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Lucas County, presidential election of 1928

Lucas County

63.21%Herbert Hoover (R), the most votes124,081Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Lucas County counted 124,081 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 HooverRepublican78,43563.21%
Al SmithDemocratic44,97736.25%
OtherOther3510.28%
Norman ThomasSocialist3180.26%

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
Lucas County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+27.0 against Ohio's R+30.4: 3.5 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 70th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1924
From 1924 to 1928 the county's lean moved 16.1 points toward the Democrats, from R+43.1 to R+27.0. Lean counts only the two major parties; Robert M. La Follette (Progressive) took 32.0% in 1924.
Matched
Lucas County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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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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