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1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

← 1916 November 2, 1920 1924 →
 
Nominee Warren G. Harding James M. Cox
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Ohio Ohio
Running mate Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 95,196 62,662
Percentage 59.84% 39.39%

County Results
Harding
  50-60%
  60-70%


President before election

Woodrow Wilson
Democratic

Elected President

Warren G. Harding
Republican

The 1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 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 Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, over the Democratic nominee, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding ran with Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.

Harding won New Hampshire by a margin of 20.45%. His victory in the New England states was helped by the local popularity of his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, a traditional New England Yankee born in the small-town of Plymouth Notch in neighboring Vermont, who had started his political career in neighboring Massachusetts as its governor. Despite this, New Hampshire would be Cox's second-strongest antebellum free state after Indiana by popular vote percentage and the third-strongest after Indiana and Cox's Ohio in terms of percentage margin.

New Hampshire voted 5.72% more Democratic than the nation at-large – which is the most Democratic relative to the nation that New Hampshire has ever voted since the Republican Party was founded.[1] Although Cox carried no counties, Hillsborough and longtime national bellwether Coös would prove his strongest counties in New England.

Results

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1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[2]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Republican Warren Gamaliel Harding of Ohio Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts 95,196 59.84% 4 100.00%
Democratic James Middleton Cox of Ohio Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York 62,662 39.39% 0 0.00%
Socialist Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana Seymour Stedman of Illinois 1,234 0.78% 0 0.00%
Total 159,092 100.00% 4 100.00%

Results by county

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County Warren Gamaliel Harding
Republican
James Middleton Cox
Democratic
Eugene Victor Debs
Socialist
Margin Total votes cast[3]
# % # % # % # %
Belknap 5,628 61.74% 3,464 38.00% 23 0.25% 2,164 23.74% 9,115
Carroll 4,214 64.73% 2,279 35.01% 17 0.26% 1,935 29.72% 6,510
Cheshire 6,644 65.83% 3,374 33.43% 74 0.73% 3,270 32.40% 10,092
Coös 6,114 54.45% 4,985 44.40% 129 1.15% 1,129 10.06% 11,228
Grafton 9,650 61.10% 6,102 38.63% 42 0.27% 3,548 22.46% 15,794
Hillsborough 23,040 54.44% 18,736 44.27% 546 1.29% 4,304 10.17% 42,322
Merrimack 12,748 58.28% 8,976 41.04% 148 0.68% 3,772 17.25% 21,872
Rockingham 13,811 67.29% 6,582 32.07% 132 0.64% 7,229 35.22% 20,525
Strafford 8,700 60.37% 5,643 39.15% 69 0.48% 3,057 21.21% 14,412
Sullivan 4,647 64.35% 2,521 34.91% 54 0.75% 2,126 29.44% 7,222
Totals 95,196 59.84% 62,662 39.39% 1,234 0.78% 32,534 20.45% 159,092

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Counting the Votes; New Hampshire
  2. ^ "1920 Presidential General Election Results – New Hampshire". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 270 ISBN 9780804716963