Popular Votes

POLITICAL NOTE

Election officials at the 40 State capitals gave out official figures on how the U. S. electorate elected President last month. There were 36,798,669 ballots--an increase of 7,707,252 or about 25% over 1924.

Hoover got 21,429,109 votes--an increase of 5,276,909 over the record-breaking Harding vote of 1920 and 5,704,093 more Smith than got the 1924 15,005,497 votes Coolidge--vote, more than a million short of the highest previous popular vote, but 5,858,144 more than the highest previous Democratic poll (Cox in 1920).

The Hoover plurality of 6,423,612 was less than the Coolidge and Harding pluralities of 7,338,513 and 7,004,847, respectively.

With Republican and Democratic ballots counted out, the balance of 364,063 votes in 1928 was divided as follows: Socialist Thomas, 267,835; Worker Foster, 48,228;

Socialist-Laborite Reynolds, 21,181; Prohibitioner Varney, 20,101; Farmer-Laborite Webb, 6,391; scattering, 327.

Tables. The highest popular votes for President have been:

Hoover (1928) 21,429,109

Harding (1920) 16,152,200

Coolidge (1924) 15,725,016

Smith (1928) 15,005,497

Cox (1920) 9,147,353

Wilson (1916) 9,129,606

Taft (1908) 7,679,006

Roosevelt (1904) 7,628,834 McKinley (1900) 7,219,530 McKinley (1896).... 7,035,638

Bryan (1896) 6,467,946

Bryan (1908) 6,409,106

Bryan (1900) 6,358,071

Wilson (1912) 6,286,214

The 1928 vote, State by State, is shown below. Electoral Result--Hoover, 444; Smith, 87; Thomas, 0.

P: The Hoover poll in the hitherto Solid South (10 States) was 1,406,488 votes, more than twice what Coolidge got in 1924 and only 191,169 less than the Smith vote.

P: The Hoover vote exceeded the Coolidge vote of 1924 in every State except Rhode Island.

P: The largest Hoover plurality was in arch-Republican Pennsylvania--987,796 votes.

P: The largest Smith plurality was in arch-Democratic Louisiana--113,495 votes.