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Election 1928 Results

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1928 presidential election in Vermont

Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Al Smith (Democrat) in Vermont in 1928, 66.9% to 32.9%, a margin of 34.0 points and 45,964 votes.

Vermont voted 16.6 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 13 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Rutland, cast 21,262 votes and went to the Republican by 18.9 points. The closest was Grand Isle, where 29 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 90,404 66.9%
Al Smith Democratic 44,440 32.9%
All other candidates 347 0.3%
Total135,191

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Rutland 8,609 40.5% 12,621 59.4% 32 21,262 R+18.9
Chittenden 9,052 52.5% 8,156 47.3% 27 17,235 D+5.2
Washington 4,408 30.7% 9,891 68.9% 54 14,353 R+38.2
Windsor 2,747 20.3% 10,739 79.5% 29 13,515 R+59.1
Franklin 5,477 47.4% 6,031 52.2% 40 11,548 R+4.8
Windham 2,398 22.2% 8,410 77.7% 16 10,824 R+55.5
Bennington 3,498 36.3% 6,114 63.5% 18 9,630 R+27.2
Caledonia 1,832 21.6% 6,616 78.1% 26 8,474 R+56.5
Addison 2,003 27.5% 5,247 72.1% 28 7,278 R+44.6
Orleans 1,320 19.1% 5,561 80.7% 14 6,895 R+61.5
Orange 914 14.8% 5,223 84.7% 30 6,167 R+69.9
Lamoille 576 14.9% 3,262 84.6% 16 3,854 R+69.7
Essex 805 32.0% 1,703 67.7% 6 2,514 R+35.7
Grand Isle 801 48.8% 830 50.5% 11 1,642 R+1.8

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.

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1