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1920 presidential election in Indiana

Warren G. Harding (Republican) beat James M. Cox (Democrat) in Indiana in 1920, 55.1% to 40.5%, a margin of 14.6 points and 185,006 votes.

Indiana voted 11.5 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+26.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1916, when Charles Evans Hughes won.

Republicans led in 79 of the 92 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 13. The largest, Marion, cast 145,571 votes and went to the Republican by 12.7 points. The closest was Owen, where 49 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Warren G. Harding won Republican 696,370 55.1%
James M. Cox Democratic 511,364 40.5%
All other candidates 55,240 4.4%
Total1,262,974

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Marion 61,460 42.2% 79,957 54.9% 4,154 145,571 R+12.7
Allen 13,804 32.7% 24,208 57.4% 4,165 42,177 R+24.7
Lake 7,136 18.8% 26,296 69.1% 4,596 38,028 R+50.4
Vigo 15,739 42.4% 18,668 50.3% 2,707 37,114 R+7.9
Vanderburgh 13,904 37.6% 19,357 52.4% 3,685 36,946 R+14.8
Madison 13,325 42.2% 15,704 49.8% 2,533 31,562 R+7.5
St. Joseph 12,355 39.5% 17,675 56.5% 1,275 31,305 R+17.0
Delaware 8,329 34.7% 14,845 61.8% 856 24,030 R+27.1
Grant 7,900 35.3% 12,349 55.1% 2,156 22,405 R+19.9
Wayne 8,015 37.8% 12,631 59.5% 575 21,221 R+21.8
Tippecanoe 7,562 36.6% 12,730 61.7% 347 20,639 R+25.0
Elkhart 5,770 28.2% 12,297 60.1% 2,394 20,461 R+31.9
Knox 8,052 41.3% 10,011 51.4% 1,416 19,479 R+10.1
Cass 8,194 44.7% 9,545 52.1% 575 18,314 R+7.4
Howard 5,767 32.5% 10,379 58.5% 1,584 17,730 R+26.0
La Porte 5,459 31.7% 11,204 65.0% 575 17,238 R+33.3
Montgomery 7,159 44.4% 8,792 54.5% 184 16,135 R+10.1
Floyd 7,391 47.8% 7,669 49.6% 387 15,447 R+1.8
Greene 6,335 41.2% 7,486 48.6% 1,567 15,388 R+7.5
Henry 5,824 38.0% 8,742 57.0% 762 15,328 R+19.0
Huntington 6,506 43.1% 8,100 53.7% 487 15,093 R+10.6
Clinton 6,721 45.7% 7,739 52.6% 257 14,717 R+6.9
Gibson 6,384 43.7% 7,498 51.3% 728 14,610 R+7.6
Miami 6,259 44.3% 7,336 51.9% 529 14,124 R+7.6
Kosciusko 4,836 35.8% 8,326 61.7% 342 13,504 R+25.8
Randolph 4,198 31.2% 8,773 65.3% 468 13,439 R+34.0
Shelby 6,845 50.9% 6,336 47.2% 256 13,437 D+3.8
Clark 6,729 50.4% 6,466 48.4% 162 13,357 D+2.0
Wabash 4,827 36.3% 8,018 60.3% 445 13,290 R+24.0
Boone 6,178 47.3% 6,650 50.9% 230 13,058 R+3.6
Sullivan 6,160 47.4% 5,376 41.4% 1,455 12,991 D+6.0
Clay 5,612 44.1% 6,129 48.2% 975 12,716 R+4.1
Daviess 5,587 44.2% 6,748 53.4% 298 12,633 R+9.2
Hamilton 4,280 34.2% 7,897 63.0% 350 12,527 R+28.9
Bartholomew 5,420 44.4% 6,585 53.9% 205 12,210 R+9.5
Lawrence 4,709 40.2% 6,808 58.1% 191 11,708 R+17.9
De Kalb 4,750 41.1% 6,514 56.3% 296 11,560 R+15.3
Jay 4,759 41.7% 6,089 53.3% 566 11,414 R+11.7
Noble 4,148 37.0% 6,820 60.8% 245 11,213 R+23.8
Rush 4,513 41.8% 6,113 56.6% 177 10,803 R+14.8
Putnam 5,417 50.4% 5,140 47.8% 189 10,746 D+2.6
Johnson 5,452 50.8% 4,863 45.4% 407 10,722 D+5.5
Marshall 4,631 43.5% 5,708 53.6% 303 10,642 R+10.1
Hendricks 4,192 39.4% 6,293 59.2% 145 10,630 R+19.8
Jackson 5,319 50.4% 5,069 48.0% 164 10,552 D+2.4
Monroe 4,751 45.2% 5,633 53.6% 116 10,500 R+8.4
Dearborn 4,884 48.0% 5,159 50.7% 140 10,183 R+2.7
Morgan 4,254 42.2% 5,634 56.0% 181 10,069 R+13.7
Jefferson 4,000 40.5% 5,732 58.0% 148 9,880 R+17.5
Posey 4,695 48.6% 4,802 49.7% 161 9,658 R+1.1
Fountain 4,088 42.4% 5,218 54.1% 341 9,647 R+11.7
Hancock 4,958 51.8% 4,422 46.2% 199 9,579 D+5.6
Decatur 3,896 40.7% 5,516 57.7% 154 9,566 R+16.9
Ripley 3,976 42.1% 5,372 56.8% 104 9,452 R+14.8
Vermillion 3,218 34.1% 4,916 52.1% 1,305 9,439 R+18.0
Wells 4,653 50.0% 4,430 47.6% 222 9,305 D+2.4
Carroll 4,186 45.1% 5,006 53.9% 92 9,284 R+8.8
Spencer 3,855 41.7% 5,270 57.0% 115 9,240 R+15.3
Warrick 3,915 43.3% 4,675 51.8% 443 9,033 R+8.4
Parke 3,543 39.9% 4,989 56.1% 356 8,888 R+16.3
Fayette 3,768 43.1% 4,742 54.3% 228 8,738 R+11.1
Whitley 3,929 45.5% 4,530 52.5% 170 8,629 R+7.0
Fulton 3,602 42.1% 4,618 54.0% 334 8,554 R+11.9
Tipton 3,956 46.7% 4,357 51.4% 159 8,472 R+4.7
White 3,375 40.6% 4,871 58.6% 71 8,317 R+18.0
Harrison 3,898 47.0% 4,271 51.5% 132 8,301 R+4.5
Dubois 4,238 52.4% 3,738 46.2% 119 8,095 D+6.2
Orange 3,222 40.1% 4,726 58.9% 81 8,029 R+18.7
Adams 3,653 45.7% 4,144 51.8% 201 7,998 R+6.1
Washington 4,157 52.5% 3,708 46.9% 48 7,913 D+5.7
Pike 3,067 39.0% 4,069 51.7% 727 7,863 R+12.7
Porter 1,671 21.8% 5,570 72.7% 423 7,664 R+50.9
Perry 3,560 47.7% 3,864 51.8% 41 7,465 R+4.1
Franklin 3,671 53.3% 3,137 45.5% 85 6,893 D+7.7
Steuben 1,676 24.5% 4,963 72.5% 209 6,848 R+48.0
Jennings 2,603 42.6% 3,404 55.6% 110 6,117 R+13.1
Owen 2,948 48.4% 2,997 49.2% 149 6,094 R+0.8
Benton 2,098 34.5% 3,900 64.1% 83 6,081 R+29.6
Blackford 2,555 42.1% 3,145 51.8% 373 6,073 R+9.7
Jasper 1,872 31.8% 3,942 66.9% 81 5,895 R+35.1
Lagrange 1,687 29.8% 3,852 68.0% 124 5,663 R+38.2
Martin 2,443 46.5% 2,747 52.3% 65 5,255 R+5.8
Pulaski 2,228 43.8% 2,740 53.9% 117 5,085 R+10.1
Switzerland 2,412 47.9% 2,525 50.1% 101 5,038 R+2.2
Newton 1,664 34.2% 3,129 64.4% 68 4,861 R+30.1
Warren 1,311 27.9% 3,337 70.9% 59 4,707 R+43.0
Crawford 2,213 47.4% 2,290 49.0% 166 4,669 R+1.6
Starke 1,467 34.4% 2,683 62.9% 114 4,264 R+28.5
Scott 1,848 51.4% 1,709 47.5% 40 3,597 D+3.9
Union 1,375 40.4% 1,984 58.3% 44 3,403 R+17.9
Ohio 1,097 47.4% 1,177 50.9% 38 2,312 R+3.5
Brown 1,316 61.4% 788 36.8% 40 2,144 D+24.6

Counties as they stood in 1920; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Indiana in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+19.0
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+19.2
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+1.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+20.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+15.6
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.6
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+18.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+32.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+12.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+10.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+20.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.1
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+0.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+1.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+16.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+14.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+1.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.8
1900 William McKinley (R) R+4.0
1896 William McKinley (R) R+2.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+0.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.4
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+1.3
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.4
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+2.8