1920 United States presidential election in South Dakota

none June 2025 September 2023 1920 United States presidential election 1920 United States presidential election in South Dakota South Dakota 1909 November 2, 1920 presidential no 1916 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1916 1924 United States presidential election in South Dakota 1924 x160px Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) Ohio Calvin Coolidge 5 110,692 60.74% James M. Cox 1920.jpg James M. Cox Democratic Party (United States) Ohio Franklin D. Roosevelt 0 35,938 19.72% Parley Parker Christensen circa 1920 Crop Edit.jpg Parley P. Christensen Nonpartisan League Farmer–Labor Party (US) Illinois Max S. Hayes 0 34,707 19.04% 1920 United States presidential election in South Dakota results map by county.svg 300px County results Harding #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Woodrow Wilson Democratic Party (United States) Warren G. Harding Republican Party (United States) The 1920 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election in which all contemporary forty-eight states participated. Voters chose five electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. The 1918 mid-term elections had seen the Midwestern farming community largely desert the Democratic Party due to supposed preferential treatment of Southern farmers:Morello, John A.; Albert D. Lasker, Advertising, and the Election of Warren G. Harding, p. 64 0275970302 Democratic seats in the Midwest fell from thirty-four to seventeen,Hough, Jerry F.; Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State-Blue State Alignment, pp. 86-87 0875864090 whilst Scandinavian-Americans were also vigorously opposed to entering the war.Saldin, Robert P., 'World War I and the System of 1896' (2010); Political Science Faculty Publications, Paper 1, pp. 825-836 Moreover, Democratic fear of Communism seen in the Palmer Raids and "Red Scare" led to Cox, then Governor of Ohio, to ban German-language instruction in public schools in 1919. Much more critical for German-Americans was the view that outgoing President Woodrow Wilson was deliberately trying to punish Germany and Austria for starting the war, especially via his disregard for the United Kingdom's continuing blockade of Germany.Lichtman, Allan J.; Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928, pp. 102, 115 Stressing Harding's German ancestry, the German press drummed up the view that "a vote for Harding is a vote against the persecutions suffered by German-Americans during the war."Lubell, Samuel; The Future of American Politics, p. 135 Published 1952 by Harper and Brothers, New York As the campaign began after the Republican Party had nominated U.S. Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio and the Democratic Party former Ohio governor James M. Cox, a further blow to the Democrats occurred when the national economy suffered a major downturn following the wartime boom, resulting in plummeting agricultural prices that were especially problematic in the Midwest.Goldberg, David Joseph; Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s, p. 47 0801860059 Whereas Cox travelled throughout the nation apart from the "Solid South" during September,Faykosh, Joseph D., Bowling Green State University; The Front Porch of the American People: James Cox and the Presidential Election of 1920 (thesis), p. 69 Harding, despite having four times the budget, campaigned from his home in Marion, Ohio. A poll by the giant Rexall drug store chain – which in 1916 had been accurate enough to predict Wilson's razor-thin wins in New Hampshire and CaliforniaPietrusza, David; 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents, p. 398 0786721022 – suggested Harding would win 382 electoral votes,Bagby, Rexby; The Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920, pp. 158-159 0801800455 and at the end of October, although no more opinion polls had been published, most observers were even more convinced that the Republicans would take complete control of all branches of government.'Republicans Going to Win: Prospects of a Complete Victory'; The Observer, October 31, 1920, p. 13 The late-October predictions of a complete takeover of the federal government by the Republican Party were entirely born out. So unpopular was Wilson that – although South Dakota was the only Plains state Wilson had lost in 1916 – Cox lost over half the Wilson vote from that election, and lost every county. In fact, Non Partisan LeagueIn the other eighteen states where Christensen was on the ballot, he was listed under the label of “Farmer-Labor” or “Labor”. candidate Parley Parker Christensen finished second ahead of Cox in twenty-nine counties and was only 1,231 votes behind the Democratic candidate in South Dakota as a whole. Aided by German Lutheran hostility towards Prohibition, Christensen gained over 41 percent in Hutchinson County, and over thirty percent in three other East River counties. Results Presidential CandidateRunning MatePartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV)Warren G. HardingCalvin CoolidgeRepublican5https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1920&fips=46&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1920 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas Dave Leip110,69260.74%James M. CoxFranklin D. RooseveltDemocratic035,93819.72%Parley P. ChristensenMax S. HayesNon Partisan League034,70719.04%Aaron S. WatkinsD. Leigh ColvinIndependent09000.49% Results by county CountySouth Dakota Secretary of State; Official Vote November, 1920 Presidential Electors (highest elector)Warren G. HardingRepublicanJames M. CoxDemocraticParley P. ChristensenNonpartisan LeagueAaron S. WatkinsIndependentMarginTotal votescast#%#%#%#%#%Aurora1,00449.19%44521.80%58928.86%30.15%415In this county where Cox ran third behind Christensen as well as behind Harding, margin given is Harding vote minus Christensen vote and percentage margin Harding percentage minus Christensen percentage. "ChristensendCox"20.33%2,041Beadle2,85256.54%92518.34%1,24024.58%270.54%1,612"ChristensendCox"31.96%5,044Bennett22048.67%19944.03%306.64%30.66%214.65%452Bon Homme1,87253.23%96027.30%67619.22%90.26%91225.93%3,517Brookings2,74368.64%56414.11%61315.34%761.90%2,130"ChristensendCox"53.30%3,996Brown5,58156.54%1,36413.82%2,89329.31%330.33%2,688"ChristensendCox"27.23%9,871Brule1,03651.03%67133.05%31015.27%130.64%36517.98%2,030Buffalo20059.70%10130.15%308.96%41.19%9929.55%335Butte1,72254.51%67221.27%74123.46%240.76%981"ChristensendCox"31.05%3,159Campbell1,12871.26%674.23%38324.19%50.32%745"ChristensendCox"47.06%1,583Charles Mix2,02150.17%1,30532.40%69617.28%60.15%71617.78%4,028Clark1,75360.24%43715.02%69223.78%280.96%1,061"ChristensendCox"36.46%2,910Clay1,88561.88%90729.78%2488.14%60.20%97832.11%3,046Codington2,70659.84%86719.17%92920.54%200.44%1,777"ChristensendCox"39.30%4,522Corson1,44860.89%48420.35%42417.83%220.93%96440.54%2,378Custer78460.82%38329.71%1169.00%60.47%40131.11%1,289Davison2,60554.16%1,10522.97%1,07322.31%270.56%1,50031.19%4,810Day2,73959.82%4369.52%1,37830.09%260.57%1,361"ChristensendCox"29.72%4,579Deuel1,56969.95%1597.09%49822.20%170.76%1,071"ChristensendCox"47.75%2,243Dewey88063.31%33524.10%17212.37%30.22%54539.21%1,390Douglas1,24763.49%38619.65%32516.55%60.31%86143.84%1,964Edmunds1,48660.36%28311.49%68127.66%120.49%805"ChristensendCox"32.70%2,462Fall River1,23661.01%68033.56%1065.23%40.20%55627.44%2,026Faulk1,34165.51%34616.90%35317.24%70.34%988"ChristensendCox"48.27%2,047Grant1,81359.99%35011.58%85628.33%30.10%957"ChristensendCox"31.67%3,022Gregory1,83357.61%74423.38%60118.89%40.13%1,08934.22%3,182Haakon71349.65%39327.37%32122.35%90.63%32022.28%1,436Hamlin1,32263.68%33716.23%39819.17%190.92%924"ChristensendCox"44.51%2,076Hand1,51161.08%65526.48%29111.76%170.69%85634.60%2,474Hanson1,00151.87%41821.66%50826.32%30.16%493"ChristensendCox"25.54%1,930Harding64858.43%21319.21%24121.73%70.63%407"ChristensendCox"36.70%1,109Hughes1,31368.31%43322.53%1728.95%40.21%88045.79%1,922Hutchinson1,87351.15%2436.64%1,52841.73%180.49%345"ChristensendCox"9.42%3,662Hyde71068.53%23322.49%928.88%10.10%47746.04%1,036Jackson59570.58%20624.44%424.98%00.00%38946.14%843Jerauld1,03857.03%35719.62%39721.81%281.54%641"ChristensendCox"35.22%1,820Jones60962.33%25526.10%11011.26%30.31%35436.23%977Kingsbury2,34471.66%48114.70%42913.12%170.52%1,86356.96%3,271Lake2,33369.98%39811.94%59017.70%130.39%1,743"ChristensendCox"52.28%3,334Lawrence2,98668.50%1,20127.55%1513.46%210.48%1,78540.95%4,359Lincoln2,79073.54%44111.62%55514.63%80.21%2,235"ChristensendCox"58.91%3,794Lyman1,05059.63%46326.29%24413.86%40.23%58733.33%1,761Marshall1,55755.97%2669.56%95434.29%50.18%603"ChristensendCox"21.68%2,782McCook1,86460.52%56518.34%62320.23%280.91%1,241"ChristensendCox"40.29%3,080McPherson1,47072.92%1125.56%41520.59%190.94%1,055"ChristensendCox"52.33%2,016Meade1,89458.37%89427.55%43613.44%210.65%1,00030.82%3,245Mellette53363.53%26131.11%445.24%10.12%27232.42%839Miner1,45056.73%65125.47%44817.53%70.27%79931.26%2,556Minnehaha8,29063.15%2,53419.30%2,22016.91%830.63%5,75643.85%13,127Moody1,66763.55%37114.14%57021.73%150.57%1,097"ChristensendCox"41.82%2,623Pennington2,56864.23%1,20530.14%2125.30%130.33%1,36334.09%3,998Perkins1,32660.41%41719.00%44120.09%110.50%885"ChristensendCox"40.32%2,195Potter1,07372.30%25517.18%1409.43%161.08%81855.12%1,484Roberts2,33549.73%4479.52%1,88940.23%240.51%446"ChristensendCox"9.50%4,695Sanborn1,12549.89%51722.93%59426.34%190.84%531"ChristensendCox"23.55%2,255Spink2,92365.09%78517.48%76016.92%230.51%2,13847.61%4,491Stanley59856.79%39437.42%585.51%30.28%20419.37%1,053Sully54262.95%14717.07%17019.74%20.23%372"ChristensendCox"43.21%861Tripp1,81959.33%96831.57%2758.97%40.13%85127.76%3,066Turner2,70367.59%60415.10%68917.23%30.08%2,014"ChristensendCox"50.36%3,999Union1,94266.17%84128.65%1424.84%100.34%1,10137.51%2,935Walworth1,41161.40%47820.80%39817.32%110.48%93340.60%2,298Yankton2,55561.80%1,14727.75%42010.16%120.29%1,40834.06%4,134Ziebach50765.42%17722.84%8711.23%40.52%33042.58%775Totals110,69260.74%35,93819.72%34,70719.04%9000.49%74,75441.02%182,237 See also United States presidential elections in South Dakota Notes References expanded South Dakota 1920 Category:1920 South Dakota elections