1924 United States presidential election in Alabama explained

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Election Name:	1924 United States presidential election in Alabama
Country:	Alabama
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1920 United States presidential election in Alabama
Previous Year:	1920
Next Election:	1928 United States presidential election in Alabama
Next Year:	1928
Election Date:	November 4, 1924
Image1:	John William Davis.jpg
Nominee1:	John W. Davis
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	West Virginia
Running Mate1:	Charles W. Bryan
Electoral Vote1:	12
Popular Vote1:	112,966
Percentage1:	67.8%
Nominee2:	Calvin Coolidge
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	Massachusetts
Running Mate2:	Charles G. Dawes
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	45,005
Percentage2:	27.0%
President
Before Election:	Calvin Coolidge
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Calvin Coolidge
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)
Map Size:	300px

The 1924 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the nationwide presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Since the 1890s, Alabama had been effectively a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. Disenfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and a large proportion of poor whites via poll taxes, literacy tests^[1] and informal harassment had essentially eliminated opposition parties outside of Unionist Winston County and a few nearby northern hill counties that had been Populist strongholds.^[2] The only competitive statewide elections became Democratic Party primaries that were limited by law to white voters. Unlike most other Confederate states, however, soon after black disenfranchisement Alabama's remaining white Republicans made rapid efforts to expel blacks from the state Republican Party.^[3] Indeed, under Oscar D. Street, who ironically was appointed state party boss as part of the pro-Taft “black and tan” faction in 1912,^[4] the state GOP would permanently turn “lily-white”, with the last black delegates from the state at any Republican National Convention serving in 1920.^[3]

The 1920 election, aided by isolationism in Appalachia^[5] and the whitening of the state GOP,^[6] saw the Republicans gain their best presidential vote share in Alabama since 1884,^[7] while the GOP even exceed forty percent in the House of Representatives races for the 4th, 7th and 10th congressional districts.^[5] However, isolationist sentiment in Appalachia would ease after the election of Warren G. Harding^[5] and funding issues meant the Republicans would not run a candidate for any Alabama congressional district in 1922.^[8]

With the ebbing of isolationist sentiment and a conservative Southern Democrat supportive of poll taxes and opposed to women's suffrage in John W. Davis of West Virginia nominated after an extremely prolonged convention,^[9] neither Davis nor incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge nor “La Follette/Wheeler” candidate Robert M. La Follette visited Alabama.^[10] No polls were taken in the state, which had given every Democrat since 1876 over sixty percent, and ultimately Davis won Alabama with over sixty-seven percent of the vote. Despite the severe impediments of Alabama's cumulative poll tax, La Follette did reach into double digits in industrialised Jefferson, Baldwin, and Morgan Counties, but overall he polled only just under five percent of Alabama's ballots, making it his eighth-weakest state.^[11]

Results

Results by county

1924 United States presidential election in Alabama by county^[12]

County	John William Davis Democratic		John Calvin Coolidge Republican		Robert M. La Follette senior La Follette/Wheeler		Herman Preston Faris National Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
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	Autauga		781		81.87%		146		15.30%		22		2.31%		5		0.52%		635		66.56%		954
	Baldwin		1,023		51.72%		549		27.76%		392		19.82%		14		0.71%		474		23.96%		1,978
	Barbour		1,340		91.59%		78		5.33%		40		2.73%		5		0.34%		1,262		86.26%		1,463
	Bibb		875		63.68%		251		18.27%		240		17.47%		8		0.58%		624		45.41%		1,374
	Blount		2,083		56.15%		1,518		40.92%		103		2.78%		6		0.16%		565		15.23%		3,710
	Bullock		763		98.83%		8		1.04%		1		0.13%		0		0.00%		755		97.80%		772
	Butler		1,050		83.33%		95		7.54%		115		9.13%		0		0.00%		935		74.21%		1,260
	Calhoun		1,907		67.65%		766		27.17%		129		4.58%		17		0.60%		1,141		40.48%		2,819
	Chambers		1,922		91.00%		146		6.91%		43		2.04%		1		0.05%		1,776		84.09%		2,112
	Cherokee		1,380		60.63%		845		37.13%		45		1.98%		6		0.26%		535		23.51%		2,276
	Chilton		848		33.60%		1,595		63.19%		75		2.97%		6		0.24%		-747		-29.60%		2,524
	Choctaw		1,021		97.80%		19		1.82%		2		0.19%		2		0.19%		1,002		95.98%		1,044
	Clarke		1,059		91.93%		78		6.77%		12		1.04%		3		0.26%		981		85.16%		1,152
	Clay		1,597		59.88%		1,017		38.13%		49		1.84%		4		0.15%		580		21.75%		2,667
	Cleburne		622		45.74%		696		51.18%		38		2.79%		4		0.29%		-74		-5.44%		1,360
	Coffee		1,597		82.11%		323		16.61%		20		1.03%		5		0.26%		1,274		65.50%		1,945
	Colbert		1,503		65.98%		576		25.29%		189		8.30%		10		0.44%		927		40.69%		2,278
	Conecuh		955		88.10%		92		8.49%		31		2.86%		6		0.55%		863		79.61%		1,084
	Coosa		790		60.12%		508		38.66%		15		1.14%		1		0.08%		282		21.46%		1,314
	Covington		1,776		85.88%		156		7.54%		132		6.38%		4		0.19%		1,620		78.34%		2,068
	Crenshaw		1,107		89.06%		117		9.41%		8		0.64%		11		0.88%		990		79.65%		1,243
	Cullman		1,809		49.79%		1,639		45.11%		180		4.95%		5		0.14%		170		4.68%		3,633
	Dale		1,117		77.52%		297		20.61%		22		1.53%		5		0.35%		820		56.90%		1,441
	Dallas		1,948		91.76%		50		2.36%		125		5.89%		0		0.00%		1,823		85.87%		2,123
	DeKalb		3,003		46.65%		3,434		53.35%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-431		-6.70%		6,437
	Elmore		1,088		81.62%		219		16.43%		15		1.13%		11		0.83%		869		65.19%		1,333
	Escambia		1,217		85.70%		152		10.70%		46		3.24%		5		0.35%		1,065		75.00%		1,420
	Etowah		3,081		61.41%		1,664		33.17%		242		4.82%		30		0.60%		1,417		28.24%		5,017
	Fayette		1,358		57.35%		977		41.26%		30		1.27%		3		0.13%		381		16.09%		2,368
	Franklin		1,985		46.59%		2,208		51.82%		65		1.53%		3		0.07%		-223		-5.23%		4,261
	Geneva		1,191		69.53%		477		27.85%		39		2.28%		6		0.35%		714		41.68%		1,713
	Greene		408		98.31%		5		1.20%		1		0.24%		1		0.24%		403		97.11%		415
	Hale		856		96.72%		23		2.60%		4		0.45%		2		0.23%		833		94.12%		885
	Henry		816		78.84%		179		17.29%		37		3.57%		3		0.29%		637		61.55%		1,035
	Houston		1,731		83.87%		242		11.72%		83		4.02%		8		0.39%		1,489		72.14%		2,064
	Jackson		1,923		66.11%		885		30.42%		86		2.96%		15		0.52%		1,038		35.68%		2,909
	Jefferson		15,133		63.64%		5,678		23.88%		2,808		11.81%		161		0.68%		9,455		39.76%		23,780
	Lamar		1,087		79.40%		262		19.14%		18		1.31%		2		0.15%		825		60.26%		1,369
	Lauderdale		2,266		71.30%		823		25.90%		80		2.52%		9		0.28%		1,443		45.41%		3,178
	Lawrence		990		67.26%		468		31.79%		12		0.82%		2		0.14%		522		35.46%		1,472
	Lee		1,290		85.77%		98		6.52%		111		7.38%		5		0.33%		1,179		78.39%		1,504
	Limestone		1,415		87.35%		136		8.40%		51		3.15%		18		1.11%		1,279		78.95%		1,620
	Lowndes		602		95.86%		5		0.80%		20		3.18%		1		0.16%		582		92.68%		628
	Macon		538		91.34%		48		8.15%		2		0.34%		1		0.17%		490		83.19%		589
	Madison		2,166		83.76%		368		14.23%		49		1.89%		3		0.12%		1,798		69.53%		2,586
	Marengo		1,243		98.42%		17		1.35%		2		0.16%		1		0.08%		1,226		97.07%		1,263
	Marion		1,359		99.05%		0		0.00%		12		0.87%		1		0.07%		1,347		98.18%		1,372
	Marshall		2,629		59.31%		1,718		38.75%		81		1.83%		5		0.11%		911		20.55%		4,433
	Mobile		4,125		64.91%		1,814		28.54%		380		5.98%		36		0.57%		2,311		36.37%		6,355
	Monroe		1,155		96.09%		22		1.83%		22		1.83%		3		0.25%		1,133		94.26%		1,202
	Montgomery		4,422		87.70%		233		4.62%		375		7.44%		12		0.24%		4,047		80.27%		5,042
	Morgan		2,247		71.58%		519		16.53%		352		11.21%		21		0.67%		1,728		55.05%		3,139
	Perry		928		96.17%		25		2.59%		12		1.24%		0		0.00%		903		93.58%		965
	Pickens		1,045		87.45%		132		11.05%		15		1.26%		3		0.25%		913		76.40%		1,195
	Pike		1,832		97.34%		30		1.59%		15		0.80%		5		0.27%		1,802		95.75%		1,882
	Randolph		1,307		65.32%		669		33.43%		18		0.90%		7		0.35%		638		31.88%		2,001
	Russell		474		91.33%		14		2.70%		31		5.97%		0		0.00%		443		85.36%		519
	St. Clair		1,281		45.30%		1,432		50.64%		110		3.89%		5		0.18%		-151		-5.34%		2,828
	Shelby		1,882		49.18%		1,753		45.81%		186		4.86%		6		0.16%		129		3.37%		3,827
	Sumter		837		94.68%		28		3.17%		19		2.15%		0		0.00%		809		91.52%		884
	Talladega		1,730		71.72%		628		26.04%		48		1.99%		6		0.25%		1,102		45.69%		2,412
	Tallapoosa		1,713		99.59%		1		0.06%		3		0.17%		3		0.17%		1,710		99.42%		1,720
	Tuscaloosa		2,363		85.80%		247		8.97%		128		4.65%		16		0.58%		2,116		76.83%		2,754
	Walker		3,351		54.59%		2,446		39.85%		332		5.41%		9		0.15%		905		14.74%		6,138
	Washington		610		89.97%		55		8.11%		12		1.77%		1		0.15%		555		81.86%		678
	Wilcox		938		97.81%		6		0.63%		15		1.56%		0		0.00%		923		96.25%		959
	Winston		650		36.19%		1,096		61.02%		45		2.51%		5		0.28%		-446		-24.83%		1,796
Totals	113,138	68.76%	42,801	26.01%	8,040	4.89%	562	0.34%	70,337	42.75%	164,541

See also

• United States presidential elections in Alabama

Notes and References

1. Book: Perman, Michael. Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC. 2001. Introduction. 9780807849095.
2. Webb. Samuel L.. From Independents to Populists to Progressive Republicans: The Case of Chilton County, Alabama, 1880-1920. The Journal of Southern History. 59. 4. 707–736.
3. Book: Heersink. Jenkins. Boris. Jeffery A.. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968. 251–253. 9781107158436. 2020.
4. Book: Casdorph, Paul D.. Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916. The University of Alabama Press. 1981. 70, 94–95. 0817300481.
5. Book: Phillips, Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 255. 1969. 0870000586.
6. Heersink and Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, p. 19
7. Web site: Presidential General Election Results Comparison — Alabama. Leip. Dave. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
8. See News: G.O.P. Funds Are Reported Short: Forces "Counted On" Disappoint Republican Political Managers. The Birmingham News. August 19, 1922. 5. Birmingham, Alabama.
9. Book: Newman, Roger K.. The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law. 153. 0300113005.
10. News: Davis Closes His Campaign in West and Moves South; Helping Hand Across Sea Might Save Europe, Nominee Claims — Goes to Nashville To renew Attack on G.O.P.; From Tennessee He Returns North for Tour of Four States. The Birmingham News. Birmingham, Alabama. October 19, 1924. 1.
11. See Stark, Rodney and Christiano, Kevin J.; 'Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered'; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1 (March, 1992), pp. 62-75
12. Encyclopedia: State of Alabama Department of Archives and History. Vote for Presidential Electors, November 4, 1924. Alabama Official and Statistical Register. 1927.