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Wayne County, presidential election of 1920

Wayne County

52.88%Warren G. Harding (R), the most votes16,890Votes counted for president

Every election in Wayne County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1920

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What this is

Wayne County counted 16,890 votes for president across 4 candidates in 1920. 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
Warren G. HardingRepublican8,93252.88%
James M. CoxDemocratic7,75145.89%
Eugene DebsSocialist1931.14%
Robert MacauleySingle Tax140.08%

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 Warren G. Harding (Republican) with 58.47%, a 19.9-point margin over James M. Cox. The country elected Warren G. Harding.
Against the state
Wayne County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+7.0 against Ohio's R+19.9: 12.9 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 70th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1916
From 1916 to 1920 the county's lean moved 29.9 points toward the Republicans, from D+22.9 to R+7.0.
Matched
Wayne 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: 1920 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1920 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1920-11-02 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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