The 1920 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
New Hampshire voted for Republican nominee, Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, over the Democratic nominee, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio. Harding ran with Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, while Cox ran with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.
Harding won New Hampshire by a margin of 20.45%. His victory in the New England states was helped by the local popularity of his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, a traditional New England Yankee born in the small-town of Plymouth Notch in neighboring Vermont, who had started his political career in neighboring Massachusetts as its governor. Despite this, New Hampshire would be Cox's second-strongest antebellum free state after Indiana by popular vote percentage and the third-strongest after Indiana and Cox's Ohio in terms of percentage margin.
New Hampshire voted 5.72% more Democratic than the nation at-large – which is the most Democratic relative to the nation that New Hampshire has ever voted since the Republican Party was founded.Counting the Votes; New Hampshire Although Cox carried no counties, Hillsborough and longtime national bellwether Coös would prove his strongest counties in New England.
Results
Results by county CountyWarren Gamaliel HardingRepublicanJames Middleton CoxDemocraticEugene Victor DebsSocialistMarginTotal votes castRobinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, p. 270 # % # % # % # % Belknap 5,628 61.74% 3,464 38.00% 23 0.25% 2,164 23.74% 9,115 Carroll 4,214 64.73% 2,279 35.01% 17 0.26% 1,935 29.72% 6,510 Cheshire 6,644 65.83% 3,374 33.43% 74 0.73% 3,270 32.40% 10,092 Coös 6,114 54.45% 4,985 44.40% 129 1.15% 1,129 10.06% 11,228 Grafton 9,650 61.10% 6,102 38.63% 42 0.27% 3,548 22.46% 15,794 Hillsborough 23,040 54.44% 18,736 44.27% 546 1.29% 4,304 10.17% 42,322 Merrimack 12,748 58.28% 8,976 41.04% 148 0.68% 3,772 17.25% 21,872 Rockingham 13,811 67.29% 6,582 32.07% 132 0.64% 7,229 35.22% 20,525 Strafford 8,700 60.37% 5,643 39.15% 69 0.48% 3,057 21.21% 14,412Sullivan 4,647 64.35% 2,521 34.91% 54 0.75% 2,126 29.44% 7,222Totals95,19659.84%62,66239.39%1,2340.78%32,53420.45%159,092
See also United States presidential elections in New Hampshire
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