1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania explained

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The 1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election. Voters chose 38 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Pennsylvania overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Al Smith. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a landslide margin of 31.35%. The Republicans at this time were associated with the booming economy of the 1920s while Smith was associated with the corruption of Tammany Hall.

Despite losing the state, Smith flipped 3 majority-Catholic counties that voted for Calvin Coolidge in 1924 and had been consistently Republican during the "System of 1896" into the Democratic column: Elk, Lackawanna, and Luzerne.^[1] This came with losing the 4 counties – all dominated by profoundly anti-Catholic Appalachian Protestants^[2] – that voted for John W. Davis to Hoover: Columbia, Fulton, Greene, and Monroe. Hoover was the first ever Republican to carry Columbia, Greene, and Monroe counties.

Results

1928 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Herbert Hoover	2,055,382	65.24%	38
	Democratic	Al Smith	1,067,586	33.89%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	18,647	0.59%	0
	Communist/Workers'/Labor	William Z. Foster	4,726	0.15%	0
	Prohibition	William F. Varney	3,875	0.12%	0
	Socialist Labor	Verne L. Reynolds	380	0.01%	0
	Write-ins	Write-ins	14	0.00%	0
Totals			3,147,882	100.00%	38

Results by county

County	Herbert Clark Hoover Republican		Alfred Emmanual Smith Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast[4]
		%		%		%		%
	Adams		9,656		67.29%		4,635		32.30%		58		0.40%		5,021		34.99%		14,349
	Allegheny		215,626		56.86%		160,733		42.39%		2,850		0.75%		54,893		14.48%		379,209
	Armstrong		17,625		77.86%		4,824		21.31%		187		0.83%		12,801		56.55%		22,636
	Beaver		27,949		69.50%		11,868		29.51%		400		0.99%		16,081		39.99%		40,217
	Bedford		9,602		81.60%		1,966		16.71%		199		1.69%		7,636		64.89%		11,767
	Berks		47,073		64.03%		18,960		25.79%		7,481		10.18%		28,113		38.24%		73,514
	Blair		34,356		73.53%		12,104		25.90%		266		0.57%		22,252		47.62%		46,726
	Bradford		17,251		79.83%		4,281		19.81%		77		0.36%		12,970		60.02%		21,609
	Bucks		28,421		76.47%		8,446		22.72%		301		0.81%		19,975		53.74%		37,168
	Butler		19,880		85.22%		3,283		14.07%		164		0.70%		16,597		71.15%		23,327
	Cambria		29,494		51.79%		27,024		47.46%		427		0.75%		2,470		4.34%		56,945
	Cameron		1,564		75.52%		501		24.19%		6		0.29%		1,063		51.33%		2,071
	Carbon		15,047		64.98%		8,010		34.59%		98		0.42%		7,037		30.39%		23,155
	Centre		12,005		77.17%		3,431		22.05%		121		0.78%		8,574		55.11%		15,557
	Chester		36,659		82.27%		7,689		17.26%		210		0.47%		28,970		65.02%		44,558
	Clarion		9,183		70.43%		3,746		28.73%		109		0.84%		5,437		41.70%		13,038
	Clearfield		16,719		67.26%		7,870		31.66%		270		1.09%		8,849		35.60%		24,859
	Clinton		8,120		73.62%		2,849		25.83%		60		0.54%		5,271		47.79%		11,029
	Columbia		14,362		72.61%		5,304		26.81%		115		0.58%		9,058		45.79%		19,781
	Crawford		17,072		71.17%		6,718		28.00%		199		0.83%		10,354		43.16%		23,989
	Cumberland		19,170		78.08%		5,189		21.14%		192		0.78%		13,981		56.95%		24,551
	Dauphin		49,108		83.78%		9,115		15.55%		394		0.67%		39,993		68.23%		58,617
	Delaware		83,092		73.57%		29,378		26.01%		471		0.42%		53,714		47.56%		112,941
	Elk		5,234		40.23%		7,705		59.23%		70		0.54%		-2,471		-18.99%		13,009
	Erie		30,542		60.97%		19,278		38.48%		277		0.55%		11,264		22.48%		50,097
	Fayette		27,693		58.69%		19,063		40.40%		427		0.90%		8,630		18.29%		47,183
	Forest		1,707		84.59%		289		14.32%		22		1.09%		1,418		70.27%		2,018
	Franklin		16,345		83.74%		3,027		15.51%		146		0.75%		13,318		68.23%		19,518
	Fulton		2,179		66.82%		1,054		32.32%		28		0.86%		1,125		34.50%		3,261
	Greene		6,910		56.18%		5,293		43.04%		96		0.78%		1,617		13.15%		12,299
	Huntingdon		9,920		86.25%		1,470		12.78%		112		0.97%		8,450		73.47%		11,502
	Indiana		16,706		76.75%		4,810		22.10%		252		1.16%		11,896		54.65%		21,768
	Jefferson		13,233		74.63%		4,325		24.39%		173		0.98%		8,908		50.24%		17,731
	Juniata		4,396		82.00%		919		17.14%		46		0.86%		3,477		64.86%		5,361
	Lackawanna		46,510		46.85%		52,665		53.05%		94		0.09%		-6,155		-6.20%		99,269
	Lancaster		55,530		81.43%		12,146		17.81%		516		0.76%		43,384		63.62%		68,192
	Lawrence		20,012		74.95%		6,417		24.03%		273		1.02%		13,595		50.91%		26,702
	Lebanon		16,841		82.30%		3,278		16.02%		345		1.69%		13,563		66.28%		20,464
	Lehigh		40,291		74.35%		13,463		24.84%		434		0.80%		26,828		49.51%		54,188
	Luzerne		67,872		48.00%		73,319		51.85%		220		0.16%		-5,447		-3.85%		141,411
	Lycoming		28,720		79.48%		7,132		19.74%		285		0.79%		21,588		59.74%		36,137
	McKean		14,012		73.49%		4,964		26.04%		90		0.47%		9,048		47.46%		19,066
	Mercer		22,599		72.71%		8,204		26.39%		280		0.90%		14,395		46.31%		31,083
	Mifflin		8,932		86.97%		1,270		12.37%		68		0.66%		7,662		74.61%		10,270
	Monroe		7,469		69.40%		3,266		30.35%		27		0.25%		4,203		39.05%		10,762
	Montgomery		76,680		76.37%		23,026		22.93%		702		0.70%		53,654		53.44%		100,408
	Montour		3,692		71.69%		1,445		28.06%		13		0.25%		2,247		43.63%		5,150
	Northampton		37,403		71.14%		14,768		28.09%		404		0.77%		22,635		43.05%		52,575
	Northumberland		30,949		61.30%		19,249		38.12%		292		0.58%		11,700		23.17%		50,490
	Perry		6,469		77.66%		1,807		21.69%		54		0.65%		4,662		55.97%		8,330
	Philadelphia		420,320		59.99%		276,573		39.48%		3,703		0.53%		143,747		20.52%		700,596
	Pike		2,354		69.34%		1,024		30.16%		17		0.50%		1,330		39.18%		3,395
	Potter		5,653		79.50%		1,416		19.91%		42		0.59%		4,237		59.58%		7,111
	Schuylkill		46,033		53.05%		40,424		46.59%		311		0.36%		5,609		6.46%		86,768
	Snyder		5,693		87.22%		805		12.33%		29		0.44%		4,888		74.89%		6,527
	Somerset		16,404		77.90%		4,489		21.32%		164		0.78%		11,915		56.58%		21,057
	Sullivan		2,044		64.64%		1,101		34.82%		17		0.54%		943		29.82%		3,162
	Susquehanna		9,445		68.14%		4,353		31.40%		63		0.45%		5,092		36.74%		13,861
	Tioga		11,774		87.23%		1,688		12.51%		36		0.27%		10,086		74.72%		13,498
	Union		5,708		87.45%		765		11.72%		54		0.83%		4,943		75.73%		6,527
	Venango		17,450		79.00%		4,531		20.51%		108		0.49%		12,919		58.49%		22,089
	Warren		12,077		80.21%		2,835		18.83%		144		0.96%		9,242		61.38%		15,056
	Washington		31,099		63.61%		17,149		35.07%		645		1.32%		13,950		28.53%		48,893
	Wayne		8,576		71.15%		3,418		28.36%		59		0.49%		5,158		42.79%		12,053
	Westmoreland		51,760		61.88%		30,587		36.57%		1,296		1.55%		21,173		25.31%		83,643
	Wyoming		5,321		85.00%		906		14.47%		33		0.53%		4,415		70.53%		6,260
	York		45,791		79.60%		11,216		19.50%		522		0.91%		34,575		60.10%		57,529
Totals	2,055,382	65.29%	1,064,856	33.83%	27,644	0.88%	990,526	31.47%	3,147,882

See also

• List of United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania

Notes and References

1. Phillips, Kevin P; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 41
2. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 58-60
3. Web site: David Leip. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. 1928 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania. 2018-03-22.
4. Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 309-313