1928 United States presidential election in West Virginia explained

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The 1928 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

West Virginia voted for the Republican nominee, former Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Hoover's running mate was Senate Majority Leader Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Smith ran with Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas.

Hoover won the state by a margin of 17.39 percent, with his margin undoubtedly enhanced by Appalachian anti-Catholicism against New Yorker Smith.^[1] This was the last time that a non-incumbent Republican won West Virginia until 2000. Hoover was the only Republican to carry Logan County until John McCain in 2008, the first-ever Republican victor in Wetzel County, the first Republican since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 to carry Greenbrier County, and the first Republican since Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to carry Wayne County.^[2]

Results

1928 United States presidential election in West Virginia[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Herbert Hoover	375,551	58.43%	8
	Democratic	Alfred E. Smith	263,784	41.04%	0
	Prohibition	William F. Varney	1,703	0.26%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	1,313	0.20%	0
	Workers	William Z. Foster	401	0.06%	0
	N/A	Write-ins	9	0.01%	0
Totals			642,752	100.00%	8

Results by county

1928 United States presidential election in West Virginia by county^[4]

County	Republican		Democratic		Prohibition		Socialist		Workers		Margin
	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%		data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%
	Barbour		4,023		53.54%		3,491		46.46%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		532		7.08%		7,514
	Berkeley		8,477		70.30%		3,540		29.36%		23		0.19%		16		0.13%		3		0.02%		4,937		40.94%		12,059
	Boone		4,000		45.27%		4,805		54.39%		9		0.10%		16		0.18%		5		0.06%		-805		-9.11%		8,835
	Braxton		4,028		46.56%		4,582		52.96%		32		0.37%		6		0.07%		3		0.03%		-554		-6.40%		8,651
	Brooke		5,277		68.14%		2,419		31.24%		16		0.21%		16		0.21%		16		0.21%		2,858		36.91%		7,744
	Cabell		21,091		57.65%		15,340		41.93%		84		0.23%		47		0.13%		21		0.06%		5,751		15.72%		36,583
	Calhoun		1,745		44.27%		2,179		55.28%		11		0.28%		7		0.18%		0		0.00%		-434		-11.01%		3,942
	Clay		2,551		56.76%		1,929		42.92%		5		0.11%		2		0.04%		7		0.16%		622		13.84%		4,494
	Doddridge		2,919		70.83%		1,202		29.17%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,717		41.66%		4,121
	Fayette		12,961		51.00%		12,351		48.60%		60		0.24%		38		0.15%		6		0.02%		610		2.40%		25,416
	Gilmer		1,705		42.16%		2,313		57.20%		17		0.42%		2		0.05%		7		0.17%		-608		-15.03%		4,044
	Grant		2,648		82.83%		542		16.95%		4		0.13%		2		0.06%		1		0.03%		2,106		65.87%		3,197
	Greenbrier		6,423		50.88%		6,141		48.65%		32		0.25%		18		0.14%		10		0.08%		282		2.23%		12,624
	Hampshire		1,779		45.31%		2,132		54.30%		15		0.38%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-353		-8.99%		3,926
	Hancock		5,461		74.06%		1,884		25.55%		17		0.23%		12		0.16%		0		0.00%		3,577		48.51%		7,374
	Hardy		1,611		44.97%		1,965		54.86%		3		0.08%		3		0.08%		0		0.00%		-354		-9.88%		3,582
	Harrison		17,502		57.70%		12,483		41.16%		232		0.76%		98		0.32%		16		0.05%		5,019		16.55%		30,331
	Jackson		4,150		62.86%		2,452		37.14%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,698		25.72%		6,602
	Jefferson		3,050		47.78%		3,312		51.88%		15		0.23%		6		0.09%		1		0.02%		-262		-4.10%		6,384
	Kanawha		35,788		58.16%		25,563		41.54%		80		0.13%		70		0.11%		34		0.06%		10,225		16.62%		61,535
	Lewis		5,290		57.37%		3,825		41.48%		81		0.88%		19		0.21%		6		0.07%		1,465		15.89%		9,221
	Lincoln		3,823		52.81%		3,416		47.19%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		407		5.62%		7,239
	Logan		11,404		53.32%		9,944		46.49%		30		0.14%		7		0.03%		4		0.02%		1,460		6.83%		21,389
	Marion		16,088		60.34%		10,133		38.00%		106		0.40%		315		1.18%		21		0.08%		5,955		22.33%		26,663
	Marshall		9,204		65.22%		4,785		33.91%		51		0.36%		39		0.28%		33		0.23%		4,419		31.31%		14,112
	Mason		5,125		64.13%		2,814		35.21%		22		0.28%		21		0.26%		10		0.13%		2,311		28.92%		7,992
	McDowell		14,810		64.02%		8,294		35.85%		10		0.04%		11		0.05%		10		0.04%		6,516		28.17%		23,135
	Mercer		12,887		55.52%		10,273		44.26%		36		0.16%		12		0.05%		2		0.01%		2,614		11.26%		23,210
	Mineral		5,860		71.36%		2,310		28.13%		11		0.13%		25		0.30%		6		0.07%		3,550		43.23%		8,212
	Mingo		6,904		50.28%		6,801		49.53%		17		0.12%		7		0.05%		3		0.02%		103		0.75%		13,732
	Monongalia		11,364		64.08%		6,182		34.86%		89		0.50%		91		0.51%		8		0.05%		5,182		29.22%		17,734
	Monroe		3,025		56.14%		2,346		43.54%		14		0.26%		2		0.04%		1		0.02%		679		12.60%		5,388
	Morgan		2,539		76.75%		758		22.91%		4		0.12%		6		0.18%		1		0.03%		1,781		53.84%		3,308
	Nicholas		3,917		52.36%		3,495		46.72%		52		0.70%		8		0.11%		9		0.12%		422		5.64%		7,481
	Ohio		20,064		60.04%		13,132		39.30%		41		0.12%		122		0.37%		56		0.17%		6,932		20.75%		33,415
	Pendleton		1,710		47.09%		1,921		52.91%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-211		-5.81%		3,631
	Pleasants		1,821		60.06%		1,210		39.91%		1		0.03%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		611		20.15%		3,032
	Pocahontas		3,141		55.55%		2,487		43.99%		21		0.37%		4		0.07%		1		0.02%		654		11.57%		5,654
	Preston		7,783		76.18%		2,355		23.05%		45		0.44%		22		0.22%		11		0.11%		5,428		53.13%		10,216
	Putnam		3,346		57.76%		2,406		41.53%		21		0.36%		15		0.26%		5		0.09%		940		16.23%		5,793
	Raleigh		11,581		52.77%		10,366		47.23%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,215		5.54%		21,947
	Randolph		4,436		46.22%		5,085		52.99%		28		0.29%		40		0.42%		8		0.08%		-649		-6.76%		9,597
	Ritchie		4,195		70.40%		1,711		28.71%		41		0.69%		10		0.17%		2		0.03%		2,484		41.68%		5,959
	Roane		4,472		59.54%		3,007		40.03%		18		0.24%		7		0.09%		7		0.09%		1,465		19.50%		7,511
	Summers		4,063		51.88%		3,752		47.91%		12		0.15%		2		0.03%		3		0.04%		311		3.97%		7,832
	Taylor		5,101		66.20%		2,548		33.07%		30		0.39%		19		0.25%		7		0.09%		2,553		33.13%		7,705
	Tucker		2,525		51.83%		2,263		46.45%		19		0.39%		56		1.15%		9		0.18%		262		5.38%		4,872
	Tyler		3,881		70.14%		1,591		28.75%		41		0.74%		7		0.13%		13		0.23%		2,290		41.39%		5,533
	Upshur		5,277		75.20%		1,683		23.98%		36		0.51%		16		0.23%		5		0.07%		3,594		51.22%		7,017
	Wayne		5,630		51.89%		5,177		47.72%		18		0.17%		16		0.15%		8		0.07%		453		4.18%		10,849
	Webster		1,936		45.53%		2,306		54.23%		6		0.14%		3		0.07%		1		0.02%		-370		-8.70%		4,252
	Wetzel		4,428		51.86%		4,052		47.45%		32		0.37%		20		0.23%		7		0.08%		376		4.40%		8,539
	Wirt		1,561		54.41%		1,272		44.34%		34		1.19%		2		0.07%		0		0.00%		289		10.07%		2,869
	Wood		15,184		69.90%		6,412		29.52%		81		0.37%		30		0.14%		14		0.06%		8,772		40.38%		21,721
	Wyoming		3,987		56.68%		3,047		43.32%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		940		13.36%		7,034
Totals	375,551	58.43%	263,784	41.04%	1,703	0.26%	1,313	0.20%	401	0.06%	111,767	17.39%	642,752

Notes and References

1. Book: Menendez, Albert J.. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. 2005 . 58–59. McFarland . 0786422173.
2. Menendez. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 334-336
3. Web site: 1928 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia. 2013-08-02 . Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
4. Web site: Our Campaigns. WV US President — November 06, 1928.