Electoral history of Warren G. Harding

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Electoral history of Warren G. Harding, who served as the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923);[1] a U.S. senator from Ohio (1915-1921);[2] and the 28th lieutenant governor of Ohio (1904-1906).[3]

Ohio gubernatorial races (1903-1910)[]

1903 Ohio gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Myron T. Herrick / Warren G. Harding 475,560 54.89%
Democratic Tom L. Johnson / Frank B. Niles 361,748 41.76%
Total votes 113,812 96.65%
1910 Ohio gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Warren G. Harding 376,700 40.75%
Democratic Judson Harmon 477,077 51.61%
Socialist Tom Clifford 60,637 6.56%
Total votes 90,328 99.01%

United States Senate election (1914)[]

Ohio United States Senate Republican Primary, 1914
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Warren G. Harding 88,540 40.69%
Republican Joseph B. Foraker 76,817 35.30%
Republican Ralph D. Cole 52,237 24.01%
Total votes 217,594 100%
Ohio United States Senate election, 1914
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Warren G. Harding 526,115 49.16%
Democratic Timothy S. Hogan 423,742 39.60%
Progressive Arthur L. Garford 67,509 6.31%
Socialist E.K. Hitchens 52,803 4.93%
Total votes 1,070,169 100%
Republican hold

Presidential elections (1916-1920)[]

1916 Republican National Convention[]

Ballot 1 2 3
Charles Evans Hughes 253.5 328.5 949.5
John W. Weeks 105 79 3
Elihu Root 103 98.5 0
Charles W. Fairbanks 74.5 88.5 0
Albert B. Cummins 85 85 0
Theodore Roosevelt 65 81 18.5
Theodore E. Burton 77.5 76.5 0
Lawrence Yates Sherman 66 65 0
Philander C. Knox 36 36 0
Henry Ford 32 0 0
Martin Grove Brumbaugh 29 0 0
Robert M. La Follette 25 25 3
William Howard Taft 14 0 0
T. Coleman du Pont 12 13 5
Henry Cabot Lodge 0 0 7
John Wanamaker 0 5 0
Frank B. Willis 4 1 0
William Borah 2 0 0
Warren G. Harding 0 1 0
Samuel W. McCall 1 1 0
Leonard Wood 0 1 0
Absent 2.5 2 1

Source - [4]

1920 United States presidential election[]

1920 Republican National Convention[]

1920 Republican presidential balloting
Ballot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10[a] 10[b]
Harding 65.5 59.0 58.5 61.5 78.0 89.0 105.0 133.0 374.5 644.7 692.2
Wood 287.5 289.5 303.0 314.5 299.0 311.5 312.0 299.0 249.0 181.5 156.0
Lowden 211.5 259.5 282.5 289.0 303.0 311.5 311.5 307.0 121.5 28.0 11.0
H. Johnson 133.5 146.0 148.0 140.5 133.5 110.0 99.5 87.0 82.0 80.8 80.8
Sproul 84.0 78.5 79.5 79.5 82.5 77.0 76.0 76.0 78.0 0 0
W.M. Butler 69.5 41.0 25.0 20.0 4.0 4.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0
Coolidge 34.0 32.0 27.0 25.0 29.0 28.0 28.0 30.0 28.0 5.0 5.0
La Follette 24.0 24.0 24.0 22.0 24.0 24.0 24.0 24.0 24.0 24.0 24.0
Pritchard 21.0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Poindexter 20.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 14.0 2.0 0
Sutherland 17.0 15.0 9.0 3.0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hoover 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 10.5 9.5
Scattering 11.0 9.0 7.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 6.0 6.0 5.0 5.5 3.5
  1. ^ before shifts
  2. ^ after shifts

Presidential election[]

1920 Presidential election electoral college result.
Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote
Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
Warren Gamaliel Harding Republican Ohio 16,144,093 60.32% 404 John Calvin Coolidge Jr. Massachusetts 404
James Middleton Cox Democratic Ohio 9,139,661 34.15% 127 Franklin Delano Roosevelt New York 127
Eugene Victor Debs Socialist Indiana 913,693 3.41% 0 Seymour Stedman Illinois 0
Parley Parker Christensen Farmer-Labor Illinois 265,398 0.99% 0 Maximillian S. Hayes Ohio 0
Aaron Sherman Watkins Prohibition Indiana 188,787 0.71% 0 David Leigh Colvin New York 0
James Edward Ferguson Jr. American Texas 47,968 0.18% 0 William J. Hough New York 0
William Wesley Cox Socialist Labor Missouri 31,084 0.12% 0 August Gillhaus New York 0
Robert Colvin Macauley Single Tax Pennsylvania 5,750 0.02% 0 Richard C. Barnum Ohio 0
Other 28,746 0.11% Other
Total 26,765,180 100% 531 531
Needed to win 266 266

Sources and references[]

  1. ^ "Warren G. Harding". The White House (in American English). Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  2. ^ "Warren G. Harding". HISTORY. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  3. ^ "Warren G. Harding | Facts, Accomplishments, & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  4. ^ Hart, George L (1916). Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National Convention: Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1916, Resulting in the Nomination of Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, for President and the Nomination of Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana, for Vice-president. Tenny Press.
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