# Electoral history of Warren G. Harding

Electoral history of Warren G. Harding, who served as the 29th president of the United States (1921-1923); a U.S. senator from Ohio (1915-1921); and the 28th lieutenant governor of Ohio (1904-1906).

## Ohio gubernatorial races (1903-1910)

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1903 Ohio gubernatorial election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Myron T. Herrick / Warren G. Harding | 475,560 | 54.89% |
| | Democratic | Tom L. Johnson / Frank B. Niles | 361,748 | 41.76% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 113,812 | 96.65% |
1910 Ohio gubernatorial election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Judson Harmon | 477,077 | 51.61% |
| | Republican | Warren Gamaliel Harding | 376,700 | 40.75% |
| | Socialist | Tom Clifford | 60,637 | 6.56% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 90,328 | 99.01% |

## United States Senate election (1914)

Ohio United States Senate Republican Primary, 1914 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Warren G. Harding | 88,540 | 40.69% |
| | Republican | Joseph B. Foraker | 76,817 | 35.30% |
| | Republican | Ralph D. Cole | 52,237 | 24.01% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 217,594 | 100% |
Ohio United States Senate election, 1914 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Warren G. Harding | 526,115 | 49.16% |
| | Democratic | Timothy S. Hogan | 423,742 | 39.60% |
| | Progressive | Arthur L. Garford | 67,509 | 6.31% |
| | Socialist | E.K. Hitchens | 52,803 | 4.93% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 1,070,169 | 100% |
| | Republican hold | Republican hold | Republican hold | Republican hold |

## Presidential elections (1916-1920)
### 1916 Republican National Convention

| Ballot | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | 253.5 | 328.5 | 949.5 |
| John W. Weeks | 105 | 79 | 3 |
| Elihu Root | 103 | 98.5 | 0 |
| Charles W. Fairbanks | 74.5 | 88.5 | 0 |
| Albert B. Cummins | 85 | 85 | 0 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 65 | 81 | 18.5 |
| Theodore E. Burton | 77.5 | 76.5 | 0 |
| Lawrence Yates Sherman | 66 | 65 | 0 |
| Philander C. Knox | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Henry Ford | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| Martin Grove Brumbaugh | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| Robert M. La Follette | 25 | 25 | 3 |
| William Howard Taft | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| T. Coleman du Pont | 12 | 13 | 5 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| John Wanamaker | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Frank B. Willis | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| William Borah | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Warren G. Harding | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Samuel W. McCall | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Leonard Wood | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Absent | 2.5 | 2 | 1 |
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### 1920 United States presidential election
#### 1920 Republican National Convention

1920 Republican presidential balloting :
| Ballot | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
| Harding | 65.5 | 59.0 | 58.5 | 61.5 | 78.0 | 89.0 | 105.0 | 133.0 | 374.5 | 644.7 | 692.2 |
| Wood | 287.5 | 289.5 | 303.0 | 314.5 | 299.0 | 311.5 | 312.0 | 299.0 | 249.0 | 181.5 | 156.0 |
| Lowden | 211.5 | 259.5 | 282.5 | 289.0 | 303.0 | 311.5 | 311.5 | 307.0 | 121.5 | 28.0 | 11.0 |
| H. Johnson | 133.5 | 146.0 | 148.0 | 140.5 | 133.5 | 110.0 | 99.5 | 87.0 | 82.0 | 80.8 | 80.8 |
| Sproul | 84.0 | 78.5 | 79.5 | 79.5 | 82.5 | 77.0 | 76.0 | 76.0 | 78.0 | 0 | 0 |
| W.M. Butler | 69.5 | 41.0 | 25.0 | 20.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Coolidge | 34.0 | 32.0 | 27.0 | 25.0 | 29.0 | 28.0 | 28.0 | 30.0 | 28.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| La Follette | 24.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 22.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 | 24.0 |
| Pritchard | 21.0 | 10.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Poindexter | 20.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 15.0 | 14.0 | 2.0 | 0 |
| Sutherland | 17.0 | 15.0 | 9.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hoover | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | 10.5 | 9.5 |
| Scattering | 11.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 3.5 |
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#### Presidential election

Electoral results :
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | Running mate | Running mate |
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Count | Percentage | Electoral vote | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote |
| Warren Gamaliel Harding | Republican | Ohio | 16,144,093 | 60.32% | 404 | John Calvin Coolidge Jr. | Massachusetts | 404 |
| James Middleton Cox | Democratic | Ohio | 9,139,661 | 34.15% | 127 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | New York | 127 |
| Eugene Victor Debs | Socialist | Indiana | 913,693 | 3.41% | 0 | Seymour Stedman | Illinois | 0 |
| Parley Parker Christensen | Farmer-Labor | Illinois | 265,398 | 0.99% | 0 | Maximillian S. Hayes | Ohio | 0 |
| Aaron Sherman Watkins | Prohibition | Indiana | 188,787 | 0.71% | 0 | David Leigh Colvin | New York | 0 |
| James Edward Ferguson Jr. | American | Texas | 47,968 | 0.18% | 0 | William J. Hough | New York | 0 |
| William Wesley Cox | Socialist Labor | Missouri | 31,084 | 0.12% | 0 | August Gillhaus | New York | 0 |
| Robert Colvin Macauley | Single Tax | Pennsylvania | 5,750 | 0.02% | 0 | Richard C. Barnum | Ohio | 0 |
| Other | Other | Other | 28,746 | 0.11% | — | Other | Other | — |
| Total | Total | Total | 26,765,180 | 100% | 531 | | | 531 |
| Needed to win | Needed to win | Needed to win | Needed to win | Needed to win | 266 | | | 266 |

## Sources and references

* ↑ "Warren G. Harding". The White House. Archived from the original on 2020-12-12. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
* ↑ "Warren G. Harding". HISTORY. Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
* ↑ "Warren G. Harding | Facts, Accomplishments, & Biography". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
* 1 2 Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 1641.
* ↑ Dean, John W. (2004). Warren G. Harding (1. ed.). New York: Times Books. pp. 34–37. ISBN 0805069569. 1914 harding hogan.
* ↑ Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 1460.
* ↑ Hart, George L (1916). Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National Convention: Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1916, Resulting in the Nomination of Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, for President and the Nomination of Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana, for Vice-president. Tenny Press.
* ↑ Guide to US Elections 2010, p. 710.
* ↑ Guide to US Elections 2010, pp. 779, 869.
Work cited
* Guide to U.S. Elections. SAGE Publications. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60426-536-1.