1922 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1922 United States gubernatorial elections February 2024 September 2023 1922 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1920 Georgia gubernatorial election 1920 1924 Georgia gubernatorial election 1924 September 13, 1922 File:GovernorCliffWalker (3x4).jpg 150x150px Clifford Walker Democratic Party (United States) 123,784 58.11% 294 File:Senator Thomas Hardwick.jpg Thomas W. Hardwick Democratic Party (United States) 118 86,389 40.56% Governor Thomas W. Hardwick Democratic Party (United States) Clifford Walker Democratic Party (United States) The 1922 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1922, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Thomas W. Hardwick was defeated in the Democratic primary. As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the general election, so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election. Democratic primary The Democratic primary election was held on September 13, 1922. As Walker won a majority of county unit votes, there was no run-off. County unit system county unit system From 1917 until 1962, the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia used a voting system called the county unit system to determine victors in statewide primary elections.http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm County Unit System Georgia County Clerks Association 8 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20080531162547/http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm 31 May 2008 dead The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias/greenwood Eugene Talmadge The Jim Crow Encyclopedia The African American Experience 12 August 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030046/http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias%2Fgreenwood 23 January 2015 dead https://rbrl.blogspot.com/2011/10/county-unit-system-eh.html County Unit System, eh? 6 October 2011 Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies 8 June 2020 Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as "Urban", the next-largest 30 counties were classified as "Town", and the remaining 121 counties were classified as "Rural". Urban counties were given 6 unit votes, Town counties were given 4 unit votes, and Rural counties were given 2 unit votes, for a total of 410 available unit votes. Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis. Candidates were required to obtain a majority of unit votes (not necessarily a majority of the popular vote), or 206 total unit votes, to win the election. If no candidate received a majority in the initial primary, a runoff election was held between the top two candidates to determine a winner.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott 13 June 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia 8 June 2020 Candidates H. Bedinger Baylor, civil engineerGarrett Franklin M. 1969 Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s II https://books.google.com/books?id=ByTgAtilbi4C&pg=PA818 Athens, GA University of Georgia Press 818 0-8203-0264-3 Thomas W. Hardwick, incumbent governor Clifford Walker, former attorney general of Georgia and unsuccessful candidate in the 1920 Georgia gubernatorial election Results Popular vote County unit vote Clifford Walker 123784 294 Thomas W. Hardwick 86389 118 H. Bedinger Baylor 2830 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=385438 GA Governor, 1922 - D Primary Our Campaigns 8 June 2020Congressional Quarterly 1998 107Georgia Register 1923 117-120 General election In the general election, Walker ran unopposed. Results 1922 Georgia gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264469 GA Governor, 1922 Our Campaigns 8 June 2020Glashan 1979 68-69Hunt Lyman Robert 1923 The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1923 https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacbook00unse/page/844/mode/2up New York, NY Press Publishing Co. (The New York World) 845 Democratic Party (United States) Clifford Walker 75,019Some sources indicate Walker only received 75,000 votes.Congressional Quarterly 1998 48Dubin 2013 7Langland James Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year-Book for 1923 https://archive.org/details/chicagodailynews1923chic/page/694/mode/2up Chicago, IL Chicago Daily News Company 695 1922 100.00% 75,019 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) References Notes Bibliography Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books 1979 0-930466-17-9 Dubin Michael J. Annual Summary United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1912-1931: The Official Results by State and County 2013 McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, NC 9781476601007 https://books.google.com/books?id=8DfgSd-GipkC&pg=PP1 Compiled by Lucian Lamar Knight 1923 Georgia's Official Register, 1923 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1923.pdf State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1923 1922 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1922 in the United States Category:September 1922 in the United States Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in Georgia