1925 New Jersey gubernatorial election

none January 2025 September 2023 1925 New Jersey gubernatorial election New Jersey 1896 Presidential no 1922 New Jersey gubernatorial election 1922 1928 New Jersey gubernatorial election 1928 November 3, 1925 74.27%https://nj.gov/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/other/2022-1925-general-election-data.pdf General Election Data - 1924 to 2022 NJ.gov File:A Harry Moore 1927.jpg 150x150px A. Harry Moore Democratic Party (United States) 471,549 51.87% Arthur Whitney LCCN2014718646 (cropped).jpg Arthur Whitney Republican Party (United States) 433,121 47.64% 1925 New Jersey gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 280px County resultsMoore: #7996e2 50–60% #584cde 70–80% Whitney: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% Governor George Sebastian Silzer Democratic Party (United States) A. Harry Moore Democratic Party (United States) The 1925 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1925. Democratic Jersey City Commissioner A. Harry Moore defeated Republican State Senator Arthur Whitney with 51.87% of the vote. Primary elections were held in June. Whitney defeated former New Jersey Attorney General Thomas F. McCran and judge Cornelius Doremus. Democratic primary Candidates A. Harry Moore, Jersey City Commissioner Results 1925 Democratic gubernatorial primaryWHITNEY WON BY 31,986: Formal Statement of Jersey Primary Puts Total Vote at 493,348 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/07/09/99349318.html July 9, 1925 The New York Times A. Harry Moore Democratic Party (US) 105,330 84.64% 19,108 15.36% 124,438 100.00% Rejected ballots Democratic Party (US) 1,471 125,909 Republican primary Candidates Cornelius Doremus, former judge from RidgefieldSTATE CAMPAIGN EXPENSES.; McCran Spent $16,169, Whitney $37,082 and Doremus $18,082. 14 Jun 1925 https://www.nytimes.com/1925/06/14/archives/state-campaign-expenses-mccran-spent-16169-whitney-37082-and.html E3 12 Jul 2022 Thomas F. McCran, former New Jersey Attorney General (1919–24) and State Senator for Passaic County Arthur Whitney, State Senator for Morris County Campaign McCran had the support of Senator Walter Evans Edge and much of the state party establishment. Whitney was supported by the prohibitionist Anti-Saloon League. T. F. M'Cran Dies After Campaign The New York Times E7 20 Sep 1925 18 Aug 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/1925/09/20/archives/t-f-mh-die-ter-campaign-olowlng-defeat-in-new-jersey-gubernatorial.html Establishment support for McCran was so strong that the party moved its primary from September to June, apparently to advantage McCran. Nevertheless, Whitney remained confident, expressing, "the Republican voters will repudiate the boss-ridden machine supporting my opponent."THE NEW JERSEY PRIMARY https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/06/18/104278658.html?pageNumber=20 The New York Times 20 18 Jun 1925 12 Jul 2022 The third candidate in the race, judge Cornelius Doremus, ran as an ardent supporter of Prohibition. Near the end of the campaign, he wrote a public letter to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews, congratulating him on his work to disrupt rum smuggling in the Atlantic Ocean. Whitney accused Doremus, a former Democrat, of trying to draw prohibitionist votes away from his campaign and of being in league with McCran and the state party. On the night before the primary, he declared, "They are in flagrant combination against me." Fundraising Primary campaign finance activity through June 15, 1925 Candidate Raised Spent Cash on hand Cornelius Doremus $22,720 $18,082.82 $4,637.18 Thomas McCran $17,445 $16,169.17 $1,275.83 Arthur Whitney $49,470 $37,082.18 $12,387.82 Source: The primary spending limit under the law at the time was $50,000. Senator Edge contributed $5,000 to McCran's campaign, and McCran contributed the same amount himself. Whitney and Doremus contributed the bulk of their own campaign funds, at $42,000 and $19,350 respectively. Results Whitney won the primary by around 27,000 votes over McCran, with Doremus around another 43,000 votes behind McCran's total. 1925 Republican gubernatorial primary Arthur Whitney Republican Party (US) 155,248 42.67% Thomas F. McCran Republican Party (US) 123,262 33.88% Cornelius J. Doremus Republican Party (US) 59,593 16.38% 25,753 7.08% 363,856 100.00% Rejected ballots Republican Party (US) 2,863 366,719 Aftermath Thomas McCran died in September. General election Candidates John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor) Leo M. Harkins (Socialist) A. Harry Moore, Jersey City Commissioner (Democratic) Eugene A. Smith (Prohibition) George Perlman (Workers) Joseph Ferguson (Commonwealth Land) Arthur Whitney, State Senator for Morris County (Republican) Campaign For the third straight election, the campaign was split between prohibitionist Republicans and anti-Prohibition Democrats, and for the third straight election, the Democratic candidate won. Results New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1925http://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/1920-1970-results/1925-general-election.pdf Votes Cast for the Office of Governor of the State of New Jersey Secretary of State of New Jersey 1925 September 5, 2015 Democratic Party (United States) A. Harry Moore 471,549 51.87% –0.32% Republican Party (United States) Arthur Whitney 433,121 47.64% +0.82% Socialist Party of America Leo M. Harkins 1,956 0.22% –0.47% Prohibition Party Eugene A. Smith 1,198 0.13% N/A Socialist Labor Party of America John C. Butterworth 594 0.07% N/A Independent politician George Perlman 591 0.07% N/A Independent politician Joseph Ferguson 153 0.02% N/A 909,162 100.00% 38,428 4.23% –1.14% 909,162 69.47% 1,308,674 Democratic Party (United States) –0.57% Results by county CountyMoore Whitney OthersTotalMargin Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes PercentVotesVotesPercentAtlantic13,20741.06%18,73958.25%2210.69%32,167 -5,532 -17.19%Bergen33,50742.42%45,01356.98%4720.60%78,992 -11,506 -14.56%Burlington8,47337.42%14,11162.32%600.26%22,644 -5,638 -24.90%Camden22,52541.40%31,43157.77%4480.83%54,404 -8,906 -16.37%Cape May3,31137.58%5,47062.09%290.33%8,810 -2,159 -26.10%Cumberland5,47533.71%10,67565.73%900.56%16,240 -5,200 -32.02%Essex65,15849.64%65,44949.86%6610.50%131,268 -291 -0.22%Gloucester5,90134.54%11,00864.42%1781.04%17,087 -5,107 -29.88%Hudson152,58275.54%48,58724.05%8280.41%201,997103,99551.49%Hunterdon5,39345.50%6,41854.14%430.36%11,854 -1,025 -8.64%Mercer19,27649.22%19,80150.56%880.22%39,165 -525 -1.34%Middlesex26,87352.99%23,67246.67%1730.34%50,7183,2016.32%Monmouth20,39046.26%23,61853.58%730.16%44,081 -3,228 -7.32%Morris12,28439.41%18,74860.14%1370.44%31,169 -6,464 -20.73%Ocean4,11637.79%6,74461.92%310.29%10,891 -2,628 -24.13%Passaic28,79151.66%26,42147.41%5170.93%55,7292,3704.25%Salem3,81337.37%6,32461.99%650.64%10,202 -2,511 -24.62%Somerset6,83541.73%9,50658.03%400.24%16,381 -2,671 -16.30%Sussex4,35447.20%4,83652.43%340.37%9,224 -482 -5.23%Union23,55243.94%29,81355.62%2390.44%53,604 -6,261 -11.68%Warren5,73345.74%6,73753.74%650.52%12,535 -1,004 -8.00%Total471,54951.87%433,12147.64%4,4920.49%909,16238,4284.23% References collapsed 1925 New Jersey Gubernatorial Category:November 1925 in the United States