A county result
Mercer County, presidential election of 1924
Mercer County
49.21%John W. Davis (D), the most votes10,434Votes counted for president
What this is
Mercer County counted 10,434 votes for president across 5 candidates in 1924. 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.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| John W. Davis | Democratic | 5,135 | 49.21% |
| Calvin Coolidge | Republican | 4,215 | 40.40% |
| Robert M. La Follette | Progressive | 1,071 | 10.26% |
| Frank Johns | Socialist Labor | 9 | 0.09% |
| William J. Wallace | Commonwealth Land | 4 | 0.04% |
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 Calvin Coolidge (Republican) with 58.33%, a 34.6-point margin over John W. Davis. The country elected Calvin Coolidge.
- Against the state
- Mercer County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+8.8 against Ohio's R+34.6: 43.4 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 85th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1920
- From 1920 to 1924 the county's lean moved 21.5 points toward the Democrats, from R+12.7 to D+8.8. Lean counts only the two major parties; Robert M. La Follette (Progressive) took 10.3% in 1924.
- Matched
- Mercer County parted from Ohio and did not vote 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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Sources
Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.
Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1924 United States presidential election in Ohio
- 1924 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1924-11-04 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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