1928 United States presidential election in Louisiana

1928 Louisiana presidential election held on Nov 6 as part of US national vote June 2025 September 2023 1928 United States presidential election 1928 United States presidential elections in Louisiana Louisiana 1912 presidential Popular no 1924 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1924 1928 11 6 1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1932 x200px Unsuccessful 1928.jpg Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) New York Joseph T. Robinson 10 164,655 76.29% Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 0 51,160 23.70% 1928 United States presidential election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg 350px Parish results Smith #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Elected President Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) The 1928 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of Black voters and the complete absence of other support bases, as Louisiana lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority November 23, 2014 208, 210 Princeton University Press 9780691163246 Despite this single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.Schott Matthew J. Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 20 3 Summer 1979 247–260 Following disfranchisement, the state's politics became dominated by a coalition of the New Orleans–based Choctaw Club of Louisiana and Black Belt planters.Wall Bennett H. Rodriguez John C. Louisiana: A History January 28, 2014 274–275 John Wiley & Sons 978-1118619292 Opposition began to emerge with the Socialist Party in the lumbering parishes of the northern hills and Imperial Calcasieu in the late 1900s, and more seriously with the Progressive movement, chiefly in the southern sugar-growing parishes, in the 1910s. Conflicts with President Wilson's Underwood-Simmons ActCollin Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to New Orleans and the Progressive Campaign of 1914 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 12 1 Winter 1971 5–19 allowed Progressive Whitmell P. MartinMartin would join the Democratic Party in 1919. to be elected to the Third Congressional District in 1914, and in 1920 the racially less hardlineHoward Perry H. 1954 Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior 112–113 A New Look at Reconstruction LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses 8115 Acadiana region turned to Republican candidate Warren G. HardingPhillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 268 over disagreements on foreign policy and the Nineteenth Amendment.Wall and Rodriguez. Louisiana: A History, p. 277 Continued opposition to the Choctaw Club would elect former Progressive John M. Parker as governor at the beginning of 1920; however, Parker did not deliver his promised reforms, and Choctaw control returned temporarily with the 1924 election of Henry L. Fuqua.Sindler Allan P. Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics, 1920-1952 1956 Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore 40–41 Louisiana's delegates to the Democratic National Convention largely backed Catholic New York Governor Al Smith, who was opposed in the remainder of the South for his religion and opposition to Prohibition.Barbara C. Wingo The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 18 4 Autumn 1977 405–435 Louisiana Historical Association At the same time, the state Republican Party—like those of Mississippi and South Carolina, entirely a vehicle for Federal patronage—was undergoing a "lily white" takeover from Walter Cohen's black-and-tan faction, although blacks were not expelled from the party as occurred in Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia.Fairclough Adam Race and Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 2008 University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 978-0820331140 11 Unlike in the Upper South, Louisiana Democrats were controlled by fears that the Republican nominee, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, supported racial equality. Although in the Protestant north and Florida Parishes there was opposition to Smith's religion and views on Prohibition, this was overshadowed by the desire for loyalty to the one-party system as an instrument of white supremacy,Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 212 a viewpoint supported by newly elected Governor Huey Long. Moreover, identification with Smith's Catholicism was strong in Acadiana, where commitment to white supremacy was less intense.Phillips. The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 214, 268-269 Consequently, Smith and Arkansas Senator Joseph T. Robinson won Louisiana with 76.29 percent of the popular vote, to 23.70 percent for Hoover and Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis of Kansas. Only in two parishes—Livingston and Washington, both proximate to the deeply anti-Catholic Mississippi Pine Belt and Florida panhandle—did Hoover pass forty percent of the vote, while in many Acadian parishes Hoover underperformed Calvin Coolidge by over thirty points. Louisiana was Smith's third strongest state in the election, after South Carolina and neighboring Mississippi.1928 Presidential Election Statistics https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1928&f=0&off=0&elect=0 Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas Results 1928 United States presidential election in Louisianahttps://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=22&year=1928 1928 Presidential General Election Results — Louisiana Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas Alfred E. Smith Democratic Party (United States) 164,655 76.29% Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) 51,160 23.70% #FFFFFF — Write-ins 18 0.01% 215,833 100% Results by parish 1928 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parishLA US President Race, November 06, 1928 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2969 Our CampaignsParishAlfred Emmanuel SmithDemocraticHerbert Clark HooverRepublicanVarious candidatesWrite-insMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # %Acadia3,63377.23%1,07122.77% 2,56254.46%4,704Allen1,30864.34%72535.66% 58328.68%2,033Ascension1,40276.28%43623.72% 96652.56%1,838Assumption94875.54%30724.46% 64151.08%1,255Avoyelles2,89687.36%41912.64% 2,47774.72%3,315Beauregard1,51376.38%46823.62% 1,04552.75%1,981Bienville1,30178.00%36722.00% 93456.00%1,668Bossier1,18784.07%22515.93% 96268.13%1,412Caddo6,93465.42%3,66534.58% 3,26930.84%10,599Calcasieu3,53263.85%1,99736.10% 3 0.05%1,53527.75%5,532Caldwell80273.58%28826.42% 51447.16%1,090Cameron39090.49%419.51% 34980.97%431Catahoula71067.55%34132.45% 36935.11%1,051Claiborne1,56086.24%24913.76% 1,31172.47%1,809Concordia59181.63%13318.37% 45863.26%724De Soto1,44573.57%51726.32% 2 0.10%92847.25%1,964East Baton Rouge4,57560.44%2,99539.56% 1,58020.87%7,570East Carroll43677.03%13022.97% 30654.06%566East Feliciana62279.54%16020.46% 46259.08%782Evangeline1,87386.19%30013.81% 1,57372.39%2,173Franklin1,14169.87%49230.13% 64939.74%1,633Grant1,02366.95%50533.05% 51833.90%1,528Iberia2,56186.11%41313.89% 2,14872.23%2,974Iberville1,63085.43%27814.57% 1,35270.86%1,908Jackson907100.00%00.00% 907100.00%907Jefferson5,32687.77%74212.23% 4,58475.54%6,068Jefferson Davis1,70360.33%1,12039.67% 58320.65%2,823Lafayette3,19784.38%59215.62% 2,60568.75%3,789Lafourche1,99489.14%24310.86% 1,75178.27%2,237LaSalle88166.19%45033.81% 43132.38%1,331Lincoln1,04160.84%67039.16% 37121.68%1,711Livingston1,04751.78%97548.22% 723.56%2,022Madison31867.80%15132.20% 16735.61%469Morehouse84071.19%34028.81% 50042.37%1,180Natchitoches2,09979.96%52620.04% 1,57359.92%2,625Orleans55,91979.49%14,42420.51% 41,49558.99%70,343Ouachita2,73966.50%1,38033.50% 1,35932.99%4,119Plaquemines1,05691.51%988.49% 95883.02%1,154Pointe Coupee1,33092.88%1027.12% 1,22885.75%1,432Rapides4,47064.19%2,49435.81% 1,97628.37%6,964Red River89173.09%31726.00% 11 0.90%57447.09%1,219Richland1,08381.74%24218.26% 84163.47%1,325Sabine1,41465.80%73534.20% 67931.60%2,149Saint Bernard2,35996.84%773.16% 2,28293.68%2,436Saint Charles1,11691.18%1088.82% 1,00882.35%1,224Saint Helena60980.77%14519.23% 46461.54%754Saint James1,48692.07%1287.93% 1,35884.14%1,614Saint John the Baptist97189.16%11810.84% 85378.33%1,089Saint Landry3,39482.54%71817.46% 2,67665.08%4,112Saint Martin1,89288.66%24211.34% 1,65077.32%2,134Saint Mary1,75474.35%60525.65% 1,14948.71%2,359Saint Tammany1,81165.71%94534.29% 86631.42%2,756Tangipahoa2,83466.70%1,41533.30% 1,41933.40%4,249Tensas35078.48%9621.52% 25456.95%446Terrebonne1,64285.97%26814.03% 1,37471.94%1,910Union1,08571.90%42227.97% 2 0.13%66343.94%1,509Vermilion2,58085.12%45114.88% 2,12970.24%3,031Vernon2,19181.42%50018.58% 1,69162.84%2,691Washington2,02056.93%1,52843.07% 49213.87%3,548Webster1,43080.07%35619.93% 1,07460.13%1,786West Baton Rouge60888.63%7811.37% 53077.26%686West Carroll67375.87%21424.13% 45951.75%887West Feliciana42182.39%9017.61% 33164.77%511Winn1,16168.54%53331.46% 62837.07%1,694Totals164,65576.29%51,16023.70%180.01%113,49552.58%215,833 See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana Notes References Louisiana 1928 Category:1928 Louisiana elections