1924 United States presidential election in Alabama

The 1924 United States presidential election in Alabama occurred on November 4, 1924, as a part of the nationwide presidential election, which took place throughout all 48 contemporary states. Voters chose twelve representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Since the 1890s, Alabama had been effectively a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. Disenfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and a large proportion of poor whites via poll taxes, literacy tests and informal harassment had essentially eliminated opposition parties outside of Unionist Winston County and a few nearby northern hill counties that had been Populist strongholds. The only competitive statewide elections became Democratic Party primaries that were limited by law to white voters. Unlike most other Confederate states, however, soon after black disenfranchisement Alabama's remaining white Republicans made rapid efforts to expel blacks from the state Republican Party. Indeed, under Oscar D. Street, who ironically was appointed state party boss as part of the pro-Taft “black and tan” faction in 1912, the state GOP would permanently turn “lily-white”, with the last black delegates from the state at any Republican National Convention serving in 1920.

The 1920 election, aided by isolationism in Appalachia and the whitening of the state GOP,Heersink and Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, p. 19 saw the Republicans gain their best presidential vote share in Alabama since 1884, while the GOP even exceed forty percent in the House of Representatives races for the 4th, 7th and 10th congressional districts. However, isolationist sentiment in Appalachia would ease after the election of Warren G. Harding and funding issues meant the Republicans would not run a candidate for any Alabama congressional district in 1922.See

With the ebbing of isolationist sentiment and a conservative Southern Democrat supportive of poll taxes and opposed to women's suffrage in John W. Davis of West Virginia nominated after an extremely prolonged convention, neither Davis nor incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge nor “La Follette/Wheeler” candidate Robert M. La Follette visited Alabama. No polls were taken in the state, which had given every Democrat since 1876 over sixty percent, and ultimately Davis won Alabama with over sixty-seven percent of the vote. Despite the severe impediments of Alabama's cumulative poll tax, La Follette did reach into double digits in industrialised Jefferson, Baldwin, and Morgan Counties, but overall he polled only just under five percent of Alabama's ballots, making it his eighth-weakest state.See Stark, Rodney and Christiano, Kevin J.; 'Support for the American Left, 1920-1924: The Opiate Thesis Reconsidered'; Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 31, No. 1 (March, 1992), pp. 62-75

Results

Results by county County John W. DavisDemocratic Calvin CoolidgeRepublican Robert M. La FolletteProgressive Herman P. FarisNational Prohibition Margin Total votescast#%#%#%#%#% Autauga 781 81.87% 146 15.30% 22 2.31% 5 0.52% 635 66.56% 954 Baldwin 1,023 51.72% 549 27.76% 392 19.82% 14 0.71% 474 23.96% 1,978 Barbour 1,340 91.59% 78 5.33% 40 2.73% 5 0.34% 1,262 86.26% 1,463 Bibb 875 63.68% 251 18.27% 240 17.47% 8 0.58% 624 45.41% 1,374 Blount 2,083 56.15% 1,518 40.92% 103 2.78% 6 0.16% 565 15.23% 3,710 Bullock 763 98.83% 8 1.04% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 755 97.80% 772 Butler 1,050 83.33% 95 7.54% 115 9.13% 0 0.00% 935 74.21% 1,260 Calhoun 1,907 67.65% 766 27.17% 129 4.58% 17 0.60% 1,141 40.48% 2,819 Chambers 1,922 91.00% 146 6.91% 43 2.04% 1 0.05% 1,776 84.09% 2,112 Cherokee 1,380 60.63% 845 37.13% 45 1.98% 6 0.26% 535 23.51% 2,276 Chilton 848 33.60% 1,595 63.19% 75 2.97% 6 0.24% -747 -29.60% 2,524 Choctaw 1,021 97.80% 19 1.82% 2 0.19% 2 0.19% 1,002 95.98% 1,044 Clarke 1,059 91.93% 78 6.77% 12 1.04% 3 0.26% 981 85.16% 1,152 Clay 1,597 59.88% 1,017 38.13% 49 1.84% 4 0.15% 580 21.75% 2,667 Cleburne 622 45.74% 696 51.18% 38 2.79% 4 0.29% -74 -5.44% 1,360 Coffee 1,597 82.11% 323 16.61% 20 1.03% 5 0.26% 1,274 65.50% 1,945 Colbert 1,503 65.98% 576 25.29% 189 8.30% 10 0.44% 927 40.69% 2,278 Conecuh 955 88.10% 92 8.49% 31 2.86% 6 0.55% 863 79.61% 1,084 Coosa 790 60.12% 508 38.66% 15 1.14% 1 0.08% 282 21.46% 1,314 Covington 1,776 85.88% 156 7.54% 132 6.38% 4 0.19% 1,620 78.34% 2,068 Crenshaw 1,107 89.06% 117 9.41% 8 0.64% 11 0.88% 990 79.65% 1,243 Cullman 1,809 49.79% 1,639 45.11% 180 4.95% 5 0.14% 170 4.68% 3,633 Dale 1,117 77.52% 297 20.61% 22 1.53% 5 0.35% 820 56.90% 1,441 Dallas 1,948 91.76% 50 2.36% 125 5.89% 0 0.00% 1,823 85.87% 2,123 DeKalb 3,003 46.65% 3,434 53.35% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -431 -6.70% 6,437 Elmore 1,088 81.62% 219 16.43% 15 1.13% 11 0.83% 869 65.19% 1,333 Escambia 1,217 85.70% 152 10.70% 46 3.24% 5 0.35% 1,065 75.00% 1,420 Etowah 3,081 61.41% 1,664 33.17% 242 4.82% 30 0.60% 1,417 28.24% 5,017 Fayette 1,358 57.35% 977 41.26% 30 1.27% 3 0.13% 381 16.09% 2,368 Franklin 1,985 46.59% 2,208 51.82% 65 1.53% 3 0.07% -223 -5.23% 4,261 Geneva 1,191 69.53% 477 27.85% 39 2.28% 6 0.35% 714 41.68% 1,713 Greene 408 98.31% 5 1.20% 1 0.24% 1 0.24% 403 97.11% 415 Hale 856 96.72% 23 2.60% 4 0.45% 2 0.23% 833 94.12% 885 Henry 816 78.84% 179 17.29% 37 3.57% 3 0.29% 637 61.55% 1,035 Houston 1,731 83.87% 242 11.72% 83 4.02% 8 0.39% 1,489 72.14% 2,064 Jackson 1,923 66.11% 885 30.42% 86 2.96% 15 0.52% 1,038 35.68% 2,909 Jefferson 15,133 63.64% 5,678 23.88% 2,808 11.81% 161 0.68% 9,455 39.76% 23,780 Lamar 1,087 79.40% 262 19.14% 18 1.31% 2 0.15% 825 60.26% 1,369 Lauderdale 2,266 71.30% 823 25.90% 80 2.52% 9 0.28% 1,443 45.41% 3,178 Lawrence 990 67.26% 468 31.79% 12 0.82% 2 0.14% 522 35.46% 1,472 Lee 1,290 85.77% 98 6.52% 111 7.38% 5 0.33% 1,179 78.39% 1,504 Limestone 1,415 87.35% 136 8.40% 51 3.15% 18 1.11% 1,279 78.95% 1,620 Lowndes 602 95.86% 5 0.80% 20 3.18% 1 0.16% 582 92.68% 628 Macon 538 91.34% 48 8.15% 2 0.34% 1 0.17% 490 83.19% 589 Madison 2,166 83.76% 368 14.23% 49 1.89% 3 0.12% 1,798 69.53% 2,586 Marengo 1,243 98.42% 17 1.35% 2 0.16% 1 0.08% 1,226 97.07% 1,263 Marion 1,359 99.05% 0 0.00% 12 0.87% 1 0.07% 1,347 98.18% 1,372 Marshall 2,629 59.31% 1,718 38.75% 81 1.83% 5 0.11% 911 20.55% 4,433 Mobile 4,125 64.91% 1,814 28.54% 380 5.98% 36 0.57% 2,311 36.37% 6,355 Monroe 1,155 96.09% 22 1.83% 22 1.83% 3 0.25% 1,133 94.26% 1,202 Montgomery 4,422 87.70% 233 4.62% 375 7.44% 12 0.24% 4,047 80.27% 5,042 Morgan 2,247 71.58% 519 16.53% 352 11.21% 21 0.67% 1,728 55.05% 3,139 Perry 928 96.17% 25 2.59% 12 1.24% 0 0.00% 903 93.58% 965 Pickens 1,045 87.45% 132 11.05% 15 1.26% 3 0.25% 913 76.40% 1,195 Pike 1,832 97.34% 30 1.59% 15 0.80% 5 0.27% 1,802 95.75% 1,882 Randolph 1,307 65.32% 669 33.43% 18 0.90% 7 0.35% 638 31.88% 2,001 Russell 474 91.33% 14 2.70% 31 5.97% 0 0.00% 443 85.36% 519 St. Clair 1,281 45.30% 1,432 50.64% 110 3.89% 5 0.18% -151 -5.34% 2,828 Shelby 1,882 49.18% 1,753 45.81% 186 4.86% 6 0.16% 129 3.37% 3,827 Sumter 837 94.68% 28 3.17% 19 2.15% 0 0.00% 809 91.52% 884 Talladega 1,730 71.72% 628 26.04% 48 1.99% 6 0.25% 1,102 45.69% 2,412 Tallapoosa 1,713 99.59% 1 0.06% 3 0.17% 3 0.17% 1,710 99.42% 1,720 Tuscaloosa 2,363 85.80% 247 8.97% 128 4.65% 16 0.58% 2,116 76.83% 2,754 Walker 3,351 54.59% 2,446 39.85% 332 5.41% 9 0.15% 905 14.74% 6,138 Washington 610 89.97% 55 8.11% 12 1.77% 1 0.15% 555 81.86% 678 Wilcox 938 97.81% 6 0.63% 15 1.56% 0 0.00% 923 96.25% 959 Winston 650 36.19% 1,096 61.02% 45 2.51% 5 0.28% -446 -24.83% 1,796Totals113,13868.76%42,80126.01%8,0404.89%5620.34%70,33742.75%164,541

See also United States presidential elections in Alabama

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