1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
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Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California New York
Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson
Electoral vote 38 0
Popular vote 2,055,382 1,069,569
Percentage 65.24% 33.89%
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Calvin Coolidge
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Herbert Hoover
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The 1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1928 as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Al Smith. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 31.35%. The Republicans at this time were associated with the booming economy of the 1920s while Smith was associated with the corruption of Tammany Hall.

Despite losing the state, Smith flipped 3 majority-Catholic counties that voted for Calvin Coolidge in 1924 and had been consistently Republican during the "System of 1896" into the Democratic column: Elk, Lackawanna, and Luzerne.[1] This came with losing the 4 counties – all dominated by profoundly anti-Catholic Appalachian Protestants[2] – that voted for John W. Davis to Hoover: Columbia, Fulton, Greene, and Monroe. Hoover was the first ever Republican to carry Columbia, Greene, and Monroe counties, and the last Republican to carry the city of Pittsburgh.

Results

1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[3]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Herbert Hoover 2,055,382 65.24% 38
Democratic Al Smith 1,067,586 33.89% 0
Socialist Norman Thomas 18,647 0.59% 0
Communist/Workers'/Labor William Z. Foster 4,726 0.15% 0
Prohibition William F. Varney 3,875 0.12% 0
Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 380 0.01% 0
Write-ins Write-ins 14 0.00% 0
Totals 3,147,882 100.00% 38

Results by county

County Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican 		Alfred Emmanual Smith
Democratic 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast[4]
# % # % # % # %
Adams 9,656 67.29% 4,635 32.30% 58 0.40% 5,021 34.99% 14,349
Allegheny 215,626 56.86% 160,733 42.39% 2,850 0.75% 54,893 14.48% 379,209
Armstrong 17,625 77.86% 4,824 21.31% 187 0.83% 12,801 56.55% 22,636
Beaver 27,949 69.50% 11,868 29.51% 400 0.99% 16,081 39.99% 40,217
Bedford 9,602 81.60% 1,966 16.71% 199 1.69% 7,636 64.89% 11,767
Berks 47,073 64.03% 18,960 25.79% 7,481 10.18% 28,113 38.24% 73,514
Blair 34,356 73.53% 12,104 25.90% 266 0.57% 22,252 47.62% 46,726
Bradford 17,251 79.83% 4,281 19.81% 77 0.36% 12,970 60.02% 21,609
Bucks 28,421 76.47% 8,446 22.72% 301 0.81% 19,975 53.74% 37,168
Butler 19,880 85.22% 3,283 14.07% 164 0.70% 16,597 71.15% 23,327
Cambria 29,494 51.79% 27,024 47.46% 427 0.75% 2,470 4.34% 56,945
Cameron 1,564 75.52% 501 24.19% 6 0.29% 1,063 51.33% 2,071
Carbon 15,047 64.98% 8,010 34.59% 98 0.42% 7,037 30.39% 23,155
Centre 12,005 77.17% 3,431 22.05% 121 0.78% 8,574 55.11% 15,557
Chester 36,659 82.27% 7,689 17.26% 210 0.47% 28,970 65.02% 44,558
Clarion 9,183 70.43% 3,746 28.73% 109 0.84% 5,437 41.70% 13,038
Clearfield 16,719 67.26% 7,870 31.66% 270 1.09% 8,849 35.60% 24,859
Clinton 8,120 73.62% 2,849 25.83% 60 0.54% 5,271 47.79% 11,029
Columbia 14,362 72.61% 5,304 26.81% 115 0.58% 9,058 45.79% 19,781
Crawford 17,072 71.17% 6,718 28.00% 199 0.83% 10,354 43.16% 23,989
Cumberland 19,170 78.08% 5,189 21.14% 192 0.78% 13,981 56.95% 24,551
Dauphin 49,108 83.78% 9,115 15.55% 394 0.67% 39,993 68.23% 58,617
Delaware 83,092 73.57% 29,378 26.01% 471 0.42% 53,714 47.56% 112,941
Elk 5,234 40.23% 7,705 59.23% 70 0.54% -2,471 -18.99% 13,009
Erie 30,542 60.97% 19,278 38.48% 277 0.55% 11,264 22.48% 50,097
Fayette 27,693 58.69% 19,063 40.40% 427 0.90% 8,630 18.29% 47,183
Forest 1,707 84.59% 289 14.32% 22 1.09% 1,418 70.27% 2,018
Franklin 16,345 83.74% 3,027 15.51% 146 0.75% 13,318 68.23% 19,518
Fulton 2,179 66.82% 1,054 32.32% 28 0.86% 1,125 34.50% 3,261
Greene 6,910 56.18% 5,293 43.04% 96 0.78% 1,617 13.15% 12,299
Huntingdon 9,920 86.25% 1,470 12.78% 112 0.97% 8,450 73.47% 11,502
Indiana 16,706 76.75% 4,810 22.10% 252 1.16% 11,896 54.65% 21,768
Jefferson 13,233 74.63% 4,325 24.39% 173 0.98% 8,908 50.24% 17,731
Juniata 4,396 82.00% 919 17.14% 46 0.86% 3,477 64.86% 5,361
Lackawanna 46,510 46.85% 52,665 53.05% 94 0.09% -6,155 -6.20% 99,269
Lancaster 55,530 81.43% 12,146 17.81% 516 0.76% 43,384 63.62% 68,192
Lawrence 20,012 74.95% 6,417 24.03% 273 1.02% 13,595 50.91% 26,702
Lebanon 16,841 82.30% 3,278 16.02% 345 1.69% 13,563 66.28% 20,464
Lehigh 40,291 74.35% 13,463 24.84% 434 0.80% 26,828 49.51% 54,188
Luzerne 67,872 48.00% 73,319 51.85% 220 0.16% -5,447 -3.85% 141,411
Lycoming 28,720 79.48% 7,132 19.74% 285 0.79% 21,588 59.74% 36,137
McKean 14,012 73.49% 4,964 26.04% 90 0.47% 9,048 47.46% 19,066
Mercer 22,599 72.71% 8,204 26.39% 280 0.90% 14,395 46.31% 31,083
Mifflin 8,932 86.97% 1,270 12.37% 68 0.66% 7,662 74.61% 10,270
Monroe 7,469 69.40% 3,266 30.35% 27 0.25% 4,203 39.05% 10,762
Montgomery 76,680 76.37% 23,026 22.93% 702 0.70% 53,654 53.44% 100,408
Montour 3,692 71.69% 1,445 28.06% 13 0.25% 2,247 43.63% 5,150
Northampton 37,403 71.14% 14,768 28.09% 404 0.77% 22,635 43.05% 52,575
Northumberland 30,949 61.30% 19,249 38.12% 292 0.58% 11,700 23.17% 50,490
Perry 6,469 77.66% 1,807 21.69% 54 0.65% 4,662 55.97% 8,330
Philadelphia 420,320 59.99% 276,573 39.48% 3,703 0.53% 143,747 20.52% 700,596
Pike 2,354 69.34% 1,024 30.16% 17 0.50% 1,330 39.18% 3,395
Potter 5,653 79.50% 1,416 19.91% 42 0.59% 4,237 59.58% 7,111
Schuylkill 46,033 53.05% 40,424 46.59% 311 0.36% 5,609 6.46% 86,768
Snyder 5,693 87.22% 805 12.33% 29 0.44% 4,888 74.89% 6,527
Somerset 16,404 77.90% 4,489 21.32% 164 0.78% 11,915 56.58% 21,057
Sullivan 2,044 64.64% 1,101 34.82% 17 0.54% 943 29.82% 3,162
Susquehanna 9,445 68.14% 4,353 31.40% 63 0.45% 5,092 36.74% 13,861
Tioga 11,774 87.23% 1,688 12.51% 36 0.27% 10,086 74.72% 13,498
Union 5,708 87.45% 765 11.72% 54 0.83% 4,943 75.73% 6,527
Venango 17,450 79.00% 4,531 20.51% 108 0.49% 12,919 58.49% 22,089
Warren 12,077 80.21% 2,835 18.83% 144 0.96% 9,242 61.38% 15,056
Washington 31,099 63.61% 17,149 35.07% 645 1.32% 13,950 28.53% 48,893
Wayne 8,576 71.15% 3,418 28.36% 59 0.49% 5,158 42.79% 12,053
Westmoreland 51,760 61.88% 30,587 36.57% 1,296 1.55% 21,173 25.31% 83,643
Wyoming 5,321 85.00% 906 14.47% 33 0.53% 4,415 70.53% 6,260
York 45,791 79.60% 11,216 19.50% 522 0.91% 34,575 60.10% 57,529
Totals 2,055,382 65.29% 1,064,856 33.83% 27,644 0.88% 990,526 31.47% 3,147,882

See also

References

  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 41 ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
  2. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 58-60 ISBN 0786422173
  3. ^ David Leip. "1928 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  4. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 309-313 ISBN 9780804716963
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