The 1920 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 2, 1920, as part of the 1920 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Since the Panic of 1893 and the Populist movement, Michigan had been a rigidly one-party polity dominated by the Republican Party. In the 1894 elections, the Democratic Party lost all but one seat in the Michigan legislature, and the party would never make major gains there over the four ensuing decades.

The dominance of the culture of the Lower Peninsula by anti-slavery YankeesEnglish, Gustavus P.; Proceedings of the Ninth Republican National Convention (1888), p. 234 would be augmented by the turn of formerly Democratic-leaning German Catholics away from that party as a result of the remodelled party's agrarian and free silver sympathies, which became rigidly opposed by both the upper class and workers who followed them. At the same time, the Populist movement eliminated Democratic ties with the business and commerce of Michigan and other Northern states. Unlike the other states of the Upper Midwest, the Yankee influence on the culture of the Lower Peninsula was so strong that left-wing third parties did not provide significant opposition to the Republicans, nor was there more than a moderate degree of coordinated factionalism within the hegemonic Michigan Republican Party.

Although by taking a substantial proportion of the 1912 “Bull Moose” vote, incumbent president Woodrow Wilson had managed the best performance in Michigan by a Democrat since Grover Cleveland in 1888, 1918 saw a major reaction against Wilson throughout the Midwest, due to supposed preferential treatment of Southern farmers: Republicans would hold every seat in the State Senate for over a decade after the fall election, as they had between 1895 and 1897 and between 1905 and 1911.

During the 1920 election campaign, Michigan gained almost no attention because it had been so firmly Republican over the past quarter-century. A poll of four university students showed three voting for Republican candidate Warren G. Harding and one for Democratic opponent James M. Cox. A later poll in October showed that the very small August poll was not inaccurate, with Harding leading by slightly less than three-to-one. The Post-Crescent’s expectations were fulfilled, as Harding won in a landslide, with almost 73 percent of the vote to only 22.27 percent for Cox. Harding swept all of Michigan's 83 counties, receiving more than 60% of the vote in every county except for Manistee County.

Results + General Election ResultsMichigan State Archives, Canvass of the votes given at the General Election, held in the State of Michigan on Tuesday the 2nd day of November A.D. 1920Party Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Warren G. Harding Walter J. Hayes762,865 Republican Warren G. Harding Mary L. Veenflict757,562 Republican Warren G. Harding Charles K. Warren756,895 Republican Warren G. Harding George W. Cook756,639 Republican Warren G. Harding Ferry K. Heath756,569 Republican Warren G. Harding Charles F. Clippert756,406 Republican Warren G. Harding Alfred M. Fleischhauer756,215 Republican Warren G. Harding Eber W. Yost755,736 Republican Warren G. Harding William T. Hosner755,735 Republican Warren G. Harding Francis St. Peter754,605 Republican Warren G. Harding Louie Vandervoot-Stegman754,464 Republican Warren G. Harding Herman C. Buck754,279 Republican Warren G. Harding Louisa Yeoman-King754,132 Republican Warren G. Harding Grace Cookson-Stair753,893 Republican Warren G. Harding Myron J. Sherwood753,831 Democratic James M. Cox George J. Burke233,450 Democratic James M. Cox Howard W. Cavanagh232,230 Democratic James M. Cox Joses T. LaMeasure232,121 Democratic James M. Cox Sidney T. Miller232,079 Democratic James M. Cox William L. McManus Jr.232,067 Democratic James M. Cox Charles V. Taylor231,910 Democratic James M. Cox John Lennane231,855 Democratic James M. Cox John George Zink231,840 Democratic James M. Cox Estelle L. Moore231,759 Democratic James M. Cox William H. Loutit231,749 Democratic James M. Cox Albert S. Ley231,741 Democratic James M. Cox August C. Goehrend231,684 Democratic James M. Cox Lola K. Brown231,677 Democratic James M. Cox Hattie B. Vanzelingen231,673 Democratic James M. Cox Ethel G. Kelbie231,672 Socialist Eugene V. Debs A. Glenn Berry28,947 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Joseph W. Hawkins28,534 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Violet M. Blumenbery28,475 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Arthur A. Wood28,469 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Frank H. Dixon28,445 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Charles G. Taylor28,439 Socialist Eugene V. Debs W. F. Long28,419 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Otto J. Young28,419 Socialist Eugene V. Debs W. W. Lloyd28,417 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Ruby Grant28,412 Socialist Eugene V. Debs William Cobine28,395 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Frank Zeek28,382 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Henry Pilch28,372 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Inez Luther28,369 Socialist Eugene V. Debs Ellsworth A. Kellogg28,368 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Robert G. Ewald10,480 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Joseph Obernwayer10,372 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen August Kleinow10,193 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen James Douglas10,191 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Frank S. Lehnen10,164 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Robert A. Washburn10,157 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Albert L. Cheney10,154 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Edmond L. Ege10,153 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Henry F. Repke10,152 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Arthur Darling10,149 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Robert Legg10,138 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Edward C. Scheid10,120 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Albert Begin10,031 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Lily M. McCone9,646 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Mary J. Johnston9,552 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins William Calkins9,541 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Elmer Scott9,526 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Jarvis M. Green9,523 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Adelaide Z. Sewell9,516 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Ernest H. Clark9,502 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Roseltha Huff9,502 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Edith R. Luttenbacher9,500 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins M. Adelaide Titus9,498 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Emir L. Wilder9,485 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Alexander Peterkin9,484 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins John McCoil9,470 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Frederick C. Nieman9,468 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Oscar V. Schwensen8,673 Farmer-Labor Parley P. Christensen Edward W. Second7,850 Prohibition Aaron S. Watkins Lester G. Rathburn7,078 Socialist Labor William Wesley Cox Charles Pierson2,539 Socialist Labor William Wesley Cox D. Theofanis2,361 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley William C. McCarthy484 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley A. Lawrence Smith464 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley Henry C. L. Forler430 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley Ray Robson429 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley Alexander S. Diack424 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley Basil McKnight419 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley Wilbur Brotherton416 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley George D. Ball414 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley James N. Symons411 Single Tax Robert C. Macauley Elmer Letourneam394 Write-in Scattering54Votes cast 1,048,465

Results by county The results below are those for the highest elector on each ticket. The results listed in the 1921-1922 Michigan Manual are a "general average" for each ticket and thus not the "true" results.