1920 United States presidential election in North Carolina

none June 2025 September 2023 1920 United States presidential election in North Carolina 305,447 Warren G. Harding Democratic Party (United States) Woodrow Wilson President 43.22% 232,848 0 Calvin Coolidge Ohio Republican Party (United States) Warren G. Harding Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg 56.69% 12 North Carolina Franklin D. Roosevelt Ohio Democratic Party (United States) James M. Cox James M. Cox 1920.jpg x200px November 2, 1920 1924 1924 United States presidential election in North Carolina 1916 1916 United States presidential election in North Carolina no presidential Republican Party (United States) 400px 400px County results Cox #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Harding #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% 1920 United States presidential election The 1920 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Like all former Confederate states, North Carolina would during its "Redemption" develop a politics based upon Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party. Unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party possessed sufficient historic Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in general elections even after blacks lost the right to vote.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 210, 242 978-0-691-16324-6 Although with disfranchisement of blacks the state introduced a poll tax, it was less severe than other former Confederate states with the result that a greater proportion of whites participated than anywhere else in the South.Rusk. J.J, and Stucker J.J.; ‘The Effect of Southern Election Laws on Turnout Rates’ in Silbey, Joel H. and Bogue, Allan G., The History of American Electoral Behavior, p. 246 0691606625 A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely "lily-white" state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state's voters.Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffery A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 2020 48–50, 239–243 Cambridge University Press 9781316663950 Like Virginia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide White primaries, although certain counties did use the White primary.Klarman Michael J. The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decision-Making Florida State University Law Review 29 2001 55–107 Although North Carolina had never given women suffrage rights at any level of government before 1919, nor did its legislature consider the Nineteenth Amendment when it passed the Federal House and Senate, during 1920 the state passed by more a more than three-to-one margin a constitutional amendment that made it the first former Confederate state to abolish its poll tax.‘Vote for Constitutional Amendments by Counties’, in North Carolina Manual (1920), pp. 324-328 This amendment was first proposed as early as 1908,Poll-Tax Abolition Urged.: North Carolina Board Favors Levy of 2-3 Per Cent on Assessments The Washington Post December 24, 1908 3 but was only given serious thought by the state legislature after the Sixteenth Amendment took effect in 1913 and it was recognized that North Carolina was burdened with an inefficient and regressive tax system.Steelman, Joseph F.; Origins of the Campaign for Constitutional Reform in North Carolina, 1912–1913; The North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 56, no. 4 (October, 1979) pp. 396-418 The abolition of the poll tax and women's suffrage, as it turned out, would cause in North Carolina amongst the largest mobilizations of new voters in the Union.Schuyler, Lorraine Gates; The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s, p. 190 9780807857762 Although Republican nominee Warren G. Harding had urged the state's mountain Republican legislators to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment,‘Harding resents Suffrage Attack: Declares He Is Impatient Over Charges That Republicans Oppose Women’; New York Times, July 15, 1920, p. 1 neither Harding nor Democratic nominee and Ohio Governor James M. Cox did any campaigning in a state which had voted Democratic at every election since 1876. However, at the end of October the GOP, sensing a landslide, believed based on an early Rexall straw poll that it had a chance of carrying North Carolina as well as TennesseeHarding would actually carry Tennessee by 13,271 votes and thus achieve the first GOP victory in the former Confederacy since 1876 and in Tennessee since 1868. for its first victory in a former Confederate state since 1876.‘Victory is Claimed by Rival Chairmen: Hays Sees 368 Electoral Votes for Harding’; The Washington Post, October 31, 1920, p. 1 Later returns, however, gave Cox a larger win than Woodrow Wilson had gained in 1916.Cox Gains in Straw Vote: Late Returns Give Him Missouri – Some Other States Close New York Times October 31, 1920 6 As it turned out, Cox would carry the state comfortably, and North Carolina would prove the state that most resisted the anti-Wilson trend, with Cox losing fewer than 3 percentage points on Wilson and Polk County even switching from voting for Republican Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 to voting for Cox.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, p. 52 0786422173 Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)James M. Cox of OhioFranklin D. RooseveltDemocratic121920 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1920&fips=37&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas305,44756.69%Warren G. HardingCalvin CoolidgeRepublican0232,84843.22%Eugene V. DebsSeymour StedmanSocialist0446"notseparated" These third-party votes were not separated by county but listed only as a statewide total.North Carolina State Board of Elections Vote for President by Counties, 1912–1920 North Carolina Manual 19210.08%Aaron S. WatkinsD. Leigh ColvinProhibition017"notseparated"0.00% Results by county 1920 United States presidential election in North Carolina by countyCountyJames Middleton CoxDemocraticWarren Gamaliel HardingRepublicanMargin%#%#%#Edgecombe99.29%3,3430.71%2498.57%3,319Northampton93.32%2,3056.68%16586.64%2,140Currituck92.08%1,0007.92%8684.16%914Bertie89.67%1,84010.33%21279.34%1,628Hoke88.41%1,26611.59%16676.82%1,100Anson88.00%3,17512.00%43376.00%2,742Halifax86.74%3,42913.26%52473.49%2,905Warren86.34%1,86513.66%29572.69%1,570New Hanover85.21%4,10214.79%71270.42%3,390Scotland84.78%1,70515.22%30669.57%1,399Chowan83.92%1,09116.08%20967.85%882Hertford83.32%1,10416.68%22166.64%883Pitt82.92%4,19617.08%86465.85%3,332Martin82.85%2,56117.15%53065.71%2,031Craven82.36%3,41317.64%73164.72%2,682Franklin82.32%2,74217.68%58964.64%2,153Camden79.18%54020.82%14258.36%398Greene78.98%1,64921.02%43957.95%1,210Pasquotank77.40%1,73622.60%50754.79%1,229Mecklenburg76.78%11,31323.22%3,42153.56%7,892Granville75.89%2,62224.11%83351.78%1,789Vance75.10%2,46124.90%81650.20%1,645Richmond74.83%3,34125.17%1,12449.65%2,217Union74.80%4,16825.20%1,40449.61%2,764Robeson73.58%6,18326.42%2,22047.16%3,963Nash72.15%4,03127.85%1,55644.30%2,475Wilson71.79%3,49628.21%1,37443.57%2,122Jones71.46%96428.54%38542.92%579Caswell71.04%1,23928.96%50542.09%734Gates70.88%79629.12%32741.76%469Pender69.33%1,58030.67%69938.66%881Lenoir68.95%2,56031.05%1,15337.89%1,407Wake68.71%8,02031.29%3,65337.41%4,367Perquimans68.15%1,04231.85%48736.30%555Hyde68.15%1,13431.85%53036.30%604Lee67.06%2,32732.94%1,14334.12%1,184Onslow64.61%1,55735.39%85329.21%704Bladen64.57%1,93935.43%1,06429.14%875Cleveland63.70%5,18136.30%2,95327.39%2,228Columbus63.57%3,11136.43%1,78327.14%1,328Wayne62.95%4,79437.05%2,82225.89%1,972Cumberland62.11%3,23337.89%1,97224.23%1,261Beaufort60.85%3,52239.15%2,26621.70%1,256Iredell59.51%6,47040.49%4,40219.02%2,068Haywood58.50%4,22941.50%3,00017.00%1,229Tyrrell57.44%71842.56%53214.88%186Rowan56.78%6,42143.22%4,88813.56%1,533Durham56.69%4,64643.31%3,55013.37%1,096Dare56.62%82543.38%63213.25%193Pamlico56.06%1,28643.94%1,00812.12%278Rutherford55.96%5,10144.04%4,01511.91%1,086Buncombe55.91%10,16744.09%8,01711.82%2,150Duplin55.75%3,39844.25%2,69711.50%701Rockingham55.56%4,50744.44%3,60511.12%902Gaston55.19%7,14844.81%5,80310.39%1,345Guilford54.83%9,61545.17%7,9209.67%1,695Forsyth54.46%8,12345.54%6,7928.92%1,331Harnett54.20%3,91945.80%3,3118.41%608Moore54.03%2,67945.97%2,2798.07%400Alleghany53.98%1,40946.02%1,2017.97%208Washington53.47%1,11646.53%9716.95%145Orange53.43%1,99346.57%1,7376.86%256Alamance53.22%5,25546.78%4,6196.44%636McDowell52.31%2,80947.69%2,5614.62%248Chatham52.30%3,18647.70%2,9064.60%280Johnston51.90%6,03048.10%5,5883.80%442Macon51.50%2,17748.50%2,0503.00%127Lincoln51.50%3,33148.50%3,1373.00%194Person51.25%1,64648.75%1,5662.49%80Polk50.65%1,36149.35%1,3261.30%35Jackson50.32%2,38549.68%2,3550.63%30Montgomery50.18%2,32149.82%2,3040.37%17Brunswick47.92%1,25352.08%1,362-4.17%-109Transylvania47.86%1,54252.14%1,680-4.28%-138Catawba47.66%5,40452.34%5,935-4.68%-531Burke47.59%3,26252.41%3,592-4.81%-330Ashe47.40%3,43152.60%3,808-5.21%-377Carteret47.21%2,07052.79%2,315-5.59%-245Stanly47.12%3,84352.88%4,312-5.75%-469Caldwell47.05%2,93152.95%3,298-5.89%-367Yancey46.76%2,28053.24%2,596-6.48%-316Cabarrus46.18%4,41853.82%5,148-7.63%-730Clay45.32%75554.68%911-9.36%-156Randolph44.80%5,11055.20%6,297-10.41%-1,187Davidson44.59%4,79755.41%5,960-10.81%-1,163Alexander43.62%2,04556.38%2,643-12.76%-598Henderson42.79%2,49657.21%3,337-14.42%-841Graham41.31%64458.69%915-17.38%-271Cherokee41.27%1,76158.73%2,506-17.46%-745Surry40.69%3,54759.31%5,170-18.62%-1,623Stokes40.59%1,99959.41%2,926-18.82%-927Watauga39.55%1,72160.45%2,631-20.91%-910Swain39.04%1,43460.96%2,239-21.92%-805Davie38.53%1,62461.47%2,591-22.94%-967Sampson31.19%2,42668.81%5,353-37.63%-2,927Wilkes30.59%2,84369.41%6,451-38.82%-3,608Yadkin29.03%1,35070.97%3,301-41.95%-1,951Madison27.04%1,34072.96%3,616-45.92%-2,276Mitchell24.46%69775.54%2,153-51.09%-1,456Avery13.69%39786.31%2,503-72.62%-2,106 Notes References 60em expanded North Carolina 1920 Category:1920 North Carolina elections