President / Vice President, 1920 Election
General
| Date: | November 2, 1920 |
| Cycle: | 1920 |
| Office: | President / Vice President |
| State: | Minnesota |
| District: | Statewide |
| Candidate | Gender | Running mate | Party | Votes | Percent | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Harding | Man | Calvin Coolidge (Man) | Republican | 519,421 | 70.59 | +51.16 |
| James Cox | Man | Franklin Roosevelt (Man) | Democrat | 142,994 | 19.43 | |
| Eugene Debs | Man | Seymour Stedman (Man) | Socialist | 56,106 | 7.62 | |
| Aaron Watkins | Man | David Colvin (Man) | Prohibition | 11,489 | 1.56 | |
| William Cox | Man | August Gillhaus (Man) | Industrial | 5,828 | 0.79 |
Harding and Coolidge each received Minnesota's 12 Electoral College votes. Minnesota was one of six states – five in the Midwest – in which Harding received more than 70 percent of the vote joining North Dakota (77.8 percent), Vermont (75.8 percent), Michigan (72.8 percent), Wisconsin (71.1 percent), and Iowa (70.9 percent). Harding was the second and last presidential nominee in Minnesota to eclipse the 70 percent mark trailing only Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 (73.98 percent).
Sources
- The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1921 (p. 525).