1928 United States presidential election in California explained

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Election Name:	1928 United States presidential election in California
Country:	California
Flag Image:	Flag of California (1924–1953).pngborder
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1924 United States presidential election in California
Previous Year:	1924
Next Election:	1932 United States presidential election in California
Next Year:	1932
Turnout:	79.78% (of registered voters) 6.44 pp 56.98% (of eligible voters) 8.45 pp^[1]
Election Date:	November 6, 1928
Image1:	Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg
Nominee1:	Herbert Hoover
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Alliance1:	Prohibition Party
Home State1:	California
Running Mate1:	Charles Curtis
Electoral Vote1:	13
Popular Vote1:	1,162,323
Percentage1:	64.69%
Nominee2:	Al Smith
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Joseph Taylor Robinson
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	614,365
Percentage2:	34.19%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Calvin Coolidge
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Herbert Hoover
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1928 United States presidential election in California took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

California voted for the Republican nominee, former Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, in a landslide over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Al Smith. This was also the first election in California where the winning candidate received over 1 million votes. This also remains the last time that a Republican got more than 60% of the vote in California.

This was the last time until 1952 that a Republican presidential nominee carried California. After this election, no Republican candidate would win Plumas County again until 1980, and no Republican would carry Fresno County, Kings County, Lassen County, Madera County, and Solano County again until 1972.

Results

+ General Election Results^[2]	Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Harriet W. Works	1,162,323
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Rolfe L. Thompson	1,160,780
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Ben R. Meyer	1,160,770
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	John A. O'Connell	1,160,539
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Harry K. Wolff	1,160,536
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Aurelia H. Reinhardt	1,160,490
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Marshall DeMotte	1,160,488
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	James F. Collins	1,160,443
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	C. P. Rendon	1,160,407
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	A. W. McPherson	1,160,332
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	L. L. Dennett	1,160,308
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	Fred H. Schauer	1,160,296
	Republican Party & Prohibition Party	Herbert Hoover	R. Y. Williams	1,160,126
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	James D. Phelan	614,365
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Clara Hellman Heller	611,430
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	John H. Young	611,348
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	R. M. Fitzgerald	611,321
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Ross W. Pool	611,316
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Justus Wardell	611,279
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	A. L. Conrad	611,236
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Estill Stephens Bartell	611,220
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Milton K. Young	611,156
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Julia Babcock	611,143
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	C. M. Brown Jr.	611,083
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Phil Dodson	611,004
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Al Smith	Curtis Hillyer	610,680
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Upton Sinclair	19,595
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Addie M. Benedict	19,240
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	E. Backus	19,170
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Mary M. Morgan	19,168
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Agnes H. Downing	19,157
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	N. A. Richardson	19,154
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	W. H. Eastman	19,153
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Allen K. Clifford	19,152
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Philip Bernstein	19,150
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Walter E. Walker	19,144
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Julius Levitt	19,135
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	W. T. Tipton	19,091
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	F. L. Neustein	19,082
	Write-in		William Z. Foster	112
	Write-in		Benjamin Gitlow	104
	Write-in		H. Morgan	6
	Write-in		Scattering	151
Votes cast				1,796,656

Results by county

County	Herbert Hoover Republican/Prohibition		Al Smith Democratic		Norman Thomas Socialist		William Z. Foster Communist		Scattering Write-in		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%		%
	Alameda		118,539		65.42%		60,875		33.60%		1,717		0.95%		0		0.00%		63		0.03%		57,664		31.82%		181,194
	Alpine		49		94.23%		3		5.77%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		46		88.46%		52
	Amador		990		44.12%		1,246		55.53%		8		0.36%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-256		-11.41%		2,244
	Butte		6,306		60.45%		3,946		37.83%		180		1.73%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,360		22.62%		10,432
	Calaveras		1,262		53.79%		1,066		45.44%		18		0.77%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		196		8.35%		2,346
	Colusa		1,752		56.30%		1,338		42.99%		22		0.71%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		414		13.30%		3,112
	Contra Costa		13,495		60.38%		8,573		38.36%		281		1.26%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		4,922		22.02%		22,349
	Del Norte		771		55.87%		599		43.41%		10		0.72%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		172		12.46%		1,380
	El Dorado		1,228		44.25%		1,516		54.63%		31		1.12%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-288		-10.38%		2,775
	Fresno		20,687		54.30%		16,884		44.32%		527		1.38%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		3,803		9.98%		38,098
	Glenn		2,466		65.03%		1,297		34.20%		29		0.76%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,169		30.83%		3,792
	Humboldt		9,162		69.75%		3,726		28.37%		247		1.88%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		5,436		41.39%		13,135
	Imperial		5,417		67.61%		2,486		31.03%		109		1.36%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,931		36.58%		8,012
	Inyo		1,206		57.37%		861		40.96%		35		1.67%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		345		16.41%		2,102
	Kern		14,692		62.67%		8,541		36.43%		212		0.90%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		6,151		26.24%		23,445
	Kings		2,947		51.51%		2,701		47.21%		73		1.28%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		246		4.30%		5,721
	Lake		1,820		65.37%		926		33.26%		38		1.36%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		894		32.11%		2,784
	Lassen		2,111		56.73%		1,597		42.92%		13		0.35%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		514		13.81%		3,721
	Los Angeles		513,526		70.22%		209,945		28.71%		7,589		1.04%		78		0.01%		163		0.02%		303,581		41.51%		731,301
	Madera		2,354		54.88%		1,896		44.21%		37		0.86%		1		0.02%		1		0.02%		458		10.68%		4,289
	Marin		7,862		57.44%		5,686		41.54%		140		1.02%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,176		15.90%		13,688
	Mariposa		656		55.03%		517		43.37%		19		1.59%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		139		11.66%		1,192
	Mendocino		4,810		63.39%		2,628		34.63%		150		1.98%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,182		28.76%		7,588
	Merced		4,644		60.17%		2,970		38.48%		104		1.35%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,674		21.69%		7,718
	Modoc		942		56.75%		711		42.83%		7		0.42%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		231		13.92%		1,660
	Mono		220		61.80%		127		35.67%		9		2.53%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		93		26.12%		356
	Monterey		7,228		63.12%		4,138		36.13%		86		0.75%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		3,090		26.98%		11,452
	Napa		4,699		57.48%		3,422		41.86%		54		0.66%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,277		15.62%		8,175
	Nevada		2,173		52.00%		1,959		46.88%		47		1.12%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		214		5.12%		4,179
	Orange		30,572		79.35%		7,611		19.75%		344		0.89%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		22,961		59.60%		38,527
	Placer		3,669		49.25%		3,685		49.46%		96		1.29%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-16		-0.21%		7,450
	Plumas		947		45.64%		1,079		52.00%		49		2.36%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-132		-6.36%		2,075
	Riverside		17,600		77.94%		4,769		21.12%		212		0.94%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		12,831		56.82%		22,581
	Sacramento		20,762		50.83%		19,684		48.19%		403		0.99%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,078		2.64%		40,849
	San Benito		1,971		58.87%		1,366		40.80%		11		0.33%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		605		18.07%		3,348
	San Bernardino		29,229		74.73%		9,436		24.13%		447		1.14%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		19,793		50.61%		39,112
	San Diego		47,769		67.14%		22,749		31.97%		633		0.89%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		25,020		35.16%		71,151
	San Francisco		95,987		49.11%		96,632		49.44%		2,799		1.43%		24		0.01%		26		0.01%		-645		-0.33%		195,468
	San Joaquin		16,695		61.10%		10,343		37.85%		288		1.05%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		6,352		23.25%		27,326
	San Luis Obispo		5,425		60.82%		3,336		37.40%		159		1.78%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,089		23.42%		8,920
	San Mateo		14,360		58.87%		9,755		39.99%		267		1.09%		5		0.02%		5		0.02%		4,605		18.88%		24,392
	Santa Barbara		11,666		69.44%		4,954		29.49%		179		1.07%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		6,712		23.25%		16,799
	Santa Clara		31,710		63.81%		17,589		35.39%		388		0.78%		4		0.01%		3		0.01%		14,121		28.42%		49,694
	Santa Cruz		8,275		68.53%		3,688		30.54%		112		0.93%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		4,587		37.99%		12,075
	Shasta		2,301		52.20%		2,025		45.94%		82		1.86%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		276		6.26%		4,408
	Sierra		457		51.52%		420		47.35%		10		1.13%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		37		4.17%		887
	Siskiyou		3,758		55.49%		2,916		43.06%		98		1.45%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		842		12.43%		6,772
	Solano		7,061		52.32%		6,278		46.51%		158		1.17%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		783		5.80%		13,497
	Sonoma		12,891		59.71%		8,506		39.40%		194		0.90%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		4,385		20.31%		21,591
	Stanislaus		10,753		67.13%		5,063		31.61%		203		1.27%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		5,690		35.52%		16,019
	Sutter		2,239		53.98%		1,875		45.20%		34		0.82%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		364		8.78%		4,148
	Tehama		3,393		65.58%		1,650		31.89%		131		2.53%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,743		33.69%		5,174
	Trinity		447		48.85%		433		47.32%		35		3.83%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		14		1.53%		915
	Tulare		12,057		63.76%		6,635		35.09%		218		1.15%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		5,422		28.67%		18,910
	Tuolumne		1,731		54.80%		1,360		43.05%		68		2.15%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		371		11.74%		3,159
	Ventura		9,017		70.17%		3,717		28.92%		117		0.91%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		5,300		41.24%		12,851
	Yolo		3,545		56.96%		2,641		42.43%		38		0.61%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		904		14.52%		6,224
	Yuba		2,022		50.02%		1,990		49.23%		30		0.74%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		32		0.79%		4,042
Total	1,162,323	64.69%	614,365	34.19%	19,595	1.09%	112	0.01%	261	0.01%	547,958	30.50%	1,796,656

Counties that flipped from Socialist to Republican

• Butte
• Calaveras
• Lassen
• Nevada
• Sacramento
• Shasta
• Sierra
• Siskiyou
• Trinity
• Tuolumne

Counties that flipped from Socialist to Democratic

• Amador
• El Dorado
• Plumas
• Placer

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• San Francisco

Notes and References

1. Web site: Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018 . California Secretary of State . 2022-05-05.
2. Book: Statement of Vote at General Election held on November 6, 1928 in the State of California. Sacramento, California . 4-13 . 16 July 2024.