America at the Polls 1920-1956: Harding to Eisenhower-A Handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics / Edition 1

by Alice McGillivray, Richard Scammon, Rhodes Cook

Overview

The first volume of America at the Polls covers elections from Warren G. Harding's landslide in 1920 through Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. The front section contains national summary tables of the state-by-state and Electoral College vote for each election. A chapter for each state follows, beginning with a summary of the statewide vote and Electoral College, a county outline map, and the county-by-county details of each election. Sizable votes for third party candidates are also provided, as are summaries of presidential elections.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568020587
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/03/1999
Series:	America at the Polls , #1
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	937
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alice V. Mc Gillivray was a longtime associate at the Elections Research Center and a coauthor of the America at the Polls series in the 1980s and later until her death in 1995.

Richard M. Scammon, who died in April 2001, was widely considered America’s most prominent elections expert during a long career as a government official, adviser to presidents, and analyst of voting trends and developments. He served in the State Department, as Census Bureau director under President John F. Kennedy, as chairman of the Presidential Commission on Regulation and Voting Participation in 1963 and 1964, and as an international election observer. He established the Elections Research Center in Washington, D.C., for voting analysis and publication of the America Votes series.

Rhodes Cook is a veteran Washington political analyst and writer, covering presidential and congressional elections as well as voting trends in general. For more than two decades, he was a political reporter on CQ's Weekly magazine. He currently hosts the political website rhodescook.com, publishes a bimonthly political newsletter, and since 1996 has been the author of "America Votes" and a series on U.S. primary elections.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	i
	United States Summary	1
	President 1920-1956
	Electoral College 1920-1956
	State-by-State, President 1920-1956
	State Chapters
	Alabama	22
	Arizona	45
	Arkansas	53
	California	76
	Colorado	89
	Connecticut	112
	Delaware	120
	Florida	127
	Georgia	150
	Idaho	183
	Illinois	196
	Indiana	219
	Iowa	242
	Kansas	265
	Kentucky	288
	Louisiana	311
	Maine	334
	Maryland	342
	Massachusetts	355
	Michigan	363
	Minnesota	386
	Mississippi	409
	Missouri	432
	Montana	455
	Nebraska	468
	Nevada	491
	New Hampshire	499
	New Jersey	507
	New Mexico	520
	New York	533
	North Carolina	546
	North Dakota	569
	Ohio	582
	Oklahoma	605
	Oregon	628
	Pennsylvania	641
	Rhode Island	664
	South Carolina	671
	South Dakota	684
	Tennessee	707
	Texas	730
	Utah	783
	Vermont	796
	Virginia	804
	Washington	837
	West Virginia	850
	Wisconsin	863
	Wyoming	886
	Presidential Primaries
	1956	899
	1952	904
	1948	908
	1944	911
	1940	914
	1936	917
	1932	920
	1928	924
	1924	928
	1920	933