A county result
Pickaway County, presidential election of 1928
Pickaway County
59.87%Herbert Hoover (R), the most votes9,806Votes counted for president
What this is
Pickaway County counted 9,806 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.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover | Republican | 5,871 | 59.87% |
| Al Smith | Democratic | 3,894 | 39.71% |
| Other | Other | 33 | 0.34% |
| Norman Thomas | Socialist | 8 | 0.08% |
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
- Pickaway County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+20.2 against Ohio's R+30.4: 10.3 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 79th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1924
- From 1924 to 1928 the county's lean moved 24.3 points toward the Republicans, from D+4.1 to R+20.2.
- Matched
- Pickaway 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.
Not yet researched
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
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
- 1928 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1928-11-06 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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