The 1924 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 4, 1924. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Ever since the disfranchisement of blacks at the beginning of the 1890s, Florida had effectively been a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. The disfranchisement of blacks and poor whites by poll taxes in 1889Silbey, Joel H. and Bogue, Allan G.; The History of American Electoral Behavior, p. 210 had left the Republican Party – between 1872 and 1888 dependent upon black votes – virtually extinct.

With the single exception of William Howard Taft’s win in Calhoun County in 1908Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote; 1896–1932 (second edition); pp. 156-157 Published 1947 by Stanford University Press the Democratic Party won every county in Florida in every presidential election from 1892 until 1916. Only twice – and never for more than one term – did any Republican serve in either house of the state legislature between 1896 and 1928. Despite this Democratic dominance and the restrictions on the franchise of the poorer classes due to the poll tax, significant socialist movements developed and persisted in TampaFord, Edward J.; ‘Life on the Campaign Trail: a Political Anthropology of Local Politics’ (thesis), published 2008 by University of South Florida, pp. 114-118 and to a lesser extent over other parts of the state, especially against the powerful Ku Klux Klan.Gregory, Raymond F.; Norman Thomas: The Great Dissenter, pp. 150-151 There was also a powerful Prohibitionist movement in older North Florida, which saw the Prohibition Party even win the governorship for one term under the notorious anti-Catholic minister Sidney J. Catts.

The 1920 presidential election saw Warren G. Harding, aided substantially by isolationist sentiment in the region,Phillips, Kevin; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 210-211, 261 gain more support in the former Confederacy than any Republican since black disfranchisement, in the process winning three Florida counties. Owing to a decline in voter turnout, and an easing of isolationist feelings, Coolidge was unable to match Harding's percentage of the vote. However, vis-à-vis Harding's performance in this one-party southern state, Coolidge's losing margin was 2.53 percentage points smaller, and he did make small gains amongst the small but increasing flow of Northeastern migrants moving to Florida's hot climate. Although he did not manage to hold Broward County or Osceola County, where Harding gained pluralities in 1920, Coolidge did become the first Republican to ever carry Pinellas County.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, pp. 218-219

Despite the fact that the Republican Party had never gained 31 percent of Florida's vote in a presidential election since the poll tax was introduced,Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Florida 1924 remains, , the last time a Republican presidential candidate has won an election without carrying Florida. Passionate anti-Catholic feelings in the Piney Woods regionPhillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 212, 214 would turn the presidential electoral votes of this one-party state against urban Catholic Al Smith in 1928, and the state went on to become largely a bellwether in presidential elections. Since 1928 it has only backed a losing presidential candidate three times, each time a Republican: Richard Nixon in 1960, George H. W. Bush in 1992, and Donald Trump in 2020. Given that Nixon would be elected president eight years later, Bush was the incumbent president, and Trump was both the incumbent president and then would be re-elected president to a second non-consecutive term four years later, 1924 also marks the last time that Florida voted for a candidate who never won the presidency. It also marks the last time that Florida voted against an incumbent president who won another term.

Florida proved to be the strongest state for Prohibition Party candidate Herman Faris, who won 5.04% of the popular vote, and even came within 5% of winning Dade County, ahead of Coolidge and La Follette.

Results

Results by county CountyJohn William DavisDemocraticJohn Calvin CoolidgeRepublicanRobert Marion La Follette Sr.ProgressiveHerman Preston FarrisProhibitionGilbert Owen NationsAmericanTotal votes castFlorida Department of State. Division of Elections, Official Vote, State of Florida, General Election, 1924 (Tallahassee, 1924)#%#%#%#%#% Alachua 1,995 71.40% 528 18.90% 174 6.23% 55 1.97% 42 1.50% 2,794 Baker 215 56.73% 124 32.72% 25 6.60% 8 2.11% 7 1.85% 379 Bay 838 67.15% 318 25.48% 45 3.61% 37 2.96% 10 0.80% 1,248 Bradford 539 81.67% 94 14.24% 17 2.58% 6 0.91% 4 0.61% 660 Brevard 872 57.94% 515 34.22% 88 5.85% 18 1.20% 12 0.80% 1,505 Broward 421 42.87% 407 41.45% 86 8.76% 46 4.68% 22 2.24% 982 Calhoun 406 78.23% 56 10.79% 37 7.13% 2 0.39% 18 3.47% 519 Charlotte 321 60.00% 167 31.21% 30 5.61% 13 2.43% 4 0.75% 535 Citrus 423 83.76% 30 5.94% 49 9.70% 2 0.40% 1 0.20% 505 Clay 339 57.17% 171 28.84% 71 11.97% 7 1.18% 5 0.84% 593 Collier 148 82.22% 15 8.33% 5 2.78% 11 6.11% 1 0.56% 180 Columbia 776 81.60% 85 8.94% 61 6.41% 24 2.52% 5 0.53% 951 Dade 3,474 32.83% 2,753 26.01% 1,014 9.58% 3,170 29.95% 172 1.63% 10,583 Desoto 641 70.05% 230 25.14% 10 1.09% 29 3.17% 5 0.55% 915 Dixie 257 94.14% 14 5.13% 0 0.00% 2 0.73% 0 0.00% 273 Duval 5,908 51.93% 3,291 28.93% 1,210 10.64% 377 3.31% 590 5.19% 11,376 Escambia 2,290 52.74% 1,274 29.34% 615 14.16% 113 2.60% 50 1.15% 4,342 Flagler 202 54.30% 75 20.16% 65 17.47% 30 8.06% 0 0.00% 372 Franklin 417 76.51% 109 20.00% 16 2.94% 1 0.18% 2 0.37% 545 Gadsden 681 84.91% 47 5.86% 65 8.10% 3 0.37% 6 0.75% 802 Glades 212 61.10% 83 23.92% 25 7.20% 17 4.90% 10 2.88% 347 Hamilton 619 75.30% 143 17.40% 33 4.01% 16 1.95% 11 1.34% 822 Hardee 795 68.24% 264 22.66% 67 5.75% 28 2.40% 11 0.94% 1,165 Hendry 132 76.74% 21 12.21% 11 6.40% 2 1.16% 6 3.49% 172 Hernando 300 74.81% 59 14.71% 36 8.98% 5 1.25% 1 0.25% 401 Highlands 457 57.56% 265 33.38% 58 7.30% 9 1.13% 5 0.63% 794 Hillsborough 4,470 62.26% 1,585 22.08% 765 10.65% 199 2.77% 161 2.24% 7,180 Holmes 658 55.90% 377 32.03% 117 9.94% 15 1.27% 10 0.85% 1,177 Jackson 1,771 80.76% 320 14.59% 82 3.74% 10 0.46% 10 0.46% 2,193 Jefferson 566 83.11% 66 9.69% 43 6.31% 4 0.59% 2 0.29% 681 Lafayette 358 88.18% 33 8.13% 11 2.71% 3 0.74% 1 0.25% 406 Lake 1,381 53.12% 948 36.46% 158 6.08% 54 2.08% 59 2.27% 2,600 Lee 845 52.10% 552 34.03% 80 4.93% 59 3.64% 86 5.30% 1,622 Leon 947 85.32% 92 8.29% 44 3.96% 20 1.80% 7 0.63% 1,110 Levy 524 64.22% 214 26.23% 55 6.74% 14 1.72% 9 1.10% 816 Liberty 193 86.16% 18 8.04% 10 4.46% 1 0.45% 2 0.89% 224 Madison 538 90.73% 23 3.88% 30 5.06% 1 0.17% 1 0.17% 593 Manatee 1,064 55.04% 629 32.54% 181 9.36% 35 1.81% 24 1.24% 1,933 Marion 1,528 73.43% 359 17.25% 94 4.52% 76 3.65% 24 1.15% 2,081 Monroe 835 67.78% 262 21.27% 113 9.17% 11 0.89% 11 0.89% 1,232 Nassau 617 80.65% 106 13.86% 32 4.18% 4 0.52% 6 0.78% 765 Okaloosa 642 67.37% 183 19.20% 83 8.71% 39 4.09% 6 0.63% 953 Okeechobee 182 66.91% 57 20.96% 19 6.99% 11 4.04% 3 1.10% 272 Orange 1,883 45.84% 1,653 40.24% 216 5.26% 143 3.48% 213 5.19% 4,108 Osceola 884 50.20% 589 33.45% 65 3.69% 68 3.86% 155 8.80% 1,761 Palm Beach 1,543 41.25% 1,726 46.14% 375 10.02% 0 0.00% 97 2.59% 3,741 Pasco 780 53.57% 472 32.42% 143 9.82% 43 2.95% 18 1.24% 1,456 Pinellas 2,633 43.57% 2,872 47.53% 302 5.00% 152 2.52% 84 1.39% 6,043 Polk 3,070 57.97% 1,530 28.89% 461 8.70% 171 3.23% 64 1.21% 5,296 Putnam 889 54.41% 574 35.13% 89 5.45% 45 2.75% 37 2.26% 1,634 St. Johns 1,023 54.30% 517 27.44% 187 9.93% 62 3.29% 95 5.04% 1,884 St. Lucie 722 50.92% 524 36.95% 150 10.58% 10 0.71% 12 0.85% 1,418 Santa Rosa 693 70.64% 229 23.34% 38 3.87% 12 1.22% 9 0.92% 981 Sarasota 204 44.16% 187 40.48% 47 10.17% 18 3.90% 6 1.30% 462 Seminole 945 59.58% 372 23.46% 253 15.95% 8 0.50% 8 0.50% 1,586 Sumter 481 70.94% 108 15.93% 73 10.77% 9 1.33% 7 1.03% 678 Suwannee 977 83.65% 111 9.50% 70 5.99% 6 0.51% 4 0.34% 1,168 Taylor 476 78.29% 100 16.45% 7 1.15% 19 3.13% 6 0.99% 608 Union 322 92.53% 16 4.60% 7 2.01% 1 0.29% 2 0.57% 348 Volusia 2,042 51.11% 1,631 40.83% 204 5.11% 75 1.88% 43 1.08% 3,995 Wakulla 332 85.35% 34 8.74% 15 3.86% 7 1.80% 1 0.26% 389 Walton 825 70.39% 220 18.77% 56 4.78% 41 3.50% 30 2.56% 1,172 Washington 562 67.55% 206 24.76% 37 4.45% 21 2.52% 6 0.72% 832Totals62,08356.87%30,63328.06%8,6257.90%5,4985.04%2,3192.12%109,158

See also United States presidential elections in Florida

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