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Ashland County, presidential election of 1928

Ashland County

72.29%Herbert Hoover (R), the most votes12,097Votes counted for president

Every election in Ashland County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1928

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What this is

Ashland County counted 12,097 votes for president across 4 candidates in 1928. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Herbert HooverRepublican8,74572.29%
Al SmithDemocratic3,25626.92%
OtherOther740.61%
Norman ThomasSocialist220.18%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Herbert Hoover (Republican) with 64.89%, a 30.4-point margin over Al Smith. The country elected Herbert Hoover.
Against the state
Ashland County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+45.4 against Ohio's R+30.4: 14.9 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 27th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1924
From 1924 to 1928 the county's lean moved 32.6 points toward the Republicans, from R+12.8 to R+45.4.
Matched
Ashland County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1928 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1928 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1928-11-06 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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