1920 United States presidential election in Virginia

none June 2025 September 2023 1920 United States presidential election 1920 United States presidential election in Virginia Virginia 1917 presidential no 1916 United States presidential election in Virginia 1916 1924 United States presidential election in Virginia 1924 November 2, 1920 x200px James M. Cox 1920.jpg James M. Cox Democratic Party (United States) Ohio Franklin D. Roosevelt 12 141,670 61.32% Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) Ohio Calvin Coolidge 0 87,456 37.85% 435px 435px County and independent city results Cox #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Harding #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) The 1920 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 2, 1920. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was also the first presidential election after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote throughout the United States, including Virginia. The 1900s decade had seen Virginia, like all former Confederate States, almost completely disenfranchise its black and poor white populations through the use of a cumulative poll tax and literacy tests.Kousser J. Morgan The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 1974 Yale University Press 178–181 0-300-01696-4 So severe was the disenfranchising effect of the new 1902 Constitution that the electorate for the 1904 presidential election was halved compared to that of previous elections, and it has been calculated that a third of those who voted were state employees and officeholders. This limited electorate meant Virginian politics was controlled by political machines based in Southside Virginia — firstly one led by Thomas Staples Martin and after he died the Byrd Organization. Progressive “antiorganization” factions were rendered impotent by the inability of almost all of their potential electorate to vote.Key Valdimer Orlando Southern Politics in State and Nation 1949 20–25 Unlike the Deep South, historical fusion with the “Readjuster” Democrats,Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffrey A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 March 19, 2020 217–221 Cambridge University Press 978-1107158436 defection of substantial proportions of the Northeast-aligned white electorate of the Shenandoah Valley and Southwest Virginia over free silver,Moger Allen The Rift in Virginia Democracy in 1896 The Journal of Southern History 4 3 295–317 10.2307/2191291 2191291 and an early move towards a “lily white” Jim Crow party meant that in general elections the Republicans retained around one-third of the small statewide electorate,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 210, 242 978-0-691-16324-6 with the majority of GOP support located in the western part of the state. However, in many parts of the state — like in Tennessee during the same period — the parties avoided competition by an agreed division over local offices. Unlike North Carolina, Tennessee or Oklahoma — the other Southern states with the rudiments of a two-party system like typically contested statewide general elections — Virginia was influenced neither by Appalachian or Ozark isolationismSee Ruotsila Markku Conservative American Protestantism in the League of Nations controversy Church History 2003 72 3 593–616 10.1017/S000964070010037X nor the Nineteenth Amendment. Virginia had not given women suffrage at any level before 1920, and in February the State House of Delegates rejected the Nineteenth Amendment by 62 to 22House Beats Suffrage by 62 to 22 Vote February 12, 1920 The Portsmouth Star Portsmouth, Virginia 1 and the state's Senate rejected it by a vote of 24 to 10.Lenoir News-Topic Lenoir, North Carolina February 12, 1920 2 The Suffrage Amendment There were efforts to have women's suffrage subject to a referendum and an amendment to the state constitution after it was rejected by the legislature,The Suffrage Amendment The Bristol Herald-Courier Bristol, Tennessee 4 February 12, 1920 but the idea was never carried out. Neither Republican nominee, Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding nor Democratic nominee, former Ohio Governor James M. Cox campaigned in the state. Unlike Oklahoma, Tennessee and to a much lesser extent North Carolina,The New York Times New York City November 3, 1920 Diverse Claims as to Tennessee: Memphis Says Cox Is Carrying State – Knoxville Reports Harding Ahead 2 there never was a thought that Virginia would be vulnerable to an expected and observed Republican landslide that saw Harding win the national election with 60.32 percent of the vote. Cox would win Virginia by a margin of 23.47 percentage points — a decrease vis-à-vis Woodrow Wilson's results in the two previous elections, but much less than the Democratic Party experienced nationally. Results 1920 United States presidential election in VirginiaStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1920 https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1920election.pdf Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives 19PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic James M. Cox 141,670 61.32% 12 Republican Warren G. Harding 87,456 37.85% 0 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins 857 0.37% 0 Socialist Eugene V. Debs 807 0.35% 0 Farmer–Labor Parley P. Christensen 243 0.11% 0 Totals 231,033 100.00% 12 Results by county 1920 United States presidential election in Virginia by counties and independent citiesRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 354-361 9780804716963Géoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1920debs.htm Popular Vote for Eugene Victor Debs (1920) (.xlsx file for €15) County orindependent city James M. Cox Democratic Warren G. HardingRepublican Aaron S. WatkinsProhibition Eugene V. DebsSocialist Parley P. ChristensenFarmer–Labor Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % # % Accomack County 2,026 81.69% 409 16.49% 44 1.77% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,617 65.20% 2,480 Albemarle County 1,587 74.58% 541 25.42% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,046 49.15% 2,128 Alleghany County 663 46.79% 736 51.94% 10 0.71% 6 0.42% 2 0.14% -73 -5.15% 1,417 Amelia County 389 67.77% 179 31.18% 3 0.52% 3 0.52% 0 0.00% 210 36.59% 574 Amherst County 1,094 86.14% 168 13.23% 1 0.08% 7 0.55% 0 0.00% 926 72.91% 1,270 Appomattox County 837 81.10% 190 18.41% 5 0.48% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 647 62.69% 1,032 Arlington County 835 44.65% 997 53.32% 10 0.53% 17 0.91% 11 0.59% -162 -8.66% 1,870 Augusta County 2,106 54.29% 1,707 44.01% 49 1.26% 14 0.36% 3 0.08% 399 10.29% 3,879 Bath County 343 48.31% 362 50.99% 2 0.28% 1 0.14% 2 0.28% -19 -2.68% 710 Bedford County 1,774 74.51% 583 24.49% 15 0.63% 6 0.25% 3 0.13% 1,191 50.02% 2,381 Bland County 403 45.74% 478 54.26% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -75 -8.51% 881 Botetourt County 1,331 51.71% 1,240 48.17% 3 0.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 91 3.54% 2,574 Brunswick County 866 87.04% 125 12.56% 0 0.00% 4 0.40% 0 0.00% 741 74.47% 995 Buchanan County 675 38.46% 1,078 61.42% 0 0.00% 1 0.06% 1 0.06% -403 -22.96% 1,755 Buckingham County 749 70.53% 311 29.28% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2 0.19% 438 41.24% 1,062 Campbell County 1,341 77.16% 375 21.58% 12 0.69% 4 0.23% 6 0.35% 966 55.58% 1,738 Caroline County 665 67.58% 308 31.30% 9 0.91% 2 0.20% 0 0.00% 357 36.28% 984 Carroll County 1,265 33.37% 2,520 66.47% 4 0.11% 2 0.05% 0 0.00% -1,255 -33.10% 3,791 Charles City County 119 58.91% 82 40.59% 1 0.50% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 37 18.32% 202 Charlotte County 1,266 77.48% 364 22.28% 4 0.24% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 902 55.20% 1,634 Chesterfield County 964 75.37% 302 23.61% 3 0.23% 3 0.23% 7 0.55% 662 51.76% 1,279 Clarke County 774 79.30% 154 15.78% 25 2.56% 11 1.13% 12 1.23% 620 63.52% 976 Craig County 381 54.51% 315 45.06% 2 0.29% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 66 9.44% 699 Culpeper County 973 74.50% 330 25.27% 3 0.23% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 643 49.23% 1,306 Cumberland County 413 77.78% 114 21.47% 4 0.75% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 299 56.31% 531 Dickenson County 903 45.38% 1,067 53.62% 3 0.15% 17 0.85% 0 0.00% -164 -8.24% 1,990 Dinwiddie County 636 77.18% 186 22.57% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 1 0.12% 450 54.61% 824 Elizabeth City County 675 58.80% 439 38.24% 10 0.87% 19 1.66% 5 0.44% 236 20.56% 1,148 Essex County 319 75.95% 101 24.05% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 218 51.90% 420 Fairfax County 1,598 61.06% 987 37.71% 17 0.65% 10 0.38% 5 0.19% 611 23.35% 2,617 Fauquier County 1,365 70.32% 568 29.26% 7 0.36% 0 0.00% 1 0.05% 797 41.06% 1,941 Floyd County 497 26.65% 1,355 72.65% 5 0.27% 7 0.38% 1 0.05% -858 -46.01% 1,865 Fluvanna County 562 78.38% 146 20.36% 2 0.28% 6 0.84% 1 0.14% 416 58.02% 717 Franklin County 1,765 56.01% 1,381 43.83% 1 0.03% 2 0.06% 2 0.06% 384 12.19% 3,151 Frederick County 1,337 59.79% 875 39.13% 16 0.72% 6 0.27% 2 0.09% 462 20.66% 2,236 Giles County 1,104 55.56% 877 44.14% 5 0.25% 0 0.00% 1 0.05% 227 11.42% 1,987 Gloucester County 677 69.87% 283 29.21% 8 0.83% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 394 40.66% 969 Goochland County 384 63.79% 212 35.22% 2 0.33% 4 0.66% 0 0.00% 172 28.57% 602 Grayson County 1,781 45.27% 2,153 54.73% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -372 -9.46% 3,934 Greene County 306 42.27% 414 57.18% 2 0.28% 0 0.00% 2 0.28% -108 -14.92% 724 Greensville County 424 78.81% 111 20.63% 2 0.37% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 313 58.18% 538 Halifax County 2,103 77.98% 586 21.73% 6 0.22% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 1,517 56.25% 2,697 Hanover County 903 79.70% 224 19.77% 3 0.26% 0 0.00% 3 0.26% 679 59.93% 1,133 Henrico County 1,078 74.19% 338 23.26% 6 0.41% 23 1.58% 8 0.55% 740 50.93% 1,453 Henry County 871 54.95% 698 44.04% 10 0.63% 3 0.19% 3 0.19% 173 10.91% 1,585 Highland County 379 44.22% 474 55.31% 3 0.35% 0 0.00% 1 0.12% -95 -11.09% 857 Isle of Wight County 759 75.52% 245 24.38% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 514 51.14% 1,005 James City County 207 76.38% 61 22.51% 2 0.74% 1 0.37% 0 0.00% 146 53.87% 271 King and Queen County 347 65.72% 181 34.28% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 166 31.44% 528 King George County 249 49.50% 253 50.30% 1 0.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -4 -0.80% 503 King William County 353 65.98% 176 32.90% 5 0.93% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 177 33.08% 535 Lancaster County 404 73.99% 138 25.27% 4 0.73% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 266 48.72% 546 Lee County 1,592 42.33% 2,162 57.48% 1 0.03% 4 0.11% 2 0.05% -570 -15.16% 3,761 Loudoun County 1,720 68.64% 757 30.21% 16 0.64% 7 0.28% 6 0.24% 963 38.43% 2,506 Louisa County 684 68.20% 312 31.11% 2 0.20% 4 0.40% 1 0.10% 372 37.09% 1,003 Lunenburg County 818 78.96% 208 20.08% 1 0.10% 9 0.87% 0 0.00% 610 58.88% 1,036 Madison County 499 53.03% 431 45.80% 10 1.06% 0 0.00% 1 0.11% 68 7.23% 941 Mathews County 624 72.90% 216 25.23% 14 1.64% 0 0.00% 2 0.23% 408 47.66% 856 Mecklenburg County 1,619 85.66% 264 13.97% 6 0.32% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,355 71.69% 1,890 Middlesex County 438 71.92% 170 27.91% 0 0.00% 1 0.16% 0 0.00% 268 44.01% 609 Montgomery County 969 44.92% 1,160 53.78% 27 1.25% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% -191 -8.85% 2,157 Nansemond County 690 73.95% 243 26.05% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 447 47.91% 933 Nelson County 973 71.18% 392 28.68% 0 0.00% 1 0.07% 1 0.07% 581 42.50% 1,367 New Kent County 190 63.55% 109 36.45% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 81 27.09% 299 Norfolk County 1,824 68.26% 813 30.43% 9 0.34% 16 0.60% 10 0.37% 1,011 37.84% 2,672 Northampton County 954 80.98% 217 18.42% 7 0.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 737 62.56% 1,178 Northumberland County 536 70.25% 221 28.96% 4 0.52% 1 0.13% 1 0.13% 315 41.28% 763 Nottoway County 821 84.21% 154 15.79% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 667 68.41% 975 Orange County 718 73.49% 258 26.41% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 460 47.08% 977 Page County 846 42.68% 1,126 56.81% 4 0.20% 5 0.25% 1 0.05% -280 -14.13% 1,982 Patrick County 1,154 48.35% 1,230 51.53% 3 0.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -76 -3.18% 2,387 Pittsylvania County 2,715 69.69% 1,162 29.83% 10 0.26% 7 0.18% 2 0.05% 1,553 39.86% 3,896 Powhatan County 263 64.78% 140 34.48% 0 0.00% 2 0.49% 1 0.25% 123 30.30% 406 Prince Edward County 774 80.21% 189 19.59% 1 0.10% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 585 60.62% 965 Prince George County 375 74.11% 127 25.10% 3 0.59% 0 0.00% 1 0.20% 248 49.01% 506 Prince William County 786 66.55% 393 33.28% 2 0.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 393 33.28% 1,181 Princess Anne County 610 84.96% 105 14.62% 2 0.28% 0 0.00% 1 0.14% 505 70.33% 718 Pulaski County 1,814 51.37% 1,710 48.43% 6 0.17% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 104 2.95% 3,531 Rappahannock County 418 66.35% 210 33.33% 0 0.00% 2 0.32% 0 0.00% 208 33.02% 630 Richmond County 321 60.91% 206 39.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 115 21.82% 527 Roanoke County 1,286 56.35% 955 41.85% 21 0.92% 14 0.61% 6 0.26% 331 14.50% 2,282 Rockbridge County 1,365 56.13% 1,054 43.34% 8 0.33% 3 0.12% 2 0.08% 311 12.79% 2,432 Rockingham County 2,068 45.07% 2,464 53.71% 42 0.92% 13 0.28% 1 0.02% -396 -8.63% 4,588 Russell County 1,704 48.95% 1,772 50.90% 2 0.06% 1 0.03% 2 0.06% -68 -1.95% 3,481 Scott County 1,671 40.49% 2,449 59.34% 0 0.00% 5 0.12% 2 0.05% -778 -18.85% 4,127 Shenandoah County 2,077 43.39% 2,683 56.05% 17 0.36% 9 0.19% 1 0.02% -606 -12.66% 4,787 Smyth County 1,516 44.41% 1,883 55.16% 6 0.18% 7 0.21% 2 0.06% -367 -10.75% 3,414 Southampton County 1,314 83.06% 250 15.80% 18 1.14% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,064 67.26% 1,582 Spotsylvania County 440 52.76% 380 45.56% 7 0.84% 1 0.12% 6 0.72% 60 7.19% 834 Stafford County 459 43.30% 599 56.51% 2 0.19% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -140 -13.21% 1,060 Surry County 397 80.69% 92 18.70% 2 0.41% 1 0.20% 0 0.00% 305 61.99% 492 Sussex County 548 76.43% 166 23.15% 2 0.28% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 382 53.28% 717 Tazewell County 1,770 42.27% 2,408 57.51% 2 0.05% 6 0.14% 1 0.02% -638 -15.24% 4,187 Warren County 720 69.63% 293 28.34% 18 1.74% 2 0.19% 1 0.10% 427 41.30% 1,034 Warwick County 152 56.93% 109 40.82% 0 0.00% 5 1.87% 1 0.37% 43 16.10% 267 Washington County 2,251 45.61% 2,672 54.14% 5 0.10% 6 0.12% 1 0.02% -421 -8.53% 4,935 Westmoreland County 396 74.72% 133 25.09% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 263 49.62% 530 Wise County 2,587 44.20% 3,236 55.29% 2 0.03% 25 0.43% 3 0.05% -649 -11.09% 5,853 Wythe County 1,465 40.90% 2,104 58.74% 11 0.31% 1 0.03% 1 0.03% -639 -17.84% 3,582 York County 281 74.54% 92 24.40% 3 0.80% 1 0.27% 0 0.00% 189 50.13% 377 Alexandria City 1,417 59.56% 921 38.71% 12 0.50% 23 0.97% 6 0.25% 496 20.85% 2,379 Bristol City 784 69.14% 344 30.34% 1 0.09% 4 0.35% 1 0.09% 440 38.80% 1,134 Buena Vista City 262 62.83% 154 36.93% 0 0.00% 1 0.24% 0 0.00% 108 25.90% 417 Charlottesville City 1,041 73.99% 351 24.95% 10 0.71% 4 0.28% 1 0.07% 690 49.04% 1,407 Clifton Forge City 727 70.38% 274 26.52% 1 0.10% 31 3.00% 0 0.00% 453 43.85% 1,033 Danville City 1,888 76.25% 551 22.25% 15 0.61% 20 0.81% 2 0.08% 1,337 54.00% 2,476 Fredericksburg City 581 65.06% 299 33.48% 5 0.56% 4 0.45% 4 0.45% 282 31.58% 893 Hampton City 601 78.36% 152 19.82% 12 1.56% 2 0.26% 0 0.00% 449 58.54% 767 Harrisonburg City 594 45.45% 704 53.86% 5 0.38% 2 0.15% 2 0.15% -110 -8.42% 1,307 Hopewell City 97 69.78% 41 29.50% 0 0.00% 1 0.72% 0 0.00% 56 40.29% 139 Lynchburg City 2,096 76.75% 609 22.30% 6 0.22% 10 0.37% 10 0.37% 1,487 54.45% 2,731 Newport News City 1,703 53.17% 1,450 45.27% 10 0.31% 33 1.03% 7 0.22% 253 7.90% 3,203 Norfolk City 5,953 70.73% 2,386 28.35% 0 0.00% 71 0.84% 7 0.08% 3,567 42.38% 8,417 Petersburg City 2,072 80.75% 485 18.90% 4 0.16% 5 0.19% 0 0.00% 1,587 61.85% 2,566 Portsmouth City 3,228 74.24% 1,061 24.40% 10 0.23% 45 1.03% 4 0.09% 2,167 49.84% 4,348 Radford City 402 60.91% 245 37.12% 3 0.45% 10 1.52% 0 0.00% 157 23.79% 660 Richmond City 14,878 75.93% 4,515 23.04% 35 0.18% 133 0.68% 34 0.17% 10,363 52.89% 19,595 Roanoke City 4,715 66.00% 2,329 32.60% 33 0.46% 54 0.76% 13 0.18% 2,386 33.40% 7,144 Staunton City 931 56.60% 705 42.86% 7 0.43% 1 0.06% 1 0.06% 226 13.74% 1,645 Suffolk City 761 70.86% 302 28.12% 10 0.93% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 459 42.74% 1,074 Williamsburg City 166 72.81% 62 27.19% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 104 45.61% 228 Winchester City 736 56.62% 540 41.54% 18 1.38% 4 0.31% 2 0.15% 196 15.08% 1,300Totals141,67061.33%87,45637.86%8260.36%8080.35%2400.10%54,21423.47%231,000 References Virginia 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