1924 United States presidential election in Minnesota

none June 2025 September 2023 1924 United States presidential election 1924 United States presidential election in Minnesota Minnesota 1893 presidential no 1920 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1920 1928 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1928 November 4, 1924 x160px Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Massachusetts Charles G. Dawes 12 420,759 51.18% Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg Robert M. La Follette Independent politician Progressive Wisconsin Burton K. Wheeler 0 339,192 41.26% John William Davis.jpg John W. Davis Democratic Party (United States) West Virginia Charles W. Bryan 0 55,913 6.80% 1924 United States presidential election in Minnesota results map by county.svg 350px County results Coolidge #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% La Follette #afe9af 40–50% #73d873 50–60% #42ca42 60–70% President Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) Calvin Coolidge Republican Party (United States) The 1924 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 4, 1924, in Minnesota as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. A rapid recovery from the depression of 1920 and 1921, despite major Republican losses during the 1922 House electionsAyers, Edward; Gould, Lewis; Oshinsky, David and Soderlund, Jean; American Passages: A History of the United States, Volume II: Since 1865, p. 677 0547166354 placed the Republican Party – who gained a record popular-vote majority in the 1920 election – in a secure position despite the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. Rises in wages and ebbing of discontent further solidified the GOP's hold on power. More critically, the Democratic Party was mortally divided between its rural Southern faction led by William Gibbs McAdoo and its white ethnic urban northeastern faction led by New York Governor Al Smith.Grantham, Dewey; The South in Modern America A Region at Odds, p. 106 1610753895 The rural faction was supported by the revived Ku Klux Klan and was in favour of Prohibition, whereas the white ethnic faction was firmly against the anti-Catholic Klan and opposed to Prohibition. A fierce debate ensued that saw a compromise candidate, former Congressman John W. Davis of West Virginia, nominated after one hundred and three ballots in hot summer weather at Madison Square Garden.Paulson, Arthur C.; Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, p. 51 0275968650 Although West Virginia was a border state whose limited African-American population had not been disenfranchised as happened in all former Confederate States,Ranney, Joseph A.; In the Wake of Slavery: Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law; p. 141 0275989720 Davis did share the extreme social conservatism of Southern Democrats of his era. He supported poll taxes, opposed women's suffrage, and believed in strictly limited government with no expansion in nonmilitary fields.Newman, Roger K.; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, p. 153 0300113005 In the liberal, heavily Scandinavian Upper Midwest, Davis' social and economic views had practically no appeal.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 Although in September Davis underwent an extensive tour of the region and of the Great Plains,Tucker, Garland; High Tide of American Conservatism: Davis, Coolidge, and the 1924 Election, p. 191 193711029X and 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, p. 180 0595481264 he received a mere 6.80 percent of the vote in Minnesota. This constitutes the second-smallest proportion of any state's popular vote received by an official on-ballotIn Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado, Kansas and Idaho, Grover Cleveland was not on the ballot in 1892, whilst neither Harry S. Truman in 1948 nor Lyndon Johnson 1964 were on the ballot in Alabama. Democratic presidential nominee since the election of 1860, when the party was divided."Southern Democrat" John Cabell Breckinridge received less than Davis' 1924 Minnesota vote share in eleven free states, whilst "Northern Democrat" Stephen A. Douglas received a smaller proportion than Davis' 1924 Minnesota share in Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Maryland and Delaware. The only smaller proportion was by Grover Cleveland in Nevada in 1892, when he received only 6.56 percent of the vote. The conservatism of Coolidge and Davis made it inevitable that aging Wisconsin maverick Robert M. La Follette would mount a third-party challenge – which La Follette had planned even before the Democratic Convention. La Follette was formally nominated on July 4 by the "Conference for Progressive Political Action" and developed a platform dedicated to eliminating child labor and American interference in Latin American political affairs, along with a formal denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan.Richardson; Others, pp. 182-183 La Follette also proposed major judicial reforms including amendments allowing congress to override judicial review and to re-enact laws declared unconstitutional.Moreno, Paul D.; The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal: The Twilight of Constitutionalism and the Triumph of Progressivism, p. 205 1107067715 La Follette also called for election of federal judges for ten-year terms.Parrish, Michael E.; Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941, pp. 70-71 0393311341 Davis and Coolidge both spent most of their campaign attacking La Follette as a political extremist, but nonetheless opinion polls showed that La Follette was attracting large numbers of those German-American and Scandinavian-Americans who completely deserted Cox in 1920.Tucker; High Tide of American Conservatism, p. 181 In September some polls had La Follette winning sufficient electoral votes to give no candidate an electoral majority and force the House to make a choice,Tucker; High Tide of American Conservatism, p. 231 but as polling day approached newer polls suggested incumbent President Calvin Coolidge would hold the states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana, which La Follette had been predicted to win in August. As it turned out, Coolidge won the state over La Follette by a margin of 81,567 votes, or 9.92 percent. Nationally, the incumbent president almost equalled Harding's landslide popular vote victory, achieving a 25.22 percent lead over Davis and 382 electoral votes. Results 1924 United States presidential election in Minnesotahttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1924&fips=27&off=0&elect=0&f=0 2016-10-05 1924 Presidential General Election Results – Minnesota Dave Leip's U.S. Election AtlasPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) 420,759 51.18% 12 Independent Robert M. La Follette 339,192 41.26% 0 Democratic John W. Davis 55,913 6.80% 0 Workers William Z. Foster 4,427 0.54% 0 Socialist Industrial Frank T. Johns 1,855 0.23% 0 Totals 822,146 100.00% 12 Results by county County Calvin CoolidgeRepublican John W. DavisDemocratic Robert M. La FolletteGéoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1924lafo.htm Popular Vote for Robert LaFollette March 20, 2017 December 4, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231204055800/http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1924lafo.htm live (.xlsx file for €15)Independent William Z. FosterMinnesota Office of the Secretary of State Elections; The Legislative Manual for the State of Minnesota (1925), p. 318Workers Frank JohnsSocialist Industrial MarginBecause Coolidge and La Follette ran in the top two places in Minnesota and in every county within the state, all margins given are Coolidge vote minus La Follette vote and Coolidge percentage minus La Follette percentage. Total votescastRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 234-241 9780804716963 # % # % # % # % # % # % Aitkin 2,720 53.67% 212 4.18% 1,959 38.65% 159 3.14% 18 0.36% 761 15.02% 5,068 Anoka 3,146 57.15% 458 8.32% 1,883 34.21% 15 0.27% 3 0.05% 1,263 22.94% 5,505 Becker 2,936 45.51% 429 6.65% 2,963 45.92% 93 1.44% 31 0.48% -27 -0.41% 6,452 Beltrami 2,960 46.22% 323 5.04% 3,053 47.67% 40 0.62% 28 0.44% -93 -1.45% 6,404 Benton 1,629 41.90% 572 14.71% 1,644 42.28% 24 0.62% 19 0.49% -15 -0.38% 3,888 Big Stone 1,524 46.14% 260 7.87% 1,508 45.66% 8 0.24% 3 0.09% 16 0.48% 3,303 Blue Earth 6,773 55.09% 1,123 9.13% 4,360 35.46% 24 0.20% 15 0.12% 2,413 19.63% 12,295 Brown 2,255 31.87% 270 3.82% 4,515 63.81% 21 0.30% 15 0.21% -2,260 -31.94% 7,076 Carlton 3,142 49.76% 303 4.80% 2,552 40.42% 300 4.75% 17 0.27% 590 9.34% 6,314 Carver 2,214 40.20% 358 6.50% 2,907 52.78% 10 0.18% 19 0.34% -693 -12.58% 5,508 Cass 2,800 54.13% 270 5.22% 2,052 39.67% 38 0.73% 13 0.25% 748 14.46% 5,173 Chippewa 2,140 42.29% 140 2.77% 2,761 54.57% 14 0.28% 5 0.10% -621 -12.28% 5,060 Chisago 2,678 52.80% 135 2.66% 2,236 44.09% 12 0.24% 11 0.22% 442 8.71% 5,072 Clay 3,081 44.55% 439 6.35% 3,357 48.54% 21 0.30% 18 0.26% -276 -3.99% 6,916 Clearwater 1,020 37.54% 86 3.17% 1,592 58.59% 12 0.44% 7 0.26% -572 -21.05% 2,717 Cook 471 67.97% 29 4.18% 189 27.27% 2 0.29% 2 0.29% 282 40.70% 693 Cottonwood 2,722 56.99% 217 4.54% 1,818 38.07% 13 0.27% 6 0.13% 904 18.92% 4,776 Crow Wing 4,230 50.07% 417 4.94% 3,725 44.09% 57 0.67% 20 0.24% 505 5.98% 8,449 Dakota 3,931 42.34% 929 10.01% 4,378 47.16% 28 0.30% 18 0.19% -447 -4.82% 9,284 Dodge 2,856 65.97% 215 4.97% 1,239 28.62% 10 0.23% 9 0.21% 1,617 37.35% 4,329 Douglas 2,424 39.15% 315 5.09% 3,430 55.39% 14 0.23% 9 0.15% -1,006 -16.24% 6,192 Faribault 4,682 58.11% 578 7.17% 2,776 34.45% 12 0.15% 9 0.11% 1,906 23.66% 8,057 Fillmore 5,550 62.75% 460 5.20% 2,797 31.62% 19 0.21% 19 0.21% 2,753 31.13% 8,845 Freeborn 6,139 63.75% 480 4.98% 2,991 31.06% 9 0.09% 11 0.11% 3,148 32.69% 9,630 Goodhue 6,849 59.05% 615 5.30% 4,113 35.46% 11 0.09% 11 0.09% 2,736 23.59% 11,599 Grant 1,674 49.21% 118 3.47% 1,601 47.06% 3 0.09% 6 0.18% 73 2.15% 3,402 Hennepin 101,120 59.02% 10,806 6.31% 58,846 34.35% 377 0.22% 178 0.10% 42,274 24.67% 171,327 Houston 2,782 53.58% 402 7.74% 1,992 38.37% 13 0.25% 3 0.06% 790 15.21% 5,192 Hubbard 1,884 57.81% 191 5.86% 1,166 35.78% 12 0.37% 6 0.18% 718 22.03% 3,259 Isanti 1,588 39.54% 79 1.97% 2,332 58.07% 7 0.17% 10 0.25% -744 -18.53% 4,016 Itasca 4,961 60.10% 496 6.01% 2,532 30.67% 232 2.81% 34 0.41% 2,429 29.43% 8,255 Jackson 2,760 48.96% 407 7.22% 2,446 43.39% 12 0.21% 12 0.21% 314 5.57% 5,637 Kanabec 1,507 47.57% 128 4.04% 1,521 48.01% 4 0.13% 8 0.25% -14 -0.44% 3,168 Kandiyohi 3,222 40.16% 222 2.77% 4,552 56.74% 15 0.19% 11 0.14% -1,330 -16.58% 8,022 Kittson 1,333 42.88% 249 8.01% 1,503 48.34% 17 0.55% 7 0.23% -170 -5.46% 3,109 Koochiching 1,536 37.42% 222 5.41% 2,304 56.13% 34 0.83% 9 0.22% -768 -18.71% 4,105 Lac qui Parle 2,860 52.26% 106 1.94% 2,481 45.33% 15 0.27% 11 0.20% 379 6.93% 5,473 Lake 1,251 46.63% 60 2.24% 1,319 49.16% 45 1.68% 8 0.30% -68 -2.53% 2,683 Lake of the Woods 703 42.71% 92 5.59% 832 50.55% 10 0.61% 9 0.55% -129 -7.84% 1,646 Le Sueur 2,475 38.19% 1,199 18.50% 2,756 42.52% 23 0.35% 28 0.43% -281 -4.33% 6,481 Lincoln 1,657 48.03% 252 7.30% 1,511 43.80% 13 0.38% 17 0.49% 146 4.23% 3,450 Lyon 3,519 53.70% 334 5.10% 2,674 40.81% 10 0.15% 16 0.24% 845 12.89% 6,553 McLeod 2,841 44.89% 563 8.90% 2,893 45.78% 16 0.25% 16 0.25% -52 -0.89% 6,329 Mahnomen 629 33.69% 122 6.53% 1,094 57.91% 13 0.70% 9 0.48% -465 -24.22% 1,867 Marshall 2,100 40.03% 290 5.53% 2,812 53.88% 25 0.48% 19 0.36% -712 -13.85% 5,246 Martin 4,238 56.24% 751 9.97% 2,529 33.50% 10 0.13% 7 0.09% 1,709 22.74% 7,535 Meeker 2,757 45.47% 365 6.02% 2,910 47.99% 20 0.33% 12 0.20% -153 -2.52% 6,064 Mille Lacs 2,413 48.79% 167 3.38% 2,348 47.47% 10 0.20% 8 0.16% 65 1.32% 4,946 Morrison 3,128 41.63% 769 10.23% 3,546 47.19% 33 0.44% 38 0.51% -418 -5.56% 7,514 Mower 5,061 55.69% 564 6.21% 3,436 37.81% 16 0.18% 11 0.12% 1,625 17.88% 9,088 Murray 2,034 45.80% 334 7.52% 2,048 46.12% 12 0.27% 13 0.29% -14 -0.32% 4,441 Nicollet 2,518 50.05% 287 5.70% 2,208 43.89% 11 0.22% 7 0.14% 310 6.16% 5,031 Nobles 2,835 46.10% 421 6.85% 2,875 46.75% 9 0.15% 10 0.16% -40 -0.65% 6,150 Norman 1,997 45.77% 171 3.92% 2,174 49.83% 16 0.37% 5 0.11% -177 -4.06% 4,363 Olmsted 5,722 56.50% 857 8.46% 3,508 34.64% 27 0.27% 13 0.13% 2,214 21.86% 10,127 Otter Tail 7,557 55.45% 568 4.17% 5,346 39.23% 137 1.01% 21 0.15% 2,211 16.22% 13,629 Pennington 1,126 31.20% 146 4.05% 2,320 64.28% 13 0.36% 4 0.11% -1,194 -33.08% 3,609 Pine 2,706 42.03% 469 7.28% 3,196 49.64% 44 0.68% 23 0.36% -490 -7.61% 6,438 Pipestone 2,066 48.16% 219 5.10% 1,984 46.25% 14 0.33% 7 0.16% 82 1.91% 4,290 Polk 5,027 43.94% 663 5.80% 5,695 49.78% 37 0.32% 18 0.16% -668 -5.84% 11,440 Pope 2,079 45.88% 151 3.33% 2,284 50.41% 8 0.18% 9 0.20% -205 -4.53% 4,531 Ramsey 39,566 47.66% 8,407 10.13% 34,684 41.78% 262 0.32% 100 0.12% 4,882 5.88% 83,019 Red Lake 643 35.19% 213 11.66% 956 52.33% 11 0.60% 4 0.22% -313 -17.14% 1,827 Redwood 3,342 50.66% 443 6.72% 2,778 42.11% 18 0.27% 16 0.24% 564 8.55% 6,597 Renville 3,405 42.66% 641 8.03% 3,898 48.84% 21 0.26% 16 0.20% -493 -6.18% 7,981 Rice 5,883 61.26% 1,199 12.49% 2,454 25.55% 35 0.36% 32 0.33% 3,429 35.71% 9,603 Rock 2,065 51.98% 261 6.57% 1,637 41.20% 6 0.15% 4 0.10% 428 10.78% 3,973 Roseau 1,300 38.99% 148 4.44% 1,862 55.85% 13 0.39% 11 0.33% -562 -16.86% 3,334 Saint Louis 37,033 57.31% 2,577 3.99% 23,166 35.85% 1,385 2.14% 462 0.71% 13,867 21.46% 64,623 Scott 1,324 29.29% 829 18.34% 2,327 51.48% 24 0.53% 16 0.35% -1,003 -22.19% 4,520 Sherburne 1,961 63.65% 180 5.84% 925 30.02% 6 0.19% 9 0.29% 1,036 33.63% 3,081 Sibley 1,749 34.57% 341 6.74% 2,935 58.00% 21 0.42% 14 0.28% -1,186 -23.43% 5,060 Stearns 6,469 37.36% 1,354 7.82% 9,385 54.20% 64 0.37% 42 0.24% -2,916 -16.84% 17,314 Steele 3,598 59.50% 796 13.16% 1,632 26.99% 13 0.21% 8 0.13% 1,966 32.51% 6,047 Stevens 1,553 48.99% 238 7.51% 1,362 42.97% 12 0.38% 5 0.16% 191 6.02% 3,170 Swift 1,654 33.60% 334 6.79% 2,918 59.28% 9 0.18% 7 0.14% -1,264 -25.68% 4,922 Todd 4,441 53.00% 557 6.65% 3,339 39.85% 17 0.20% 25 0.30% 1,102 13.15% 8,379 Traverse 1,002 39.32% 202 7.93% 1,330 52.20% 9 0.35% 5 0.20% -328 -12.88% 2,548 Wabasha 2,834 44.93% 644 10.21% 2,811 44.57% 12 0.19% 6 0.10% 23 0.36% 6,307 Wadena 1,900 54.83% 182 5.25% 1,265 36.51% 109 3.15% 9 0.26% 635 18.32% 3,465 Waseca 2,081 37.13% 442 7.89% 3,057 54.54% 11 0.20% 14 0.25% -976 -17.41% 5,605 Washington 4,482 52.40% 699 8.17% 3,351 39.18% 12 0.14% 9 0.11% 1,131 13.22% 8,553 Watonwan 2,297 53.57% 279 6.51% 1,703 39.72% 5 0.12% 4 0.09% 594 13.85% 4,288 Wilkin 1,342 47.17% 245 8.61% 1,250 43.94% 4 0.14% 4 0.14% 92 3.23% 2,845 Winona 5,670 43.53% 1,111 8.53% 6,183 47.47% 15 0.12% 47 0.36% -513 -3.94% 13,026 Wright 4,349 47.52% 567 6.20% 4,172 45.59% 41 0.45% 22 0.24% 177 1.93% 9,151 Yellow Medicine 2,278 38.70% 151 2.56% 3,440 58.43% 13 0.22% 5 0.08% -1,162 -19.73% 5,887Totals420,75951.18%55,9136.80%339,19241.26%4,4270.54%1,8550.23%81,5679.92%822,146 Analysis Given Davis' shocking statewide performance – not polling twenty percent in any of Minnesota's eighty-seven counties – this election would prove the last as of 2024 when Ramsey County has not voted Democratic,Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’ https://web.archive.org/web/20161116163625/http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century November 16, 2016 ; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 for La Follette's vote would turn to beaten Democratic nominee Smith in the following election and remain with the party for many decades. With 41.26 percent of the popular vote, Minnesota would prove to be La Follette's third strongest state in the 1924 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Wisconsin and North Dakota.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 See also United States presidential elections in Minnesota Notes References 2 expanded 1924 Min Category:1924 Minnesota elections