See main article: 1924 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1924 United States presidential election in Washington (state) |
| Country: | Washington |
| Flag Image: | Flag of Washington (1923–1967).svg |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1920 United States presidential election in Washington (state) |
| Previous Year: | 1920 |
| Next Election: | 1928 United States presidential election in Washington (state) |
| Next Year: | 1928 |
| Election Date: | November 4, 1924 |
| Image1: | Calvin Coolidge cph.3g10777 crop.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Calvin Coolidge |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Massachusetts |
| Running Mate1: | Charles G. Dawes |
| Electoral Vote1: | 7 |
| Popular Vote1: | 220,224 |
| Percentage1: | 52.24% |
| Nominee2: | Robert M. La Follette |
| Party2: | Progressive Party (United States, 1924) |
| Home State2: | Wisconsin |
| Running Mate2: | Burton K. Wheeler |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 150,727 |
| Percentage2: | 35.76% |
| Image3: | John William Davis.jpg |
| Nominee3: | John W. Davis |
| Party3: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State3: | West Virginia |
| Running Mate3: | Charles W. Bryan |
| Electoral Vote3: | 0 |
| Popular Vote3: | 42,842 |
| Percentage3: | 10.16% |
| Map Size: | 380px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Calvin Coolidge |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Calvin Coolidge |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1924 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 4, 1924. All contemporary forty-eight states took part of the 1924 United States presidential election, and Washington's voters selected seven voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Rapid recovery of the economy from a sharp recession following World War I transformed the 1920s into a strongly Republican decade. Even the problematic issue of a farm depression had eased by the time of the election as prices recovered.[1] It was also widely thought that the Teapot Dome scandal could do nothing to revive the Democrats as they were well known to have equally severe problems therewith via the fact that recently deceased Woodrow Wilson had paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in legal fees to nomination frontrunner William McAdoo.[2]
The conservatism of Democratic nominee John W. Davis – the first presidential nominee since the American Civil War from an antebellum slave state and the only one ever from West Virginia[3] – led those with more progressive views to desert the two major parties for the third-party candidacy of Progressive "Fighting Bob" La Follette. His campaign, based on improved labor laws, an end to US involvement in the politics of Latin America, and cheap credit for farmers, had major appeal in the West, and in Washington State La Follette won five of thirty-nine counties (including absolute majorities in the eastern counties of Franklin and Adams) and finished ahead of Davis in every county except far southeastern Garfield County and Columbia County.
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Mrs. Samuel D. Cosgrove | 220,224 | ||
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | John L. Murray | 219,019 | ||
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | W. J. Coates | 218,943 | ||
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | R. M. Wright | 218,858 | ||
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Fred C. Stewart | 218,854 | ||
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | Benjamin E. Thomas | 218,778 | ||
| Republican Party | Calvin Coolidge | L. E. Jesseph | 218,143 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | J. Q. Adams | 150,727 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | Edna Wright Beebe | 150,213 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | Charles G. Cole | 150,137 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | Annabelle Kennedy | 150,103 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | Fred J. Chamberlain | 150,101 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | Edgar C. Snyder | 149.854 | ||
| Progressive Party | Robert M. La Follette | C. O. Young | 149,115 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Jessie Irving | 42,842 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | John B. Hanson | 42,556 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Joseph L. Keeler | 42,444 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Charles H. Keavy | 42,440 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Paul Newman | 42,339 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | Edgar Swan | 42,315 | ||
| Democratic Party | John W. Davis | B. F. Billingsley | 42,239 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | H. O. Akin | 5,991 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | J. M. Borgenson | 5,900 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | J. W. Adams | 5,838 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | P. M. Woodall | 5,823 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | W. A. Arnold | 5,809 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | Charles W. Ayres | 5,806 | ||
| American Party | Gilbert Nations | O. E. Druse | 5,669 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | George B. Wilson | 1,004 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | Abraham L. Brearcliff | 982 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | William J. Chamberlain | 974 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | James F. Stark | 966 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | Daniel L. Barnett | 952 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | Samuel A. Witherspoon | 951 | ||
| Socialist Labor Party | Frank T. Johns | John C. Schafer | 933 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | William H. Jones | 761 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | Joseph Huvel | 736 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | John W. Weppler | 715 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | Henry G. Price | 714 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | John Lawrie | 711 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | George Halonen | 694 | ||
| Workers Party | William Z. Foster | Mike Kronholm | 693 | ||
| Votes cast | 421,549 | ||||
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| County | Calvin Coolidge Republican | Robert M. La Follette Progressive | John W. Davis Democratic | Gilbert Nations American | Frank T. Johns Socialist Labor | William Z. Foster Workers | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adams | 760 | 37.51% | 1,036 | 51.14% | 228 | 11.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -276 | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -13.63% | 2,026 | ||||||||||||
| Asotin | 1,094 | 46.51% | 728 | 30.95% | 508 | 21.60% | 15 | 0.64% | 5 | 0.21% | 2 | 0.09% | 366 | 15.56% | 2,352 | ||||||||||||||
| Benton | 1,812 | 45.33% | 1,711 | 42.81% | 437 | 10.93% | 27 | 0.68% | 4 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.15% | 101 | 2.52% | 3,997 | ||||||||||||||
| Chelan | 4,543 | 55.56% | 2,584 | 31.60% | 995 | 12.17% | 35 | 0.43% | 19 | 0.23% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,959 | 23.96% | 8,177 | ||||||||||||||
| Clallam | 2,129 | 52.07% | 1,639 | 40.08% | 283 | 6.92% | 11 | 0.27% | 17 | 0.42% | 10 | 0.24% | 490 | 11.99% | 4,089 | ||||||||||||||
| Clark | 5,215 | 47.61% | 3,573 | 32.62% | 2,004 | 18.29% | 112 | 1.02% | 33 | 0.30% | 17 | 0.16% | 1,642 | 14.99% | 10,954 | ||||||||||||||
| Columbia | 1,122 | 52.11% | 492 | 22.85% | 522 | 24.25% | 12 | 0.56% | 3 | 0.14% | 2 | 0.09% | 600 | 27.86% | 2,153 | ||||||||||||||
| Cowlitz | 3,274 | 55.66% | 1,609 | 27.35% | 927 | 15.76% | 21 | 0.36% | 34 | 0.58% | 17 | 0.29% | 1,665 | 28.31% | 5,882 | ||||||||||||||
| Douglas | 1,070 | 42.19% | 1,053 | 41.52% | 398 | 15.69% | 7 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.20% | 3 | 0.12% | 17 | 0.67% | 2,536 | ||||||||||||||
| Ferry | 507 | 34.49% | 605 | 41.16% | 349 | 23.74% | 3 | 0.20% | 2 | 0.14% | 4 | 0.27% | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -98 | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -6.67% | 1,470 | ||||||||||||
| Franklin | 709 | 31.15% | 1,301 | 57.16% | 237 | 10.41% | 19 | 0.83% | 7 | 0.31% | 3 | 0.13% | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -592 | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -26.01% | 2,276 | ||||||||||||
| Garfield | 875 | 65.25% | 140 | 10.44% | 324 | 24.16% | 2 | 0.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 551 | 41.09% | 1,341 | ||||||||||||||
| Grant | 813 | 40.87% | 823 | 41.38% | 332 | 16.69% | 16 | 0.80% | 4 | 0.20% | 1 | 0.05% | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -10 | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -0.51% | 1,989 | ||||||||||||
| Grays Harbor | 8,273 | 60.16% | 4,079 | 29.66% | 1,239 | 9.01% | 85 | 0.62% | 32 | 0.23% | 43 | 0.31% | 4,194 | 30.50% | 13,751 | ||||||||||||||
| Island | 832 | 46.25% | 830 | 46.14% | 114 | 6.34% | 9 | 0.50% | 6 | 0.33% | 8 | 0.44% | 2 | 0.11% | 1,799 | ||||||||||||||
| Jefferson | 913 | 51.79% | 692 | 39.25% | 143 | 8.11% | 4 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.45% | 221 | 12.54% | 1,763 | ||||||||||||||
| King | 60,438 | 53.51% | 41,146 | 36.43% | 7,404 | 6.56% | 3,426 | 3.03% | 309 | 0.27% | 217 | 0.19% | 19,292 | 17.08% | 112,940 | ||||||||||||||
| Kitsap | 3,954 | 45.19% | 4,215 | 48.17% | 490 | 5.60% | 45 | 0.51% | 22 | 0.25% | 24 | 0.27% | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -261 | bgcolor="#5FD170" | -2.98% | 8,750 | ||||||||||||
| Kittitas | 2,360 | 47.22% | 2,112 | 42.26% | 455 | 9.10% | 46 | 0.92% | 9 | 0.18% | 16 | 0.32% | 248 | 4.96% | 4,998 | ||||||||||||||
| Klickitat | 1,482 | 52.72% | 790 | 28.10% | 518 | 18.43% | 9 | 0.32% | 7 | 0.25% | 5 | 0.18% | 692 | 24.62% | 2,811 | ||||||||||||||
| Lewis | 6,973 | 58.07% | 3,392 | 28.25% | 1,544 | 12.86% | 30 | 0.25% | 39 | 0.32% | 29 | 0.24% | 3,581 | 29.82% | 12,007 | ||||||||||||||
| Lincoln | 2,042 | 46.16% | 1,629 | 36.82% | 743 | 16.79% | 5 | 0.11% | 3 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.05% | 413 | 9.34% | 4,424 | ||||||||||||||
| Mason | 902 | 49.02% | 741 | 40.27% | 179 | 9.73% | 9 | 0.49% | 6 | 0.33% | 3 | 0.16% | 161 | 8.75% | 1,840 | ||||||||||||||
| Okanogan | 2,531 | 50.41% | 1,735 | 34.55% | 721 | 14.36% | 14 | 0.28% | 14 | 0.28% | 6 | 0.12% | 796 | 15.86% | 5,021 | ||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 2,672 | 64.57% | 930 | 22.47% | 501 | 12.11% | 12 | 0.29% | 8 | 0.19% | 15 | 0.36% | 1,742 | 42.10% | 4,138 | ||||||||||||||
| Pend Oreille | 1,025 | 51.05% | 749 | 37.30% | 231 | 11.50% | 2 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 276 | 13.75% | 2,008 | ||||||||||||||
| Pierce | 21,376 | 47.70% | 18,467 | 41.20% | 4,232 | 9.44% | 498 | 1.11% | 137 | 0.31% | 108 | 0.24% | 2,909 | 6.50% | 44,818 | ||||||||||||||
| San Juan | 744 | 66.67% | 284 | 25.45% | 86 | 7.71% | 1 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 460 | 41.22% | 1,116 | ||||||||||||||
| Skagit | 5,071 | 47.95% | 4,714 | 44.57% | 699 | 6.61% | 33 | 0.31% | 20 | 0.19% | 39 | 0.37% | 357 | 3.38% | 10,576 | ||||||||||||||
| Skamania | 533 | 52.15% | 275 | 26.91% | 207 | 20.25% | 1 | 0.10% | 4 | 0.39% | 2 | 0.20% | 258 | 25.24% | 1,022 | ||||||||||||||
| Snohomish | 10,484 | 48.82% | 8,929 | 41.58% | 1,548 | 7.21% | 428 | 1.99% | 53 | 0.25% | 31 | 0.14% | 1,555 | 7.24% | 21,473 | ||||||||||||||
| Spokane | 23,403 | 49.30% | 17,824 | 37.55% | 6,036 | 12.71% | 104 | 0.22% | 71 | 0.15% | 35 | 0.07% | 5,579 | 11.75% | 47,473 | ||||||||||||||
| Stevens | 2,909 | 48.94% | 2,273 | 38.24% | 685 | 11.52% | 39 | 0.66% | 9 | 0.15% | 29 | 0.49% | 636 | 10.70% | 5,944 | ||||||||||||||
| Thurston | 5,125 | 57.77% | 2,710 | 30.55% | 943 | 10.63% | 42 | 0.47% | 25 | 0.28% | 26 | 0.29% | 2,415 | 27.22% | 8,871 | ||||||||||||||
| Wahkiakum | 496 | 60.49% | 228 | 27.80% | 89 | 10.85% | 1 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.61% | 1 | 0.12% | 268 | 32.69% | 820 | ||||||||||||||
| Walla Walla | 5,465 | 58.83% | 2,125 | 22.87% | 1,662 | 17.89% | 28 | 0.30% | 7 | 0.08% | 3 | 0.03% | 3,340 | 35.96% | 9,290 | ||||||||||||||
| Whatcom | 9,214 | 57.19% | 5,812 | 36.08% | 927 | 5.75% | 105 | 0.65% | 39 | 0.24% | 13 | 0.08% | 3,402 | 21.11% | 16,110 | ||||||||||||||
| Whitman | 4,960 | 52.12% | 2,787 | 29.29% | 1,745 | 18.34% | 18 | 0.19% | 4 | 0.04% | 2 | 0.02% | 2,173 | 22.83% | 9,516 | ||||||||||||||
| Yakima | 12,124 | 63.72% | 3,965 | 20.84% | 2,157 | 11.34% | 717 | 3.77% | 35 | 0.18% | 30 | 0.16% | 8,159 | 42.88% | 19,028 | ||||||||||||||
| Totals | 220,224 | 52.24% | 150,727 | 35.76% | 42,842 | 10.16% | 5,991 | 1.42% | 1,004 | 0.24% | 761 | 0.18% | 69,497 | 16.49% | 421,549 | ||||||||||||||