1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas explained

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Election Name:	1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Country:	Arkansas
Flag Year:	1923
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1920 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Previous Year:	1920
Next Election:	1928 United States presidential election in Arkansas
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:	9
Popular Vote1:	84,790
Percentage1:	61.20%
Nominee2:	Calvin Coolidge
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	Massachusetts
Running Mate2:	Charles G. Dawes
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	40,583
Percentage2:	29.29%
Image3:	Robert La Follette Sr crop.jpg
Nominee3:	Robert M. La Follette
Color3:	A2ED70
Party3:	Independent Progressive
Home State3:	Wisconsin
Running Mate3:	Burton K. Wheeler
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	13,167
Percentage3:	9.50%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Calvin Coolidge
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
Before Color:	3333FF
After Election:	Calvin Coolidge
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Color:	FF3333

The 1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-president.

Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.^[1] Disfranchisement during the 1890s of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Although the northwest of the state was to develop a strong Socialist Party movement that served as a swing vote in county elections,^[2] political repression^[3] and internal party divisions^[4] diminished that party's strength substantially.

The Democratic Party, under the influence of future federal Senate Minority and Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson and demagogic Governor and Senator Jeff Davis, was to make many familiar progressive changes in railroad regulation and child labor,^[5] but under the administration of George W. Donaghey – who saw his administration and Democratic primary candidacy as a fight against the “Davis Machine”^[6] – more rapid development occurred, especially in abolishing convict leasing and improving bank regulation.^[7]

Race riots and fear of the Bolshevik Revolution spreading and destroying American capitalism ensued when many soldiers returned from World War I, and President Woodrow Wilson responded with the Palmer Raids and a “Red Scare”.^[8] Isolationism was sufficiently powerful in Ozark sections of Arkansas that Warren G. Harding, with almost forty percent of the statewide vote in 1920, gained the most support for any GOP candidate since disfranchisement of Black Americans.^[9]

However, with the anti-Democratic opposition split and isolationism cooling,^[9] Davis more than doubled James M. Cox's 1920 margin. Republican Coolidge – though winning a national landslide and carrying every state except the former Confederacy plus culturally and politically allied Oklahoma – carried as Charles Evans Hughes did eight years previously only the two traditional Unionist Ozark counties.

Results

Results by county

1924 United States presidential election in Arkansas by county^[10]

County	John William Davis Democratic		John Calvin Coolidge Republican		Robert M. La Follette senior Independent Progressive		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%
	Arkansas		772		57.19%		488		36.15%		90		6.67%		284		21.04%		1,350
	Ashley		1,048		63.55%		506		30.69%		95		5.76%		542		32.87%		1,649
	Baxter		640		58.02%		301		27.29%		162		14.69%		339		30.73%		1,103
	Benton		2,313		50.58%		1,694		37.04%		566		12.38%		619		13.54%		4,573
	Boone		1,350		54.02%		937		37.49%		212		8.48%		413		16.53%		2,499
	Bradley		1,002		64.44%		453		29.13%		100		6.43%		549		35.31%		1,555
	Calhoun		553		74.23%		150		20.13%		42		5.64%		403		54.09%		745
	Carroll		1,421		56.30%		969		38.39%		134		5.31%		452		17.91%		2,524
	Chicot		708		67.43%		325		30.95%		17		1.62%		383		36.48%		1,050
	Clark		1,223		64.03%		483		25.29%		204		10.68%		740		38.74%		1,910
	Clay		1,429		52.54%		1,084		39.85%		207		7.61%		345		12.68%		2,720
	Cleburne		569		63.22%		238		26.44%		93		10.33%		331		36.78%		900
	Cleveland		613		74.94%		174		21.27%		31		3.79%		439		53.67%		818
	Columbia		1,382		76.99%		350		19.50%		63		3.51%		1,032		57.49%		1,795
	Conway		909		58.27%		526		33.72%		125		8.01%		383		24.55%		1,560
	Craighead		1,711		61.24%		812		29.06%		271		9.70%		899		32.18%		2,794
	Crawford		1,445		49.66%		996		34.23%		469		16.12%		449		15.43%		2,910
	Crittenden		777		88.90%		77		8.81%		20		2.29%		700		80.09%		874
	Cross		625		68.61%		192		21.08%		94		10.32%		433		47.53%		911
	Dallas		1,068		71.06%		401		26.68%		34		2.26%		667		44.38%		1,503
	Desha		540		55.67%		209		21.55%		221		22.78%		319		32.89%		970
	Drew		1,018		63.51%		563		35.12%		22		1.37%		455		28.38%		1,603
	Faulkner		1,436		67.35%		536		25.14%		160		7.50%		900		42.21%		2,132
	Franklin		1,188		64.88%		422		23.05%		221		12.07%		766		41.84%		1,831
	Fulton		678		67.33%		292		29.00%		37		3.67%		386		38.33%		1,007
	Garland		1,501		52.91%		1,064		37.50%		272		9.59%		437		15.40%		2,837
	Grant		628		73.19%		133		15.50%		97		11.31%		495		57.69%		858
	Greene		1,148		59.33%		456		23.57%		331		17.11%		692		35.76%		1,935
	Hempstead		1,459		61.98%		715		30.37%		180		7.65%		744		31.61%		2,354
	Hot Spring		793		59.18%		392		29.25%		155		11.57%		401		29.93%		1,340
	Howard		954		65.25%		338		23.12%		170		11.63%		616		42.13%		1,462
	Independence		1,313		64.30%		534		26.15%		195		9.55%		779		38.15%		2,042
	Izard		728		72.80%		241		24.10%		31		3.10%		487		48.70%		1,000
	Jackson		1,069		69.37%		392		25.44%		80		5.19%		677		43.93%		1,541
	Jefferson		1,950		61.48%		707		22.29%		515		16.24%		1,243		39.19%		3,172
	Johnson		1,029		65.46%		311		19.78%		232		14.76%		718		45.67%		1,572
	Lafayette		788		64.86%		298		24.53%		129		10.62%		490		40.33%		1,215
	Lawrence		689		61.19%		261		23.18%		176		15.63%		428		38.01%		1,126
	Lee		1,103		64.77%		596		35.00%		4		0.23%		507		29.77%		1,703
	Lincoln		563		76.29%		170		23.04%		5		0.68%		393		53.25%		738
	Little River		546		62.90%		276		31.80%		46		5.30%		270		31.11%		868
	Logan		1,457		49.85%		937		32.06%		529		18.10%		520		17.79%		2,923
	Lonoke		962		71.52%		321		23.87%		62		4.61%		641		47.66%		1,345
	Madison		1,335		49.52%		1,263		46.85%		98		3.64%		72		2.67%		2,696
	Marion		825		63.07%		282		21.56%		201		15.37%		543		41.51%		1,308
	Miller		1,460		63.56%		397		17.28%		440		19.16%		1,020		44.41%		2,297
	Mississippi		2,039		72.10%		703		24.86%		86		3.04%		1,336		47.24%		2,828
	Monroe		838		66.04%		330		26.00%		101		7.96%		508		40.03%		1,269
	Montgomery		431		48.87%		360		40.82%		91		10.32%		71		8.05%		882
	Nevada		719		55.69%		386		29.90%		186		14.41%		333		25.79%		1,291
	Newton		298		31.57%		578		61.23%		68		7.20%		-280		-29.66%		944
	Ouachita		1,318		57.01%		952		41.18%		42		1.82%		366		15.83%		2,312
	Perry		386		48.86%		260		32.91%		144		18.23%		126		15.95%		790
	Phillips		1,785		77.27%		454		19.65%		71		3.07%		1,331		57.62%		2,310
	Pike		732		61.82%		378		31.93%		74		6.25%		354		29.90%		1,184
	Poinsett		1,182		68.60%		393		22.81%		148		8.59%		789		45.79%		1,723
	Polk		863		54.14%		502		31.49%		229		14.37%		361		22.65%		1,594
	Pope		1,581		70.08%		479		21.23%		196		8.69%		1,102		48.85%		2,256
	Prairie		730		61.81%		386		32.68%		65		5.50%		344		29.13%		1,181
	Pulaski		5,706		59.30%		2,729		28.36%		1,187		12.34%		2,977		30.94%		9,622
	Randolph		772		63.91%		389		32.20%		47		3.89%		383		31.71%		1,208
	St. Francis		972		66.26%		433		29.52%		62		4.23%		539		36.74%		1,467
	Saline		770		72.99%		144		13.65%		141		13.36%		626		59.34%		1,055
	Scott		607		53.81%		375		33.24%		146		12.94%		232		20.57%		1,128
	Searcy		415		31.42%		797		60.33%		109		8.25%		-382		-28.92%		1,321
	Sebastian		3,148		52.54%		1,985		33.13%		859		14.34%		1,163		19.41%		5,992
	Sevier		931		63.03%		270		18.28%		276		18.69%		655		44.35%		1,477
	Sharp		729		73.27%		210		21.11%		56		5.63%		519		52.16%		995
	Stone		386		59.38%		210		32.31%		54		8.31%		176		27.08%		650
	Union		1,967		73.59%		450		16.84%		256		9.58%		1,517		56.75%		2,673
	Van Buren		922		63.85%		435		30.12%		87		6.02%		487		33.73%		1,444
	Washington		2,281		55.87%		1,466		35.90%		336		8.23%		815		19.96%		4,083
	White		1,488		60.69%		679		27.69%		285		11.62%		809		32.99%		2,452
	Woodruff		762		72.78%		254		24.26%		31		2.96%		508		48.52%		1,047
	Yell		1,314		75.34%		334		19.15%		96		5.50%		980		56.19%		1,744
Totals	84,790	61.20%	40,583	29.29%	13,167	9.50%	44,207	31.91%	138,540

See also

• United States presidential elections in Arkansas

Notes and References

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3. Book: Green, James R.. Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943. 316–318. 0807107735.
4. Reed. Faubus, p. 33
5. Book: Moneyhon, Carl H.. Arkansas and the New South: 1874-1929. 121. 1610750284.
6. Moneyhon. Arkansas and the New South, p. 122
7. Book: Whayne. Jeannie M.. DeBlack. Thomas A.. Sabo. George. Arnold. Morris S.. Arkansas: A Narrative History. 302. 155728993X.
8. Book: Leuchtenburg, William E.. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932. 75. 0226473724.
9. Book: Phillips, Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 211, 287. 978-0-691-16324-6.
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