President / Vice President, 1924 Election
General
| Date: | November 4, 1924 |
| Cycle: | 1924 |
| Office: | President / Vice President |
| State: | Minnesota |
| District: | Statewide |
| Candidate | Gender | Running mate | Party | Votes | Percent | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvin Coolidge Incumbent | Man | Charles Dawes (Man) | Republican | 420,759 | 51.18 | +9.92 |
| Robert LaFollette | Man | Burton Wheeler (Man) | Independent | 339,192 | 41.26 | |
| John W. Davis | Man | Charles Bryan (Man) | Democrat | 55,913 | 6.80 | |
| William Foster | Man | Benjamin Gitlow (Man) | Workers Communist | 4,427 | 0.54 | |
| Frank Johns | Man | Verne Reynolds (Man) | Socialist Industrial | 1,855 | 0.23 |
Coolidge and Dawes each received Minnesota's 12 Electoral College votes. The 41.26 percent won by LaFollette is the largest vote share by a non-major party presidential candidate in Minnesota history, besting Teddy Roosevelt's 37.66 percent in 1912.
Sources
- Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 4, 1924 (p. 9).