1924 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1924 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 December 2020 1924 Georgia gubernatorial election Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1922 Georgia gubernatorial election 1922 1926 Georgia gubernatorial election 1926 November 4, 1924 File:GovernorCliffWalker (3x4).jpg 150x150px Clifford Walker Democratic Party (United States) 152,367 100.00% 1924 Georgia gubernatorial election results map by county.svg x250px County ResultsWalker: #0D0596 100% Governor Clifford Walker Democratic Party (United States) Clifford Walker Democratic Party (United States) The 1924 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1924, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Clifford Walker was unopposed 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 10, 1924. As Walker was unopposed, there was no run-off. 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 June 8, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20080531162547/http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm May 31, 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 August 12, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030046/http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias%2Fgreenwood January 23, 2015 dead http://rbrl.blogspot.com/2011/10/county-unit-system-eh.html County Unit System, eh? October 6, 2011 Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies June 8, 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.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott June 13, 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia June 8, 2020 Candidates Clifford Walker, incumbent governor Results Popular vote County unit vote Clifford Walker 222395 412 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107Georgia Register 1925 171 General election In the general election, Walker ran unopposed. Results 1924 Georgia gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=264470 GA Governor, 1924 Our Campaigns June 11, 2020Glashan 1979 68-69Hunt Lyman Robert 1925 The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1925 https://archive.org/details/worldalmanacbook1925unse/page/822/mode/2up New York, NY Press Publishing Co. (The New York World) 822 Congressional Quarterly 1998 48Dubin 2013 10 Democratic Party (United States) Clifford Walker (incumbent) 152,367 100.00% 152,367 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) References 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 Ruth Blair 1925 Georgia's Official Register, 1925 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1925.pdf Atlanta, GA State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1925 1924 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1924 in the United States Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in Georgia