United states presidential election, 1928 - wikipedia United states presidential election, 1928 United States presidential election, 1928 ← 1924 November 6, 1928 1932 → 531 electoral votes of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win Turnout 56.9 % 8.0 pp Nominee Herbert Hoover Al Smith Party Republican Democratic Home state California New York Running mate Charles Curtis Joseph T. Robinson Electoral vote 444 87 States carried 40 8 Popular vote 21,427,123 15,015,464 Percentage 58.2 % 40.8 % Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Hoover / Curtis, blue denotes those won by Smith / Robinson. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. President before election Calvin Coolidge Republican Elected President Herbert Hoover Republican The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Republican Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York. Hoover was the last Republican to win a presidential election until 1952. After President Calvin Coolidge declined to seek reelection, Hoover emerged as his party 's front - runner. As Hoover 's intra-party opponents failed to unite around a candidate, Hoover received a large majority of the vote at the 1928 Republican National Convention. The strong state of the economy discouraged some Democrats from running, and Smith was nominated on the first ballot of the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Hoover and Smith had been widely known as potential presidential candidates long before the 1928 campaign, and both were generally regarded as outstanding leaders. Each candidate was a newcomer to the presidential race and presented in his person and record an appeal of unknown potency to the electorate. Each candidate also faced serious discontent within his party membership, and neither had the wholehearted support of his party organization. In the end, the Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, whereas Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from anti-Catholic prejudice, his anti-prohibitionist stance, and his association with the legacy of corruption of Tammany Hall. Hoover won a third straight Republican landslide and made substantial inroads in the traditionally Democratic Solid South, winning several states that had not voted for a Republican since the end of Reconstruction. Hoover 's victory made him the first president born west of the Mississippi River, and he is the most recent sitting member of the Cabinet to win a major party 's presidential nomination. Contents 1 Nominations 1.1 Republican Party nomination 1.2 Democratic Party nomination 1.3 Prohibition Party nomination 2 General election 2.1 The fall campaign 2.2 Results 2.3 Geography of results 2.3. 1 Cartographic gallery 2.4 Results by state 2.5 Close states 2.5. 1 Statistics 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 5.1 Primary sources 6 External links Nominations Republican party nomination Main article : 1928 Republican National Convention Republican Party Ticket, 1928 Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis for President for Vice President 3rd U.S. Secretary of Commerce ( 1921 -- 1928 ) U.S. Senator from Kansas ( 1907 -- 1913 & 1915 -- 1929 ) Campaign Republican candidates : Herbert Hoover from California, Secretary of Commerce Former Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis from Kansas With President Coolidge choosing not to enter the race, the race for the nomination was wide open. The leading candidates were Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, former Illinois Governor Frank Orren Lowden and Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis. A draft - Coolidge movement failed to gain traction with party insiders and failed to persuade Coolidge himself. In the few primaries that mattered, Hoover did not perform as well as expected, and it was thought that the president or Vice-President Charles G. Dawes might accept a draft in case of a deadlock, but Lowden withdrew just as the convention was about to start, paving the way for a Hoover victory. The Republican Convention, held in Kansas City, Missouri, from June 12 to 15, nominated Hoover on the first ballot. With Hoover disinclined to interfere in the selection of his running mate, the party leaders were at first partial to giving Dawes a shot at a second term, but when this information leaked, Coolidge sent an angry telegram saying that he would consider a second nomination for Dawes, whom he hated, a `` personal affront. '' To attract votes from farmers concerned about Hoover 's pro-business orientation, it was instead offered to Senator Curtis, who accepted. He was nominated overwhelmingly on the first ballot. In his acceptance speech eight weeks after the convention ended, Secretary Hoover said : `` We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of this land... We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land. '' The phrase would eventually haunt Hoover during the Great Depression. The Balloting Presidential Ballot Vice Presidential Ballot Herbert Hoover 837 Charles Curtis 1,052 Frank Orren Lowden 74 Herman Ekern 19 Charles Curtis 64 Charles G. Dawes 13 James Eli Watson 45 Hanford MacNider George W. Norris 24 Guy D. Goff 18 Calvin Coolidge 17 Charles G. Dawes Charles Evans Hughes Democratic party nomination Main article : 1928 Democratic National Convention Democratic Party Ticket, 1928 Al Smith Joseph T. Robinson for President for Vice President 42nd Governor of New York ( 1919 -- 1920 & 1923 -- 1928 ) U.S. Senator from Arkansas ( 1913 -- 1937 ) Campaign Democratic candidates : Governor Al Smith of New York Representative Cordell Hull from Tennessee Senator James A. Reed from Missouri Former Senator Atlee Pomerene from Ohio With the memory of the Teapot Dome scandal rapidly fading, and the current state of prosperity making the party 's prospects look dim, most of the major Democratic leaders, such as William Gibbs McAdoo, were content to sit this one out. One who did not was New York Governor Al Smith, who had tried twice before to secure the Democratic nomination. The 1928 Democratic National Convention was held in Houston, Texas, on June 26 to 28, and Smith became the candidate on the first ballot. The leadership asked the delegates to nominate Sen. Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, who was in many ways Smith 's political polar opposite, to be his running mate, and he was nominated for vice-president. Smith was the first Roman Catholic to gain a major party 's nomination for president, and his religion became an issue during the campaign. Many Protestants feared that Smith would take orders from church leaders in Rome in making decisions affecting the country. The Balloting Presidential Ballot Vice Presidential Ballot Al Smith 849.17 Joseph Taylor Robinson 1,035.17 Cordell Hull 71.84 Alben W. Barkley 77 Walter F. George 52.5 Nellie Tayloe Ross 31 James A. Reed 52 Henry Tureman Allen 28 Atlee Pomerene 47 George L. Berry 17.5 Jesse H. Jones 43 Dan Moody 9.33 Evans Woollen 32 Duncan U. Fletcher 7 Pat Harrison 20 John H. Taylor 6 William A. Ayres 20 Lewis Stevenson Richard C. Watts 18 Evans Woollen Gilbert Hitchcock 16 Joseph Patrick Tumulty 100 A. Victor Donahey 5 Houston Thompson Theodore G. Bilbo Source : US President - D Convention. Our Campaigns. ( March 10, 2011 ). Prohibition party nomination The Prohibition Party Convention was held in Chicago from July 10 through July 12. Smith openly opposed Prohibition. Some members of the Prohibition Party wanted to throw their support to Hoover, thinking that their candidate would not win and that they did not want their candidate to provide the margin by which Smith would win. Nonetheless, William F. Varney was nominated for president over Hoover by a margin of 68 -- 45. General election The fall campaign Anti-Catholicism was a significant problem for Smith 's campaign. Protestant ministers warned that he would take orders from the pope who, many Americans sincerely believed, would move to the United States to rule the country from a fortress in Washington, D.C., if Smith won. According to a popular joke, after the election he sent a one - word telegram advising Pope Pius XI to `` Unpack ''. Beyond the conspiracy theories, a survey of 8,500 Southern Methodist Church ministers found only four who supported Smith, and the northern Methodists, Southern Baptists, and Disciples of Christ were similar in their opposition. Many voters who sincerely rejected bigotry and the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan -- which had declined during the 1920s until the 1928 campaign revived it -- justified their opposition to Smith on their belief that the Catholic Church was an `` un-American '', `` alien culture '' that opposed freedom and democracy. An example was a statement issued in September 1928 by the National Lutheran Editors ' and Managers ' Association that opposed Smith 's election. The manifesto, written by Dr. Clarence Reinhold Tappert, warned about `` the peculiar relation in which a faithful Catholic stands and the absolute allegiance he owes to a ' foreign sovereign ' who does not only ' claim ' supremacy also in secular affairs as a matter of principle and theory but who, time and again, has endeavored to put this claim into practical operation. '' The Catholic Church, the manifesto asserted, was hostile to American principles of separation of church and state and of religious toleration. Groups circulated a million copies of a counterfeit oath claiming that fourth degree Knights of Columbus members swore to exterminate Freemasons and Protestants and commit violence against anyone, if the church so ordered. Smith 's opposition to Prohibition, a key reform promoted by Protestants, also lost him votes, as did his association with Tammany Hall. Because many anti-Catholics used these issues as a cover for their religious prejudices, Smith 's campaign had difficulty denouncing anti-Catholicism as bigotry without offending others who favored Prohibition or disliked Tammany 's corruption. Due to these issues, Smith lost several states of the Solid South that had been carried by Democrats since Reconstruction. However, in many southern states with sizable African American populations ( and where the vast majority of African Americans could not vote at the time ), many believed that Hoover supported integration, or at least was not committed to maintaining segregation, which in turn overcame opposition to Smith 's campaign. During the campaign, Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo claimed that Hoover had met with a black member of the Republican National Committee and danced with her. Hoover 's campaign quickly denied the `` untruthful and ignoble assertion ''. Smith 's religion helped him with Roman Catholic New England immigrants ( especially Irish - Americans and Italian - Americans ), which may explain his narrow victories in traditionally Republican Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as his narrow loss in his home state of New York, where previous Democratic presidential candidates lost by double digits, but which Smith only lost by two percent. Results Results by county explicitly indicating the margin of victory for the winning candidate. Shades of red are for Hoover ( Republican ) and shades of blue are for Smith ( Democratic ), and shades of green are for `` Other ( s ) '' ( Non-Democratic / Non-Republican ), grey indicates zero recorded votes and white indicates territories not elevated to statehood... The total vote exceeded that of 1924 by nearly eight million. It was nearly twice the vote cast in 1916 and nearly three times that of 1896. Every section in the Union increased its vote, the Mountain, East South Central and West South Central sections least of all. The greatest increases were in the heavily populated ( Northeastern ) Mid-Atlantic and East North Central sections, where more than 4,250,000 more votes were cast, more than half of the nationwide increase. There was an increase of over a million each in New York and Pennsylvania. Hoover won the election by a wide margin on pledges to continue the economic boom of the Coolidge years. He received more votes than any candidate of the Republican Party previously had in every state except five : Rhode Island, Iowa, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The Hoover vote was greater than the Coolidge vote in 2,932 counties ; it was less in 143 of the comparable counties. The 21,400,000 votes cast for Hoover also touched the high - water mark for all votes for a presidential candidate up to that time and were an increase of more than 5,500,000 over the Coolidge vote four years earlier. The Republican ticket made substantial inroads in the South : the heaviest Democratic losses were in the three Southern sections ( South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central ). These losses included 215 counties that had never before supported a Republican presidential candidate, distributed as follows : Alabama ( 14 ), Arkansas ( 5 ), Florida ( 22 ), Georgia ( 4 ), Kentucky ( 28 ), Maryland ( 3 ), Mississippi ( 1 ), Missouri ( 10 ), North Carolina ( 16 ), Tennessee ( 3 ), Texas ( 64 ), Virginia ( 26 ), West Virginia ( 4 ). In Georgia, eight counties recorded more votes cast for `` anti-Smith '' electors than either of the two - party candidates, while one county in Wyoming had no recorded votes. The electoral votes of North Carolina and Virginia had not been awarded to a Republican since 1872, while Florida had not been carried by a Republican since the heavily disputed election of 1876. Texas was carried by a Republican for the first time in its history, leaving Georgia as the only remaining state never carried by a Republican presidential candidate. Georgia was eventually won by Barry Goldwater in 1964. In all, Smith carried only six of the eleven states of the former Confederacy, the lowest number carried by a Democratic candidate since the end of Reconstruction. Smith polled more votes than any previous Democratic candidate in thirty of the 48 states, all but Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. In only four of these ( Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico ) did Smith receive fewer votes than Davis had in 1924. Smith received nearly as many votes as Coolidge had in 1924, and his vote exceeded Davis 's by more than six and half million. The Democratic vote was greater than in 1924 in 2,080 counties ; it fell off in 997 counties. In only one section did the Democratic vote drop below 38 %, and that was the Pacific section, the only one in which the Republican percentage exceeded 60 %. But the Democrats made gains in five sections. Of these counties, fourteen had never been Democratic and seven had been Democratic only once. The size and the nature of the distribution of the Democratic vote illustrates Smith 's strengths and weaknesses as a candidate. Despite evidence of an increased Democratic vote, Smith 's overwhelming defeat in the electoral college and the retention of so few Democratic counties reflected Hoover 's greater appeal. Smith won the electoral votes of only the Deep Southern States of the Democratic Solid South ( plus Robinson 's home state of Arkansas ) and the New England states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which had a large proportion of Catholic voters. His 87 electoral votes were the fewest a Democratic candidate had won since the 80 votes earned by Horatio Seymour in 1868 ( not counting Horace Greeley in 1872, who was endorsed by the Democratic Party, but ran as a Liberal Republican ). Hoover even triumphed by a narrow margin in Smith 's home state of New York. Smith carried 914 counties, the fewest in the Fourth Party System. The Republican total leaped to 2,174 counties, a greater number than in the great overturn of 1920. Third - party support sank almost to the vanishing point, as the election of 1928 proved to be a two - party contest to a greater extent than any other in the Fourth Party System. Until the major split before the 1948 election in the Democratic Party between Southern Democrats and the more liberal Northern faction, no further significant third - party candidacies as seen in 1912 and 1924 were to occur. All `` other '' votes totaled only 1.08 percent of the national popular vote. The Socialist vote sank to 267,478, and in seven states there were no Socialist votes. This was the last election in which the Republicans won North Carolina until 1968, the last when they won Kentucky and West Virginia until 1956, the last when they won Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington until 1952, the last when they won Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon until 1948, the last when they won Ohio, Wisconsin, and Wyoming until 1944, and the last when they won Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota until 1940. As of 2016 it remains the last election when the Republican candidate carried the three contiguous counties of Saint Louis County, Minnesota, Carlton County, Minnesota and Douglas County, Wisconsin, and the last until Donald Trump in 2016 when the Republicans carried neighboring Itasca County, Minnesota, Columbia County, Oregon or Grays Harbor County, Washington. It is also the last occasion when Wayne County, Michigan supported a Republican candidate and the only occasion since 1908 when Republicans have carried Orange County, North Carolina. Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Herbert Hoover Republican California 21,427,123 58.21 % 444 Charles Curtis Kansas 444 Al Smith Democratic New York 15,015,464 40.80 % 87 Joseph Taylor Robinson Arkansas 87 Norman Thomas Socialist New York 267,478 0.73 % 0 James H. Maurer Pennsylvania 0 William Z. Foster Communist Massachusetts 48,551 0.13 % 0 Benjamin Gitlow New York 0 Verne L. Reynolds Socialist Labor Michigan 21,590 0.06 % 0 Jeremiah D. Crowley New York 0 William F. Varney Prohibition New York 20,095 0.05 % 0 James Edgerton Virginia 0 Frank Webb Farmer - Labor California 6,390 0.02 % 0 LeRoy R. Tillman Georgia 0 Other 321 0.00 % -- Other -- Total 36,807,012 100 % 531 531 Needed to win 266 266 Source ( Popular Vote ) : Leip, David. `` 1928 Presidential Election Results ''. Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 28, 2005. Source ( Electoral Vote ) : `` Electoral College Box Scores 1789 -- 1996 ''. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved July 28, 2005. Popular vote Hoover 58.21 % Smith 40.80 % Thomas 0.73 % Others 0.26 % Electoral vote Hoover 83.62 % Smith 16.38 % Geography of results Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate 's percentage of the vote Cartographic gallery Map of presidential election results by county Map of Republican presidential election results by county Map of Democratic presidential election results by county Map of `` other '' presidential election results by county Cartogram of presidential election results by county Cartogram of Republican presidential election results by county Cartogram of Democratic presidential election results by county Cartogram of `` other '' presidential election results by county Results by state States won by Hoover / Curtis States won by Smith / Robinson Herbert Hoover Republican Alfred E. Smith Democratic Norman Thomas Socialist William Foster Communist Verne Reynolds Socialist Labor Margin State Total State electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % # Alabama 12 120,725 48.49 - 127,797 51.33 12 460 0.18 - - - - - - - - 7,072 - 2.84 248,982 AL Arizona 52,533 57.57 38,537 42.23 - - - - 184 0.20 - - - - 13,996 15.34 91,254 AZ Arkansas 9 77,751 39.33 - 119,196 60.29 9 429 0.22 - 317 0.16 - - - - - 41,445 - 20.96 197,693 AR California 13 1,162,323 64.69 13 614,365 34.19 - 19,595 1.09 - 112 0.01 - - - - 547,958 30.50 1,796,656 CA Colorado 6 253,872 64.72 6 133,131 33.94 - 3,472 0.89 - 675 0.17 - - - - 120,741 30.78 392,242 CO Connecticut 7 296,614 53.63 7 252,040 45.57 - 3,019 0.55 - 730 0.13 - 622 0.11 - 44,574 8.06 553,031 CT Delaware 68,860 65.03 36,643 34.60 - 329 0.31 - 59 0.06 - - - - 32,217 30.42 105,891 DE Florida 6 144,168 56.83 6 101,764 40.12 - 4,036 1.59 - 3,704 1.46 - - - - 42,404 16.72 253,672 FL Georgia 14 99,369 43.36 - 129,602 56.56 14 124 0.05 - 64 0.03 - - - - - 30,233 - 13.19 229,159 GA Idaho 97,322 64.22 52,926 34.93 - 1,293 0.85 - - - - - - - 44,396 29.30 151,541 ID Illinois 29 1,769,141 56.93 29 1,313,817 42.28 - 19,138 0.62 - 3,581 0.12 - 1,812 0.06 - 455,324 14.65 3,107,489 IL Indiana 15 848,290 59.68 15 562,691 39.59 - 3,871 0.27 - 321 0.02 - 645 0.05 - 285,599 20.09 1,421,314 IN Iowa 13 623,570 61.77 13 379,311 37.57 - 2,960 0.29 - 328 0.03 - 230 0.02 - 244,259 24.20 1,009,489 IA Kansas 10 513,672 72.02 10 193,003 27.06 - 6,205 0.87 - 320 0.04 - - - - 320,669 44.96 713,200 KS Kentucky 13 558,064 59.33 13 381,070 40.51 - 837 0.09 - 293 0.03 - 340 0.04 - 176,994 18.82 940,604 KY Louisiana 10 51,160 23.70 - 164,655 76.29 10 - - - - - - - - - - 113,495 - 52.58 215,833 LA Maine 6 179,923 68.63 6 81,179 30.96 - 1,068 0.41 - - - - - - - 98,744 37.66 262,171 ME Maryland 8 301,479 57.06 8 223,626 42.33 - 1,701 0.32 - 636 0.12 - 906 0.17 - 77,853 14.74 528,348 MD Massachusetts 18 775,566 49.15 - 792,758 50.24 18 6,262 0.40 - 2,461 0.16 - 772 0.05 - - 17,192 - 1.09 1,577,823 MA Michigan 15 965,396 70.36 15 396,762 28.92 - 3,516 0.26 - 2,881 0.21 - 799 0.06 - 568,634 41.44 1,372,082 MI Minnesota 12 560,977 57.77 12 396,451 40.83 - 6,774 0.70 - 4,853 0.50 - 1,921 0.20 - 164,526 16.94 970,976 MN Mississippi 10 27,153 17.90 - 124,539 82.10 10 - - - - - - - - - - 97,386 - 64.20 151,692 MS Missouri 18 834,080 55.58 18 662,562 44.15 - 3,739 0.25 - - - - 340 0.02 - 171,518 11.43 1,500,721 MO Montana 113,300 58.37 78,578 40.48 - 1,667 0.86 - 563 0.29 - - - - 34,722 17.89 194,108 MT Nebraska 8 345,745 63.19 8 197,959 36.18 - 3,434 0.63 - - - - - - - 147,786 27.01 547,144 NE Nevada 18,327 56.54 14,090 43.46 - - - - - - - - - - 4,237 13.07 32,417 NV New Hampshire 115,404 58.65 80,715 41.02 - 465 0.24 - 173 0.09 - - - - 34,689 17.63 196,757 NH New Jersey 14 925,285 59.77 14 616,162 39.80 - 4,866 0.31 - 1,240 0.08 - 488 0.03 - 309,123 19.97 1,548,195 NJ New Mexico 69,645 59.01 48,211 40.85 - - - - 158 0.13 - - - - 21,434 18.16 118,014 NM New York 45 2,193,344 49.79 45 2,089,863 47.44 - 107,332 2.44 - 10,876 0.25 - 4,211 0.10 - 103,481 2.35 4,405,626 NY North Carolina 12 348,923 54.94 12 286,227 45.06 - - - - - - - - - - 62,696 9.87 635,150 NC North Dakota 5 131,441 54.80 5 106,648 44.46 - 936 0.39 - 842 0.35 - - - - 24,793 10.34 239,867 ND Ohio 24 1,627,546 64.89 24 864,210 34.45 - 8,683 0.35 - 2,836 0.11 - 1,515 0.06 - 763,336 30.43 2,508,346 OH Oklahoma 10 394,046 63.72 10 219,174 35.44 - 3,924 0.63 - - - - - - - 174,872 28.28 618,427 OK Oregon 5 205,341 64.18 5 109,223 34.14 - 2,720 0.85 - 1,094 0.34 - 1,564 0.49 - 96,118 30.04 319,942 OR Pennsylvania 38 2,055,382 65.24 38 1,067,586 33.89 - 18,647 0.59 - 4,726 0.15 - 380 0.01 - 987,796 31.35 3,150,610 PA Rhode Island 5 117,522 49.55 - 118,973 50.16 5 - - - 283 0.12 - 416 0.18 - - 1,451 - 0.61 237,194 RI South Carolina 9 5,858 8.54 - 62,700 91.39 9 47 0.07 - - - - - - - - 56,842 - 82.85 68,605 SC South Dakota 5 157,603 60.18 5 102,660 39.20 - 443 0.17 - 232 0.09 - - - - 54,943 20.98 261,865 SD Tennessee 12 195,388 53.76 12 167,343 46.04 - 631 0.17 - 111 0.03 - - - - 28,045 7.72 363,473 TN Texas 20 367,036 51.77 20 341,032 48.10 - 722 0.10 - 209 0.03 - - - - 26,004 3.67 708,999 TX Utah 94,618 53.58 80,985 45.86 - 954 0.54 - 46 0.03 - - - - 13,633 7.72 176,603 UT Vermont 90,404 66.87 44,440 32.87 - - - - - - - - - - 45,964 34.00 135,191 VT Virginia 12 164,609 53.91 12 140,146 45.90 - 250 0.08 - 173 0.06 - 180 0.06 - 24,463 8.01 305,358 VA Washington 7 335,844 67.06 7 156,772 31.30 - 2,615 0.52 - 1,541 0.31 - 4,068 0.81 - 179,072 35.75 500,840 WA West Virginia 8 375,551 58.43 8 263,784 41.04 - 1,313 0.20 - 401 0.06 - - - - 111,767 17.39 642,752 WV Wisconsin 13 544,205 53.52 13 450,259 44.28 - 18,213 1.79 - 1,528 0.15 - 381 0.04 - 93,946 9.24 1,016,831 WI Wyoming 52,748 63.68 29,299 35.37 - 788 0.95 - - - - - - - 23,449 28.31 82,835 WY TOTALS : 531 21,427,123 58.21 444 15,015,464 40.80 87 267,478 0.73 - 48,551 0.13 - 21,590 0.06 - 6,411,659 17.42 36,807,012 US Close states Margin of victory less than 1 % ( 5 electoral votes ) : Rhode Island, 0.61 % Margin of victory less than 5 % ( 95 electoral votes ) : Massachusetts, 1.09 % New York, 2.35 % Alabama, 2.84 % Texas, 3.67 % Margin of victory between 5 % and 10 % ( 60 electoral votes ) : Utah, 7.72 % Tennessee, 7.72 % Virginia, 8.01 % Connecticut, 8.06 % Wisconsin, 9.24 % North Carolina, 9.87 % Statistics Counties with Highest Percent of Vote ( Republican ) Jackson County, Kentucky 96.52 % Leslie County, Kentucky 94.51 % Alpine County, California 94.23 % Johnson County, Tennessee 93.74 % Sevier County, Tennessee 92.57 % Counties with Highest Percent of Vote ( Democratic ) Jackson Parish, Louisiana 100.00 % Armstrong County, South Dakota 100.00 % Humphreys County, Mississippi 99.90 % Edgefield County, South Carolina 99.67 % Bamberg County, South Carolina 99.49 % Counties with Highest Percent of Vote ( Other ) Alachua County, Florida 62.63 % Appling County, Georgia 58.25 % Long County, Georgia 57.32 % Decatur County, Georgia 46.03 % Jefferson County, Georgia 43.67 % See also History of the United States ( 1918 - 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Question: who ran in the presidential election of 1928
Answer: Herbert Hoover