1928 United States presidential election in Utah

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1928 United States presidential election in Utah
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  1924 November 6, 1928 1932  
  Herbert Hoover - NARA - 532049.jpg Unsuccessful 1928.jpg
Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California New York
Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson
Electoral vote40
Popular vote94,61880,985
Percentage53.58%45.86%

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County Results

President before election

Calvin Coolidge
Republican

Elected President

Herbert Hoover
Republican

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

1928 United States presidential election in Utah [5]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Herbert Hoover 94,61853.58%4
Democratic Alfred E. Smith 80,98545.86%0
Socialist Norman Thomas 9540.54%0
Communist William Z. Foster 460.03%0
Totals176,603100.0%4

Results by county

CountyHerbert Clark Hoover
Republican
Alfred Emmanuel Smith
Democratic
Norman Mattoon Thomas [6]
Socialist
William Z. Foster [6]
Communist
MarginTotal votes cast [7]
# %# %# %# %# %
Beaver 1,14954.98%93644.78%50.24%00.00%21310.20%2,090
Box Elder 3,31756.94%2,48842.71%200.34%00.00%82914.23%5,825
Cache 5,29752.60%4,74847.15%260.26%00.00%5495.45%10,071
Carbon 2,18442.10%2,95456.94%470.96%30.06%-770-14.84%5,188
Daggett 10777.54%3122.46%00.00%00.00%7655.08%138
Davis 2,50852.05%2,29647.65%140.29%00.00%2124.40%4,818
Duchesne 1,58563.48%89936.00%130.52%00.00%68627.48%2,497
Emery 1,31757.06%96541.81%261.13%00.00%35215.25%2,308
Garfield 1,02475.63%32524.00%50.37%00.00%69951.63%1,354
Grand 34752.58%31046.97%30.45%00.00%375.61%660
Iron 1,82372.11%68226.98%230.91%00.00%1,14145.13%2,528
Juab 1,55747.48%1,71452.27%80.24%00.00%-157-4.79%3,279
Kane 56679.94%14119.92%10.14%00.00%42560.02%708
Millard 2,26360.83%1,44038.71%160.46%10.03%82322.12%3,720
Morgan 51353.00%45446.90%10.10%00.00%596.10%968
Piute 43464.20%23735.06%50.74%00.00%19729.14%676
Rich 47067.72%22432.28%00.00%00.00%24635.44%694
Salt Lake 34,39349.89%34,12749.50%3920.61%280.04%2660.39%68,940
San Juan 44965.55%23133.72%50.73%00.00%21831.83%685
Sanpete 3,69459.63%2,48240.06%190.31%00.00%1,21219.57%6,195
Sevier 2,42463.13%1,39936.43%160.44%10.03%1,02526.70%3,840
Summit 1,74857.65%1,26041.56%210.79%30.10%48816.09%3,032
Tooele 1,70754.22%1,42145.14%180.64%20.06%2869.08%3,148
Uintah 1,58964.00%88035.44%140.56%00.00%70928.56%2,483
Utah 8,77152.19%7,95547.33%790.48%20.01%8164.86%16,807
Wasatch 1,34057.83%97341.99%40.17%00.00%36715.84%2,317
Washington 1,68666.20%85733.65%30.16%10.04%82932.55%2,547
Wayne 42268.17%19531.50%20.32%00.00%22736.67%619
Weber 9,93453.79%8,36145.27%1680.94%50.03%1,5738.52%18,468
Totals94,61853.58%80,98545.86%9540.54%460.03%13,6337.72%176,603

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