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Election 1928 Results

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1928 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Al Smith (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1928, 65.2% to 33.9%, a margin of 31.4 points and 987,796 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 13.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+17.4.

The Republican hold continued from 1924, when Calvin Coolidge won.

Republicans led in 64 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 700,596 votes and went to the Republican by 20.5 points. The closest was Sullivan, where 943 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
Herbert Hoover won Republican 2,055,382 65.2%
Al Smith Democratic 1,067,586 33.9%
All other candidates 27,644 0.9%
Total3,150,612

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 276,573 39.5% 420,320 60.0% 3,703 700,596 R+20.5
Allegheny 160,733 42.4% 215,626 56.9% 2,850 379,209 R+14.5
Luzerne 73,319 51.8% 67,872 48.0% 220 141,411 D+3.9
Delaware 29,378 26.0% 83,092 73.6% 471 112,941 R+47.6
Montgomery 23,026 22.9% 76,680 76.4% 702 100,408 R+53.4
Lackawanna 52,665 53.1% 46,510 46.9% 94 99,269 D+6.2
Schuylkill 40,424 46.6% 46,033 53.1% 311 86,768 R+6.5
Westmoreland 30,587 36.6% 51,760 61.9% 1,296 83,643 R+25.3
Berks 18,960 25.8% 47,073 64.0% 7,481 73,514 R+38.2
Lancaster 12,146 17.8% 55,530 81.4% 516 68,192 R+63.6
Dauphin 9,115 15.6% 49,108 83.8% 394 58,617 R+68.2
York 11,216 19.5% 45,791 79.6% 522 57,529 R+60.1
Cambria 27,024 47.5% 29,494 51.8% 427 56,945 R+4.3
Lehigh 13,463 24.8% 40,291 74.4% 434 54,188 R+49.5
Northampton 14,768 28.1% 37,403 71.1% 404 52,575 R+43.1
Northumberland 19,249 38.1% 30,949 61.3% 292 50,490 R+23.2
Erie 19,278 38.5% 30,542 61.0% 277 50,097 R+22.5
Washington 17,149 35.1% 31,099 63.6% 645 48,893 R+28.5
Fayette 19,063 40.4% 27,693 58.7% 427 47,183 R+18.3
Blair 12,104 25.9% 34,356 73.5% 266 46,726 R+47.6
Chester 7,689 17.3% 36,659 82.3% 210 44,558 R+65.0
Beaver 11,868 29.5% 27,949 69.5% 400 40,217 R+40.0
Bucks 8,446 22.7% 28,421 76.5% 301 37,168 R+53.7
Lycoming 7,132 19.7% 28,720 79.5% 285 36,137 R+59.7
Mercer 8,204 26.4% 22,599 72.7% 280 31,083 R+46.3
Lawrence 6,417 24.0% 20,012 74.9% 273 26,702 R+50.9
Butler 6,283 23.9% 19,880 75.5% 164 26,327 R+51.6
Clearfield 7,870 31.7% 16,719 67.3% 270 24,859 R+35.6
Cumberland 5,189 21.1% 19,170 78.1% 192 24,551 R+56.9
Crawford 6,718 28.0% 17,072 71.2% 199 23,989 R+43.2
Carbon 8,010 34.6% 15,047 65.0% 98 23,155 R+30.4
Armstrong 4,824 21.3% 17,625 77.9% 187 22,636 R+56.6
Venango 4,531 20.5% 17,450 79.0% 108 22,089 R+58.5
Indiana 4,810 22.1% 16,706 76.7% 252 21,768 R+54.6
Bradford 4,281 19.8% 17,251 79.8% 77 21,609 R+60.0
Somerset 4,489 21.3% 16,404 77.9% 164 21,057 R+56.6
Lebanon 3,278 16.0% 16,841 82.3% 345 20,464 R+66.3
Columbia 5,304 26.8% 14,362 72.6% 115 19,781 R+45.8
Franklin 3,027 15.5% 16,345 83.7% 146 19,518 R+68.2
McKean 4,964 26.0% 14,012 73.5% 90 19,066 R+47.5
Jefferson 4,325 24.4% 13,233 74.6% 173 17,731 R+50.2
Centre 3,431 22.1% 12,005 77.2% 121 15,557 R+55.1
Warren 2,835 18.8% 12,077 80.2% 144 15,056 R+61.4
Adams 4,635 32.3% 9,656 67.3% 58 14,349 R+35.0
Susquehanna 4,353 31.4% 9,445 68.1% 63 13,861 R+36.7
Tioga 1,688 12.5% 11,774 87.2% 36 13,498 R+74.7
Clarion 3,746 28.7% 9,183 70.4% 109 13,038 R+41.7
Elk 7,705 59.2% 5,234 40.2% 70 13,009 D+19.0
Greene 5,293 43.0% 6,910 56.2% 96 12,299 R+13.1
Wayne 3,148 26.7% 8,576 72.8% 59 11,783 R+46.1
Bedford 1,966 16.7% 9,602 81.6% 199 11,767 R+64.9
Huntingdon 1,470 12.8% 9,920 86.2% 112 11,502 R+73.5
Clinton 2,849 25.8% 8,120 73.6% 60 11,029 R+47.8
Monroe 3,266 30.3% 7,469 69.4% 27 10,762 R+39.1
Mifflin 1,270 12.4% 8,932 87.0% 68 10,270 R+74.6
Perry 1,807 21.7% 6,469 77.7% 54 8,330 R+56.0
Potter 1,416 19.9% 5,653 79.5% 42 7,111 R+59.6
Snyder 805 12.3% 5,693 87.2% 29 6,527 R+74.9
Union 765 11.7% 5,708 87.5% 54 6,527 R+75.7
Wyoming 906 14.5% 5,321 85.0% 33 6,260 R+70.5
Juniata 919 17.1% 4,396 82.0% 46 5,361 R+64.9
Montour 1,445 28.1% 3,692 71.7% 13 5,150 R+43.6
Pike 1,024 30.2% 2,354 69.3% 17 3,395 R+39.2
Fulton 1,054 32.3% 2,179 66.8% 28 3,261 R+34.5
Sullivan 1,101 34.8% 2,044 64.6% 17 3,162 R+29.8
Cameron 501 24.2% 1,564 75.5% 6 2,071 R+51.3
Forest 289 14.3% 1,707 84.6% 22 2,018 R+70.3

Counties as they stood in 1928; 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