A county result
Portage County, presidential election of 1924
Portage County
62.43%Calvin Coolidge (R), the most votes13,749Votes counted for president
What this is
Portage County counted 13,749 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calvin Coolidge | Republican | 8,583 | 62.43% |
| John W. Davis | Democratic | 2,994 | 21.78% |
| Robert M. La Follette | Progressive | 2,131 | 15.50% |
| Frank Johns | Socialist Labor | 26 | 0.19% |
| William J. Wallace | Commonwealth Land | 15 | 0.11% |
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
- Portage County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+40.6 against Ohio's R+34.6: 6.0 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 20th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1920
- From 1920 to 1924 the county's lean moved 20.4 points toward the Republicans, from R+20.2 to R+40.6. Lean counts only the two major parties; Robert M. La Follette (Progressive) took 15.5% in 1924.
- Matched
- Portage 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: 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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