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1920 Presidential Election Interactive Map
266 electoral votes to win

Cox (D)
Harding (R)
VT | |
NH | |
MA | |
RI | |
CT | |
NJ | |
DE | |
MD |

Harding | Cox | Debs | Undecided | 3P |
Split Votes
R | D | SO | Total | ||||||
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1920 Actual Election Results
Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | Popular Votes | ||
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✓ | Warren G. Harding | Republican | 404 | 16,152,200 | |
James M. Cox | Democratic | 127 | 9,147,353 | ||
Eugene Debs | Socialist | 0 | 919,799 |
1920 Election Facts
- Vice-Presidential Succession: Harding died on August 2, 1923, replaced by Calvin Coolidge
- 19th Amendment ratified in this cycle: Women are allowed to vote
- Harding first to receive more than ten million popular votes
- Issues of the Day: League of Nations, Prohibition, Women's Right to Vote (Suffrage)