United States presidential election in Utah, 1924

United States presidential election in Utah, 1924
Utah
November 4, 1924

 
Nominee Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis Robert M. La Follette
Party Republican Democratic Progressive
Home state Massachusetts West Virginia Wisconsin
Running mate Charles G. Dawes Charles W. Bryan Burton K. Wheeler
Electoral vote 4 0 0
Popular vote 77,327 47,001 32,662
Percentage 49.26% 29.94% 20.81%
President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

 Elected President

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

The 1924 Unites States presidential election in Utah took place on November 4, 1924. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

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]

Consequently, Utah voters strongly supported incumbent president Coolidge, who had come to power after Harding’s death in 1923. As Harding had done in 1920, Coolidge won all twenty-nine counties in Utah, a feat to be repeated by later Republican candidates in 1956, 1972, 1980, 1984, 2000, 2004 and 2012. The conservatism of Coolidge and Democratic nominee John Davis – the only ever presidential nominee to win an electoral vote from West Virginia and the first from an antebellum slave state (including border states) since the Civil War[3] – led more liberal supporters of both parties to support Progressive Robert La Follette. Utah’s conservative Mormonism meant that La Follette was not as popular as in other western states, and he finished third well behind Davis. La Follette nonetheless did outpoll Davis in the Wasatch Front counties of Salt Lake and Weber, as well as the eastern, ethnically more diverse Carbon County.

For this election, Utah essentially voted as the nation did, with the state on a two-party basis coming out as 5.90 percent more Democratic than the nation at-large,[4] although the total Davis vote was within one percent of the national average, and the La Follette vote three percent higher than the country at-large, though lower than any state to the north or west. Utah was along with Arizona and New Mexico the only Mountain state where La Follette did not carry any county.

Results

United States presidential election in Utah, 1924[5]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Calvin Coolidge 77,327 49.26% 4
Democratic John W. Davis 47,001 29.94% 0
Progressive Robert M. La Follette 32,662 20.81% 0

Results by county

County Coolidge# Coolidge% Davis# Davis% La Follette# La Follette% Total votes cast[6]
Beaver 989 53.34% 578 31.18% 287 15.48% 1,854
Box Elder 3,086 56.18% 1,841 33.52% 566 10.30% 5,493
Cache 4,973 52.01% 3,915 40.94% 674 7.05% 9,562
Carbon 1,878 37.59% 1,528 30.58% 1,590 31.83% 4,996
Daggett 97 74.05% 26 19.85% 8 6.11% 131
Davis 2,265 55.51% 1,507 36.94% 308 7.55% 4,080
Duchesne 1,277 57.60% 731 32.97% 209 9.43% 2,217
Emery 979 42.98% 916 40.21% 383 16.81% 2,278
Garfield 823 69.57% 308 26.04% 52 4.40% 1,183
Grand 278 47.93% 243 41.90% 59 10.17% 580
Iron 1,429 66.47% 485 22.56% 236 10.98% 2,150
Juab 1,325 43.57% 1,241 40.81% 475 15.62% 3,041
Kane 515 80.22% 117 18.22% 10 1.56% 642
Millard 1,917 55.74% 1,025 29.81% 497 14.45% 3,439
Morgan 482 54.10% 360 40.40% 49 5.50% 891
Piute 398 61.42% 208 32.10% 42 6.48% 648
Rich 403 62.48% 211 32.71% 31 4.81% 645
Salt Lake 27,215 46.44% 14,853 25.35% 16,534 28.21% 58,602
San Juan 380 56.89% 232 34.73% 56 8.38% 668
Sanpete 3,374 56.39% 2,228 37.24% 381 6.37% 5,983
Sevier 2,111 56.44% 1,201 32.11% 428 11.44% 3,740
Summit 1,597 57.16% 825 29.53% 372 13.31% 2,794
Tooele 1,295 52.47% 674 27.31% 499 20.22% 2,468
Uintah 1,296 60.90% 716 33.65% 116 5.45% 2,128
Utah 6,946 46.28% 5,226 34.82% 2,838 18.91% 15,010
Wasatch 1,105 52.39% 727 34.47% 277 13.13% 2,109
Washington 1,181 54.96% 868 40.39% 100 4.65% 2,149
Wayne 331 57.27% 241 41.70% 6 1.04% 578
Weber 7,382 43.60% 3,970 23.45% 5,579 32.95% 16,931
Totals77,32749.26%47,00129.94%32,66220.81%156,990

References

  1. ↑ Roseboom, Eugene Holloway and Eckes, Alfred E.; A History of Presidential Elections, from George Washington to Jimmy Carter; pp. 151-158 ISBN 0020364202
  2. ↑ Yergin, Daniel; The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power; p. 198 ISBN 1439134839
  3. ↑ ‘What States do Presidents Come From?’
  4. ↑ Counting the Votes; Utah
  5. ↑ "1924 Presidential Election Results - Utah". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
  6. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p.400 ISBN 0405077114
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