1924 United States presidential election in Rhode Island

none June 2025 September 2023 1924 United States presidential election 1924 United States presidential election in Rhode Island Rhode Island presidential no 1920 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1920 1928 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1928 November 4, 1924 x200px Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes 5 125,286 59.63% John William Davis.jpg John W. Davis Democratic Party (United States) West Virginia Charles W. Bryan 0 76,606 36.46% 250px County results 250px Municipality results Coolidge #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Davis #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) The 1924 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 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 five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Rhode Island voted 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. La Follette's support base was primarily among rural German and Scandinavian Americans,Stark, 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 particularly German Catholics, and he possessed little appeal in the Northeast outside a few New York and Boston anti-Prohibition precincts despite the area's large Catholic population. This was especially true in Rhode Island where La Follette's opposition to the League of Nations was severely unpopular,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 55 0786422173 and consequently Rhode Island was La Follette's sixth-weakest state and weakest outside the former Confederacy where the lower classes were almost entirely disfranchised. Coolidge won Rhode Island by a margin of 23.17%. His victory was spurred on by a personal popularity which helped him in the state and the rest of New England. Many New Englanders felt that Coolidge represented the values of New England; he was born in the town of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and established his political career nearby as Governor of Massachusetts. Thus Coolidge remained popular with voters across the New England region. The 1920s were a fiercely Republican decade in American politics, and Rhode Island 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 Davis. Davis' status as the solitary pro-League of Nations candidate helped him in Rhode Island with its large immigrant population. Consequently, Davis gained almost 4% on Cox's 1920 vote and in fact Rhode Island was his third strongest state in the North and West (behind New Mexico and Indiana), giving Davis a vote percentage 7.64% above his national figure. In effect, Davis’ gain would begin Rhode Island's transition from a strongly Yankee Republican state into a Democratic-leaning state, made definitive via Catholic Al Smith’s win 4 years later. Rhode Island would not vote for another Republican presidential candidate until Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and since 1924, Republicans have only carried the state four times. To date, this was the last time that the state's capital and largest city, Providence, voted Republican. Results 1924 United States presidential election in Rhode Island1924 Presidential General Election Results – Rhode Island http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1924&fips=44&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas 23 December 2013 Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes Illinois 125,286 59.63% 5 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) John W. Davis West Virginia Charles W. Bryan Nebraska 76,606 36.46% 0 0.00% Progressive Party (United States, 1924–1927) Robert M. La Follette Wisconsin Burton K. Wheeler Montana 7,628 3.63% 0 0.00% Communist Party USA William Z. Foster Massachusetts Benjamin Gitlow New York 289 0.14% 0 0.00% Socialist Labor Party of America Frank T. Johns Oregon Verne L. Reynolds New York 268 0.13% 0 0.00% N/A Others Others 38 0.02% 0 0.00% 210,115 100.00% 5 100.00% By county CountyCalvin CoolidgeRepublicanJohn DavisDemocraticOther candidatesVarious partiesTotal % # % # % ##Bristol 60.6% 4,076 37.2% 2,500 2.3% 153 6,729Kent 65.8% 11,100 32.2% 5,429 2.0% 331 16,860Newport 67.2% 9,608 27.8% 3,975 4.9% 706 14,289Providence 57.2% 92,464 38.6% 62,336 4.2% 6,750 161,550Washington 75.2% 8,038 22.1% 2,366 2.6% 283 10,687 Results by town Town Calvin CoolidgeRepublican John W. DavisDemocratic Robert M. La FolletteProgressive William Z. FosterWorkers Frank T. JohnsSocialist Labor William WallaceCommonwealth Land Margin Total votescastRhode Island Secretary of State; ‘Presidential Election, November 4, 1924 Vote of Rhode Island by Cities and Towns’; Rhode Island Manual, 1925-1926 # % # % # % # % # % # % # % Barrington 1,239 82.71% 239 15.95% 20 1.34% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,000 66.76% 1,498 Bristol 1,602 53.52% 1,313 43.87% 74 2.47% 2 0.07% 1 0.03% 1 0.03% 289 9.66% 2,993 Burrillville 1,590 51.47% 1,363 44.12% 131 4.24% 3 0.10% 2 0.06% 0 0.00% 227 7.35% 3,089 Central Falls 2,906 42.88% 3,683 54.35% 173 2.55% 10 0.15% 5 0.07% 0 0.00% -777 -11.47% 6,777 Charlestown 367 83.79% 59 13.47% 12 2.74% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 308 70.32% 438 Coventry 1,735 70.16% 692 27.98% 42 1.70% 2 0.08% 2 0.08% 0 0.00% 1,043 42.18% 2,473 Cranston 8,832 76.52% 2,344 20.31% 331 2.87% 11 0.10% 22 0.19% 2 0.02% 6,488 56.21% 11,542 Cumberland 1,766 46.11% 1,902 49.66% 148 3.86% 10 0.26% 4 0.10% 0 0.00% -136 -3.55% 3,830 East Greenwich 1,344 78.50% 339 19.80% 28 1.64% 1 0.06% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,005 58.70% 1,712 East Providence 5,962 70.12% 2,249 26.45% 277 3.26% 6 0.07% 5 0.06% 4 0.05% 3,713 43.67% 8,503 Exeter 317 87.09% 41 11.26% 6 1.65% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 276 75.82% 364 Foster 415 83.50% 77 15.49% 3 0.60% 0 0.00% 1 0.20% 1 0.20% 338 68.01% 497 Glocester 517 69.21% 219 29.32% 10 1.34% 0 0.00% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 298 39.89% 747 Hopkinton 959 87.98% 106 9.72% 24 2.20% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 853 78.26% 1,090 Jamestown 465 77.50% 109 18.17% 25 4.17% 0 0.00% 1 0.17% 0 0.00% 356 59.33% 600 Johnston 1,595 65.10% 780 31.84% 68 2.78% 1 0.04% 6 0.24% 0 0.00% 815 33.27% 2,450 Lincoln 2,203 57.47% 1,567 40.88% 50 1.30% 3 0.08% 10 0.26% 0 0.00% 636 16.59% 3,833 Little Compton 415 94.97% 20 4.58% 1 0.23% 1 0.23% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 395 90.39% 437 Middletown 495 87.30% 63 11.11% 9 1.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 432 76.19% 567 Narragansett 495 75.57% 154 23.51% 5 0.76% 1 0.15% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 341 52.06% 655 New Shoreham 430 92.87% 32 6.91% 1 0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 398 85.96% 463 Newport 6,115 59.43% 3,545 34.45% 607 5.90% 10 0.10% 13 0.13% 0 0.00% 2,570 24.98% 10,290 North Kingstown 1,463 77.82% 373 19.84% 41 2.18% 1 0.05% 2 0.11% 0 0.00% 1,090 57.98% 1,880 North Providence 1,861 60.05% 1,138 36.72% 86 2.78% 6 0.19% 5 0.16% 3 0.10% 723 23.33% 3,099 North Smithfield 680 60.88% 391 35.00% 44 3.94% 1 0.09% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 289 25.87% 1,117 Pawtucket 13,807 56.76% 9,622 39.56% 814 3.35% 36 0.15% 43 0.18% 3 0.01% 4,185 17.20% 24,325 Portsmouth 558 88.85% 60 9.55% 9 1.43% 1 0.16% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 498 79.30% 628 Providence 42,063 54.33% 31,667 40.90% 3,431 4.43% 123 0.16% 119 0.15% 23 0.03% 10,396 13.43% 77,426 Richmond 437 76.53% 109 19.09% 24 4.20% 0 0.00% 1 0.18% 0 0.00% 328 57.44% 571 Scituate 1,043 82.13% 205 16.14% 18 1.42% 4 0.31% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 838 65.98% 1,270 Smithfield 881 64.26% 473 34.50% 16 1.17% 0 0.00% 1 0.07% 0 0.00% 408 29.76% 1,371 South Kingstown 1,712 71.81% 631 26.47% 36 1.51% 4 0.17% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,081 45.34% 2,384 Tiverton 1,130 86.66% 146 11.20% 23 1.76% 1 0.08% 4 0.31% 0 0.00% 984 75.46% 1,304 Warren 1,235 55.18% 948 42.36% 52 2.32% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 287 12.82% 2,238 Warwick 5,494 78.17% 1,355 19.28% 163 2.32% 9 0.13% 7 0.10% 0 0.00% 4,139 58.89% 7,028 West Greenwich 146 83.43% 29 16.57% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 117 66.86% 175 West Warwick 2,381 43.51% 3,014 55.08% 73 1.33% 2 0.04% 2 0.04% 0 0.00% -633 -11.57% 5,472 Westerly 2,288 69.23% 893 27.02% 110 3.33% 5 0.15% 9 0.27% 0 0.00% 1,395 42.21% 3,305 Woonsocket 6,343 54.33% 4,656 39.88% 643 5.51% 12 0.10% 20 0.17% 0 0.00% 1,687 14.45% 11,674Totals125,28659.63%76,60636.46%7,6283.63%2680.13%2890.14%380.02%48,68023.17%210,115 See also United States presidential elections in Rhode Island References expanded Rhode Island 1924 Category:1924 Rhode Island elections