United States presidential election in New Hampshire, 1924
The 1924 United States Presidential Election in New Hampshire took place on November 4, 1924 as part of the 1924 United States Presidential Election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.
New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, over the Democratic nominee, Ambassador John W. Davis of West Virginia. Coolidge ran with former Budget Director Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, while Davis ran with Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska. Also in the running that year was the Progressive Party nominee, Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin and his running mate Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. La Follette’s support base was primarily among rural German and Scandinavian Americans,[1] and he possessed little appeal in the Northeast outside a few New York and Boston anti-Prohibition precincts. Excluding the former Confederacy where the lower classes were almost entirely disfranchised, New Hampshire would prove La Follette’s third-weakest state – and overall the Granite State was La Follette’s tenth-weakest of 48.
Coolidge won New Hampshire by a margin of 25.11 percent of the vote, although this was marginally lower than his national margin of 25.22 percent over Davis, whilst New Hampshire was after Indiana and Rhode Island Davis’ third-strongest antebellum free state. Due to La Follette’s lack of appeal vis-à-vis his Midwest and Western support base, both Cooldidge and Davis exceeded their national vote share by around five percent in the Granite State.
Coolidge also enjoyed a unique personal popularity which helped him in the state and the rest of New England. He was the epitome of a traditional New England Yankee, having been born in the small-town of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and establishing his political career nearby as Governor of Massachusetts. Thus Coolidge remained especially popular with voters across the New England region.
Results
Results by county
County |
Coolidge# |
Coolidge% |
Davis# |
Davis% |
La Follette# |
La Follette% |
Total votes cast[3] |
Belknap |
5,996 |
63.79% |
3,217 |
34.23% |
186 |
1.98% |
9,399 |
Carroll |
4,372 |
65.40% |
2,213 |
33.10% |
100 |
1.50% |
6,685 |
Cheshire |
7,008 |
69.00% |
2,720 |
26.78% |
428 |
4.21% |
10,156 |
Coös |
6,137 |
52.67% |
4,620 |
39.65% |
894 |
7.67% |
11,651 |
Grafton |
10,493 |
64.12% |
5,360 |
32.75% |
511 |
3.12% |
16,364 |
Hillsborough |
22,098 |
51.66% |
16,002 |
37.41% |
4,673 |
10.93% |
42,773 |
Merrimack |
13,587 |
59.88% |
8,283 |
36.50% |
822 |
3.62% |
22,692 |
Rockingham |
14,530 |
68.42% |
6,073 |
28.60% |
634 |
2.99% |
21,237 |
Strafford |
9,167 |
56.63% |
6,445 |
39.82% |
575 |
3.55% |
16,187 |
Sullivan |
5,187 |
68.03% |
2,268 |
29.74% |
170 |
2.23% |
7,625 |
Totals | 98,575 | 59.83% | 57,201 | 34.72% | 8,993 | 5.46% | 164,769 |
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "1924 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 270 ISBN 9780804716963
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