1928 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1928 United States presidential election 1928 United States presidential election in New Jersey New Jersey 1896 presidential no 1924 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1924 1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1932 November 6, 1928 87.32%https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0002024602&seq=549 Manual of the legislature of New Jersey, 1933 NJ State Library x200px Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 14 926,050 59.77% Unsuccessful 1928.jpg Al Smith Democratic Party (United States) New York Joseph T. Robinson 0 616,517 39.79% 1928 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 405px County results Hoover #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% Smith #4389e3 60–70% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) The 1928 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 6, 1928. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover of California and his running mate Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis of Kansas. Hoover and Curtis defeated the Democratic nominees, Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York and his running mate Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas. Hoover carried New Jersey with 59.77 percent of the vote to Smith's 39.79 percent, a victory margin of 19.98 percentage points.1928 Presidential General Election Results – New Jersey http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1928&fips=34&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 3 February 2014 Finishing in a distant third was the Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas, with only 0.32 percent. New Jersey in this era was a staunchly Republican state, having not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892. As Herbert Hoover was winning a third consecutive nationwide Republican landslide amidst the economic boom and social good feelings of the Roaring Twenties under popular Republican leadership, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column. However Smith for his part did make dramatic gains for the Democratic Party in New Jersey, laying the groundwork for ultimately turning the state Democratic just four years later in 1932. In 1920, Republican Warren G. Harding had carried the state over Democrat James M. Cox by a massive 68–28 margin. In 1924, southern Democrat John W. Davis had received only 27 percent of the vote in the state to Republican Calvin Coolidge's 62 percent. Even as Hoover won a third nationwide Republican landslide, New Jersey swung 15 points toward the Democrats over the previous 1920s GOP performances in the state, with Smith taking nearly 40 percent of the statewide vote. On the county level map, reflecting the decisiveness of his victory, Hoover won 20 of the state's 21 counties. Despite losing ground overall at the state level, Hoover made gains in the western parts of the state where the reaction to Catholicism was hostility.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 42 978-0-691-16324-6 His strongest county win was in rural Salem County by the Delaware border, where he broke 80% of the vote, a dramatic improvement over the sixty percent vote shares won in that county by Republicans in 1920 and 1924. However, Al Smith, a New York City native, and Roman Catholic of Irish, Italian and German immigrant heritage, appealed greatly to urban areas populated by ethnic immigrant communities, laying the groundwork for a new urban Democratic coalition. Urban parts of New Jersey, particularly in North Jersey which shared close ties with New York City, swung in Smith's favor. Essex County, home to Newark, swung Democratic, as did Middlesex, Passaic, Union, Bergen, and Mercer counties. Nevertheless, by far the greatest Democratic swing occurred in heavily populated Hudson County, part of the New York City metro area, and populated by many urban ethnic Catholic immigrant communities. Despite losing every other county in the state, Al Smith won Hudson County with a commanding majority of more than 60% of the vote. This mirrored the results in the nearby 5 boroughs of New York City right across the Hudson River, all of which swung from voting Republican in 1920 and 1924 to voting decisively Democratic in 1928. While New Jersey remained Republican in 1928, its overall trend was Democratic, going from being 13% more Republican than the nation in 1920 to 10% more Republican than the nation in 1924 to only 2.56% more Republican than the nation in 1928, foreshadowing New Jersey's political future as being a closely divided swing state with only a slight Republican lean for much of the 20th century until New Jersey ultimately became a solidly Democratic state in the 1990s. Results 1928 United States presidential election in New JerseyPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Herbert Hoover 926,050 59.77% 14 Democratic Alfred E. Smith 616,517 39.79% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 4,897 0.32% 0 Workers William Z. Foster 1,257 0.08% 0 Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 500 0.03% 0 National Prohibition William Varney 160 0.01% 0 Totals 1,549,381 100.0% 14 Results by county County Herbert HooverOur Campaigns; NJ US President Race, November 06, 1928Republican Al SmithDemocratic Norman M. ThomasSocialist William Z. FosterWorkers Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % # % Atlantic 37,238 65.95% 19,152 33.92% 47 0.08% 18 0.03% 10 0.02% 18,086 32.03% 56,465 Bergen 89,105 63.62% 50,373 35.96% 443 0.32% 89 0.06% 57 0.04% 38,732 27.65% 140,067 Burlington 30,224 73.19% 10,972 26.57% 65 0.16% 14 0.03% 19 0.05% 19,252 46.62% 41,294 Camden 75,517 69.78% 32,151 29.71% 473 0.44% 10 0.01% 77 0.07% 43,366 40.07% 108,228 Cape May 12,207 76.40% 3,731 23.35% 29 0.18% 4 0.03% 7 0.04% 8,476 53.05% 15,978 Cumberland 23,921 77.92% 6,694 21.81% 54 0.18% 11 0.04% 19 0.06% 17,227 56.12% 30,699 Essex 168,856 58.53% 118,268 40.99% 1,080 0.37% 237 0.08% 73 0.03% 50,588 17.53% 288,514 Gloucester 25,627 79.34% 6,594 20.41% 57 0.18% 3 0.01% 21 0.07% 19,033 58.92% 32,302 Hudson 99,972 39.35% 153,009 60.22% 829 0.33% 199 0.08% 62 0.02% -53,037 -20.87% 254,071 Hunterdon 11,820 73.53% 4,225 26.28% 11 0.07% 9 0.06% 11 0.07% 7,595 47.24% 16,076 Mercer 41,056 59.21% 27,908 40.25% 231 0.33% 95 0.14% 48 0.07% 13,148 18.96% 69,338 Middlesex 38,714 52.35% 34,908 47.20% 187 0.25% 116 0.16% 25 0.03% 3,806 5.15% 73,950 Monmouth 47,046 65.84% 24,286 33.99% 82 0.11% 13 0.02% 27 0.04% 22,760 31.85% 71,454 Morris 33,189 68.35% 15,188 31.28% 145 0.30% 13 0.03% 24 0.05% 18,001 37.07% 48,559 Ocean 12,301 73.19% 4,452 26.49% 42 0.25% 8 0.05% 4 0.02% 7,849 46.70% 16,807 Passaic 57,708 54.53% 47,167 44.57% 656 0.62% 216 0.20% 87 0.08% 10,541 9.96% 105,834 Salem 12,323 80.23% 3,001 19.54% 22 0.14% 1 0.01% 13 0.08% 9,322 60.69% 15,360 Somerset 16,386 66.66% 8,120 33.03% 52 0.21% 15 0.06% 7 0.03% 8,266 33.63% 24,580 Sussex 8,964 74.50% 3,043 25.29% 17 0.14% 2 0.02% 6 0.05% 5,921 49.21% 12,032 Union 68,119 64.21% 37,476 35.32% 309 0.29% 161 0.15% 27 0.03% 30,643 28.88% 106,092 Warren 14,992 73.15% 5,444 26.56% 35 0.17% 10 0.05% 14 0.07% 9,548 46.59% 20,495Totals925,28559.88%616,16239.88%4,8660.31%1,2440.08%6380.04%309,12320.01%1,545,195 See also Presidency of Herbert Hoover United States presidential elections in New Jersey References expanded New Jersey 1928 Category:1928 New Jersey elections