1920 United States presidential election

1920 United States presidential election

November 2, 1920
531 members of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	49.2% 12.6 pp
Nominee Warren G. Harding James M. Cox Party Republican Democratic Home state Ohio Ohio Running mate Calvin Coolidge Franklin D. Roosevelt Electoral vote 404 127 States carried 37 11 Popular vote 16,144,093 9,139,661 Percentage 60.4% 34.1%
ElectoralCollege1920.svg Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Harding/Coolidge, blue denotes those won by Cox/Roosevelt. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election Woodrow Wilson Democratic Elected President Warren G. Harding Republican

The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th election in the history of the United States. It occurred on November 2, 1920. This election was between Governor of Ohio James M. Cox and U.S Senator from Ohio Warren G. Harding. Harding won the election by 404 electoral votes. James M. Cox got only 127 electoral votes.

This election would be historic as almost every candidate would later serve as President, as Harding served from 1921-1923, Coolidge from 1923-1929, and Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945.

Candidates

Republican Party

• Warren G. Harding, Senator from Ohio (1915-1921) (Nominee)
• Hiram Johnson, Senator of California (1917-1945)
• Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1910-1914)
• Frank O. Lowden, Governor of Illinois (1917-1921)
• Miles Poindexter, Senator from Washington (1911-1923)
• Herbert Hoover, Businessman and former Director of the U.S. Food Administration (1908-1926) (Elected in 1928)
• 
  Senator
  Warren G. Harding
  from Ohio
  (1915–1921)
• 
  Senator
  Hiram Johnson
  from California
  (1917–1945)

Democratic Party

• James M. Cox, Governor from Ohio (1913-1915; 1917-1921) (Nominee)
• William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury (1913-1918)
• A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney General of the United States (1919-1921)
• Al Smith, Governor of New York (1919-1920; 1923-1928) (1928 Nominee)
• John W. Davis, former US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1918-1921) (1924 Nominee)
• Edward I. Edwards, Governor of New Jersey (1920-1923)
• Robert Latham Owen, Senator from Oklahoma (1907-1925)
• Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice-President of the United States (1913-1921) (Not formally nominated)
• Edwin T. Meredith, former Secretary of Agriculture (1920-1921)
• Homer Stille Cummings, chair of the Democratic National Committee (1919-1920)
• Carter Glass, Senator from Virginia (1920-1946)
• Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Senator from North Carolina (1901-1931)
• James W. Gerard, former US Ambassador to Germany (1913-1917)
• Gilbert Hitchcock, Senator from Nebraska (1911-1923)
• Francis Burton Harrison, Governor-General of the Phillipines (1913-1921)