President / Vice President, 1920 Election

General

Date: November 2, 1920
Cycle: 1920
Office: President / Vice President
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Running mate Party Votes Percent Margin
Warren Harding Man Calvin Coolidge (Man) Republican 519,421 70.59 +51.16
James Cox Man Franklin Roosevelt (Man) Democrat 142,994 19.43
Eugene Debs Man Seymour Stedman (Man) Socialist 56,106 7.62
Aaron Watkins Man David Colvin (Man) Prohibition 11,489 1.56
William Cox Man August Gillhaus (Man) Industrial 5,828 0.79

Harding and Coolidge each received Minnesota's 12 Electoral College votes. Minnesota was one of six states – five in the Midwest – in which Harding received more than 70 percent of the vote joining North Dakota (77.8 percent), Vermont (75.8 percent), Michigan (72.8 percent), Wisconsin (71.1 percent), and Iowa (70.9 percent). Harding was the second and last presidential nominee in Minnesota to eclipse the 70 percent mark trailing only Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 (73.98 percent).

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1921 (p. 525).