The 1928 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 6, 1928 as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Utah voted for Republican nominee Herbert Hoover, formerly Secretary of Commerce, over the Democratic nominee, four-time New York governor Al Smith. Mormon Utah was much less affected by anti-Catholic passion against Smith and his faith than either the Protestant Upper South or the secular Pacific Northwest: indeed the LDS hierarchy endorsed Smith when he won the Democratic nomination.[1] In fact, in the days before the election it was thought by pollsters that Smith would carry the state,[2] although neither Cox nor Davis nor La Follette had won a single county during the previous two elections. However, late swings gave the state to Hoover by a margin whose size increased in late counting.[2]
Nonetheless, the LDS endorsement did cause Utah to prove Smith's eleventh-strongest state – and his strongest outside the urban Northeast or the "Solid South" – voting 9.70 percent more Democratic than the nation at-large.[3] Smith divided the sizable 1924 La Follette vote with Hoover, and carried the ethnically diverse mining-based Carbon County by fourteen, and also won a five-point majority in Juab County in the state's west for the first Republican losses in any Utah county since 1916 when anti-war sentiment shifted the state to Woodrow Wilson.[4]
Results
edit| 1928 United States presidential election in Utah[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Herbert Hoover | 94,618 | 53.58% | 4 | |
| Democratic | Alfred E. Smith | 80,985 | 45.86% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 954 | 0.54% | 0 | |
| Communist | William Z. Foster | 46 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Totals | 176,603 | 100.0% | 4 | ||
Results by county
edit| County | Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Alfred Emmanuel Smith Democratic |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[6] Socialist |
William Z. Foster[6] Communist |
Margin | Total votes cast[7] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Beaver | 1,149 | 54.98% | 936 | 44.78% | 5 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 213 | 10.20% | 2,090 |
| Box Elder | 3,317 | 56.94% | 2,488 | 42.71% | 20 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 829 | 14.23% | 5,825 |
| Cache | 5,297 | 52.60% | 4,748 | 47.15% | 26 | 0.26% | 0 | 0.00% | 549 | 5.45% | 10,071 |
| Carbon | 2,184 | 42.10% | 2,954 | 56.94% | 47 | 0.96% | 3 | 0.06% | -770 | -14.84% | 5,188 |
| Daggett | 107 | 77.54% | 31 | 22.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 76 | 55.08% | 138 |
| Davis | 2,508 | 52.05% | 2,296 | 47.65% | 14 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 212 | 4.40% | 4,818 |
| Duchesne | 1,585 | 63.48% | 899 | 36.00% | 13 | 0.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 686 | 27.48% | 2,497 |
| Emery | 1,317 | 57.06% | 965 | 41.81% | 26 | 1.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 352 | 15.25% | 2,308 |
| Garfield | 1,024 | 75.63% | 325 | 24.00% | 5 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 699 | 51.63% | 1,354 |
| Grand | 347 | 52.58% | 310 | 46.97% | 3 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 37 | 5.61% | 660 |
| Iron | 1,823 | 72.11% | 682 | 26.98% | 23 | 0.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,141 | 45.13% | 2,528 |
| Juab | 1,557 | 47.48% | 1,714 | 52.27% | 8 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -157 | -4.79% | 3,279 |
| Kane | 566 | 79.94% | 141 | 19.92% | 1 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 425 | 60.02% | 708 |
| Millard | 2,263 | 60.83% | 1,440 | 38.71% | 16 | 0.46% | 1 | 0.03% | 823 | 22.12% | 3,720 |
| Morgan | 513 | 53.00% | 454 | 46.90% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 59 | 6.10% | 968 |
| Piute | 434 | 64.20% | 237 | 35.06% | 5 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 197 | 29.14% | 676 |
| Rich | 470 | 67.72% | 224 | 32.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 246 | 35.44% | 694 |
| Salt Lake | 34,393 | 49.89% | 34,127 | 49.50% | 392 | 0.61% | 28 | 0.04% | 266 | 0.39% | 68,940 |
| San Juan | 449 | 65.55% | 231 | 33.72% | 5 | 0.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 218 | 31.83% | 685 |
| Sanpete | 3,694 | 59.63% | 2,482 | 40.06% | 19 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,212 | 19.57% | 6,195 |
| Sevier | 2,424 | 63.13% | 1,399 | 36.43% | 16 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,025 | 26.70% | 3,840 |
| Summit | 1,748 | 57.65% | 1,260 | 41.56% | 21 | 0.79% | 3 | 0.10% | 488 | 16.09% | 3,032 |
| Tooele | 1,707 | 54.22% | 1,421 | 45.14% | 18 | 0.64% | 2 | 0.06% | 286 | 9.08% | 3,148 |
| Uintah | 1,589 | 64.00% | 880 | 35.44% | 14 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 709 | 28.56% | 2,483 |
| Utah | 8,771 | 52.19% | 7,955 | 47.33% | 79 | 0.48% | 2 | 0.01% | 816 | 4.86% | 16,807 |
| Wasatch | 1,340 | 57.83% | 973 | 41.99% | 4 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 367 | 15.84% | 2,317 |
| Washington | 1,686 | 66.20% | 857 | 33.65% | 3 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.04% | 829 | 32.55% | 2,547 |
| Wayne | 422 | 68.17% | 195 | 31.50% | 2 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 227 | 36.67% | 619 |
| Weber | 9,934 | 53.79% | 8,361 | 45.27% | 168 | 0.94% | 5 | 0.03% | 1,573 | 8.52% | 18,468 |
| Totals | 94,618 | 53.58% | 80,985 | 45.86% | 954 | 0.54% | 46 | 0.03% | 13,633 | 7.72% | 176,603 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Archer, J. Clark and Taylor, Peter J.; Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan p. 173 ISBN 0471100145
- ^ a b Clapper, Raymond; 'Hoover Deluge Sweep Higher: May Pass Mark Set by Harding; Smith Gets Greatest Popular Vote Ever Given Democrat but Makes Poor Showing on Electoral'; The Pittsburgh Press, November 7, 1928, p. 1
- ^ Counting the Votes; Utah
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1928 Presidential Election Results – Utah". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ^ a b Our Campaigns; UT US President Race, November 06, 1928
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 458 ISBN 0405077114