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The 1924 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 4, 1924 as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana voted for the Republican nominee, President Calvin Coolidge, over the liberal third-party candidate Robert M. La Follette who ran locally as a "La Follette-Wheeler Independent" and the Democratic nominee, former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom John W. Davis. Coolidge won Montana by a margin of 4.59%.
Coolidge was credited for the booming economy while the Democratic electorate was divided between the conservative Davis and the liberal third-party candidate Robert M. La Follette who ran as a Progressive and chose Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler as his running mate. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Deer Lodge County voted for a Republican Presidential candidate.
With 37.91 percent of the popular vote, Montana would prove to be La Follette's fourth strongest state in the 1924 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota.
Results
| 1924 United States presidential election in Montana | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Calvin Coolidge (incumbent) | 74,138 | 42.50% | 4 | |
| La Follette-Wheeler Independent Farmer-Labor Socialist |
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. | 66,123 | 37.91% | 0 | |
| Democratic | John W. Davis | 33,805 | 19.38% | 0 | |
| Communist | William Z. Foster | 357 | 0.20% | 0 | |
| Totals | 174,425 | 100.00% | 4 | ||
Results by county
| County | John Calvin Coolidge Republican |
John William Davis Democratic |
Robert M. La Follette Sr. La Follette-Wheeler Farmer-Labor Socialist |
William Z. Foster Communist |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Beaverhead | 1,386 | 50.55% | 766 | 27.94% | 587 | 21.41% | 3 | 0.11% | 620 | 22.61% | 2,742 |
| Big Horn | 1,082 | 57.74% | 327 | 17.45% | 465 | 24.81% | 0 | 0.00% | 617 | 32.92% | 1,874 |
| Blaine | 827 | 45.74% | 337 | 18.64% | 642 | 35.51% | 2 | 0.11% | 185 | 10.23% | 1,808 |
| Broadwater | 531 | 37.71% | 486 | 34.52% | 390 | 27.70% | 1 | 0.07% | 45 | 3.20% | 1,408 |
| Carbon | 1,891 | 44.33% | 698 | 16.36% | 1,648 | 38.63% | 29 | 0.68% | 243 | 5.70% | 4,266 |
| Carter | 669 | 54.17% | 283 | 22.91% | 283 | 22.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 386 | 31.26% | 1,235 |
| Cascade | 5,081 | 43.41% | 2,220 | 18.96% | 4,373 | 37.36% | 32 | 0.27% | 708 | 6.05% | 11,706 |
| Chouteau | 1,347 | 46.15% | 706 | 24.19% | 857 | 29.36% | 9 | 0.31% | 490 | 16.79% | 2,919 |
| Custer | 1,654 | 43.78% | 412 | 10.91% | 1,707 | 45.18% | 5 | 0.13% | -53 | -1.40% | 3,778 |
| Daniels | 505 | 35.19% | 185 | 12.89% | 740 | 51.57% | 5 | 0.35% | -235 | -16.38% | 1,435 |
| Dawson | 1,326 | 50.63% | 346 | 13.21% | 941 | 35.93% | 6 | 0.23% | 385 | 14.70% | 2,619 |
| Deer Lodge | 1,937 | 35.43% | 1,611 | 29.47% | 1,918 | 35.08% | 1 | 0.02% | 19 | 0.35% | 5,467 |
| Fallon | 731 | 55.63% | 220 | 16.74% | 363 | 27.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 368 | 28.01% | 1,314 |
| Fergus | 2,942 | 38.50% | 1,580 | 20.68% | 3,119 | 40.81% | 1 | 0.01% | -177 | -2.32% | 7,642 |
| Flathead | 2,541 | 43.28% | 788 | 13.42% | 2,537 | 43.21% | 5 | 0.09% | 4 | 0.07% | 5,871 |
| Gallatin | 2,494 | 44.35% | 1,564 | 27.81% | 1,564 | 27.81% | 1 | 0.02% | 930 | 16.54% | 5,623 |
| Garfield | 876 | 50.55% | 355 | 20.48% | 502 | 28.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 374 | 21.58% | 1,733 |
| Glacier | 586 | 41.68% | 511 | 36.34% | 309 | 21.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 75 | 5.33% | 1,406 |
| Golden Valley | 422 | 37.88% | 118 | 10.59% | 573 | 51.44% | 1 | 0.09% | -151 | -13.55% | 1,114 |
| Granite | 582 | 43.47% | 353 | 26.36% | 402 | 30.02% | 2 | 0.15% | 180 | 13.44% | 1,339 |
| Hill | 1,110 | 30.60% | 602 | 16.59% | 1,906 | 52.54% | 10 | 0.28% | -796 | -21.94% | 3,628 |
| Jefferson | 648 | 36.49% | 434 | 24.44% | 689 | 38.80% | 5 | 0.28% | -41 | -2.31% | 1,776 |
| Judith Basin | 888 | 41.34% | 480 | 22.35% | 763 | 35.52% | 17 | 0.79% | 125 | 5.82% | 2,148 |
| Lake | 884 | 28.00% | 340 | 10.77% | 1,932 | 61.20% | 1 | 0.03% | -1,048 | -33.20% | 3,157 |
| Lewis and Clark | 3,433 | 49.93% | 1,869 | 27.19% | 1,570 | 22.84% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,564 | 22.75% | 6,875 |
| Liberty | 239 | 33.71% | 141 | 19.89% | 329 | 46.40% | 0 | 0.00% | -90 | -12.69% | 709 |
| Lincoln | 976 | 40.89% | 374 | 15.67% | 1,030 | 43.15% | 7 | 0.29% | -54 | -2.26% | 2,387 |
| McCone | 494 | 38.18% | 143 | 11.05% | 651 | 50.31% | 6 | 0.46% | -157 | -12.13% | 1,294 |
| Madison | 1,137 | 45.85% | 672 | 27.10% | 641 | 25.85% | 30 | 1.21% | 465 | 18.75% | 2,480 |
| Meagher | 624 | 59.60% | 257 | 24.55% | 166 | 15.85% | 0 | 0.00% | 367 | 35.05% | 1,047 |
| Mineral | 223 | 21.61% | 123 | 11.92% | 686 | 66.47% | 0 | 0.00% | -463 | -44.86% | 1,032 |
| Missoula | 2,386 | 29.44% | 1,012 | 12.49% | 4,704 | 58.05% | 2 | 0.02% | -2,318 | -28.60% | 8,104 |
| Musselshell | 1,488 | 45.55% | 247 | 7.56% | 1,512 | 46.28% | 20 | 0.61% | -24 | -0.73% | 3,267 |
| Park | 2,199 | 50.70% | 688 | 15.86% | 1,447 | 33.36% | 3 | 0.07% | 752 | 17.34% | 4,337 |
| Phillips | 1,236 | 46.69% | 473 | 17.87% | 935 | 35.32% | 3 | 0.11% | 301 | 11.37% | 2,647 |
| Pondera | 764 | 37.67% | 414 | 20.41% | 849 | 41.86% | 1 | 0.05% | -85 | -4.19% | 2,028 |
| Powder River | 480 | 48.68% | 123 | 12.47% | 380 | 38.54% | 3 | 0.30% | 100 | 10.14% | 986 |
| Powell | 982 | 40.39% | 559 | 22.99% | 889 | 36.57% | 1 | 0.04% | 93 | 3.83% | 2,431 |
| Prairie | 683 | 56.21% | 162 | 13.33% | 367 | 30.21% | 3 | 0.25% | 316 | 26.01% | 1,215 |
| Ravalli | 1,311 | 37.79% | 562 | 16.20% | 1,594 | 45.95% | 2 | 0.06% | -283 | -8.16% | 3,469 |
| Richland | 926 | 49.95% | 238 | 12.84% | 688 | 37.11% | 2 | 0.11% | 238 | 12.84% | 1,854 |
| Roosevelt | 965 | 39.10% | 389 | 15.76% | 1,110 | 44.98% | 4 | 0.16% | -145 | -5.88% | 2,468 |
| Rosebud | 1,115 | 49.12% | 259 | 11.41% | 893 | 39.34% | 3 | 0.13% | 222 | 9.78% | 2,270 |
| Sanders | 588 | 28.65% | 188 | 9.16% | 1,275 | 62.13% | 1 | 0.05% | -687 | -33.48% | 2,052 |
| Sheridan | 905 | 35.32% | 176 | 6.87% | 1,464 | 57.14% | 17 | 0.66% | -559 | -21.82% | 2,562 |
| Silver Bow | 6,520 | 34.66% | 5,393 | 28.66% | 6,813 | 36.21% | 88 | 0.47% | -293 | -1.56% | 18,814 |
| Stillwater | 1,412 | 59.88% | 375 | 15.90% | 567 | 24.05% | 4 | 0.17% | 845 | 35.84% | 2,358 |
| Sweet Grass | 853 | 59.57% | 248 | 17.32% | 331 | 23.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 522 | 36.45% | 1,432 |
| Teton | 775 | 40.36% | 396 | 20.63% | 746 | 38.85% | 3 | 0.16% | 29 | 1.51% | 1,920 |
| Toole | 697 | 37.49% | 439 | 23.61% | 720 | 38.73% | 3 | 0.16% | -23 | -1.24% | 1,859 |
| Treasure | 289 | 55.36% | 84 | 16.09% | 148 | 28.35% | 1 | 0.19% | 141 | 27.01% | 522 |
| Valley | 1,555 | 51.10% | 497 | 16.33% | 986 | 32.40% | 5 | 0.16% | 569 | 18.70% | 3,043 |
| Wheatland | 723 | 44.22% | 221 | 13.52% | 691 | 42.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 32 | 1.96% | 1,635 |
| Wibaux | 505 | 56.93% | 189 | 21.31% | 191 | 21.53% | 2 | 0.23% | 314 | 35.40% | 887 |
| Yellowstone | 4,715 | 55.91% | 1,172 | 13.90% | 2,541 | 30.13% | 5 | 0.06% | 2,174 | 25.78% | 8,433 |
| Totals | 74,138 | 42.50% | 33,805 | 19.38% | 66,124 | 37.91% | 358 | 0.21% | 8,014 | 4.59% | 174,425 |
See also
Notes
- ^ The Montana LaFollette vote was the fusion of 61,105 LaFollette-Wheeler Independent, 4,771 Farmer-Labor, and 247 Socialist electors.
- Because La Follette finished ahead of Davis in Montana as a whole, all margins given are Coolidge vote minus La Follette vote and percentage margins Coolidge percentage minus La Follette percentage unless stated in the total for the county in question.
- ^ In this county where Davis did run second ahead of La Follette, margin given is Coolidge vote minus Davis vote and percentage margin Coolidge percentage minus Davis percentage.
References
- Our Campaigns; MT Us President Race, November 03, 1924
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- "1924 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- "1924 Presidential General Election Results – Montana". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- Géoelections; Popular Vote for Robert LaFollette (.xlsx file for €15)
- Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 256-261 ISBN 9780804716963
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