The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-24
2S,s20,O7O VOTES IS OFFICIAL POLL. IN 1924 ELECTION
Complete Returns Give Coolidge Record Plu-
 rality Of 7,339,827
VOTE OF THE SOUTH
 IS BELOW NORMAL
Alabama Casts Less Bal lots Than In 1920 Pres
 idential Race
lkx Assnciated Press. ]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Presi- dent Coolidge boiled more votes in the November election than his two principal competitors combined, and lad a popular plurality of 7,339,827, the largest ever given presidential candidate.
 Complete official returns show the vote for MT. Coolidge was 15,- 718,789, compared to 8,378,962 for John w. Davis, and 4,822,319 for Robert M. La Toilette. The total popular vote for the three leading candidates was 28,920,070. In 1920, for all candidates, it was 26I 711,183. ,.N
 Despite the record breaking plurality for Coolidge, which was 334 ,9S0 more than given Warren G. Harding four years ago, the Coolidge total was 443,- All less than that of Harding, due to the presence in the field of third power ful ticket. Harding's total was l6,- 152 POO. o
 Davis received larger vote by 728,- 3S1 than James M. Cox in 1920. The total for Cox was 9,147 ,353.
 La Toilette Vote High
 La Follettes vote exceeded by 696,- I299 the 4,1260 020 given Theodore Roose- welt in 1912 when he headed a third ticket, but the La Toilette strength was so distributed as to make negligible showing in the electoral college, whereas in the 1912 electoral vote Roosevelt ranked second to Woodrow Wilson and far ahead of William H. Taft.
 In twelve states La Toilette boiled more votes than did Davis and in New York was given more votes than ln his home state Of Wisconsin-the only state credited to him in the electoral college.
 Analysis of the returns shows that Coolidge received 54.4 per cent of the total vote of the three leading candidates. Davis had 29.0 per cent and La Toilette 16,6 per cent. A -~ In 1912 Taft had 25.1 per cent, Wilson 452 and Roosevelt 29.6 per cent.
 Coolidge lost Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin, which were carried by Harding in 1920, but won Kentucky, which Harding lost.
 Gains In California
 More votes were boiled for Coolidge than for Harding in California, Colo rado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi- gan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
 Davis popular vote exceeded that of Cox in Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and West Virginia.
 La Toilette boiled more votes than did Roosevelt in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota. Montana. Nebraska. Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas. Utah, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
 The La Toilette vote was larger than the Davis vote in California, Idaho, Iowa. Minnesota. Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota. Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming
 Coolidge's plurality alone was larger than the total vote of his next highest opponent in Colorado Connecticut, Hi nois. Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Vermont.
 While the total popular vote was ap- proximately 2500,000 more than the total of the 1920 election, voters in a number of states. principally in the south, did not go to the polls in such great numbers as they did four years ogo. The vote was smaller this year
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