1924 United States presidential election in Colorado
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Nominee Calvin Coolidge John W. Davis Robert M. La Follette
Party Republican Democratic Farmer–Labor
Home state Massachusetts West Virginia Wisconsin
Running mate Charles G. Dawes Charles W. Bryan Burton K. Wheeler
Electoral vote 6 0 0
Popular vote 195,171 75,238 69,945
Percentage 57.02% 21.98% 20.44%
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The 1924 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 4, 1924, as part of the 1924 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Between 1896 and 1916, Colorado had been strongly Democratic-leaning due to that party’s adoption of free silver in this silver-mining state;[1] however, in 1920 Warren G. Harding carried every county in the state. In the following few years the Ku Klux Klan grew extremely rapidly in Colorado and by the time of the next election it was close to taking control of the state government.[2] The Klan was aided by structural problems in Colorado’s agriculture[3] and fear of Catholicism embedded in Mexican immigration and the traditional Catholicism of the Hispanic south-central counties.[4]

As it turned out, the strong economy ensured that incumbent President Calvin Coolidge would have little trouble carrying the state, despite the strong third-party candidacy of Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, who was opposed to the powerful Klan and struggled in the anti-Catholic High Plains.[5]

As of the 2020 presidential election this is the last occasion Costilla County has voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[6]

Results

Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV)
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts Charles Dawes Republican 6[7] 195,171 57.02%
John W. Davis Charles W. Bryan Democratic 0 75,238 21.98%
Robert M. La Follette Burton K. Wheeler La Follette–Wheeler Independent 0 57,368 16.76%
Farmer-Labor 12,577 3.67%
Total 69,945 20.44%
Herman P. Faris Marie C. Brehm Prohibition 0 966 0.28%
William Z. Foster Benjamin Gitlow Workers 0 562 0.16%
Frank T. Johns Verne L. Reynolds Socialist Labor 0 378 0.11%

Results by county

County John Calvin Coolidge[8]
Republican 		John William Davis[8]
Democratic 		Robert M. La Follette[8]
LaFollette-Wheeler
Farmer-Labor 		Herman Preston Faris[8]
Prohibition 		William Z. Foster[8]
Workers 		Frank Tetes Johns[8]
Socialist Labor 		Margin
% # % # % # % # % # % # % #
Morgan 69.99% 3,321 15.95% 757 13.40% 636 0.38% 18 0.11% 5 0.17% 8 54.04% 2,564
Jackson 67.35% 394 18.97% 111 12.82% 75 0.17% 1 0.00% 0 0.68% 4 48.38% 283
Larimer 66.65% 6,538 20.08% 1,970 12.46% 1,222 0.45% 44 0.17% 17 0.18% 18 46.57% 4,568
Arapahoe 64.23% 4,267 18.20% 1,209 17.18% 1,141 0.21% 14 0.11% 7 0.08% 5 46.03% 3,058
Jefferson 63.69% 4,869 16.63% 1,271 19.42% 1,485 0.09% 7 0.10% 8 0.07% 5 44.26%[a] 3,384
Denver 63.44% 59,077 16.93% 15,764 19.20% 17,876 0.15% 136 0.20% 190 0.09% 80 44.24%[a] 41,201
Weld 62.68% 10,185 20.96% 3,406 15.78% 2,565 0.31% 51 0.09% 14 0.18% 29 41.72% 6,779
Fremont 61.13% 4,433 21.37% 1,550 16.95% 1,229 0.32% 23 0.08% 6 0.15% 11 39.75% 2,883
Kit Carson 60.21% 2,108 20.57% 720 18.42% 645 0.51% 18 0.06% 2 0.23% 8 39.65% 1,388
Clear Creek 61.87% 722 24.34% 284 13.45% 157 0.09% 1 0.17% 2 0.09% 1 37.53% 438
Prowers 59.21% 2,564 24.06% 1,042 15.80% 684 0.67% 29 0.09% 4 0.16% 7 35.15% 1,522
Otero 59.19% 4,694 24.44% 1,938 15.46% 1,226 0.69% 55 0.10% 8 0.11% 9 34.75% 2,756
Yuma 57.91% 2,789 17.96% 865 23.63% 1,138 0.46% 22 0.00% 0 0.04% 2 34.28%[a] 1,651
Boulder 58.75% 7,595 25.32% 3,273 15.53% 2,007 0.21% 27 0.10% 13 0.09% 12 33.43% 4,322
El Paso 55.69% 10,215 22.57% 4,140 21.19% 3,887 0.39% 71 0.08% 14 0.09% 17 33.12% 6,075
Adams 56.33% 2,931 23.24% 1,209 19.72% 1,026 0.35% 18 0.25% 13 0.12% 6 33.10% 1,722
Douglas 55.34% 870 24.36% 383 19.91% 313 0.13% 2 0.06% 1 0.19% 3 30.98% 487
Lincoln 54.70% 1,642 21.12% 634 23.78% 714 0.20% 6 0.03% 1 0.17% 5 30.91%[a] 928
Gilpin 54.78% 361 24.43% 161 20.49% 135 0.15% 1 0.00% 0 0.15% 1 30.35% 200
Elbert 54.97% 1,428 19.48% 506 24.75% 643 0.65% 17 0.04% 1 0.12% 3 30.22%[a] 785
Washington 54.27% 1,851 21.11% 720 24.10% 822 0.41% 14 0.03% 1 0.09% 3 30.17%[a] 1,029
Grand 54.31% 681 24.56% 308 20.97% 263 0.08% 1 0.08% 1 0.00% 0 29.74% 373
Saguache 58.33% 1,205 28.61% 591 12.44% 257 0.29% 6 0.05% 1 0.29% 6 29.72% 614
Park 56.12% 660 26.87% 316 15.05% 177 1.53% 18 0.17% 2 0.26% 3 29.25% 344
Logan 55.60% 3,103 16.95% 946 26.59% 1,484 0.34% 19 0.30% 17 0.22% 12 29.01%[a] 1,619
Rio Blanco 60.84% 766 32.33% 407 6.27% 79 0.40% 5 0.00% 0 0.16% 2 28.51% 359
Pueblo 52.86% 10,577 24.57% 4,917 22.02% 4,406 0.11% 23 0.33% 66 0.10% 20 28.29% 5,660
Delta 54.36% 2,752 26.57% 1,345 18.31% 927 0.47% 24 0.22% 11 0.08% 4 27.79% 1,407
Sedgwick 51.97% 779 24.82% 372 22.48% 337 0.47% 7 0.00% 0 0.27% 4 27.15% 407
Cheyenne 55.70% 875 15.02% 236 28.64% 450 0.38% 6 0.19% 3 0.06% 1 27.05%[a] 425
Garfield 51.27% 1,934 24.31% 917 23.78% 897 0.27% 10 0.21% 8 0.16% 6 26.96% 1,017
Bent 54.14% 1,511 28.81% 804 16.55% 462 0.36% 10 0.14% 4 0.00% 0 25.33% 707
Rio Grande 53.51% 1,572 31.38% 922 14.19% 417 0.68% 20 0.20% 6 0.03% 1 22.12% 650
Las Animas 48.68% 5,698 23.56% 2,758 27.28% 3,193 0.34% 40 0.07% 8 0.08% 9 21.40%[a] 2,505
Hinsdale 50.00% 138 28.62% 79 20.65% 57 0.36% 1 0.00% 0 0.36% 1 21.38% 59
Routt 53.51% 1,822 32.78% 1,116 13.19% 449 0.21% 7 0.09% 3 0.23% 8 20.73% 706
Teller 48.78% 1,283 22.51% 592 28.10% 739 0.11% 3 0.27% 7 0.23% 6 20.68%[a] 544
Kiowa 47.49% 805 25.43% 431 26.90% 456 0.12% 2 0.06% 1 0.00% 0 20.59%[a] 349
Baca 46.35% 1,174 25.78% 653 25.82% 654 1.11% 28 0.87% 22 0.08% 2 20.53%[a] 520
Huerfano 49.08% 2,784 21.49% 1,219 29.00% 1,645 0.12% 7 0.23% 13 0.07% 4 20.08%[a] 1,139
Crowley 50.23% 1,087 30.82% 667 18.35% 397 0.28% 6 0.28% 6 0.05% 1 19.41% 420
Montrose 45.82% 2,077 27.33% 1,239 26.16% 1,186 0.31% 14 0.18% 8 0.20% 9 18.49% 838
Mesa 45.53% 4,053 26.83% 2,388 27.21% 2,422 0.34% 30 0.03% 3 0.07% 6 18.32%[a] 1,631
Conejos 56.17% 1,475 37.89% 995 5.79% 152 0.15% 4 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 18.28% 480
Moffat 50.70% 1,009 32.51% 647 16.58% 330 0.10% 2 0.00% 0 0.10% 2 18.19% 362
Phillips 49.61% 1,076 18.30% 397 31.72% 688 0.28% 6 0.05% 1 0.05% 1 17.89%[a] 388
Pitkin 47.27% 442 21.82% 204 30.59% 286 0.21% 2 0.00% 0 0.11% 1 16.68%[a] 156
Eagle 44.43% 722 26.52% 431 28.25% 459 0.31% 5 0.12% 2 0.37% 6 16.18%[a] 263
Custer 44.41% 429 29.09% 281 25.47% 246 0.72% 7 0.10% 1 0.21% 2 15.32% 148
Summit 47.52% 354 32.35% 241 19.33% 144 0.40% 3 0.27% 2 0.13% 1 15.17% 113
Mineral 46.01% 150 30.98% 101 22.39% 73 0.31% 1 0.00% 0 0.31% 1 15.03% 49
Gunnison 44.70% 1,122 23.82% 598 31.04% 779 0.16% 4 0.08% 2 0.20% 5 13.67%[a] 343
Lake 43.00% 1,005 26.23% 613 29.65% 693 0.51% 12 0.47% 11 0.13% 3 13.35%[a] 312
Archuleta 43.12% 451 25.72% 269 30.21% 316 0.29% 3 0.57% 6 0.10% 1 12.91%[a] 135
Ouray 44.28% 484 23.42% 256 31.56% 345 0.18% 2 0.55% 6 0.00% 0 12.72%[a] 139
Chaffee 43.40% 1,336 19.88% 612 36.26% 1,116 0.19% 6 0.19% 6 0.06% 2 7.15% 220
San Miguel 43.62% 677 36.53% 567 18.56% 288 0.00% 0 1.03% 16 0.26% 4 7.09%[a] 110
Alamosa 40.59% 1,009 25.14% 625 33.83% 841 0.24% 6 0.16% 4 0.04% 1 6.76%[a] 168
Costilla 48.37% 755 42.60% 665 8.14% 127 0.64% 10 0.13% 2 0.13% 2 5.77% 90
San Juan 39.78% 218 37.59% 206 22.63% 124 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 2.19% 12
Montezuma 34.58% 703 35.46% 721 29.27% 595 0.49% 10 0.15% 3 0.05% 1 -0.89% -18
La Plata 35.13% 1,469 36.25% 1,516 28.10% 1,175 0.41% 17 0.05% 2 0.07% 3 -1.12% -47
Dolores 21.30% 95 35.20% 157 42.38% 189 0.90% 4 0.22% 1 0.00% 0 -7.17%[b] -32

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w In this county where Davis ran third behind La Follette, percentage margin given is Coolidge percentage minus La Follette percentage and vote margin Coolidge vote total minus La Follette vote total.
  2. ^ In this county where Coolidge ran third behind both La Follette and Davis, percentage margin given is Davis percentage minus La Follette percentage and vote margin Davis vote total minus La Follette vote total.

References

  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 418 ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
  2. ^ Ubbelohde, Carl; Benson, Maxine and Smith Duane A.; A Colorado History, p. 286 ISBN 0871089424
  3. ^ McVeigh, Rory; ‘Structural incentives for conservative mobilization: Power devaluation and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1925’ Social Forces, volume 77, issue 4, (June 1999), pp. 1461-1496
  4. ^ Goldberg, Robert Allan; Hooded empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1921-1932, p. 252. Published 1977 by University of Illinois Press
  5. ^ Murphy, Kevin C.; ‘Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919–1929’ (thesis), p. 1023. Published 2013 by Columbia University
  6. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  7. ^ "1924 Presidential General Election Results – Colorado". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Colorado Secretary of State Elections Center; Abstract of Votes Cast at a General Election Held on Tuesday, November 4, A.D. 1924 For Presidential Electors...
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