% 42 5.64% 403 54.09% 745 Carroll 1,421 56.30% 969 38.39% 134 5.31% 452 17.91% 2,524 Chicot 708 67.43% 325 30.95% 17 1.62% 383 36.48% 1,050 Clark 1,223 64.03% 483 25.29% 204 10.68% 740 38.74% 1,910 Clay 1,429 52.54% 1,084 39.85% 207 7.61% 345 12.68% 2,720 Cleburne 569 63.22% 238 26.44% 93 10.33% 331 36.78% 900 Cleveland 613 74.94% 174 21.27% 31 3.79% 439 53.67% 818 Columbia 1,382 76.99% 350 19.50% 63 3.51% 1,032 57.49% 1,795 Conway 909 58.27% 526 33.72% 125 8.01% 383 24.55% 1,560 Craighead 1,711 61.24% 812 29.06% 271 9.70% 899 32.18% 2,794 Crawford 1,445 49.66% 996 34.23% 469 16.12% 449 15.43% 2,910 Crittenden 777 88.90% 77 8.81% 20 2.29% 700 80.09% 874 Cross 625 68.61% 192 21.08% 94 10.32% 433 47.53% 911 Dallas 1,068 71.06% 401 26.68% 34 2.26% 667 44.38% 1,503 Desha 540 55.67% 209 21.55% 221 22.78% 319"FollettedCoolidge" In this county where Coolidge ran third behind La Follette, margin given is Davis vote minus La Follette vote and percentage margin Davis percentage minus La Follette percentage. 32.89% 970 Drew 1,018 63.51% 563 35.12% 22 1.37% 455 28.38% 1,603 Faulkner 1,436 67.35% 536 25.14% 160 7.50% 900 42.21% 2,132 Franklin 1,188 64.88% 422 23.05% 221 12.07% 766 41.84% 1,831 Fulton 678 67.33% 292 29.00% 37 3.67% 386 38.33% 1,007 Garland 1,501 52.91% 1,064 37.50% 272 9.59% 437 15.40% 2,837 Grant 628 73.19% 133 15.50% 97 11.31% 495 57.69% 858 Greene 1,148 59.33% 456 23.57% 331 17.11% 692 35.76% 1,935 Hempstead 1,459 61.98% 715 30.37% 180 7.65% 744 31.61% 2,354 Hot Spring 793 59.18% 392 29.25% 155 11.57% 401 29.93% 1,340 Howard 954 65.25% 338 23.12% 170 11.63% 616 42.13% 1,462 Independence 1,313 64.30% 534 26.15% 195 9.55% 779 38.15% 2,042 Izard 728 72.80% 241 24.10% 31 3.10% 487 48.70% 1,000 Jackson 1,069 69.37% 392 25.44% 80 5.19% 677 43.93% 1,541 Jefferson 1,950 61.48% 707 22.29% 515 16.24% 1,243 39.19% 3,172 Johnson 1,029 65.46% 311 19.78% 232 14.76% 718 45.67% 1,572 Lafayette 788 64.86% 298 24.53% 129 10.62% 490 40.33% 1,215 Lawrence 689 61.19% 261 23.18% 176 15.63% 428 38.01% 1,126 Lee 1,103 64.77% 596 35.00% 4 0.23% 507 29.77% 1,703 Lincoln 563 76.29% 170 23.04% 5 0.68% 393 53.25% 738 Little River 546 62.90% 276 31.80% 46 5.30% 270 31.11% 868 Logan 1,457 49.85% 937 32.06% 529 18.10% 520 17.79% 2,923 Lonoke 962 71.52% 321 23.87% 62 4.61% 641 47.66% 1,345 Madison 1,335 49.52% 1,263 46.85% 98 3.64% 72 2.67% 2,696 Marion 825 63.07% 282 21.56% 201 15.37% 543 41.51% 1,308 Miller 1,460 63.56% 397 17.28% 440 19.16% 1,020"FollettedCoolidge" 44.41% 2,297 Mississippi 2,039 72.10% 703 24.86% 86 3.04% 1,336 47.24% 2,828 Monroe 838 66.04% 330 26.00% 101 7.96% 508 40.03% 1,269 Montgomery 431 48.87% 360 40.82% 91 10.32% 71 8.05% 882 Nevada 719 55.69% 386 29.90% 186 14.41% 333 25.79% 1,291 Newton 298 31.57% 578 61.23% 68 7.20% -280 -29.66% 944 Ouachita 1,318 57.01% 952 41.18% 42 1.82% 366 15.83% 2,312 Perry 386 48.86% 260 32.91% 144 18.23% 126 15.95% 790 Phillips 1,785 77.27% 454 19.65% 71 3.07% 1,331 57.62% 2,310 Pike 732 61.82% 378 31.93% 74 6.25% 354 29.90% 1,184 Poinsett 1,182 68.60% 393 22.81% 148 8.59% 789 45.79% 1,723 Polk 863 54.14% 502 31.49% 229 14.37% 361 22.65% 1,594 Pope 1,581 70.08% 479 21.23% 196 8.69% 1,102 48.85% 2,256 Prairie 730 61.81% 386 32.68% 65 5.50% 344 29.13% 1,181 Pulaski 5,706 59.30% 2,729 28.36% 1,187 12.34% 2,977 30.94% 9,622 Randolph 772 63.91% 389 32.20% 47 3.89% 383 31.71% 1,208 St. Francis 972 66.26% 433 29.52% 62 4.23% 539 36.74% 1,467 Saline 770 72.99% 144 13.65% 141 13.36% 626 59.34% 1,055 Scott 607 53.81% 375 33.24% 146 12.94% 232 20.57% 1,128 Searcy 415 31.42% 797 60.33% 109 8.25% -382 -28.92% 1,321 Sebastian 3,148 52.54% 1,985 33.13% 859 14.34% 1,163 19.41% 5,992 Sevier 931 63.03% 270 18.28% 276 18.69% 655"FollettedCoolidge" 44.35% 1,477 Sharp 729 73.27% 210 21.11% 56 5.63% 519 52.16% 995 Stone 386 59.38% 210 32.31% 54 8.31% 176 27.08% 650 Union 1,967 73.59% 450 16.84% 256 9.58% 1,517 56.75% 2,673 Van Buren 922 63.85% 435 30.12% 87 6.02% 487 33.73% 1,444 Washington 2,281 55.87% 1,466 35.90% 336 8.23% 815 19.96% 4,083 White 1,488 60.69% 679 27.69% 285 11.62% 809 32.99% 2,452 Woodruff 762 72.78% 254 24.26% 31 2.96% 508 48.52% 1,047 Yell 1,314 75.34% 334 19.15% 96 5.50% 980 56.19% 1,744Totals84,79061.20%40,58329.29%13,1679.50%44,20731.91%138,540 See also United States presidential elections in Arkansas Notes References 2 Arkansas 1924