See main article: 1920 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1920 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Country: | West Virginia |
| Flag Year: | 1907 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1916 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Previous Year: | 1916 |
| Next Election: | 1924 United States presidential election in West Virginia |
| Next Year: | 1924 |
| Election Date: | November 2, 1920 |
| Image1: | Warren G Harding-Harris & Ewing crop.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Warren G. Harding |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Ohio |
| Running Mate1: | Calvin Coolidge |
| Electoral Vote1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 282,007 |
| Percentage1: | 55.30% |
| Nominee2: | James M. Cox |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Ohio |
| Running Mate2: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 220,789 |
| Percentage2: | 43.30% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Woodrow Wilson |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Warren G. Harding |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1920 United States presidential election in West Virginia 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 eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
West Virginia voted for the Republican nominee, Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding, over the Democratic nominee, Ohio Governor James M. Cox. Harding ran with Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.
Harding won the state by a margin of 12 percent, becoming the first ever Republican victor in Summers County, the first in Braxton County since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, and the last until Richard Nixon in 1972 in both Braxton and Boone Counties.[1]
| 1920 United States presidential election in West Virginia[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Warren G. Harding | 282,007 | 55.30% | 8 | |
| Democratic | James M. Cox | 220,789 | 43.30% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Eugene V. Debs | 5,618 | 1.10% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Aaron S. Watkins | 1,528 | 0.30% | 0 | |
| Totals | 509,942 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
| County | Republican | Democratic | Socialist | Prohibition | Margin | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Barbour | 3,763 | 56.58% | 2,777 | 41.75% | 94 | 1.41% | 17 | 0.26% | 986 | 14.82% | 6,651 | ||||||||||||
| Berkeley | 5,259 | 53.95% | 4,399 | 45.13% | 60 | 0.62% | 30 | 0.31% | 860 | 8.82% | 9,748 | ||||||||||||
| Boone | 2,674 | 50.31% | 2,529 | 47.58% | 108 | 2.03% | 4 | 0.08% | 145 | 2.73% | 5,315 | ||||||||||||
| Braxton | 4,274 | 49.91% | 4,269 | 49.85% | 10 | 0.12% | 10 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.06% | 8,563 | ||||||||||||
| Brooke | 3,060 | 57.36% | 2,129 | 39.91% | 104 | 1.95% | 42 | 0.79% | 931 | 17.45% | 5,335 | ||||||||||||
| Cabell | 13,170 | 50.80% | 12,485 | 48.16% | 204 | 0.79% | 64 | 0.25% | 685 | 2.64% | 25,923 | ||||||||||||
| Calhoun | 1,671 | 48.48% | 1,773 | 51.44% | 2 | 0.06% | 1 | 0.03% | -102 | -2.96% | 3,447 | ||||||||||||
| Clay | 1,981 | 56.37% | 1,533 | 43.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 448 | 12.75% | 3,514 | ||||||||||||
| Doddridge | 3,135 | 72.96% | 1,137 | 26.46% | 12 | 0.28% | 13 | 0.30% | 1,998 | 46.50% | 4,297 | ||||||||||||
| Fayette | 10,561 | 52.98% | 9,003 | 45.16% | 340 | 1.71% | 30 | 0.15% | 1,558 | 7.82% | 19,934 | ||||||||||||
| Gilmer | 1,635 | 46.58% | 1,854 | 52.82% | 6 | 0.17% | 15 | 0.43% | -219 | -6.24% | 3,510 | ||||||||||||
| Grant | 2,417 | 82.15% | 492 | 16.72% | 26 | 0.88% | 7 | 0.24% | 1,925 | 65.43% | 2,942 | ||||||||||||
| Greenbrier | 4,850 | 48.99% | 4,994 | 50.45% | 55 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | -144 | -1.45% | 9,899 | ||||||||||||
| Hampshire | 1,214 | 35.02% | 2,221 | 64.06% | 10 | 0.29% | 22 | 0.63% | -1,007 | -29.05% | 3,467 | ||||||||||||
| Hancock | 2,768 | 63.43% | 1,435 | 32.88% | 101 | 2.31% | 60 | 1.37% | 1,333 | 30.55% | 4,364 | ||||||||||||
| Hardy | 1,354 | 40.12% | 2,014 | 59.67% | 6 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.03% | -660 | -19.56% | 3,375 | ||||||||||||
| Harrison | 13,784 | 55.67% | 10,206 | 41.22% | 620 | 2.50% | 149 | 0.60% | 3,578 | 14.45% | 24,759 | ||||||||||||
| Jackson | 4,330 | 60.30% | 2,831 | 39.42% | 18 | 0.25% | 2 | 0.03% | 1,499 | 20.87% | 7,181 | ||||||||||||
| Jefferson | 2,168 | 35.27% | 3,944 | 64.16% | 29 | 0.47% | 6 | 0.10% | -1,776 | -28.89% | 6,147 | ||||||||||||
| Kanawha | 23,781 | 54.33% | 19,284 | 44.06% | 627 | 1.43% | 77 | 0.18% | 4,497 | 10.27% | 43,769 | ||||||||||||
| Lewis | 4,618 | 57.14% | 3,310 | 40.96% | 109 | 1.35% | 45 | 0.56% | 1,308 | 16.18% | 8,082 | ||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 3,339 | 55.58% | 2,649 | 44.09% | 19 | 0.32% | 1 | 0.02% | 690 | 11.48% | 6,008 | ||||||||||||
| Logan | 4,304 | 43.32% | 5,588 | 56.24% | 27 | 0.27% | 17 | 0.17% | -1,284 | -12.92% | 9,936 | ||||||||||||
| Marion | 11,494 | 55.23% | 8,734 | 41.97% | 408 | 1.96% | 175 | 0.84% | 2,760 | 13.26% | 20,811 | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | 7,208 | 58.22% | 4,814 | 38.89% | 259 | 2.09% | 99 | 0.80% | 2,394 | 19.34% | 12,380 | ||||||||||||
| Mason | 4,912 | 59.88% | 3,177 | 38.73% | 101 | 1.23% | 13 | 0.16% | 1,735 | 21.15% | 8,203 | ||||||||||||
| McDowell | 12,198 | 70.58% | 5,068 | 29.33% | 16 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,130 | 41.26% | 17,282 | ||||||||||||
| Mercer | 8,613 | 51.73% | 7,981 | 47.93% | 38 | 0.23% | 18 | 0.11% | 632 | 3.80% | 16,650 | ||||||||||||
| Mineral | 3,646 | 57.90% | 2,516 | 39.96% | 99 | 1.57% | 36 | 0.57% | 1,130 | 17.95% | 6,297 | ||||||||||||
| Mingo | 3,972 | 44.60% | 4,934 | 55.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -962 | -10.80% | 8,906 | ||||||||||||
| Monongalia | 6,773 | 63.99% | 3,442 | 32.52% | 284 | 2.68% | 85 | 0.80% | 3,331 | 31.47% | 10,584 | ||||||||||||
| Monroe | 3,001 | 54.25% | 2,519 | 45.54% | 8 | 0.14% | 4 | 0.07% | 482 | 8.71% | 5,532 | ||||||||||||
| Morgan | 1,817 | 71.48% | 712 | 28.01% | 13 | 0.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,105 | 43.47% | 2,542 | ||||||||||||
| Nicholas | 3,691 | 50.53% | 3,564 | 48.79% | 27 | 0.37% | 23 | 0.31% | 127 | 1.74% | 7,305 | ||||||||||||
| Ohio | 15,735 | 58.62% | 10,278 | 38.29% | 746 | 2.78% | 83 | 0.31% | 5,457 | 20.33% | 26,842 | ||||||||||||
| Pendleton | 1,581 | 46.51% | 1,814 | 53.37% | 4 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | -233 | -6.85% | 3,399 | ||||||||||||
| Pleasants | 1,657 | 52.91% | 1,449 | 46.26% | 16 | 0.51% | 10 | 0.32% | 208 | 6.64% | 3,132 | ||||||||||||
| Pocahontas | 2,836 | 52.32% | 2,540 | 46.85% | 26 | 0.48% | 19 | 0.35% | 296 | 5.46% | 5,421 | ||||||||||||
| Preston | 6,729 | 74.73% | 2,150 | 23.88% | 87 | 0.97% | 38 | 0.42% | 4,579 | 50.86% | 9,004 | ||||||||||||
| Putnam | 3,223 | 54.49% | 2,578 | 43.58% | 108 | 1.83% | 6 | 0.10% | 645 | 10.90% | 5,915 | ||||||||||||
| Raleigh | 7,668 | 56.19% | 5,916 | 43.35% | 53 | 0.39% | 9 | 0.07% | 1,752 | 12.84% | 13,646 | ||||||||||||
| Randolph | 4,158 | 46.11% | 4,676 | 51.85% | 153 | 1.70% | 31 | 0.34% | -518 | -5.74% | 9,018 | ||||||||||||
| Ritchie | 4,377 | 67.39% | 2,050 | 31.56% | 40 | 0.62% | 28 | 0.43% | 2,327 | 35.83% | 6,495 | ||||||||||||
| Roane | 4,232 | 57.78% | 3,082 | 42.08% | 6 | 0.08% | 4 | 0.05% | 1,150 | 15.70% | 7,324 | ||||||||||||
| Summers | 3,611 | 50.24% | 3,552 | 49.42% | 15 | 0.21% | 9 | 0.13% | 59 | 0.82% | 7,187 | ||||||||||||
| Taylor | 3,649 | 60.02% | 2,311 | 38.01% | 76 | 1.25% | 44 | 0.72% | 1,338 | 22.01% | 6,080 | ||||||||||||
| Tucker | 2,498 | 53.34% | 1,961 | 41.87% | 185 | 3.95% | 39 | 0.83% | 537 | 11.47% | 4,683 | ||||||||||||
| Tyler | 3,654 | 66.33% | 1,762 | 31.98% | 63 | 1.14% | 30 | 0.54% | 1,892 | 34.34% | 5,509 | ||||||||||||
| Upshur | 4,936 | 77.17% | 1,418 | 22.17% | 12 | 0.19% | 30 | 0.47% | 3,518 | 55.00% | 6,396 | ||||||||||||
| Wayne | 3,754 | 45.54% | 4,490 | 54.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -736 | -8.93% | 8,244 | ||||||||||||
| Webster | 1,562 | 44.51% | 1,942 | 55.34% | 5 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | -380 | -10.83% | 3,509 | ||||||||||||
| Wetzel | 3,619 | 46.37% | 4,103 | 52.58% | 54 | 0.69% | 28 | 0.36% | -484 | -6.20% | 7,804 | ||||||||||||
| Wirt | 1,680 | 54.88% | 1,376 | 44.95% | 4 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.03% | 304 | 9.93% | 3,061 | ||||||||||||
| Wood | 10,463 | 53.72% | 8,839 | 45.38% | 129 | 0.66% | 47 | 0.24% | 1,624 | 8.34% | 19,478 | ||||||||||||
| Wyoming | 2,950 | 61.78% | 1,825 | 38.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,125 | 23.56% | 4,775 | ||||||||||||
| Totals | 282,007 | 55.30% | 220,785 | 43.30% | 5,618 | 1.10% | 1,526 | 0.30% | 61,222 | 12.01% | 509,936 | ||||||||||||