1924 United States presidential election in Washington (state)

The 1924 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 4, 1924. All contemporary forty-eight states took part of the 1924 United States presidential election, and Washington's voters selected seven voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1924 United States presidential election in Washington (state)

November 4, 1924

Nominee Calvin Coolidge Robert M. La Follette John W. Davis Party Republican Progressive Democratic Home state Massachusetts Wisconsin West Virginia Running mate Charles G. Dawes Burton K. Wheeler Charles W. Bryan Electoral vote 7 0 0 Popular vote 220,224 150,727 42,842 Percentage 52.24% 35.76% 10.16%

County Results Coolidge   40-50%   50-60%   60-70% La Follette   40-50%   50-60%

President before election Calvin Coolidge Republican Elected President Calvin Coolidge Republican

Rapid recovery of the economy from a sharp recession following World War I transformed the 1920s into a strongly Republican decade. Even the problematic issue of a farm depression had eased by the time of the election as prices recovered.[1] It was also widely thought that the Teapot Dome scandal could do nothing to revive the Democrats as they were well known to have equally severe problems therewith via the fact that recently deceased Woodrow Wilson had paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in legal fees to nomination frontrunner William McAdoo.[2]

The conservatism of Democratic nominee John W. Davis – the first presidential nominee since the American Civil War from an antebellum slave state and the only one ever from West Virginia[3] – led those with more progressive views to desert the two major parties for the third-party candidacy of Progressive "Fighting Bob" La Follette. His campaign, based on improved labor laws, an end to US involvement in the politics of Latin America, and cheap credit for farmers, had major appeal in the West, and in Washington State La Follette won five of thirty-nine counties (including absolute majorities in the eastern counties of Franklin and Adams) and finished ahead of Davis in every county except far southeastern Garfield County and Columbia County.

Results

1924 United States presidential election in Washington[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Calvin Coolidge	220,224	52.24%	7
	Progressive	Robert M. La Follette	150,727	35.76%	0
	Democratic	John W. Davis	42,842	10.16%	0
	American Party	Gilbert Nations	5,911	1.42%	0
	Socialist Labor	Frank T. Johns	1,004	0.24%	0
	Workers Party America	William Z. Foster	761	0.18%	0
Totals			3,263,939	100.0%	7

Results by county

County	John Calvin Coolidge Republican		John William Davis Democratic		Robert M. La Follette[5] Progressive		Gilbert Owen Nations[6] American		Frank Tetes Johns[6] Socialist Labor		William Z. Foster[6] Workers’ Party America		Margin[lower-alpha 1]		Total votes cast[7]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Adams	760	37.51%	228	11.25%	1,036	51.14%	0	0.00%	2	0.10%	0	0.00%	-276	-13.63%	2,026
Asotin	1,094	46.51%	508	21.60%	728	30.95%	15	0.64%	5	0.21%	2	0.09%	366	15.56%	2,352
Benton	1,812	45.33%	437	10.93%	1,711	42.81%	27	0.68%	4	0.10%	6	0.15%	101	2.52%	3,997
Chelan	4,543	55.56%	995	12.17%	2,584	31.60%	35	0.43%	19	0.23%	1	0.01%	1,959	23.96%	8,177
Clallam	2,129	52.07%	283	6.92%	1,639	40.08%	11	0.27%	17	0.42%	10	0.24%	490	11.99%	4,089
Clark	5,215	47.61%	2,004	18.29%	3,573	32.62%	112	1.02%	33	0.30%	17	0.16%	1,642	14.99%	10,954
Columbia	1,122	52.11%	522	24.25%	492	22.85%	12	0.56%	3	0.14%	2	0.09%	600[lower-alpha 2]	27.86%	2,153
Cowlitz	3,274	55.66%	927	15.76%	1,609	27.35%	21	0.36%	34	0.58%	17	0.29%	1,665	28.31%	5,882
Douglas	1,070	42.19%	398	15.69%	1,053	41.52%	7	0.28%	5	0.20%	3	0.12%	17	0.67%	2,536
Ferry	507	34.49%	349	23.74%	605	41.16%	3	0.20%	2	0.14%	4	0.27%	-98	-6.67%	1,470
Franklin	709	31.15%	237	10.41%	1,301	57.16%	19	0.83%	7	0.31%	3	0.13%	-592	-26.01%	2,276
Garfield	875	65.25%	324	24.16%	140	10.44%	2	0.15%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	551[lower-alpha 2]	41.09%	1,341
Grant	813	40.87%	332	16.69%	823	41.38%	16	0.80%	4	0.20%	1	0.05%	-10	-0.51%	1,989
Grays Harbor	8,273	60.16%	1,239	9.01%	4,079	29.66%	85	0.62%	32	0.23%	43	0.31%	4,194	30.50%	13,751
Island	832	46.25%	114	6.34%	830	46.14%	9	0.50%	6	0.33%	8	0.44%	2	0.11%	1,799
Jefferson	913	51.79%	143	8.11%	692	39.25%	4	0.23%	3	0.17%	8	0.45%	221	12.54%	1,763
King	60,438	53.51%	7,404	6.56%	41,146	36.43%	3,426	3.03%	309	0.27%	217	0.19%	19,292	17.08%	112,940
Kitsap	3,954	45.19%	490	5.60%	4,215	48.17%	45	0.51%	22	0.25%	24	0.27%	-261	-2.98%	8,750
Kittitas	2,360	47.22%	455	9.10%	2,112	42.26%	46	0.92%	9	0.18%	16	0.32%	248	4.96%	4,998
Klickitat	1,482	52.72%	518	18.43%	790	28.10%	9	0.32%	7	0.25%	5	0.18%	692	24.62%	2,811
Lewis	6,973	58.07%	1,544	12.86%	3,392	28.25%	30	0.25%	39	0.32%	29	0.24%	3,581	29.82%	12,007
Lincoln	2,042	46.16%	743	16.79%	1,629	36.82%	5	0.11%	3	0.07%	2	0.05%	413	9.34%	4,424
Mason	902	49.02%	179	9.73%	741	40.27%	9	0.49%	6	0.33%	3	0.16%	161	8.75%	1,840
Okanogan	2,531	50.41%	721	14.36%	1,735	34.55%	14	0.28%	14	0.28%	6	0.12%	796	15.86%	5,021
Pacific	2,672	64.57%	501	12.11%	930	22.47%	12	0.29%	8	0.19%	15	0.36%	1,742	42.10%	4,138
Pend Oreille	1,025	51.05%	231	11.50%	749	37.30%	2	0.10%	1	0.05%	0	0.00%	276	13.75%	2,008
Pierce	21,376	47.70%	4232	9.44%	18,467	41.20%	498	1.11%	137	0.31%	108	0.24%	2,909	6.50%	44,818
San Juan	744	66.67%	86	7.71%	284	25.45%	1	0.09%	1	0.09%	0	0.00%	460	41.22%	1,116
Skagit	5,071	47.95%	699	6.61%	4,714	44.57%	33	0.31%	20	0.19%	39	0.37%	357	3.38%	10,576
Skamania	533	52.15%	207	20.25%	275	26.91%	1	0.10%	4	0.39%	2	0.20%	258	25.24%	1,022
Snohomish	10,484	48.82%	1,548	7.21%	8,929	41.58%	428	1.99%	53	0.25%	31	0.14%	1,555	7.24%	21,473
Spokane	23,403	49.30%	6,036	12.71%	17,824	37.55%	104	0.22%	71	0.15%	35	0.07%	5,579	11.75%	47,473
Stevens	2,909	48.94%	685	11.52%	2,273	38.24%	39	0.66%	9	0.15%	29	0.49%	636	10.70%	5,944
Thurston	5,125	57.77%	943	10.63%	2,710	30.55%	42	0.47%	25	0.28%	26	0.29%	2,415	27.22%	8,871
Wahkiakum	496	60.49%	89	10.85%	228	27.80%	1	0.12%	5	0.61%	1	0.12%	268	32.69%	820
Walla Walla	5,465	58.83%	1,662	17.89%	2,125	22.87%	28	0.30%	7	0.08%	3	0.03%	3,340	35.96%	9,290
Whatcom	9,214	57.19%	927	5.75%	5,812	36.08%	105	0.65%	39	0.24%	13	0.08%	3,402	21.11%	16,110
Whitman	4,960	52.12%	1,745	18.34%	2,787	29.29%	18	0.19%	4	0.04%	2	0.02%	2,173	22.83%	9,516
Yakima	12,124	63.72%	2,157	11.34%	3,965	20.84%	717	3.77%	35	0.18%	30	0.16%	8,159	42.88%	19,028
Totals	220,224	52.24%	42,842	10.16%	150,727	35.76%	5,991	1.84%	1,004	0.24%	761	0.18%	69,497	16.48%	421,549

Notes

1. Because La Follette finished ahead of Davis in Washington State as a whole, all vote and percentage margins given are Coolidge minus La Follette unless stated in the total for the county in question.
2. In this county where Davis did run second ahead of La Follette, margin given is Coolidge vote minus Davis vote and percentage margin Coolidge percentage minus Davis percentage.

References

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