1928 United States presidential election in Utah

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.

Main article: 1928 United States presidential election
1928 United States presidential election in Utah
November 6, 1928
 
Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California New York
Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 94,618 80,985
Percentage 53.58% 45.86%
County Results
President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

 Elected President

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elections in Utah

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
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
County Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican		 Alfred Emmanuel Smith
Demcoratic		 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
Totals94,61853.58%80,98545.86%9540.54%460.03%13,6337.72%176,603
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References
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Counting the Votes; Utah
  4. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 ISBN 0786422173
  5. "1928 Presidential Election Results – Utah". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
  6. Our Campaigns; UT US President Race, November 06, 1928
  7. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 458 ISBN 0405077114
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