1924 United States presidential election in Michigan

Presidential Election in Michigan, 1924 June 2025 September 2023 1924 United States presidential election 1924 United States presidential election in Michigan Michigan presidential no 1920 United States presidential election in Michigan 1920 1928 United States presidential election in Michigan 1928 All 15 Michigan votes to the Electoral College November 4, 1924 x150px Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes 15 874,631 75.37% John William Davis.jpg John W. Davis Democratic Party (United States) West Virginia Charles W. Bryan 0 152,359 13.13% Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg Robert M. La Follette A2ED70 Progressive Wisconsin Burton K. Wheeler 0 122,014 10.51% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) 375px 375px County results Coolidge #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% The 1924 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. Voters chose fifteenhttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1917_1921.html#1924 1924 Election for the Thirty-Fifth Term (1925-1929) 2018-04-03 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ever since the Panic of 1893 and the Populist movement, Michigan had been rigidly one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party.Burnham Walter Dean The System of 1896: An Analysis The Evolution of American Electoral Systems December 23, 1981 178–179 Bloomsbury Academic 0313213798 In the 1894 elections, the Democratic Party lost all but one seat in the Michigan legislature,Swamped! The Democrats Drowned Out by a Tremendous Republican Tidal Wave The L'Anse Sentinel November 10, 1894 L'Anse 1 and over the four ensuing decades the party would never make major gains there. The dominance of the culture of the Lower Peninsula by anti-slavery YankeesEnglish, Gustavus P.; Proceedings of the Ninth Republican National Convention (1888), p. 234 would be augmented by the turn of formerly Democratic-leaning German Catholics away from that party as a result of the remodelled party's agrarian and free silver sympathies, which became rigidly opposed by both the upper class and workers who followed them,Sundquist James Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years December 2010 526 Brookings Institution Press 978-0815719090 while the Populist movement eliminated Democratic ties with the business and commerce of Michigan and other Northern states.Rogowski Ronald Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments 978-0691219431 Princeton University Press 2020 By the 1920s, the only significant financial backer of the state Democratic Party was billionaire William Comstock.Davis Forces See Upset in Michigan: Democrats Claim Nominee Will Lead La Follette Despite Result Indicated in Poll The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California October 18, 1924 2 Unlike the other states of the Upper Midwest, the Yankee influence on the culture of the Lower Peninsula was so strong that left-wing third parties did not provide significant opposition to the Republicans, nor was there more than a moderate degree of coordinated factionalism within the hegemonic Michigan Republican Party.Hansen John Mark Shigeo Hirano Snyder Jr. James M. Parties within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900-1980 Gerber Alan S. Schickler Eric Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America February 27, 2017 165–168 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09509-0 By taking a substantial proportion of the 1912 “Bull Moose” vote, incumbent president Woodrow Wilson would manage the best performance in Michigan by a Democrat since Grover Cleveland in 1888,https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=1916&fips=26&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state Presidential General Election Results Comparison — Michigan Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas but 1918 saw a major reaction against Wilson throughout the Midwest, due to supposed preferential treatment of Southern farmers.Morello John A. Albert D. Lasker, Advertising, and the Election of Warren G. Harding April 30, 2001 64 Bloomsbury Academic 0275970302 Republicans would hold every seat in the State Senate for over a decade after the fall election,Kang Michael S. Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering Boston College Law Review May 29, 2019 69 1395 as they had between 1895 and 1897 and between 1905 and 1911, and every seat in both houses of the state legislature between 1921 and 1923. The only campaigning done in the state by any of the three major candidates – Republican Party incumbent Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Democratic nominee John W. Davis of West Virginia and third-party candidate Robert M. La Follette of the Progressive Party — was a tour by conservative Southern Democrat Davis in September,Tucker Garland High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election 2012 191 Greenleaf Book 978-1937110291 during which he campaigned to eliminate the income tax burden of the poorer classes.Richardson Danny G. Others: "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s 2008 180 iUniverse 978-0595481262 Results + General Election ResultsMichigan State Archives, Canvass of the votes given at the General Election, held in the State of Michigan on Tuesday the fourth day of November, 1924Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Calvin Coolidge Stella B. Roben874,631 Republican Calvin Coolidge John A. Weeks872,331 Republican Calvin Coolidge James W. Ames871,451 Republican Calvin Coolidge Thornton Dixon871,307 Republican Calvin Coolidge Mary W. Miller871,296 Republican Calvin Coolidge Francis J. Shields871,294 Republican Calvin Coolidge Phila L. Hamilton871,258 Republican Calvin Coolidge George S. Lovelace871,258 Republican Calvin Coolidge James H. Kinnane870,994 Republican Calvin Coolidge Dallas Boudeman870,979 Republican Calvin Coolidge John A. Whitman870,876 Republican Calvin Coolidge Martha Pier Woodard870,756 Republican Calvin Coolidge John L. A. Galster870,548 Republican Calvin Coolidge Rudolph J. Grandt870,417 Republican Calvin Coolidge Frank Scadden870,345 Democratic John W. Davis Charles H. Bryan152,359 Democratic John W. Davis George D. Jackson152,238 Democratic John W. Davis Angus McLean152,064 Democratic John W. Davis Lette Shay152,038 Democratic John W. Davis Georgia E. White152,002 Democratic John W. Davis John F. Finnigan151,709 Democratic John W. Davis Donald M. McKenzie151,643 Democratic John W. Davis James B. Balch151,642 Democratic John W. Davis Kate Carlisle151,451 Democratic John W. Davis George B. Stanford151,446 Democratic John W. Davis John G. Rulison151,429 Democratic John W. Davis Charles J. Biek151,416 Democratic John W. Davis Robert E. Bunker151,408 Democratic John W. Davis Henry R. Scovill151,381 Democratic John W. Davis Georeg H. Anklam151,380 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette John J. Scannell122,014 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Cornelius Gallagher121,273 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Jennie Buell121,232 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Claude O. Taylor121,221 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Minnie E. Jeffries121,152 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Carl V. Oberg121,149 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Jefferson G. Brown121,144 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Elizabeth D. Granzow121,137 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Louis E. Rowley121,122 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette James H. Pound121,120 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Albert M. Todd121,097 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette William C. Lash121,092 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Pauline Eisinger121,089 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Charles O. Gunn121,069 Independent Progressive Robert M. La Follette Arnold C. Rassmussen120,939 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Andrew Wood6,085 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Ralph E. Hopusch6,071 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Olive Johnson5,994 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Edward D. Brooks5,992 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Frank A. Luttenbacher5,973 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Frank Nooper5,962 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Wirt McClain5,948 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Joseph Sewell5,945 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Lula Deming5,943 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Christepher Tucker5,938 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Edwin Moffitt5,931 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Libbie Catherman5,913 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Elmer L. Wilder5,912 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Harold R. Luttenbacher5,909 Prohibition Herman P. Faris Charles H. Pallycott5,889 Socialist LaborThe 1925-1926 Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual credits these votes to William Z. Foster, Socialist Labor. This slate of electors was a Socialist Labor ticket, all sample ballots in newspapers are consistent on that front. However, Foster was not the nominee for the Socialist Labor Party in 1924. The Socialist Labor nominee was Frank T. Johns.Proof Ballot - Kalamazoo County https://www.newspapers.com/image/1145258342/ 26 May 2026 The Kalamzaoo Gazette 2 November 1924 Kalamzaoo 16Instruction Ballot https://www.newspapers.com/image/365535372/ 26 May 2026 The News-Palladium 3 November 1924 Benton Harbor 11 Frank T. JohnsBallots Being Run Off Press https://www.newspapers.com/image/204239710/?match=1&terms=%22frank%20t.%20johns%22 26 May 2026 The Battle Creek Enquirer 13 October 1924 Battle Creek 9 Arthur Davis5,330 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Steve Mitchell5,179 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Steve Marsovszki5,139 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Thomas S. Corbet4,921 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Joseph Kerekes4,921 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns John Fredricson4,910 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns George Hasseler4,908 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Henry Kruse4,899 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Paul Sidge4,892 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Louis Kovacs4,890 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Anton Kummel4,885 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Charles Schepovich4,876 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Charles Literaty4,872 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Ignatz Fodi4,871 Socialist Labor Frank T. Johns Elles Toth4,864 Write-in Scattering100Votes cast"highest" Based on highest elector on each ticket 1,160,519 Results by county CountyDeLand Charles J. Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual for the Years 1925-1926 1925 Lansing 386-387 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4049836&view=1up&seq=380 26 May 2026 Calvin CoolidgeRepublican John W. DavisDemocratic Robert M. La FolletteProgressive Herman P. FarisProhibition Frank T. JohnsSocialist Labor Margin Total votes cast"highest" # % # % # % # % # % # %Alcona1,02772.32%18412.96%17912.61%211.48%90.63%84359.37%1,420Alger1,62366.30%2289.31%50520.63%381.55%461.88%1,118"FollettedDavis" In this county where La Follette ran second ahead of Davis, margin given is Coolidge vote minus La Follette vote, and percentage margin Collidge percentage minus La Follette percentage.45.67%2,448Includes 8 Scattering votesAllegan9,41779.31%1,56213.16%7956.70%680.57%300.25%7,85566.16%11,873"one" Includes 1 Scattering voteAlpena4,62875.78%94815.52%4887.99%210.34%220.36%3,68060.26%6,107Antrim2,24676.79%37112.68%2709.23%230.79%150.51%1,87564.10%2,925Arenac1,76767.57%57521.99%2549.71%140.54%50.19%1,19245.58%2,615Baraga1,71471.71%2088.58%39116.13%361.49%371.53%1,323"FollettedDavis"55.58%2,424Includes 38 Scattering votesBarry5,65670.72%2,04625.58%2423.03%440.55%100.13%3,61045.14%7,998Bay14,86164.75%5,88125.62%1,9918.68%1420.62%760.33%8,98039.13%22,951Benzie1,92273.84%1987.61%41916.10%441.69%200.77%1,503"FollettedDavis"57.74%2,603Berrien15,61263.73%4,44518.15%4,18317.08%1580.64%990.40%11,16745.59%24,497Branch6,01664.67%2,25324.22%94310.14%690.74%210.23%3,76340.45%9,302Calhoun18,16571.91%4,02015.91%2,78211.01%1700.67%1250.49%14,14555.99%25,262Cass4,54559.93%2,32830.70%6458.50%430.57%230.30%2,21729.23%7,584Charlevoix3,34679.65%4069.66%3879.21%370.88%250.60%2,94069.98%4,201Cheboygan2,68364.16%99423.77%44110.55%451.08%190.45%1,68940.39%4,182Chippewa5,44377.44%5167.34%99714.18%360.51%370.53%4,446"FollettedDavis"63.25%7,029Clare1,92077.67%35814.48%1576.35%190.77%180.73%1,56263.19%2,472Clinton6,63776.81%1,35915.73%5966.90%380.44%110.13%5,27861.08%8,641Crawford84072.92%16314.15%13711.89%70.61%50.43%67758.77%1,152Delta4,76149.83%4634.85%4,20444.00%480.50%780.82%557"FollettedDavis"5.83%9,554Dickinson4,53868.66%4006.05%1,49522.62%801.21%961.45%3,043"FollettedDavis"46.04%6,609Eaton8,23273.66%2,46222.03%3943.53%550.49%320.29%5,77051.63%11,175Emmet3,02069.23%77317.72%50111.49%350.80%330.76%2,24751.51%4,362Genesee34,26483.82%4,22510.34%2,1245.20%1250.31%1400.34%30,03973.48%40,878Gladwin1,90878.36%25510.47%2429.94%230.94%70.29%1,65367.89%2,435Gogebic5,12866.54%4876.32%1,78123.11%1682.18%1431.86%3,347"FollettedDavis"43.43%7,707Grand Traverse4,01174.86%55810.41%70913.23%541.01%260.49%3,302"FollettedDavis"61.63%5,358Gratiot6,72076.09%1,83920.82%2002.26%530.60%200.23%4,88155.26%8,832Hillsdale6,55668.45%1,98020.67%9479.89%670.70%280.29%4,57647.78%9,578Houghton13,83383.02%1,0456.27%1,5799.48%830.50%1220.73%12,254"FollettedDavis"73.54%16,662Huron8,84381.14%9889.07%9839.02%600.55%240.22%7,85572.08%10,898Ingham28,00581.15%4,81413.95%1,4884.31%1460.42%520.15%23,19167.20%34,511Includes 6 Scattering votesIonia9,50273.21%2,82121.74%5594.31%790.61%180.14%6,68151.48%12,979Iosco1,71371.43%30412.68%32913.72%321.33%200.83%1,384"FollettedDavis"57.71%2,398Iron2,80265.06%2475.73%1,14326.54%601.39%551.28%1,659"FollettedDavis"38.52%4,307Isabella5,24577.08%1,20817.75%2854.19%520.76%150.22%4,03759.32%6,805Jackson19,64069.18%5,63919.86%2,88010.14%1410.50%900.32%14,00149.32%28,390Kalamazoo18,45175.31%3,58714.64%2,2839.32%970.40%820.33%14,86460.67%24,500Kalkaska96670.46%20514.95%17712.91%181.31%50.36%76155.51%1,371Kent45,20776.61%7,98213.53%5,3569.08%2600.44%2030.34%37,22563.08%59,008Keweenaw1,42191.15%503.21%674.30%60.38%150.96%1,354"FollettedDavis"86.85%1,559Lake1,06968.79%31320.14%16010.30%40.26%80.51%75648.65%1,554Lapeer6,29783.65%92912.34%2483.29%400.53%140.19%5,36871.31%7,528Leelanau1,79275.36%30112.66%24910.47%230.97%130.55%1,49162.70%2,378Lenawee13,35872.65%3,95021.48%9585.21%820.45%400.22%9,40851.16%18,388Livingston4,88667.37%2,03728.09%2743.78%400.55%150.21%2,84939.29%7,252Luce85080.65%11210.63%837.87%90.85%00.00%73870.02%1,054Mackinac1,60651.62%99832.08%48115.46%120.39%140.45%60819.54%3,111Macomb11,14769.96%3,19120.03%1,5069.45%540.34%350.22%7,95649.93%15,933Manistee3,70158.09%1,31420.62%1,29420.31%430.67%190.30%2,38737.47%6,371Marquette9,77170.70%8456.11%2,98421.59%1210.88%990.72%6,787"FollettedDavis"49.11%13,820Mason3,56767.18%81515.35%79114.90%631.19%741.39%2,75251.83%5,310Mecosta3,88476.96%79415.73%3046.02%330.65%320.63%3,09061.22%5,047Menominee4,14253.35%1,05513.59%2,45931.67%480.62%600.77%1,683"FollettedDavis"21.68%7,764Midland4,00479.08%62512.34%3587.07%641.26%120.24%3,37966.74%5,063Missaukee1,72385.09%20810.27%793.90%130.64%20.10%1,51574.81%2,025Monroe8,94058.12%4,98132.38%1,3438.73%730.47%460.30%3,95925.74%15,383Montcalm6,94278.97%1,39615.88%3493.97%780.89%260.30%5,54663.09%8,791Montmorency74863.93%14011.97%26422.56%141.20%40.34%484"FollettedDavis"41.37%1,170Muskegon14,42279.22%1,4628.03%2,18812.02%680.37%660.36%12,234"FollettedDavis"67.20%18,206Newaygo4,24379.22%72013.44%3336.22%480.90%120.22%3,52365.78%5,356Oakland28,60381.27%4,10511.66%2,2016.25%1620.46%1250.36%24,49869.60%35,196Oceana3,33574.79%65014.58%3808.52%501.12%350.78%2,68560.22%4,459Includes 9 Scattering votesOgemaw1,71479.32%25811.94%1567.22%190.88%140.65%1,45667.38%2,161Ontonagon2,24970.90%41713.15%39912.58%230.73%611.92%1,83257.76%3,172Includes 23 Scattering votesOsceola3,05077.79%56614.44%2566.53%401.02%90.23%2,48463.35%3,921Oscoda38982.07%5210.97%306.33%00.00%20.42%33771.10%474"one"Otsego1,14473.81%24916.06%1439.23%80.52%60.39%89557.74%1,550Ottawa11,68878.55%1,87112.57%1,2208.20%540.36%470.32%9,81765.97%14,880Presque Isle2,31567.24%43112.52%64518.73%270.78%140.41%1,670"FollettedDavis"48.51%3,443Includes 11 Scattering votesRoscommon48469.64%9914.24%10114.53%60.86%50.72%383"FollettedDavis"55.11%695Saginaw23,61867.99%6,20617.87%4,64913.38%1620.47%1030.30%17,41250.12%34,738Sanilac7,76784.53%98310.70%3663.98%500.54%220.24%6,78473.84%9,188Schoolcraft1,51561.34%1907.69%72029.15%240.97%210.85%795"FollettedDavis"32.19%2,470Shiawassee8,98772.99%1,73814.12%1,36611.09%1441.17%780.63%7,24958.87%12,313St. Clair17,43576.54%3,60015.80%1,6357.18%680.30%420.18%13,83560.73%22,780St. Joseph6,63365.41%2,64926.12%7477.37%520.51%560.55%3,98439.29%10,140Includes 3 Scattering votesTuscola7,49080.37%1,07611.55%6537.01%910.98%90.10%6,41468.83%9,319Van Buren7,38471.55%1,64615.95%1,17011.34%720.70%480.47%5,73855.60%10,320Washtenaw14,32672.24%3,60318.17%1,7288.71%930.47%800.40%10,72354.07%19,830Wayne268,65380.11%23,8177.10%39,77311.86%1,1210.33%1,9720.59%228,880"FollettedDavis"68.25%335,336Wexford3,92677.47%59211.68%4438.74%741.46%330.65%3,33465.79%5,068Totals874,63175.37%152,35913.13%122,01410.51%6,0850.52%5,3300.46%722,27262.24%1,160,519 Analysis The first poll taken showed it clearly that Coolidge would carry Michigan by a huge margin,Latest Totals in Nationwide Presidential Straw Ballot The San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, California October 18, 1924 2 although there was substantial debate as to whom the opposition vote would go — early polls had La Follette receiving twice as many votes as Davis, but Democratic spokesmen worried that the state's few Democrats would desert to Coolidge said Davis would out-poll the Wisconsin Senator. Ultimately, Davis did out-poll the Wisconsin Senator, whose figures of around 20 percent in October would fall to only 10.51 percent of the vote on election day, whilst Coolidge carried Michigan with a percentage even higher than originally predicted and which surpassed Warren G. Harding’s record performance from 1920.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1924&fips=26&off=0&elect=0&f=0 1924 Presidential General Election Results — Michigan 2018-04-03http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1924 The American Presidency Project — Election of 1924 2018-04-03 Coolidge carried Michigan with 75.37 percent of the popular vote. This remains the best performance in a presidential election in Michigan 2024 11 as of the 2024 election, and Coolidge emulated Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 and William Howard Taft in 1908 by carrying every county in the state. Michigan was to be Coolidge's second strongest state in the 1924 election in terms of popular vote percentage after his birth state of Vermont.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1924&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1924 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 Democrat Davis gathered only 13.13 percent of the vote and did not pass one-third in any of Michigan's eighty-three counties, whilst La Follette, who carried his neighbouring home state of Wisconsin and received over thirty percent in all other states of the Upper Midwest, received limited support in Michigan because it was less GermanPhillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 1970 405 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-16324-6 and more Yankee and Polish than any other Midwestern state.See Lichtman Allan J. Prejudice and the Old Politics : the Presidential Election of 1928 1979 98–99 University of North Carolina Press 0807813583 La Follette's best performance was in the heavily Finnish and anti-clerical Upper Peninsula,Stark, Rodney and Christiano, Kevin J.; 'Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered'; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1 (March, 1992), pp. 62-75 where he received forty-four percent in Delta County and over twenty percent in seven other counties in the western Upper Peninsula. However, in the more populous Lower Peninsula, La Follette exceeded his national vote share of 16.62 percent only in four of sixty-eight counties,These were Presque Isle, Manistee, Montmorency, and Berrien Counties and consequently the Wisconsin Senator won only 10.51 percent of Michigan's total vote, making it his third-weakest state in the Midwest after heavily Southern-leaning Indiana and Missouri. As in 1920, the Republican presidential landslide was accompanied by a clean sweep of every seat in both houses of the State legislature. See also United States presidential elections in Michigan Notes References Michigan 1924 United States presidential election