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Mahoning County, presidential election of 1928

Mahoning County

63.82%Herbert Hoover (R), the most votes75,748Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Mahoning County counted 75,748 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 HooverRepublican48,34163.82%
Al SmithDemocratic26,92835.55%
OtherOther2800.37%
Norman ThomasSocialist1990.26%

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
Mahoning County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+28.3 against Ohio's R+30.4: 2.2 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 68th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1924
From 1924 to 1928 the county's lean moved 23.0 points toward the Democrats, from R+51.2 to R+28.3. Lean counts only the two major parties; Robert M. La Follette (Progressive) took 14.7% in 1924.
Matched
Mahoning County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

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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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