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The American Political Almanac
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The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
John W. Davis
Democrat
John W. Davis
136
Electoral votes
28.8% · 8,464,933
President · The System of 1896

1924

Coolidge def. Davis, 382–136
vote totals summed from county returns
✓ Won
Calvin Coolidge
Republican
Calvin Coolidge
382
Electoral votes
54.0% · 15,792,273
Robert M. La Follette
Progressive
Robert M. La Follette
16.6% of the vote · 13 electoral votes
Electoral college — 266 to win (531 electors)136 D · 382 R · 13 other
Popular vote — a three-cornered race28.8% · 54.0% · other 17.2% · margin R+25.2

29,246,825 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
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R+40D+40third party won

Grey states were carried by a third-party ticket — the two-party margin shading does not apply there.

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1920 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

Drawing three thousand counties…

R+40D+40no returns

Who voted for whom? The survey record begins with the 1948 ANES — there is no comparable individual-level account of the 1924 electorate.

Notes on this election

  • La Follette carried Wisconsin and ran second across the West. Davis's 28.8% is the worst Democratic share ever.