1938 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1938 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1938 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1936 Georgia gubernatorial election 1936 1940 Georgia gubernatorial election 1940 September 14, 1938 Discusses Georgia's problems with President. Washington, D.C., Dec. 22. Governor-elect E.D. Rivers was at the White House today where he discussed Georgia's problems with President Roosevelt LCCN2016871021 Crop.jpg Eurith D. Rivers 282 Democratic Party (United States) 160,459 50.72% 3x4.svg Hugh Howell 126 Democratic Party (United States) 134,131 42.40% 3x4.svg 150x150px John J. Mangham 2 Democratic Party (United States) 19,537 6.18% 1938 Georgia gubernatorial Democratic primary election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsRivers: #bdd3ff 30–40% #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Howell: #e9ddaf 40–50% #d3bc5f 50–60% #c8ab37 60–70%Mangham: #ffbce3 50–60% Governor Eurith D. Rivers Democratic Party (United States) Eurith D. Rivers Democratic Party (United States) 410 county unit votes 206 unit The 1938 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1938, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Eurith D. Rivers was re-elected to a second term. As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran with only token opposition 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 14, 1938. As Rivers won a majority of county unit votes, 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 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 http://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.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott 13 June 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia 8 June 2020 Candidates Hugh Howell, former chairman of the Georgia Democratic State Executive Committee George assured Senate victory in purge defeat https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1938-09-15/ed-1/seq-17/#date1=1938&index=0&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Howell+Mangham+Rivers&proxdistance=5&date2=1938&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=rivers+howell+mangham&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 15 September 1938 A-17 13 June 2020 John J. Mangham, farmer Georgians vote on purge issue https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1938-09-14/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1938&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Howell+Mangham+Rivers&proxdistance=5&date2=1938&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=rivers+howell+mangham&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 14 September 1938 A-5 13 June 2020 Eurith D. Rivers, incumbent governor Robert F. Wood, salesman Results Popular vote County unit vote Eurith D. Rivers 160459 282 Hugh Howell 134121 126 John J. Mangham 19537 2 Robert F. Wood 2220 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=378446 GA Governor, 1938 - D Primary Our Campaigns 13 June 2020Georgia Register 1943 361-364 General election In the general election, Rivers faced token opposition. Results 1938 Georgia gubernatorial electionCongressional Quarterly 1998 48https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262945 GA Governor, 1938 Our Campaigns 13 June 2020Glashan 1979 68-69Georgia Register 1943 406-411 Democratic Party (United States) Eurith D. Rivers (incumbent) 66,863 94.28% Independent (politician) E. S. Fuller 1,914 2.70% Prohibition Party L. P. Glass 1,358 1.92% Independent (politician) Alexander Stephens Mitchell 784 1.11% 70,919 100.00% 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 Compiled by Mrs. J.E. Hays, State Historian and Director 1943 Georgia's Official Register, 1939-1941-1943 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1939.pdf Atlanta, GA State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1943 1938 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1938 in the United States