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Election 1920 Results

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1920 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Warren G. Harding (Republican) beat James M. Cox (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1920, 65.8% to 27.2%, a margin of 38.6 points and 714,373 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 12.4 points more Republican 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 64 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 419,212 votes and went to the Republican by 51.9 points. The closest was Fulton, where 61 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 1,218,216 65.8%
James M. Cox Democratic 503,843 27.2%
All other candidates 130,558 7.0%
Total1,852,617

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 90,151 21.5% 307,826 73.4% 21,235 419,212 R+51.9
Allegheny 40,278 20.1% 138,908 69.2% 21,530 200,716 R+49.1
Luzerne 23,473 31.1% 49,419 65.4% 2,683 75,575 R+34.3
Lackawanna 24,581 36.7% 40,593 60.6% 1,866 67,040 R+23.9
Schuylkill 18,746 36.8% 30,259 59.5% 1,882 50,887 R+22.6
Berks 18,361 39.4% 22,221 47.7% 6,009 46,591 R+8.3
Montgomery 12,239 26.7% 31,963 69.7% 1,653 45,855 R+43.0
Westmoreland 12,845 28.3% 27,077 59.7% 5,429 45,351 R+31.4
Delaware 9,602 21.2% 34,126 75.3% 1,565 45,293 R+54.1
Lancaster 9,521 23.5% 29,549 72.9% 1,472 40,542 R+49.4
Dauphin 11,990 30.0% 26,094 65.4% 1,839 39,923 R+35.3
York 14,396 40.3% 19,879 55.7% 1,404 35,679 R+15.4
Fayette 13,358 37.5% 20,186 56.7% 2,067 35,611 R+19.2
Cambria 6,961 22.7% 19,629 63.9% 4,122 30,712 R+41.2
Erie 6,311 20.6% 19,465 63.7% 4,793 30,569 R+43.0
Lehigh 10,863 35.8% 18,032 59.5% 1,415 30,310 R+23.7
Washington 8,827 29.8% 18,514 62.5% 2,284 29,625 R+32.7
Northumberland 9,854 33.3% 17,288 58.4% 2,439 29,581 R+25.1
Blair 5,668 21.5% 15,035 57.0% 5,689 26,392 R+35.5
Chester 7,004 26.9% 18,129 69.6% 927 26,060 R+42.7
Northampton 9,086 37.5% 14,227 58.8% 891 24,204 R+21.2
Bucks 6,867 31.7% 14,130 65.2% 684 21,681 R+33.5
Mercer 4,823 25.1% 11,575 60.3% 2,801 19,199 R+35.2
Lycoming 5,853 31.4% 10,570 56.7% 2,212 18,635 R+25.3
Beaver 4,771 25.7% 11,691 62.9% 2,124 18,586 R+37.2
Clearfield 5,987 32.6% 9,615 52.3% 2,791 18,393 R+19.7
Somerset 2,912 17.8% 12,436 75.8% 1,056 16,404 R+58.1
Crawford 4,175 25.9% 10,032 62.3% 1,892 16,099 R+36.4
Bradford 2,825 17.8% 11,947 75.1% 1,128 15,900 R+57.4
Cumberland 6,455 41.2% 8,579 54.7% 640 15,674 R+13.6
Butler 3,829 24.5% 10,467 66.9% 1,357 15,653 R+42.4
Lawrence 2,720 18.5% 9,448 64.4% 2,508 14,676 R+45.8
Franklin 5,020 36.2% 8,376 60.4% 461 13,857 R+24.2
Columbia 6,965 51.0% 6,238 45.6% 462 13,665 D+5.3
Carbon 5,030 37.7% 7,900 59.2% 416 13,346 R+21.5
Centre 4,783 36.3% 7,615 57.8% 773 13,171 R+21.5
Armstrong 3,262 25.1% 8,995 69.2% 735 12,992 R+44.1
Lebanon 3,016 24.3% 8,778 70.8% 608 12,402 R+46.5
Indiana 1,936 16.1% 8,616 71.8% 1,441 11,993 R+55.7
Warren 2,180 18.2% 7,791 65.1% 2,003 11,974 R+46.9
Jefferson 3,060 25.6% 7,970 66.7% 920 11,950 R+41.1
Venango 2,669 22.7% 7,718 65.7% 1,359 11,746 R+43.0
Tioga 1,258 10.8% 9,718 83.3% 693 11,669 R+72.5
McKean 2,505 22.0% 7,830 68.6% 1,071 11,406 R+46.7
Greene 5,592 55.8% 4,253 42.4% 183 10,028 D+13.4
Susquehanna 2,905 29.4% 6,572 66.4% 419 9,896 R+37.1
Bedford 2,594 27.6% 5,800 61.7% 1,011 9,405 R+34.1
Adams 3,852 41.2% 5,323 56.9% 174 9,349 R+15.7
Clarion 3,487 40.3% 4,615 53.3% 560 8,662 R+13.0
Elk 2,093 26.3% 5,267 66.1% 604 7,964 R+39.9
Clinton 2,976 37.7% 4,303 54.6% 605 7,884 R+16.8
Huntingdon 1,784 23.1% 5,232 67.7% 708 7,724 R+44.6
Wayne 1,589 22.5% 5,164 73.1% 307 7,060 R+50.6
Monroe 3,396 49.7% 3,278 48.0% 154 6,828 D+1.7
Mifflin 2,400 36.5% 3,872 58.9% 299 6,571 R+22.4
Perry 2,314 37.1% 3,787 60.6% 144 6,245 R+23.6
Potter 1,106 19.2% 4,036 70.2% 608 5,750 R+51.0
Wyoming 1,247 26.6% 3,208 68.4% 233 4,688 R+41.8
Union 1,155 24.9% 3,305 71.4% 170 4,630 R+46.4
Montour 1,872 43.8% 2,296 53.8% 103 4,271 R+9.9
Snyder 964 25.3% 2,751 72.2% 95 3,810 R+46.9
Juniata 1,443 39.8% 2,112 58.2% 73 3,628 R+18.4
Sullivan 1,061 37.7% 1,620 57.6% 133 2,814 R+19.9
Fulton 1,231 47.8% 1,292 50.2% 51 2,574 R+2.4
Pike 880 38.7% 1,319 58.1% 73 2,272 R+19.3
Cameron 497 24.8% 1,364 68.1% 142 2,003 R+43.3
Forest 389 22.1% 993 56.4% 380 1,762 R+34.3

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4