1928 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
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The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was nominated as the Republican candidate, as incumbent President Calvin Coolidge chose not to run for a second full term. New York Governor Al Smith was the Democratic nominee. Hoover and Smith had been widely known as potential presidential candidates long before the campaign of 1928, and both were generally regarded as outstanding leaders.
1928 US Presidential Election Result
Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral | Running mate | |||
Count | Pct | vote | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | |||
Herbert Hoover | Republican | California | 2,14,27,123 | 58.21% | 444 | Charles Curtis | Kansas | 444 |
Al Smith | Democratic | New York | 1,50,15,464 | 40.80% | 87 | Joseph Taylor Robinson | Arkansas | 87 |
Norman Thomas | Socialist | New York | 2,67,478 | 0.73% | 0 | James H. Maurer | Pennsylvania | 0 |
William Z. Foster | Communist | Illinois | 48,551 | 0.13% | 0 | Benjamin Gitlow | New York | 0 |
Verne L. Reynolds | Socialist Labor | Michigan | 21,590 | 0.06% | 0 | Jeremiah D. Crowley | New York | 0 |
William F. Varney | Prohibition | New York | 20,095 | 0.05% | 0 | James Edgerton | Virginia | 0 |
Frank Webb | Farmer-Labor | California | 6,390 | 0.02% | 0 | LeRoy R. Tillman | Georgia | 0 |
Other | 321 | 0.00% | — | Other | — | |||
Total | 3,68,07,012 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
Needed to win | 266 | 266 |
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